What is this? How will it help the cost-of-living crisis? …
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Date (Use & Access) Act
A new law, good or bad? This article is a bit better now. is nowhere near finished, come back later.
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Scripting on the raspberry pi
This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script …
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UK/US Technology Partnership
Announced with a palavar, here are my notes & links. More to come.
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IT Sovereignty
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).
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Broken Links
As the World Wide Web changes, but maintaining the currency of links within this blog becomes more difficult I had a plug in which worked quite nicely but the growing prevalence of captchas, paywalls and proxies is making it much more difficult. So sorry for those who thought they found something useful and then didn’t.
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AI and images
I have been playing with AI image generators. See my notes …
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Copernicus & Brexit
The European Space Agency celebrated its most recent launch of a Copernicus Sentinel Satellite, which made me wonder how Brexit had impacted the UK’s participation in the EU’s space programmes. This post looks at what I found.
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Raspberry Pi IV
I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps …
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Enhanced Privacy with Meta
There has been a viral hoax circulating, about the use of whatsapp’s new enhanced privacy features. This has been described and debunked, in the article below,
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On AI Regulation
Some people are thinking very hard about this, here are my notes.
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Deepseek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup known for its advanced large language models (LLMs), including the DeepSeek-R1 model, which is designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. DeepSeek aims to redefine AI by focusing on efficiency and resource s, making powerful AI technology more accessible
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WordPress and Firewalls
It seems that I need one now, my hosting provider doesn’t offer what I’d expect. Here are my notes and links, …
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AI, just an autocomplete machine
Are the LLM’s just an expensive, autocomplete machine? I have been saying this since a close colleague first suggested it. Now some serious compter scientists are saying the same. Here are some notes and links …
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Opensource Cloud OS’s
I have just posted a little note on linkedin on the US regulatory ownership of the Cloud OS’s, cloud providers and supporting software products, in the context of ‘security of supply’. Here’s some more reading.
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