Good to catch up with Colin, at his retirement, from the Civil Service, party and bumping into people I hadn’t seen for, in one case, 30 years.
The next evolution of capitalism
How much is Capitalism changing due to the silicon revolution in the means of production. A bunch of books, articles and reviews have been released over the last few months considering the short and long term future of the techno-economy. We are on the cusp of Silicon Revolution’s “Golden Age”, when the people rein in the excesses of the capital market’s hypergrowth excesses. This story was originally created in the Summer of 2015, my hope was to read both “Post Capitalism” and “The 2nd Machine Age” and write a blog on my views as to the nature of the changes coming; but life got in the way. …
Solidarity with the people of Paris
Solidarity with the people of Paris & France. …
Police powers
A nice note on a TOR attack conducted by a University on behalf of the FBI and questioning the ethics due to the collateral damage, by Matthew Green. In the UK, the new DRIP law legalises otherwise illegal activity by the intelligence services. The author of this article assumes that mass surveillance is bad, and that despite the fact that they have broken TOR and found evidence to make two serious prosecutions, no one knows how many privacy violations have been made. …
Statutory porn filter
One new phone using a wifi browser at home and once again I have to register that I don’t want parental controls. (This is about the 7th device on this gateway).
Service life cycles
Amazingly, even over 10 years later, this article and its inspiration, “Don’t shoot the messenger are still relevant to IT Consulting & Data Centre Architecture. …
Bad Timing
Having connected my Landline, 20 days from asking and 11 days from needing it, I have just received a letter from BT telling me how easy it is to connect to broadband. It doesn’t seem that way from here. …
Voter suppression
Len Duvall reminded us all to ensure we are registered, so I dug up my letter and found I had already certified the entry; I think this is the 5th time the council have written to me. Each time stating I must reply! It’s the new strategy; boring people off the electoral roll.
Crossroads Keep
I finished the defence of Crossroad’s Keep last night in #nwn2, I came across the bug about the monster spawn, and found its workaround. …
Red
Did you know there was a TLD called .red? …