The Sun’s tip on “Rule the World”, “No he won’t”. Another reason to #dontbuythesun …
Secrets
Bruce Schneier points to Whatsapp’s adoption of end to end encryption for all content. The comments are as ever worth reading and don’t degenerate into foolish argument. I like, “Encryption is a honeypot”, encrypted broadcasting kills the usefulness of meta data and the idea of running Whatsapp over TOR. …
On the coming Robot Revolution
At the Real World Economics blog, Dean Baker argues that, those proposing the Reign of the Robots, have some evidence to find and that (US) economic policy makers are pursuing policies in direct contradiction to the implications of such an event. …
Stupidity at Work
I have had the sort of day where I need to read and share this article on 10 stupid rules at work. …
Singularity
Does excel concatenate convert an array into a single element? …
Beyond Factionalism, but not today
I made a storify covering attacks on Momentum, it’s possible role in allowing new members to influence the party, the extent to which they should be listened. It finishes with a critical look at Burke’s “All I owe you is my judgement” and the way in which members of Labour’s PLP were preparing to use it to ignore Party Mandates.
This was written over the winter of 2015/16 and published in March 2016, and I have backdated it to that date. The optimism about Momentum might have been misplaced.
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Silverlight
There’s no Silverlight port to Raspbian and of course the Intel emulators are useless. Come’on #Microsoft, now you’re showing Linux some more love, put Silverlight onto the ‘Pi. …
No more
While at PICTFOR’s GAAP meeting last week, Mike Bracken said that Digital by Default is coming to an end, they’re moving on. …
CLPD’s 43rd AGM
Over the weekend, for the first time ever, I attended the AGM of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, their 43rd it would seem. Much of the right wing media locate the intellectual and organisational engine room of Corbyn’s victory in this body. It’s been around for a while, over 43 years it would seem, but I think it underestimates the changes in society occurring over the last 10 years and the changes available to and needed by the Party, and they’re not alone. The meeting was as those of with experience of the movement know, a mix of set piece speeches from in several cases very worthy individuals, the receipt and acceptance of reports, and debate around motions. At the end of the day, I left disappointed. …
You what!
How did my #BT phone bill get to £190 per quarter?