Oops, missed this, … published on the 21st October, this article was made on 5th November and is unfinished. A summary of the defence & security programmes and the social cohesion programmes would be useful.
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What are the politics of the EU Commission?
This explains a lot. This is a chart of the EU commissioners by political party, I made this today and it includes a few judgements. The EPP have a voting majority on the Commission. In addition, there is a creeping Presidentialisation of European politics which in my opinion concedes too much power to the singular…
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GB Energy
What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? …
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Date (Use & Access) Act
A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later.
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Scripting on the raspberry pi
This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script …
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More on timed power i.e. switches
I have a DIY project coming up which I need a time control on. I was pointed at some switches which can be controlled by a phone app called Tayu. …
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Royo
I went to the the Clarendon Art Gallery in Greenwich and came across a picture by an artist that signs himself Royo. See below for an image credit of the featured image which is a digital version of one of his pictures taken from a site claiming to present his work.
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France
I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. …
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UK/US Technology Partnership
Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come.
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IT Sovereignty
Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS).
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My EU Start Page
I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index.
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Broken Links
As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
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A Vassal State
As part of my reading as a result of the Bastani/Hao interview, I was pointed at and found a couple of books and articles on the UK’s dependence on the USA, primarily quoting the work of Angus Hanton. These are primarily economic, although the choices made by the Starmer Government, are increasing our dependence on…
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Naval Wargames
My interest in naval wargaming was rejuvenated when I considered how to recreate the Battle of Actium which I document on my page, Playing the Battle of Actium. My researches have pointed me at several other games and rule sets. Here are my notes and links.
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Marseilles
Inspired by paintings of the Riviera, I am considering visiting Marseilles. Here are my notes and links …
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