The Law and Free Speech

A lengthy post on “Free Speech/Free Expresion” by Graham Smith on linkein caused me to pick up my copy of “Prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence”, published by article 19 in December 2012 which reviews the conflicts between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on civil and political rights. The…

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Two speed E.U.

One of the reform proposals at the end of the last EU mandate, was a multi-speed Europe. I reported on the most explicit initiative https://davelevy.info/wiki/sailing-the-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu/ . Has the time come again to look at this as an answer to the EU’s sclerosis. The challenges are clear, with the federalists or federalist adjacent players looking at…

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Baba Yaga’s Hut, in D&D

I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went…

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Magic Missile, D&D 5E

To me this has always been the creation of an attack of magic darts, with each dart’s damage being evaluated by a single d4 i.e. scoring between 1 and 4, and adding an extra point of damage. One gets to roll a lot of dice. A recent statement from WOTC is that one should roll…

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Brexit ‘reset’ Winter 2025/26

Meetings have occurred in monitoring and managing the Withdrawal Agreement and Trade & Co-operation agreement, over the last month, but what did they say and agree. I’d say, not very much. As ever, links and notes …

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WordPress to Hugo?

Really? The performance from my WP hosting provider is consistently poor, althouhg I don’t seem to have suffered a DOS since installing the CDN package. I don’t want a database on my Pi as it complicates build maintenance. Is Hugo the answer?

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sudo on raspbian

I have/had a problem; I suspect that my cron jobs were asking for permission to run which since they were batch programs is not the desired behaviour. I have done some googling, and think it maybe related to the sudoers file, i.e. additional command are needed. At the moment I have turned cron off and…

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