Robert Neuschul

Critics call proposed changes to landmark EU privacy law 'death by a thousand cuts' Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation.

This is not good.

#EU #politics #online_security

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Much sympathy: am about to go for a cataract inspection end of this week so understand entirely. Simon B had his done a few weeks back and seems to be much better for it.

Also understand the ire and irritation.

inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:

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Research Fellowship - The Constitution Society The Society invites applications for a Research Fellowship on the life and constitutional contributions of Richard Haldane (1856-1928).

An interesting opportunity from the Constitution Society:

'The Constitution Society invites applications for a Research Fellowship dedicated to promoting the life and constitutional contributions of Richard Haldane (1856-1928).'

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High temp surgical grade incineration?

Don't forget Aaron Banks, Michelle Mone and many many others of their ilk.
Eat the rich might not be politically correct but it's sufficient for a first approximation.

recall your work on smartphone for older people; similar needs here. As a portable aide memoire, as a dictation tool, just general memoriser etc etc. We still haven't caught up with Lotus Magellan from 30+ years ago.
If minitiarised, as a 'smart' watch or similar, then even better.

Has been my notion for a few months now. As I age and also as illness gradually takes its slow toll I carry less and less with me. Something the size of a decent smartphone with a bluetooth headset would work well here. I've tried adding s/w to smartphones and it just doesn't cut it - Yet!

Writiers decks are too big and clunky in most cases to carry around for my all too frequent hospital visits. A dictaphone [with hush mic function] and with transcribe function is what I need.
And not needing to spend weeks training it to transcribe accurately.

Nice one.
Strangely, there's another part of this I've considered documenting: one might even call it the dictation deck.

There are many times when I want something no larger than a smartphone which I can simply dictate to and have it transcribed **accurately** into digital text.

One rule to ring them all! Truths be told, I’m really not very good with money and never have been.

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I would not exactly say I met him. He was in another place when we happened to passs through the same hotel space. He took my package, listened politely to my instructions for installation and went away as if I'd never interupted his jam with himself. Very surreal.

Of course you did :-)

Because why not.

Well all I can say is that after struggling over from mainframes and minis nothing was ever really as good as anything else. It was all so clunky.
Worstar for DOS [and CP/M] was actually perfectly usable. But .....

When I was at the British Library Comp.Div in the 1970s we were already discussing data preservation techniques - moving things from 2" Mag tapes to Winchesters to 5.25" HDD. Although some things have improved, generally speaking we humans really are pretty crap at risk management.

NB: yes, Borland bought loads of copies of our software after that - and even offered us some free copies of their stuff :-)

Yeah, OK. I'll give you that, sorta kinda.
I went to meet Mr Borland to give him a copy of our Mail/News client and found him in Bayswater playing sax up and down the halls of the hotel where he was staying. The reception asked me to get him to stop playing cuz it was driving the other guests crazy.

Nah, nothing beats Wordstar.

<ducks and runs>

With Thanksgiving now rapidly approaching we feel obliged to ask ....

Will The Turkey pardon the turkey, or will the turkey pardon The Turkey?

Should either be allowed to do either?

#national_lampoon #sarcasm #satire #buffoonery #insanity

On poor UX design.

When using Bluesky via a browser on a desktop machine rather than via the App some 60-65% of the screen territory is wasted and there's no ability to adjust spacing or territory.

Calling it crap would be polite.
#bluesky #bad_ux

Paul was dad’s youngest brother by several years.

Something new from me.

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Shouldn't that be Ansible 451?

Cont: echoes of the past & echoes of the future ....

Tense error: line 1.

Silcon Valley went insane more than thirty years ago. You're just *noticing* it for the first time.

In memoriam: Robert Neuschul. Born 21/10/1884 - Aussig, Austrian Empire. Died 21/10/1960 London UK.

Fear of crying I’ve only been mortally afraid a few times in my life and I can assure you that it’s not an experience I wish ever to encounter again.

A review of life.

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<sarcasm mode=on>This is part of the fallout from Amazon's DNS glitch last week<sarcasm mode=off>

I hope you get it sorted soon. It's almost certainly an Amazon DB up-fuck.

Ah, so a family trait then :-)
Does Anne know?

For reasons unknown Smudge still doesn't really do laps. Desks and chairs yes. Tables yes. Laps not so much. Though a good skritch on a lap for about 3-4 minutes might be acceptable if she's in the right mood. Which is not often.

We picked her for her independence but this is pushing it

Fifty loves to weigh your leavers It was some six or seven months after mother died that an airmail letter arrived from Ghana.

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Two words too many.

He doesn't understand!