A gaming laptop

Shall I get a gaming laptop? Yes, I know I want to and my experience of playing BG3 on my working machine, was poor.

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Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill

It seems that GoNads screwed up the Tories first attempt to amend the 2018 Data Protection Act which implemented the GDPR in the UK. The current data regulation regime has earned the UK an adequacy ruling from the EU commission. This page documents my thoughts on this current attempt to amend the law.

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My solar charged power bank

I bought one of these a coujple of years ago and have always felt its recharge speed when using the solar panel was so slow as to make me question if it worked. I am going away and so checked on what people thought. Here are my notes and links. …

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Running WordPress

I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, …

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Python & remote pages

I did some more coding, this time to try and capture my ello feed. I have the string manipulation under control, mostly but in some cases, I wanted to look up data from another remote page. I looked at urllib and requests, but ello prohibit automated scraping; we’ll see if I solve it through browser…

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text to voice

Is this yet consumer ready? I am interested in using this for my blog/wiki. I found a 16 best of … article, how did that go? I made a google query to find more. Otherwise, here are some links and notes …

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Digitising DVD

Right! I want to convert my Babylon 5 collection to digital. Can this be done easily. There are about 40 DVD’s in the collection, so it’ll be a real pain to do. It’ll also take a lot of space, I reckon 188Gb, this is where bittorrent and distributed filesystems would be useful, except that most…

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Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)

I came across the words “self sovereign identity”. It seems to be something friends have been working on for a while; here my initial links and notes. I suppose the big question is, what can a self-certifying identity server access?

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Back to XMPP

With the imminent arrival of the state hacking of end-to-end encryption, I decided to have another look at XMPP. Here are my notes.

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Twitter’s Algo

Twitter have published their scoring algo. It has been summarised by Akash Gupta on twitter, which I have gathered into a threadreaderapp page, I’ll make some notes when I get round to it. I have noticed that the ‘for you’ feed has become less interesting and usefully provoking and some shit is leaking in.

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The Metaverse

So what’s this, a buzzword or a new basic technology. Who knows? Below/overleaf are my notes and links. Enjoy!

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