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items: From Here On, We Must Go Alone
items: Decluttering Windows 11
items: The Law and Free Speech
items: Two speed E.U.
items: Baba Yaga’s Hut, in D&D
items: An AI hiccup on the capital markets
items: Notes on a D&D cleric
items: Magic Missile, D&D 5E
items: Brexit ‘reset’ Winter 2025/26
items: WordPress to Hugo?
items: Cyber Security and Resilience (NIS) Bil
items: AI vs HPC, what’s the difference.

From Here On, We Must Go Alone
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-03-10T13:15:35Z
subject: Politics
subject: Uncategorized
subject: europeanunion
subject: habermas
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an ai generated image of a map of europe with the EU & German flag." decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I was sent an English [machine] translation of a speech by Jürgen Habermas together with a prequel summary. … I am sharing below the new speech by 96-year-old Jürgen Habermas, titled “From Here On, We Must Go Alone,” which he gave at the Siemens Foundation in Munich. It is about the future of Europe and...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an ai generated image of a map of europe with the EU & German flag." decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eudilema-deepai.org-cc0-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I was sent an English [machine] translation of a speech by Jürgen Habermas together with a prequel summary. … I am sharing below the new speech by 96-year-old Jürgen Habermas, titled “From Here On, We Must Go Alone,” which he gave at the Siemens Foundation in Munich. It is about the future of Europe and its relations with the US. Basically, he traces what he calls the “democratically legitimized winding up of the oldest democracy on earth.” By this he means the United States. He sets out how the Trumpists are attacking the separation of powers on which the rule of law rests. They are carrying out a “rapid, arbitrarily autocratic expansion of an executive power that has at the same time been cut down to size and purged.” This, he writes, is taking place against the backdrop of “a legal system that is running into the void, gradually hollowed out from the top down.” Trump has “usurped the legislative powers of Congress” and has already made the army in its higher ranks “pliant.” He knows that Washington in 2025 is not Berlin in 1933. But it is clear that he fears for “the rule-of-law system of the United States.” “To this day,” he says, “I see no convincing signs of a reversal of the course that has been set towards a politically authoritarian-steered, technocratically administered but economically libertarian social system.” Habermas postulates that the EU must now constitute itself as an “autonomous player,” independently of the United States and independent…

Decluttering Windows 11
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-27T10:25:37Z
subject: Technology
subject: w11
subject: windows
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="inside the German Bundestag dome" decoding="async" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />There’s a lot of stuff claiming that W11 is bloated and the bloat impacts performance. I decided to experiment and here are my notes. On the systems I have chosen to slim down, I use https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat/wiki to uninstall those programs, applications and services I no longer require. (I have used another, but it was less...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="inside the German Bundestag dome" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/windows-berlin-cc-dfl-2024-BY-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> There’s a lot of stuff claiming that W11 is bloated and the bloat impacts performance. I decided to experiment and here are my notes. On the systems I have chosen to slim down, I use https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat/wiki to uninstall those programs, applications and services I no longer require. (I have used another, but it was less transparent and quite rough with the registry. Gemini describes the process and points at alternatives. This leaves the so-called Telemetry, which involves un-setting some switches and stopping/disabling a service i.e. Connected User Experience and Telemetry. For Google Gemini https://gemini.google.com/share/bc85ad270803 on the Settings switches. For the service, use services.msc. Unfortunately, these may be “rectified” by some windows updates. Service Management I looked at programming this, with help from Chatgpt, here are some code offerings, developed in the opposite order. Connected User Experience and Telemetry with TCL https://chatgpt.com/share/69a16aad-86f4-800d-91a7-0bc11068b156 Connected User Experience and Telemetry with GUI in Powershell https://chatgpt.com/share/69a16b1b-7824-800d-b25e-1c7c7e54d813; what? My first attempt without a GUI in Powershell https://chatgpt.com/share/69a16b32-5408-800d-b4c8-9c1c7568ef7d I need to workout which of HP’s programs I can de-install. See also https://davelevy.info/wiki/tag/w11/ & https://davelevy.info/wiki/my-newest-w10-build/

The Law and Free Speech
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-22T10:36:18Z
subject: Politics
subject: Uncategorized
subject: free speech
subject: human rights
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Orator at Speakers Corner, 1974" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />A lengthy post on “Free Speech/Free Expresion” by Graham Smith on linkein caused me to pick up my copy of “Prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence”, published by article 19 in December 2012 which reviews the conflicts between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on civil and political rights. The...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Orator at Speakers Corner, 1974" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Orator_at_Speakers_Corner_CC-BAAW-BY-SA-3.0-1974-wikipedia-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> A lengthy post on “Free Speech/Free Expresion” by Graham Smith on linkein caused me to pick up my copy of “Prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence”, published by article 19 in December 2012 which reviews the conflicts between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on civil and political rights. The former of which creates a comprehensive right to seek and receive information while the latter in its article 20(2) Requires signatory states to prohibit certain forms of speech which are intended to sow hatred. Much formal and informal transatlantic conversations on the subject of free speech would seem to downplay the latter and with the rise of revenge porn and non-consensual privacy violations on the internet, it is necessary to consider other universal rights, such as the right to dignity (A1) and privacy (A12). NB The United States is a signatory to the ICCPR; twitter/x and Facebook are not human beings and so may not claim human rights law protection and neither do bots nor AIs. The Article 19 pamphlet explores the treaties’ provisions in some depth and sensitivity proposing that national laws should explicitly prohibit incitement; this would still leave breaches of Article 1 & 12 rights with limited recourse to remedy granted in Article 8. Graham’s Linkedin Post The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Prohibi…

Two speed E.U.
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-18T16:18:41Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: europeanunion
subject: federalism
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="overtaking prohibited ends sign" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />One of the reform proposals at the end of the last EU mandate, was a multi-speed Europe. I reported on the most explicit initiative https://davelevy.info/wiki/sailing-the-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu/ . Has the time come again to look at this as an answer to the EU’s sclerosis. The challenges are clear, with the federalists or federalist adjacent players looking at...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="overtaking prohibited ends sign" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/overtake-pavels-unsplash-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> One of the reform proposals at the end of the last EU mandate, was a multi-speed Europe. I reported on the most explicit initiative https://davelevy.info/wiki/sailing-the-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu/ . Has the time come again to look at this as an answer to the EU’s sclerosis. The challenges are clear, with the federalists or federalist adjacent players looking at capital market integration, a savings and investment union, defence spending, and supply chain security being issues of concern, while the nationalists are concerned about increasing competencies, and are developing ideas for decentralisation. What will happen? The Telegraph, with for it, a remarkably unemotional article on the case for and prospects of greater integration. The map of prospects without the UK makes me sad though. The moves are further reported by Euronews, https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/11/as-challenges-mount-a-two-speed-europe-emerges-as-a-way-out And Politico https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/presenting-europes-two-speed-era/ I did a Gemini query, “is there a proposal within the European Union for a two-speed Europe?” and produce the argument at the end of this article. My page https://davelevy.info/wiki/eu-reform/ documents the EP’s response to COFOE and probably represents the zenith of the federalist push within the last mandate. While we talk of a single mandate and while the Parliament and Commission are pretty stable, the Co…

Baba Yaga’s Hut, in D&D
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-10T15:53:41Z
subject: Games
subject: ADD
subject: baba yaga
subject: dungeons & dragons
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an image of Baba Yaga's hut" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an image of Baba Yaga's hut" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BabaYagaHut-pinterest-w1080-100x100.png 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I was playing D&D last weekend, when the topic of one of my great games, played a long time ago arose. This was Baba Yaga’s Hut. A bit of googling, states that this was published in Dragon Magazine #83. I have checked my personal [paper] archive and I do not have it. So I went to see if was available online. What I’ve found I used google gemini, and found, An article Dragon magazine #83, on the Forgotten Realms Fandom wiki, although it has no links to the game. Google point me at this internet archive page which hosts several formats, but I link to a .pdf, The Dancing Hut Of Baba Yaga credited to Lisa Smedman, not Roger Moore There’s also a version on anyflip, which credits Dave Coulson as the designer. It’s also available via RPGGeek A commentary/walk-through of the original is posted here, with their episode two also posted. This might be a bit weird for fans of fantasy as you pick up some 20th century weapons and confront a Soviet JS3 tank. We played a party of four, I think, 15th level ADD Fighter, Cleric, and Paladin with the Master of Flowers (the ,then, unique top level monk). The topology of the Hut’s interior was a tesseract; we got very lost. The featured Image is from Pinterest.

An AI hiccup on the capital markets
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-09T13:00:02Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pricesontheweb-kanchanara-dVAW3YDHtSw-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="hands at a computer displaying stock prices" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pricesontheweb-kanchanara-dVAW3YDHtSw-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pricesontheweb-kanchanara-dVAW3YDHtSw-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I have collected a couple of articles about the AI stock sell off in Feb 26. Is this the beginning of the burst. And? This is a video of the AI sales pitch to Davos 26. It’s so empty I couldn’t watch it. (Tell me if I am wrong.) The Register is arguing that money...
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Notes on a D&D cleric
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-08T22:42:21Z
subject: Games
subject: ADD
subject: dungeons & dragons
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an armoured figure casting a spell" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />I decided to make another D&D Cleric, I got fed up falling down with one of my gishes. Here are my notes. I am playing at a table that uses the 2014 rules, here is the Cleric page at dnd5e wiki. I plan to run an Assimar and DnD Beyond use the Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an armoured figure casting a spell" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/male-assimar-5e-arcana-cleric-deepai_org-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> I decided to make another D&D Cleric, I got fed up falling down with one of my gishes. Here are my notes. I am playing at a table that uses the 2014 rules, here is the Cleric page at dnd5e wiki. I plan to run an Assimar and DnD Beyond use the Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse version. The PC’s sub-class/domain is the Arcana Domain sub-class. ON the D&D beyond, I need to check the number of prepared spells, which AFAIK is WIS modifier + level + the domain spells, so 8+. The Assimar special abilities, healing and radiant consumption are defined by the proficiency level. The 5th level Cleric’s ability “Destroy Undead” is not written into the character sheet. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="649" height="234" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/branwen-2-lb-w649.jpg" alt="a fanatsy armoured spellcaster casting a spell" class="wp-image-2355" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/branwen-2-lb-w649.jpg 649w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/branwen-2-lb-w649-300x108.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px" /> Branwen from BG1 The next spells I want are, Sanctuary (1), Command (1), Hold Person (2), Lesser Restoration (2), Silence (2), & Beacon of Hope. I suppose, Protection from Good/Evil should probably be there too. I should probably develop an “in town” prepared list. What I have is strongly healer and combat orienta…

Magic Missile, D&D 5E
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-08T14:15:08Z
subject: Games
subject: 5e
subject: ADD
subject: dungeons & dragons
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="A wizard casting magic missile" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />To me this has always been the creation of an attack of magic darts, with each dart’s damage being evaluated by a single d4 i.e. scoring between 1 and 4, and adding an extra point of damage. One gets to roll a lot of dice. A recent statement from WOTC is that one should roll...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="A wizard casting magic missile" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wizard-mm-deepai.org-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> To me this has always been the creation of an attack of magic darts, with each dart’s damage being evaluated by a single d4 i.e. scoring between 1 and 4, and adding an extra point of damage. One gets to roll a lot of dice. A recent statement from WOTC is that one should roll one d4 and multiply that score by the number of darts, adding one for each dart. The former rule, creates a tendency to an average of 10.5, while the latter rule evens out the probability of middling scores making the extremes of 6 and 15 more likely. Interestingly, the mean average remains the same. Image Credit: by deepai.org

Brexit ‘reset’ Winter 2025/26
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-06T12:06:52Z
subject: Politics
subject: citizenship
subject: immigration
subject: international trade
subject: politics
subject: rejoineu
subject: trade
subject: withdrawalagreement
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="EU UK Flags" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Meetings have occurred in monitoring and managing the Withdrawal Agreement and Trade & Co-operation agreement, over the last month, but what did they say and agree. I’d say, not very much. As ever, links and notes … The Communique On Citizens’ Rights They say, They welcomed the solution on the true and extra cohort enshrined...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="EU UK Flags" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-150x150.png 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-100x100.png 100w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/euukflags-roccodipoppa-unsplash-w1920x850-45x45.png 45w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Meetings have occurred in monitoring and managing the Withdrawal Agreement and Trade & Co-operation agreement, over the last month, but what did they say and agree. I’d say, not very much. As ever, links and notes … The Communique Landing Page for a Joint Statement by European Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and Minister for the Cabinet Office Nick Thomas-Symonds Joint statement by the European Commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič and the UK Minister for the Cabinet Office, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the text of the statement. On Citizens’ Rights They say, They welcomed the solution on the true and extra cohort enshrined in UK law and agreed to accelerate the transition from temporary to permanent residence of these citizens. They committed to further strengthen their cooperation on all pending citizens’ rights issues. So what is the true and extra cohort? Google gemini says, and I paraphrase, the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act’s Clause 42 is designed to resolve the inconsistencies of the UK’s treatment of EU citizens vs the commitments made in the Withdrawal Agreement. I wonder if this will lead the EU to withdraw the two immigration related, infringement proceedings. Google says that the Commission are still proceeding with a court case. This is what the Commission has to say, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_…

WordPress to Hugo?
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-04T14:19:05Z
subject: Technology
subject: Wordpress
subject: HUGO
subject: wordpress
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a cartoon made by ai, an arrow pointing from wordpress to a blue gopher." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Really? The performance from my WP hosting provider is consistently poor, althouhg I don’t seem to have suffered a DOS since installing the CDN package. I don’t want a database on my Pi as it complicates build maintenance. Is Hugo the answer? NB I use a lot of plugins and thus, wordpress.org would be too...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a cartoon made by ai, an arrow pointing from wordpress to a blue gopher." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/wp-2-hugo-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> Really? The performance from my WP hosting provider is consistently poor, althouhg I don’t seem to have suffered a DOS since installing the CDN package. I don’t want a database on my Pi as it complicates build maintenance. Is Hugo the answer? NB I use a lot of plugins and thus, wordpress.org would be too expensive. What I found? https://blog.muffn.io/posts/how-i-migrated-from-wordpress-to-hugo/, suggests that Github Pages is a good hosting tool. Several tools at WP Migrations at gohugo.io See also https://davelevy.info/wiki/hugo & https://davelevy.info/wiki/tag/wordpress Featured image by deepai.org

Cyber Security and Resilience (NIS) Bil
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-03T18:03:21Z
subject: Politics
subject: Technology
subject: Uncategorized
subject: cybersecurity
subject: Networking
subject: politics
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a lock and keyboard" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />My notes and links Google Gemini says, UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (2025/2026) proposes strengthening national infrastructure security by expanding the scope of the NIS Regulations to cover more digital service providers, critical suppliers, and data centers. It introduces stricter incident reporting requirements (within 24 hours), mandatory risk management, and increased enforcement powers for...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="a lock and keyboard" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cybersecurity-flyd-mT7lXZPjk7U-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> My notes and links Google Gemini says, UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (2025/2026) proposes strengthening national infrastructure security by expanding the scope of the NIS Regulations to cover more digital service providers, critical suppliers, and data centers. It introduces stricter incident reporting requirements (within 24 hours), mandatory risk management, and increased enforcement powers for regulators to protect essential services. See here. Also, “The legislation, introduced to Parliament on November 12, 2025, aims to modernize the UK’s, and in particular critical sectors’, defense against rising cyber threats, as described in the UK Parliament news release and GOV.UK press release.” Cyber Security and Resilience (NIS) Bill, introduced to Parliament on November 12, 2025, does not explicitly mandate specific frameworks like ISO 27001 or COBIT in law. Instead, it requires “appropriate and proportionate” technical and organizational measures. See here. Note the US spelling of organizational, rather underlines the need for digital sovereignty. See also https://davelevy.info/wiki/date-use-access-act/

AI vs HPC, what’s the difference.
type: item
creator: Dave
date: 2026-02-03T08:13:39Z
subject: Technology
subject: architecture
subject: artificialintelligence
subject: distributed systems
subject: HPC
subject: supercomputers
description: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an aisle in a computer hall" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />What is the architecture of an AI Cluster and how does it differ from other distributed computing architectures? These are my notes, a work in progress. Schwartz (or someone that advised him) articulated that there were three super-architectures, Virtualisation Hosts, Web Farm servers, and Super-computers. In my article on IS Strategy, on LinkedIn, (April 2020)...
encoded: <img width="150" height="150" src="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="an aisle in a computer hall" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https://davelevy.info/wiki/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/computerhall-ismailenes-ayhan-lVZjvw-u9V8-unsplash-w1080-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /> What is the architecture of an AI Cluster and how does it differ from other distributed computing architectures? These are my notes, a work in progress. Schwartz (or someone that advised him) articulated that there were three super-architectures, Virtualisation Hosts, Web Farm servers, and Super-computers. In my article on IS Strategy, on LinkedIn, (April 2020) I described them as Today I describe the systems as business systems, community systems and High Performance Computing. I hadn’t realised that it was that old. It would seem that now I have to add AI clusters as 4th super-architecture. I asked ChatGPT, who now it seems serve AI with ads, who said A supercomputer is engineered to solve physics equations about reality with extreme precision, while an AI cluster node is engineered to multiply giant matrices as fast as physically possible to train neural networks. And “AI doesn’t usually need extreme numerical precision — it needs throughput.” They use different interconnects Power and power density are different, AI systems draw more power, with a higher density and thus require more expensive cooling. Different RAM and Chips I looked for white papers, and found these https://insideainews.com/2019/11/27/supercomputers-and-machine-learning-a-perfect-match/ https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/hpc https://www.glennklockwood.com/garden/HPC-vs-AI, Glenn works for VASTdata, previously…