As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
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I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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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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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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Some people are thinking very hard about this, here are my notes.
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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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It seems that I need one now, my hosting provider doesn’t offer what I’d expect. Here are my notes and links, …
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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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I have just posted a little note on linkedin on the US regulatory ownership of the Cloud OS’s, cloud providers and supporting software products, in the context of ‘security of supply’. Here’s some more reading.
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I attended PoliticalTech Summit 25 in Berlin. One of the speakers was Beth Goldberg and what she said led me to dig a bit deeper; here are my notes and links. …
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Mike Masnik of Techdirt points me at Sarah Perez’s article on a social media world without Caesars. , reporting on the founding AT Protocol conference, which is definitely not a Bluesky conference.
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I have been reading and thinking about the economics of AI. Here some articles that I have read or not.
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We opened considering the AI Action Summit, https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia. Here are some notes and links, …
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Why is this such a faff? I have bought an HP with USB charging? It comes with a f’ing huge transformer, well not huge I used to have a model railway set. I want to use it with continental plugs; I bought a cheapish 65w USB plug, with a swiss connector i.e. type C which…
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