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items: What the EU thinks of the “reset”
items: UK & EU’s SAFE (Defence) funding programme
items: Where are the chips made?
items: Universities, funding & growth
items: And yet there’s more, the Labour Government and immigration.
items: Rolling back the tide
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

What the EU thinks of the “reset”
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-12-12T13:26:22Z
subject: Politics
subject: EU-UKPPA
subject: europeanunion
subject: MarosSefcovic
subject: politics
subject: rejoineu
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="House of Commons, Ctte Room 17" decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-100x100.png 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />A transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s introductory speech/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting. Meta This transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s speeches/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting in the Palace of Westminster was constructed by scraping the transcript from the youtube stream which is the UK’s...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="House of Commons, Ctte Room 17" decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hoc-cr17-viahansard-100x100.png 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> A transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s introductory speech/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting. Meta This transcript of Ambassador Serrano, and Commissioner Šefčovič’s speeches/letter to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly’s 6th meeting in the Palace of Westminster was constructed by scraping the transcript from the youtube stream which is the UK’s formal record of the meeting. The paragraph formation is mine, and I have converted some of Youtube’s spelling from US to British English and deleted some of Youtube’s double word insertions. Minister Symmonds-Thomas’s speech is hosted on the gov.uk site. I asked Commissioner Šefčovič for a copy of his letter, but his office pointed me at the UK government’s record of the meeting, which it seems is the youtube video. Ambassador Pedro Serrano’s introduction Thank you very much, Madame Co-chair. Mr. Co-chair, dear Minister, for the Constitution, European Union Relations. Dear Nick, what an honour and pleasure to be here with you and with all of you, distinguished members of Parliament. I’m really honoured to be here at the sixth meeting of the EU UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly. I have to start by expressing regrets uh the regrets communicating transmitting to you the regrets of the EU’s co-chair of the partnership council commissioner for trade and inter-institutional relations Marus Sevkovich who is unable to be here with us today in fact he’s addressing EU ministers at the general affairs …

UK & EU’s SAFE (Defence) funding programme
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-12-11T18:48:34Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="NATO warships at sea, CC NATO BY" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I wrote a piece on the Starmer Administration walking away from the EU’s defence funding programme. Here are the links, I used and didn’t. … Links What I can’t understand is whether, under SAFE the UK might have used EU funds to buy Archer or Boxer, or even pay for part of the AJAX or...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="NATO warships at sea, CC NATO BY" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/snmg1-1021x580-viaNATO-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I wrote a piece on the Starmer Administration walking away from the EU’s defence funding programme. Here are the links, I used and didn’t. … Links The EU reports that, EU and UK conclude security and defence partnership mostly used for the picture. The EU version of the “Reset Communique” EU-UK summit-2025-outcome-documents Minister Nick Thomas Symond’s speech at the UK-EU parliamentary partnership assembly plenary, 17-November The Commission on SAFE funding, i.e. by ECB bonfs UK excluded from €150bn EU defence deal from EuroWeekly News. What I can’t understand is whether, under SAFE the UK might have used EU funds to buy Archer or Boxer, or even pay for part of the AJAX or Challenger 3 programmes, since all these army vehicles either have EU member state components or are sourced from EU member states. Image Credit (c) NATO, used under CC NATO BY

Where are the chips made?
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-12-11T13:51:02Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: chips
subject: silicon
subject: Technology
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="silicon chips, in wafer form" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />There’s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1½ years ago on which countries make them, taken from Wikipedia. The spreadsheet hosting this table, and my version of the data is on my...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="silicon chips, in wafer form" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> There’s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1½ years ago on which countries make them, taken from Wikipedia. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="650" height="524" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Chips-by-Country-2023.png" alt="" class="wp-image-13557" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Chips-by-Country-2023.png 650w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Chips-by-Country-2023-300x242.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /> Chips by Country, 2023 via Wikipedia The spreadsheet hosting this table, and my version of the data is on my [google] share drive.

Universities, funding & growth
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-26T09:50:19Z
subject: Economics
subject: Politics
subject: economics
subject: immigration
subject: politics
subject: university
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Students in gowns and mortarboards" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />There is a Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry going on into University Funding, with hearings held at the beginning of the week. On the Tuesday 25th, they took oral evidence including that from Susan Lapworth, the CEO of the Office for students, who stated that 50 institutions were [financially] vulnerable with 24 at risk of...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Students in gowns and mortarboards" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/graduatingstudents-rutmiit-unsplashw1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> There is a Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry going on into University Funding, with hearings held at the beginning of the week. On the Tuesday 25th, they took oral evidence including that from Susan Lapworth, the CEO of the Office for students, who stated that 50 institutions were [financially] vulnerable with 24 at risk of imminent, if orderly failure. Links The Select Committee home page at Parliament The Hearing on the 25th Nov on youtube Comment The Government seems to ignore that modern growth theory suggests that GDP growth is dependent on Human Capital and that the current funding scheme discourages citizens and residents from going to University. Our University system is being funded by overseas students, and many of the postgraduate places and research posts are filled by overseas students and workers and many EU researchers have gone home because of Brexit.

And yet there’s more, the Labour Government and immigration.
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-21T18:17:17Z
subject: Politics
subject: asylum
subject: immigration
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a border force patrol boat at sea" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Shabana Mahmood trailed and then announced even more appalling restrictions on asylum seekers. The Govt announcement entitled, “Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy” is on the web. Freemovement,org respond with this article, ‘Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control”’....
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a border force patrol boat at sea" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/borderforce-at-sea-gov_uk-OGL-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Shabana Mahmood trailed and then announced even more appalling restrictions on asylum seekers. The Govt announcement entitled, “Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy” is on the web. Freemovement,org respond with this article, ‘Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control”’. Momentum in an email circulated a model motion which I reposted in a blog article. Immigration based on compassion and dignity The New Statesman is tracking those Labour MPs who object.

Rolling back the tide
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2025-11-12T09:23:05Z
subject: Politics
subject: climate change
subject: data protection
subject: europeanunion
subject: politics
subject: regulation
subject: sustainability
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a breaking wave" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />The EU is rolling back some of its corporate regulatory measures in the areas of sustainability reporting, and coming soon, simplifications in the digital economy laws. Here are some notes and links … Links
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a breaking wave" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/waves-jeremybishop-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> The EU is rolling back some of its corporate regulatory measures in the areas of sustainability reporting, and coming soon, simplifications in the digital economy laws. Here are some notes and links … Links https://finance.ec.europa.eu/news/omnibus-package-2025-04-01_en, a press release, they say, On 26 February 2025, the European Commission adopted a simplification package. It covers a number of legislative areas, including sustainable finance rules, carbon border adjustment mechanism and investment with the aim of simplifying EU rules,… The simplification link above points at Omnibus I package – Commission simplifies rules on sustainability and EU investments, delivering over €6 billion in administrative relief which describes itself as a proposal. An early look at the European Commission’s proposed digital law reforms by the IAPP, most importantly, in my eyes, a get out of responding to DSARs if supplementing an employment tribunal, defining AI training as a legitimate interest (PTUI) and weakening the prohibition on automated decision making.

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" loading="lazy" 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="auto, (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" loading="lazy" 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="auto, (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 loading="lazy" 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="auto, (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 EU Institutional Workplan 2026 on November 5, 2025 at 4:11 pm “COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS aka the EU Work Plan 26. “In a world of imperial ambitions and imperial wars, a world in which […] 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…

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. Von Der Leyen was confirmed as President of the Commission by a centre left alliance consisiting of pro-EU parties; these things are done as a deal, which impacts the selection of the President of the Council, and the Parliament. [Ref} In November 2026, a couple of things are playing out, https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-wins-no-confidence-vote/ But https://www.euractiv.com/news/far-right-offers-metsola-third-term-in-…

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…