Capitalism

I recently read Ingham’s “Capitalism Divided?” which has, I believe, some important insights into the nature of the British economy. The last two days I reviewed my notes I looked for further comments and reviews. He will have written a number of books but at the moment this page looks at, “Capitalism” and “Capitalism Divided”….

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Raspberry Pi IV

I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps …

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Water Jug

A sign of the 21st century Britain. I need a filtered water jug. I have one from Brita, which comes with instructions.

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Enhanced Privacy with Meta

There has been a viral hoax circulating, about the use of whatsapp’s new enhanced privacy features.  This has been described and debunked, in the article below,

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Sidekicks in D&D 5e

Hmm, we used to call them henchmen. The rules it seems are optional, and I am not sure I am ready for this, as I need to learn to play my classes better than I do.

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Big business around the world

I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. So I looked it up, and was somewhat surprised. I then looked up the UK to see if I was equally…

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On the National Debt

I wanted to write something on the National Debt as a constraint on fiscal policy, here are my confusing notes. Links More … Gemini says

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Deepseek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup known for its advanced large language models (LLMs), including the DeepSeek-R1 model, which is designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. DeepSeek aims to redefine AI by focusing on efficiency and resource s, making powerful AI technology more accessible

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EES/ETIAS

EES is coming this year, allegedly, while ETIAS will wait ’till 2026. EES is an automatic registration and will eliminate the need for passport stamps for short stay visitors to most of the EU; ETIAS is the pre-travel authorisation system, travellers will need to apply for permission to enter prior to visiting the EU, as…

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AI, just an autocomplete machine

Are the LLM’s just an expensive, autocomplete machine? I have been saying this since a close colleague first suggested it. Now some serious compter scientists are saying the same. Here are some notes and links …

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The next EU budget

The EU is preparing its next medium term budget. This is an act of legislation but they have convened a European citizens panel https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/index_en  on the topic; its rercommendations are documented here. No matter the cynicism and valid criticisms aimed at these panels, this must be a good thing. The process continues and this page…

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Reset or Roadbump

On May 19th the European Union and the UK at a summit made a series of agreements. The UK government heralds this as a “Reset”. The European Commission have issued a press release, which has been agreed with the UK. The press release covers Defence, Connecting People, Trade and Economics, & internal security and judicial…

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