I decided to make another D&D Cleric, I got fed up falling down with one of my gishes. Here are my notes.
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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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Cyber Security and Resilience (NIS) Bil
My notes and links
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AI vs HPC, what’s the difference.
What is the architecture of an AI Cluster and how does it differ from other distributed computing architectures? These are my notes, a work in progress.
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A Euro-linux
Inspired by events over the last three months, I am thinking about a Euro-Linux
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Imprisonment for Public Protection
My notes, once known as “At her/his majesty’s pleasure.
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Cleaning up my Raspberry Pi
One thinks there’s only one problem, but then when one looks, here’s more than one. Here’s what needs to be done and what I have done before.
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Deepseek or alternatives locally
Ideally, a distributed node in a network.
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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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The GIT credential manager
The need for this went away as they implemented gh auth login. I moved the following words from using github to here. It should be marked deprecated.
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Some thoughts on AI
Is there an alternative architecture? Can we build distributed open source rules bases? What is the learning layer? Some notes and links …
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AI & Search
There is some stuff written about how Google struggles between offering a great customer experience and profitability, but AI is changing that. Here are two articles that address Google’s continued anticompetitive behaviour, and AI become an interlocutor for search.
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What the EU thinks of the “reset”
A transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s introductory speech/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting.
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