It’s not the easiest game to learn; here are my notes and links.
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Labour’s coming manifesto
Labour published its draft National Policy Forum report, I was told on the 9th May. The Labour Party URL for the report is here, on the Labour Party’s main site and behind the members’ ID wall; I have made a mirror. It is strangely not on the NPF site. In order to amend the NPF…
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Autostart on Android
I think I’ll have another go, it it surprises me how poorly documented this is. Here are my notes and links …
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Europe
Where shall I go next?
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Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)
I came across the words “self sovereign identity”. It seems to be something friends have been working on for a while; here my initial links and notes. I suppose the big question is, what can a self-certifying identity server access?
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The Swiss Constitution
It’s different, it’s always been republican, what do we have to learn from it.
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Democratic renewal in the EU
This page documents my notes on the EU’s attempts to renew and reinforce its democracy. it should be read in conjunction with my Digital Regulation in the EU page, and Subsidiarity and proportionality , which deals with the laws and treaties. I also made this, a page based on some ERS criticisms, not all of…
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Back to XMPP
With the imminent arrival of the state hacking of end-to-end encryption, I decided to have another look at XMPP. Here are my notes.
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Marini and superexploitation
I was sent this, an essay/review of Marini’s “Dialectics of Dependency” by Andy Higgenbottom. I find it a tough read and one that requires a solid understanding of Capital, the Labour Theory of Value and surplus value, which I don’t have. Frankly this needs a reread, but I highlighted these, see below, notes for my…
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The Greens in London
Someone suggested that Lewisham Deptford was the Green’s No 1. Target at the next general election. It surprises me, but I had a look at the last London Assembly Party votes by ward across London. Darker green is the stronger support. This chart shows green votes by ward, and the darkest colour signifies between 800…
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Twitter’s Algo
Twitter have published their scoring algo. It has been summarised by Akash Gupta on twitter, which I have gathered into a threadreaderapp page, I’ll make some notes when I get round to it. I have noticed that the ‘for you’ feed has become less interesting and usefully provoking and some shit is leaking in.
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Dominion vs. Fox
The issues being dealt with in the Fox vs Dominion court case are global; does the press have the right to lie? Apart from this, Fox News’ defence tactics, as was the case under Leveson Inquiry are questionable. I made a blog, here are some links. …
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The Metaverse
So what’s this, a buzzword or a new basic technology. Who knows? Below/overleaf are my notes and links. Enjoy!
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Pixabay’s Content licence
The featured image comes from pixabay and is credited to Heike Baerbel. It has been shrunk. It’s use is controlled by the Pixabay Content licence. … This seems to be aimed at ensuring that pictures in the database are not used to earn an income. The wording on this restriction was unclear to me, and so…
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Wuppertal
It has a suspended railway, a zoo and other things to do. It can reached by train, from Koln or Berlin.
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