So if AI can regurgitate works in their almost unmodified form, I wonder how long till a new business model emerges... where a company dual-licensing their code under (for example) GPL and a commercial license, can then charge an exorbitant amount of money to corporates to stop the GPL infection o...
Continue reading...Corruption in the UK courts
"This would be the first time a barrister has ever faced contempt of court for the contents of their closing speech. Menon now faces two years in prison for the high crime of reminding the jury of their centuries-old right to return verdicts without fear of punishment from the trial judge."
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It’s telling that UK media hasn’t highlighted the Iranian frigate being unarmed, despite it being widely reported across Asia (lots of talk in Thailand). There’s also been littl...
Continue reading...Spanish premier rejects unilateral military action by US, Israel
It's funny how the brain works
(In memorial: David Bowie)
I saw David Bowie in 1987, at the final concert of the Glass Spider Tour at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland. A local radio station had organized a couple of buses, and my friend and I - both teenagers at the time - decided we had to go (much convincing of parents t...
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When you should check the forecast...
The above picture was the view walking towards Pico de la Zarza, in Fuerteventura, on Tuesday.
The cloud was thick enough that you could barely see a few metres ahead of you (which is more than a little disturbing once you reach the top and you know there’s a fairly steep cliff on the other side...
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Spacing causing confusion
Martin writes:
Continue reading...My son is working through your book. He spotted a very minor error and I thought we would report it: In Chapter 8 on Page 102, the code for the three classes is missing an extra newline between the Animal and Mammal class. This can create some confusion when typing in the code...
Python for Kids in Bulgarian
I somehow forgot to post this last year, but the Bulgarian translation of Python for Kids (2nd Edition, no less) was published in October 2024. Available from Via Lettera.

The last thing you expect to find in a recipe book
I’ve just returned from a trip to New Zealand over Christmas - my first time back since before covid. While there, I was looking through an old handwritten recipe book, which my mother inherited from an aunt (or great aunt, I forget now), and on the back of one of the many recipe newspaper cuttings...
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ActivityPub on a (mostly) static site
Following on from this post, for anyone who's interested in getting ActivityPub integrated on their static site, this is what I've needed to setup/build (some of this may indeed be redundant, but it 'evolved' over time, so easier just to leave alone than fix).
Some not-hugely-relevant backgrou...
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