This post deals with upgrading my BT Hub, from HH5 to a Smart Hub. It also contains notes on Wi-Fi signal strength and coverage.
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Germany and debt fetishism
The stability and growth pact (SGP) is the EU’s public debt management rules and embedded in a separate treaty to the T[F]EU treaties. I have commented on these treaties elsewhere on this wiki. Elsewhere in several articles, on the blog, I criticise the SGP on my blog, including here, here, and here. My main criticism…
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Labour’s Programme 2023
Labour 2023, National Policy Forum by rule responsible for proposing a programme to Conference took place behind closed doors. TL:DR, the leadership got what they wanted, “there’s no money” and it seems f’all compassion and solidarity. They obviously learnt from their own ambush of Ed Miliband in 2014. This meeting was “behind closed doors” and…
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Using another forwarder to mastodon
This time, “Share to Mastodon”; is this a better tool?
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Another Test, this time activitypub
This was made after re-renabling Activity Pub. Does it work? It seems not to like the fact I am running the wiki in a subdirectory. There may of course be other reasons, but I don’t have the time to make this work properly.
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Social Media, campaigning and fake news
One of the reports about the Uxbridge and S Ruislip by-election concentrates on the way in which anti ULEZ propaganda was circulated on Twitter. The report was posted on Twitter by Valent Projects, who claimed to be a consultancy specialising in combating fake news with a preference for working with progressive causes. They might seem…
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Fishguard
A town on the Welsh coast, once a herring fishery port, latterly the ferry port to Eire, who knows what’ll become of it now while we’re out of the EU.
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By-elections 20th July but mainly Uxbridge.
At the by-elections last week, the three main parties won one each, with a disappoint for the decent amongst us that the Tories held Uxbrige and South Ruislip. There is a big furore over the Labour campaign where the Tories and those close to Labour’s Leadership claiming that the Mayor’s ULEZ scheme lost it for…
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Collecting Afremov’s pictures
I decided to buy two of Leonid Afremov’s pictures which are being sold by the estate. It’s all quite odd as they have been behaving as if it’s a limited stock fire sale for several years. Anyway, I bought two over the last month at discounted prices although I’ll have to frame them. Here are…
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Python & remote pages
I did some more coding, this time to try and capture my ello feed. I have the string manipulation under control, mostly but in some cases, I wanted to look up data from another remote page. I looked at urllib and requests, but ello prohibit automated scraping; we’ll see if I solve it through browser…
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text to voice
Is this yet consumer ready? I am interested in using this for my blog/wiki. I found a 16 best of … article, how did that go? I made a google query to find more. Otherwise, here are some links and notes …
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What about the Euro?
Should we campaign to rejoin the Euro? In my blog article, Say no to extrawürst, I look at Niall Ò Conghaile’s arguments on EU re-entry terms and dovetail them with my realisation that the UK’s previous unique deal and its opt-outs are gone. I have felt there is room for a deal on the Euro…
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Miles & More
Miles and More is broken again. I have logged a fault call via their webform. I hear nothing else aprt from the acknowledgement, but four weeks later, I have another go, and it seems to be fixed; I have authorised the use of their “TRAVEL-ID”, which I hope will give me access to their partner…
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How much has the EU changed since Jan 20
How much has the EU changed since Jan 20, the day the UK left. As ever, notes and links although I drift a bit into the old opt-outs…
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One step beyond
Labour have are investigating Neal Lawson for a prohibited act, the reality is no-one is safe. Here are some notes and links….
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