Matthew Slowe

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Working in IT to help HE & FE (and other public sector) organisations work better together.


Somewhere in the vicinity of the far South East of #England
 and occasionally in the farther reaches of #Scotland

#photography #kent #highlands #linux #federation #eduroam #shibboleth #saml #itsecurity #highereducation #academia

And it pains me to need to say that I do not consent to any third-party Mastodon or other fediverse instance's Terms of Service, as I am not a user of their service. All posts are my own, and permission to propagate them is always revocable.

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The towering peaks of Bla Bheinn on the wonderful Isle of Skye, seen from the east across Loch Slapin. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/skye/index.html

#Scotland #BlaBheinn #Blaven #IsleOfSkye #Skye #LochSlapin
#postboxtopper #kent St Margarets at Cliffe

After all the inclement weather, the weekend is scraping the mud off its boots and preparing to knock on the door to say hello. Here’s a Storm Petrel to say β€˜huzzah!’ Have a good one. xx πŸͺΆ

#birds #weather #isleofwight #illustration #art #lighthouse

Since the US/Iran conflict started, #BBC journalists have switched from pronouncing Iran's capital as the mostly accurate "Teh-rarn" to the US version of "Tay-ran" which makes me think of #TaylorSwift out for a jog which isn't quite the mood!

In one of the #TNC26 talks (part of the Rebooting the Old Reliables session) one of the speakers mentioned an article about "Rewilding the internet". It's been around for a few years but is a fascinating and inspiring read…

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#rewilding #internetdiversity #digitalsovereignty #digitaldiversitity

We Need To Rewild The Internet 

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

NOEMA
OK. I've skimmed the decision (35 pages, I am not a lawyer). This is NOT based on the EU AI act. The court sees the "AI Summaries" that Google produces as content created and published by Google, hence they are liable when their work produces wrong and harmful statements, as was the case here. So quite a normal decision. Google's argument that they are somehow exempted failed. They have to remove the wrong statements and pay 80% of the costs.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116720885785978132

A brief, robust response to Apple's claims.

Note, this is not about privacy.

If you read my posts today, you know how identity ownership is one of the big things that occupies my thinking. In an ideal world identity ownership would be a fundamental human right and everything would derive from my ownership as attestations and verifiable credential. So instead of me being Dutch (meaning the Netherlands β€žownβ€œ my identity), my Nationality would be an attribute. That I decide to accept in my identity. That’s a reversal of the balance of power. That makes sense.

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Long shot. Does anybody need a General IT Dogsbody/Programmer?

I'm trying to switch to freelancing because I find aspects of traditional employment to be unbearably stressful. The clients I do have won't be enough for the long term.

My website - https://neilbullock.co.uk - covers stuff I've typically done, but I'll do anything.

I have 25 years of Linux and Windows sysadmin experience, 30+ years of dev experience, and love solving problems with all of my skills.

EU/UK/Oxford

#GetFediHired

Neil Bullock | Independent software and systems engineer

Neil Bullock is an independent software and systems engineer helping organisations replace messy processes with practical, maintainable software and self-hosted systems.

Is there any way to make airports less soulless - especially given the amount of time one is required to spend in one in order to fly anywhere?