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date: 2025-11-06T20:52:14Z
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items: Deutsche Bahn
items: The Commission Work Plan 26
items: What are the politics of the EU Commission?
items: GB Energy
items: Date (Use & Access) Act
items: Scripting on the raspberry pi
items: More on timed power i.e. switches
items: Royo
items: France
items: UK/US Technology Partnership
items: IT Sovereignty
items: My EU Start Page

Deutsche Bahn
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-06T20:52:06Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: deutschebahn
subject: germany
subject: travel
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="German station with iCE train" decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I may have missed an opportunity in September, here is the DB railway map, I should have travelled from Stralsund to Lubeck via Rostock …
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="German station with iCE train" decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/db-bernddittrich-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I may have missed an opportunity in September, here is the DB railway map, I should have travelled from Stralsund to Lubeck via Rostock … <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="724" height="1024" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-724x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-13409" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-724x1024.png 724w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-212x300.png 212w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-768x1087.png 768w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways-1447x2048.png 1447w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DB-Railways.png 1653w" sizes="(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px" />

The Commission Work Plan 26
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-05T17:48:11Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the flag rank outside the Berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Oops, missed this, … published on the 21st October, this article was made on 5th November and is unfinished. A summary of the defence & security programmes and the social cohesion programmes would be useful. Links VDL’s State of the Union speech, landing page which hosts the video, and text. This page has a series...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the flag rank outside the Berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/berlaymont-guillaumeperigois-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Oops, missed this, … published on the 21st October, this article was made on 5th November and is unfinished. A summary of the defence & security programmes and the social cohesion programmes would be useful. Links VDL’s State of the Union speech, landing page which hosts the video, and text. This page has a series of categorises bullet summaries, competitiveness (6), defence and security (5), social fairness (6), quality of life (5), democracy (5) includes anti-corruption, and a global Europe aka trade and peace (3). The Commission Work Plan, has a landing page, and they have published the workplan which has a supplementary documents’ index. I made a diigo post of the work plan, highlighting and commenting on it. Davelevy’s Favorite Links from Diigo What do I think? This would be better organised as the Commission has organised the plan, competitiveness (6), defence and security (5), social fairness (6), quality of life (5), democracy (5) includes anti-corruption, and a global Europe aka trade and peace (3). Democracy On democracy, few +ive promises, and nothing on citizen’s assemblies nor the ECI. Although the democracy shield remains in place and will be progressed, unless the EU caves to Trump’s demands. On agriculture, there’s no promises (again) on responding to the “End the cage age” ECI. On anti-corruption, there is cross party unanimity on its importance, although the ECR and others oppose the imposition of de…

What are the politics of the EU Commission?
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-05T11:47:02Z
subject: Politics
subject: eu commission
subject: europeanunion
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />This explains a lot. This is a chart of the EU commissioners by political party, I made this today and it includes a few judgements. The EPP have a voting majority on the Commission. In addition, there is a creeping Presidentialisation of European politics which in my opinion concedes too much power to the singular...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> This explains a lot. This is a chart of the EU commissioners by political party, I made this today and it includes a few judgements. The EPP have a voting majority on the Commission. In addition, there is a creeping Presidentialisation of European politics which in my opinion concedes too much power to the singular leader of political authorities. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="752" height="479" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Commissioners-Party-Chart-25.png" alt="" class="wp-image-13395" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Commissioners-Party-Chart-25.png 752w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Commissioners-Party-Chart-25-300x191.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px" /> I made this using google for facts, and excel as the chart drawing tool, it includes my judgements in one or two cases. Please feel free to use, a credit would be nice.

GB Energy
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-04T13:48:17Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: energy
subject: politics
subject: Technology
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="modern windmills in a purple sunset/rise" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? … LInks
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="modern windmills in a purple sunset/rise" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/windmills-annajimenezcalaf-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? … LInks Great british energy founding statement at gov.uk What-we-will-do at GBE GB Energy From pledge to reality a commentary by Public First

Date (Use & Access) Act
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-02T22:11:03Z
subject: Politics
subject: Technology
subject: data protection
subject: digital economy
subject: duab
subject: politics
subject: regulation
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later. Links Copyright The creative industry or at least its superstars kicked off on the issue of AI training and copyright. They lost it seems, this is covered in the article linked below. UK passes updated...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/files-absolutevision-unsplash-w1280-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later. Links The text of the legislation @ legislation.gov.uk The Data Use and Access Act 2025 (DUAA) – what does it mean for organisations by the ICO, published prior to final passage. What the House of Commons briefing had to say. Briefing: The Data Use and Access Bill (Second Reading) by the Open Rights Group, the had an unfounded fear that the UK might lose its adequacy ruling, because the law planned to weaken protection from automated decision making and for use by AI. It reduces the threshold protecting personal data from law enforcement enquiries. They also argue that it weakens the safeguarding requirements with respect to personal information. They also oppose the introduction of Henry VIII powers. (Much of the criticism is based on a fear that the UK would lose its adequacy ruling, which it did not. See below.) The weakening of the requirement to not automatically process/profile people is a serious criticism which could have been met if they’d wanted to.) They also publish the narrower briefings on use for political purposes & DUAB and AI harms Copyright The creative industry or at least its superstars kicked off on the issue of AI training and copyright. They lost it seems, this is covered in the article linked below. UK passes updated data bill without AI cop…

Scripting on the raspberry pi
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-02T18:41:26Z
subject: Technology
subject: raspberry pi
subject: raspbian
subject: scripting
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script … cron & privilege My script, run_aptjob requires sudo authentication and so asks for it from the gui when run from crontab despite being defined in the root crontab file and called using the sudo command....
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/code-pankajpatel-unsplash-w1080-45x45.jpg 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script … cron & privilege My script, run_aptjob requires sudo authentication and so asks for it from the gui when run from crontab despite being defined in the root crontab file and called using the sudo command. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60754639/sudo-asks-for-password-in-cronjob-script-but-the-same-script-works-without-passw And https://askubuntu.com/questions/419548/how-to-set-up-a-root-cron-job-properly https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=296993 https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/57835/why-my-script-is-not-executed-with-root-privileges-using-crontab https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/32955/cron-job-doesnt-work-but-runs-successfully-manually, looks like a syntax error java I can’t get the script to run from a batch file, I need to set DISPLAY and pass the -input parameter to the command line. It was working but now isn’t. export DISPLAY=:10.0 java -jar /opt/java/ksar-latest -input ${YESTERDAY} This code works from the command line where $YESTERDAY is yesterday’s SAR text file. Does DISPLAY need to be passed over using the -D flag? Otherwise, I found these, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226008/how-to-pass-arguments-to-a-java-process-from-within-a-shell-script https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8123058/passing-on-co…

More on timed power i.e. switches
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-10-31T18:27:44Z
subject: Life & Death
subject: DIY
subject: electrity
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I have a DIY project coming up which I need a time control on. I was pointed at some switches which can be controlled by a phone app called Tayu. … Links I wonder if there is a regionalisation dimension.
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/timer-switch-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I have a DIY project coming up which I need a time control on. I was pointed at some switches which can be controlled by a phone app called Tayu. … Links A site by them. A 3rd party video explaining the app. Allegedly, one can use ifttt to manage these switches. This gemini response points at a family of services called “Smart Life services”, which has an IFTTT interface/trigger. This is one of the switches I am thinking of buying and this one has wifi. I wonder if there is a regionalisation dimension.

Royo
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-10-26T16:17:41Z
subject: Culture
subject: art
subject: culture
subject: royo
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a copy of royo's bezella serena" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I went to the the Clarendon Art Gallery in Greenwich and came across a picture by an artist that signs himself Royo. See below for an image credit of the featured image which is a digital version of one of his pictures taken from a site claiming to present his work. On previous posts in...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a copy of royo's bezella serena" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/royo-bezella-serena-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I went to the the Clarendon Art Gallery in Greenwich and came across a picture by an artist that signs himself Royo. See below for an image credit of the featured image which is a digital version of one of his pictures taken from a site claiming to present his work. On previous posts in this series I have made a little slideshow of digital versions of other works they have produced, but not this time. I can’t find a version of the picture I saw in the gallery. The featured image has been copied from the web site noted above. It is used for the usual reasons and I am pointing to the author’s site. This site is non commercial.

France
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-09-28T11:29:25Z
subject: Travel
subject: France
subject: travel
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="picture, woman carrying two baguettes and wearing a beret" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. … A map of France I plan to make a usemap of this, to link to...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="picture, woman carrying two baguettes and wearing a beret" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-olenabohovyk-unsplash-cropped-shrunk-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. … A map of France <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="724" height="856" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-via-mundomappa.png" alt="" class="wp-image-13170" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-via-mundomappa.png 724w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/france-via-mundomappa-254x300.png 254w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px" /> I plan to make a usemap of this, to link to mymaps of France. What else have I got Immediately below on this page is a rendered feed of articles tagged ‘France’; the link on this line takes you to a new HTML page. France – davelevy . info / wiki things dave has discovered, brought to you by wordpress & 1and1 France by Dave on September 28, 2025 at 11:29 am I have so many plans for travelling in France, its getting difficult to keep track of. I made this index page, with plans for an active link to my maps, and a dynamic list of article on this wiki. … A map of France I plan to make a usemap of this, to link to… Marseilles by Dave on September 21, 2025 at 1:37 pm Inspired by paintings of the Riviera, I am considering visiting Marseilles. Here are my notes and links … Note…

UK/US Technology Partnership
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-09-26T23:09:42Z
subject: Economics
subject: Technology
subject: artificialintelligence
subject: datacentre
subject: economics
subject: power
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="signing the UK/US tech deal, Starmer/Trump" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come. Notes and links Is there a bubble? The article Class war 1939-1945 on this wiki examines the transactional profit seeking motives of the US in the lead up to their joining the 2nd World War. (Why is this in here, oh yeah,...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="signing the UK/US tech deal, Starmer/Trump" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ukus-techdeal-assumedHMG-OGL-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come. Notes and links A press release announcing Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regarding the Technology Prosperity Deal from gov.uk and also US-UK pact will boost advances in drug discovery, create tens of thousands of jobs and transform lives from gov.uk Earlier, a government commissioned “Independent Report”, the AI Opportunities Action Plan , signed by Matt Clifford, Chair of https://www.aria.org.uk/, a UK R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Google Gemini says, The “independent AI action plan” you are likely referring to is the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, which was developed by Matt Clifford. This plan recommends building sufficient, secure, and sustainable AI infrastructure, expanding the UK’s sovereign AI compute capacity by 20 times by 2030, and creating AI Growth Zones to accelerate data centre construction. It also calls for investing in AI skills and talent, reforming AI regulation to enable safe and trusted adoption, establishing a National Data Library to increase access to data, and working with regulators to accelerate AI across priority sectors. See also, Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI by Nscale. Who are Nsc…

IT Sovereignty
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-09-26T16:57:18Z
subject: Economics
subject: Technology
subject: economics
subject: eu
subject: europeanunion
subject: eustack
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="europe at night by nasa" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS). Notes...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="europe at night by nasa" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/europeatnight-nasa-cc-nasa-2008-by-w1200-cropped-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Various things have taken me to considering the EU stack, these include the issues raised in this article On cloud operating systems and security of supply and the Bastani/Hao interview. The EU is considering these issues, in defining an EU stack, which does include networks, storage, and systems (and thus presumably CPUs and ASICS). Notes and Links https://www.euro-stack.info/ https://www.ceps.eu/a-bold-proposal-to-build-the-eurostack-because-doing-nothing-isnt-an-option-anymore/ https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/reframetech-algorithmen-fuers-gemeinwohl/project-news/eurostack-a-european-alternative-for-digital-sovereignty With a comment from Canada, by Emily Osborne, who says, “If Canada seeks genuine control over the physical and digital infrastructure that stores and transports information of its public, it cannot rely on US hyperscalers to provide it. These companies fall under US jurisdiction and, therefore, are subject to the 2018 CLOUD Act, which enables US authorities to access data they hold, even if that data is stored abroad.” While looking for a featured image, I found this article, https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/internet-speed-in-europe/, which has this image, show See also https://davelevy.info/wiki/opensource-cloud-oss/ where I discuss the opensource/european alternatives to the US datenkraken and among other things, say, I say, that, it’s also fortunate for the UK, w…

My EU Start Page
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-09-24T10:56:23Z
subject: Politics
subject: europeanunion
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index. Also possibly less central to understanding the EU A list of all the articles tagged “europeanunion” can be found here, and here is...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="the berlaymont building" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/berlaymont-dfl-2023-cropped-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I have written a lot about the European Union and its democracy and its easy to get lost so I have made this page which is meant to be a start page/index. Subsidiarity and proportionality basically my comments, notes and links on the treaties and constitution of the EU, you can see where it started, but now includes a number of paper links on democracy in the EU including references to those who want to reverse the centralising tendencies. Digital market regulation in the EU includes the Democracy Shield and some brief comments on the Media Freedom Act Sailing the high seas reforming and enlarging the EU on the late 2023 attempts to agree or head off significant reform to the institutions and competencies, interesting because the two initiatives show the two approaches of increasing federalism and/or reverting to a two speed Europe. Also possibly less central to understanding the EU An article called, Media and election interference covers the UK and EU, catalogues and comments on the laws I think needed to understand the challenges of the Democracy shield. How much has the EU changed since Jan 20?, unfinished, maybe I should put the UKICE material in this page. A list of all the articles tagged “europeanunion” can be found here, and here is a rendering of the last 12 item in the list in Feedzy. There are a number of articles also tagged on my blog. and a Feedzy render of t…