I am conducting a project about Monet’s Four Trees and came across a digital version of the painting at Wikipedia. What fascinated me is that they claim the digital image is public domain.
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Monet & the 4 Trees
The 4 trees is one of Claude Monet‘s famous paintings. I need to do a project on it but I also found some useful comments on copyright on the wikipedia page hosting the image.
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RSS Forwarding using IFTTT & a Nokia 3.1
I want to use my Nokia with IFTTT as I have selected an RSS/Android SMS service to forward my blog. It doesn’t work here are my notes. …
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Steemit
It promised a social network where writers were paid for content in a crypto currency, it wasn’t to be. Was its failure baked into its conception, or did it do what its creators wanted i.e. make them rich? Here are my notes …
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When did Capitalism start?
I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can…
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Comradely behaviour
A reminder on Labour’s conduct rules in meetings, …
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Elementary and Onedrive
This seems to have stopped working, here are my notes. I think I am using onedrive-d, but here are my notes. …
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Remote Desktop & Elementary OS
Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …
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Kerckoffs’ principle
For various reasons, Kerckhoff’s Principle has come up over the horizon again. Fascinating that he posed the principle in the 19th Century. Wikipedia states the principle as, A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. There’s no need to “Read More”, except to get the tags.
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Low Pay
It is against the law to pay under the minimum wage, here are some notes on enforcement. …
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Record Management
Doing some research again and decided to make some notes on “Record Management” good practice; here are my notes and links. …
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Flying Cars and the future techno economy
I have been influenced by David Graeber’s article/essay, “Of Flying Cars and the declining rate of profit”, which I need to read again. I posted, in 2017, a storify thing, after reading it which contains a bunch of notes from it and other references related to the political economy issues that he raises. The post…
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Using my Mac remotely
I needed to go looking for something I lost on my Mac using my w10 laptop, and have forgotten how I did it before. I wanted to get RDP working and failed. Here are my notes on what I tried to do and eventually did; it involved using 3rd party apps.
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Early (English) revolutionary spirit
I am playing a game of inverse “would I lie to you” each weekend. We don’t have so many rules as the TV shows; I was considering doing one on English Revolts, but decided not to; but made some interesting discoveries, which for me reinforces the need for a debate on English History teaching. I…
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This site, moving home
I have finally moved this wordpress wiki into the davelevy.info domain from its historic site at wiki.davelevy.info; it’s now at ./wiki to be precise. Here’s how I did it. …
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