PSA: You can filter the EMF Phonebook by device type so you can see all the available modem and fax services.

Thanks @phones 🙌

#emfcamp

🧮 EMF in numbers

The power team tells us that they have now reached 20 metric tons of cabling and distro.

How many km of cable do you think that is? And is it more or less than the length of the film reels that will be shown?

In other news, the kitchen has ordered 43kg of tofu and the arcade cabinets have 256 bolts in them.

#EMFCamp #EMFInNumbers

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/

kind of a long-shot, but does anyone know of a non transphobic solicitor / notary public in the south of the UK?
I want to finally sort my GRC (I’ve had the paperwork ready for ~4 years..), and I’ve been ghosted by all the ones I’ve reached out to so far… :BoostOK:

This is awesome: Someone actually made a truetype font encoding QR codes, including reed-solomon encoding!

https://qr.jim.sh/

Dispatch #424 from █████ ███████ ██ (NODIS)

1. Ancient Plastic

RE: https://mastodon.online/@FieldFX/116855858605837259

Do come and join us! We are just a bunch of dorks who love hacker camps and demoscene, and EMF comes but once every two years. And there will be a stream if you can't make it in person, too!

i was talked into buying and repairing a surplus breathalyzer for @glastonledburyshire_on_severn
come read about it if you'd like

https://philo.gay/breath/index.html

More baby steps on UK plug in #solar

Core of the interim standard is basically DIN VDE V0126-95 with tweaks for the UK.

Max 800W per house, doesn't yet cover batteries but otherwise really isn't terribly interesting.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a31167d15f2a70fac7e6026/plug-in-solar-interim-product-specification.pdf

The European Commission’s Open Source Observatory has published its second update of the France Country Report, covering developments in open source software adoption in the country over the past three years.

Local movements have defined France’s long history with open source software adoption. Over the past three years, an increased call for digital sovereignty and greater reliance on European and open source solutions have reshaped this landscape considerably.

https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/france-2026-country-report

It’s almost EMF time!
If you’re going and haven’t checked out the t-shirt pre sales yet go and take a look, I was lucky enough to get to do the design for the kids shirts this year and I’m really proud of the result.
#emf #emfcamp

I'm #hiring a Principal Software Engineer for the Web Team at Raspberry Pi.

A hands-on, individual contributor role. You'd set technical direction, do code review and pairing, and ship code every week. Mostly Rails, Hotwire and Tailwind CSS with PostgreSQL, plus some React and Go (for Raspberry Pi Connect).

Permanent, full-time, in our Cambridge office. Direct applications only, no recruiters please.

Full spec and how to apply: https://apply.workable.com/raspberrypi/j/4C389130B2

Closes Wednesday 15 July.

#rubyjobs

Within the first few months of life, every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name for the rest of its life — and other dolphins learn that whistle, remember it, and use it to call out to that specific individual, making bottlenose dolphins the first non-human species ever discovered to use personal names

https://spacedaily.com/d-within-the-first-few-months-of-life-every-bottlenose-dolphin-invents-a-unique-whistle-that-becomes-its-name-for-the-rest-of-its-life-and-other-dolphins-learn-that-whistle-remember-it-and/

#nature #wildlife #dolphins

“Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.

That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.

Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

#Google #ReCAPTCHA #Biometrics #Privacy

I have long suspected that small talk is not really about talking at all. I mean, obviously it’s about talking, but it’s not about imparting information or saying anything of actual interest.

In computer networking terms, it feels rather a lot like a TCP three-way handshake.

https://www.alittleofnothing.co.uk/small-talk-is-tcp-handshaking-for-humans/

#Blogging #SmallTalk #Handshake

#meme #memes #wetlands #wholesomeMemes #ecology #environment

Instead of fireworks, why not scare your neighbors the old fashioned way?
Grow out your antlers and fangs, cultivate a thunderous beard of moss, haunt the night, and become a terrifying creature of legend and lore.

Genuinely surprised that nobody appears to have made a silly "age verification" app for the #EMFCamp #Tildagon. Yet.

Amazing, blåhaj now has a manual! But it's not a manual for assembling your friendly plush shonk, but instead, a trans 101 manual for cis folk, telling them how they can be supportive of the trans people in their life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgvshnbgM8

https://www.ikea.com/es/es/files/pdf/5d/66/5d66f8d0/ikea_orgullo_manualempatii-a_versioi-ndigital250626.pdf

#pride #trans #blahaj #transgender #ikea

A timely safety reminder from Natalie Horberg 🤔

#roadsafety #drivinglaw