Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 5d

Aston Martin Lagonda doesn’t own the F1 team. Rather Stroll-led consortiums own both, and AML sponsor the F1 team to (what has been) about $20m a year.

2

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, oh, I read about this somewhere. Basically there are no standards for maximum brightness or effectiveness of auto dimming lights, but brighter means safer according to drivers (and to some extent EuroNCAP?) so they whack them up.

1 3

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 24d

doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...

The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…

Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…

doublepulsar.com

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

*sobs in regret*

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

The Nurburgring is so, so long and has its own rules around safety cars and safety procedures in general. I’m sure he’ll smash it in one weekend anyway.

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

That’s new to me. Thank you! I’ll
Give it a try

1 1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

I’ve downloaded Halide for the iPhone, simply because it gives you the option of processing with the Apple image pipeline or their own zero impact engine. Also, trying to use an actual camera more…

2 2

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

This is the answer to why computational photography can be a bad thing.

It could see this as a mistake. Lower contrast, boost the shadows, even out the exposure and… ruin it.

Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 29d

iPhone shot from about 2016. Under the railway bridge in Yurakucho, Tokyo.

Black and white street photo made with my iPhone. Under the railway bridge in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Half the scene is lit by strong sun. Half is in shadow. A cyclist goes right to left emerging from the shade into the sun.

1 4

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

100%. And better to be honest early than the usual no customer data accessed > some customer data, but only X > whole database taken pipeline we often see.

1 1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

I disagree with the cybersecurity folk who demand full comms on exactly what happened hours after an attack. I’d rather something considered was released a week later.

1 2

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

(Also, imagine you’ve finally achieved your dream of racing in the NLS, and the day you do your classroom session Max walks in…)

1 1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 29d

Happy “Max Verstappen goes to the classroom for his Nurburgring B permit” to all who celebrate.

1 2

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Sep 11

Cat species it is good at too.

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Sep 11

Same as it ever was. These days though, kids don’t have to learn Netware. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Most school hacks carried out by their own pupils, watchdog says

The Information Commissioner's Office says schools face an

www.bbc.co.uk

1 1 4

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Sep 11

Is it always that obscure??

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Cars…. And lamp posts, bridges, other public infrastructure”

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 26

Are all the racists in the pay of Big Flag?

1 4

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 15

That is how the jets lag.

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

Lunchtime reads are like a scene from The Devil Wears Prada, where underlings pitch you options and you cast them aside with a withering look.

1 1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

Your LFA in the reserved spot by reception, while Andrew hides his Plaid Model S in the exec underground parking structure.

1 1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

Easy for you to say, as you look out your floor to ceiling office windows at the Motoring Podcast campus. The serfs in the news mines, while R&D work on newer tin foil hat technology. Those SMMT registration numbers don’t write themselves!

2 3

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yep, good folk at Harrison’s!

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

How annoying do you think Norman Cook finds the first two bars of Praise You?

He must have heard it A Lot during making the record, but also for the last *checks notes* 26 years…

God, I’m old.

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

You came across well! Quite varied - which seems appropriate - but the Steelcon stuff was interesting.

1

Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · Aug 11

That was interesting!

1 1