Technical consultant and developer, working with Web technologies to support open access to research.
Lives in Frome, UK.
#openaccess #opendata #scholcomm #coarnotify #pompeyfc
| Personal website | https://www.paulwalk.net |
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| Football Club | Portsmouth |
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html
I'm at GLAM-Labs event in Edinburgh - and gratified to hear a panel *unanimously* re-affirm that GLAMs need to keep the "open by default" philosophy for their collections. In recent months I've heard suggestions from some (mainly US-based) repository managers that we can no longer be open by default (mainly due to challenges of dealing with bot traffic).
I'm really pleased that the leading GLAM innovators represented here do *not* want to retreat on openness.
I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom.
In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote:
These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit.
Make your own recommendations at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:
With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed people should not be obliged to hand data to private companies.
@sean @dabeaz @mhoye the word I find myself using over and over again is "passable."
Modern AI is very good at creating "passable" things. Not "good," let alone excellent. Not "worthwhile." But they appear, at least at first glance, like something you might want, not yet knowing how fucked up it actually is when you take it apart and LOOK at it.
"Passable."
And I fucking hate it. I liked it better when AI generated surreal, blatantly insane nonsense. THAT was at least fun.
The good digital sovereignty: the bit where governments host their own critical infrastructure (to avoid the US shutting it down) and use reasonable open source alternatives to expensive commercial software.
The bad digital sovereignty: the bit where technically clueless politicians get hustled at Davos into thinking bad ideas are actually good because they're hosted in a data centre in Amsterdam rather than one in Virginia.
If only we could talk in specifics rather than generalities.
Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?
Oh, right
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
Ned Resnikoff
highly praised and little read
Andrew Nesbitt
Mike Taylor 🦕
LonM
Jim Salter
Joanna Bryson, blathering
Tom Morris
Jason Lefkowitz