Today, privacy campaigners have been circulating tweets about Brittany Kaiser’s document dump proving that Cambridge Analytics and AIG were working as a single entity. This would seem somewhat contrary to what the police and the ICO have been able to find. There’s more to find here and when I find it, I’ll post the stories…
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When I first heard the phrase “Technical Debt”, I nearly fell of my chair, but recently, a couple of articles have passed me by and I thought I’d have look and think about if it helps address the intractable problem of maintaining legacy technology, but particularly applications code. The problem is that to make changes,…
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I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as…
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Various things have brought me to reconsider, alternatives to Bitcoin’s proof of work and this points me at rchain.coop, because I know it. They are implementing a proof of stake based blockchain with a co-op based governance structure. Here are my notes …
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This took a lot of time, I wanted to reduce the occurrence of my BSOD “UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION“. This involved reinstalling my anti-virus product, changing it’s passwords and then repairing my fingerprint reader driver as a result of a Code 19 error on my fingerprint reader. I then worked through the steps suggested here. This…
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What’s the difference between W10 Home & Pro? Here are my notes?
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I am exploring text scrollbar. Here are my notes …
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Some notes on Python Pickle. See below/overleaf.
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I have been looking for a blog value calculator as a toy for this and the blog site. Here are my notes …
Read moreI came back to open source auction software again, it’s really important and seems to have been enclosed, particularly around SaaS services or by the Investment Banks and Financial Exchanges. Not aimed at the largest scale, but here are some notes …
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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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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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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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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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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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