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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 16/02/2019 - 11:45pm
mjd favorited something by kat:

is launching it's free wifi service. I remember talking about delivering this to people at the beginning of the century. Where communities would own their infrastructure and deliver it. Own their own data and manage how it is used.

Move forward 20 years and it's happening, except being delivered by a private company, and I worry about the survelliance. I guess that it's part of turning the city "smart".

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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 16/02/2019 - 11:44pm
#, # and # I keep thinking of Eben Moglen's observation that thinking about "cyberspace" is as absurd as thinking about "telephone space".
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 16/02/2019 - 8:38pm
@tregeagle Crappy trailer, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCj9Lm4fRQY #
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Saturday, 16 February 2019 - 3:04am

Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 16/02/2019 - 3:04am

As I am pushing, or perhaps being shoved towards, fifty years of age, I find myself becoming compulsively autobiographic because I am starting to properly appreciate the sweep of history in those fifty years, and perhaps more so in the fifty previous years.

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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 15/02/2019 - 11:48pm
That, my entire experience in big corporate IT, had two good consequences:
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 15/02/2019 - 11:31pm
After about a year of being the geek in the formal Intranet project and realising I was mainly charged with delivering information to management that they were already getting perfectly efficiently, rather than making peoples' jobs easier, as I'd intended, I quit.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 15/02/2019 - 11:26pm
I don't know if all the people who wrote that legacy code can be assumed to have had a clue what they were doing. I became a professional web developer by saying to my boss (I worked in the mail room at the time) "Hey, look what I can do." The only learning materials were O'Reilly books and "View source", and my last coding experience was in high school writing games in BASIC on toy computers that plugged into TV sets.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 15/02/2019 - 1:27am
#: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCczct2ZIM # # #
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 15/02/2019 - 12:24am
@andyc It's all included in the much celebrated # Harbour lifestyle: equal parts substance abuse and lawn maintenance. If you've ever aspired to be Rab C. Nesbitt in shorts and sandals, you should definitely emigrate. If you'll excuse me, I have some string vests to wash and hankies to knot…
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Thu, 14/02/2019 - 11:56pm
@tregeagle Looking out over our bustling metropolis to the sea with my dear friend and his supplementary tregeaglet sounds better than anything I've done so far this week. I'll see what I can do. Currently have both an empty vodka bottle and full wife horizontal and non-responsive in the living room. The latter is breathing. Happy days.
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