Why do We Pay Money to the EU?
I’ve seen it said that the EU costs us £350 million a week and also that this is a lie and after the rebate (a negotiated lowering of budget contributions by Maggie T based on perception of an unfair...
View Articlelibqaccessibilityclient 0.4.1
libqaccessibilityclient 0.4.1 is out now https://download.kde.org/stable/libqaccessibilityclient/...
View ArticleEuropean Elections 2019 Scotland Review
On Thursday 23 May 2019 there will be elections for the European Parliament. 750-ish MEPs selected across the continent to act as a revising and reviewing chamber for the activities of the European...
View ArticleI want to Leave the EU Because of What they Did to Greece
I came across an interesting argument when running a learning meeting about the EU and this week’s elections. It was the thought that one would want to leave the EU because of a disagreement to what...
View ArticleLeave Options
At Europe vigils over the last couple of months I’ve had many nice people thank us and fewer but still too many angry people throw variant levels of abuse. On 4 occasions I’ve been able to have...
View ArticleWho Did You Just Vote For? The Spitzenkandidaten
When you vote in an election to the Scottish Parliament or UK parliament or even Edinburgh Council you do so with a balance of the candidate you’re voting for, the party they represent and the person...
View ArticleWho Just Won Your Election?
The world’s second largest democracy has chosen a parliament. A fantastic showing of our democratic right to decide who governs us. 2014 Parliament: The 2014 parliament saw the pro-euro tory group EPP...
View ArticleWhy Did You Vote Leave?
Why would anyone vote to leave the EU? I’ve spent weeks campaigning on the streets of Edinburgh for remain and most people walk past uninterested, some are also concerned about the consequences and...
View ArticleKDE Applications Website
The new KDE Applications website is now up The old one was a manual task of keeping the metadata up to date while this one scans builds from build.kde.org and Git in search of appstream appdata.xml...
View ArticleUK Open Source Awards 2019 Shortlists
The UK Open Source Awards is an event in Edinburgh next Wednesday (June 12 2019) to celebrate and recognise freedom and collaborative software. If you’ve not got your ticket book on now. Keynote...
View ArticleGo WTO! A Dangerous Recipe for Economic Collapse.
There is a dangerous radicalised movement in the UK that wants to bring economic and social destruction to it citizens. It is the politicians who want a no deal Brexit. There are maybe 100 MPs in...
View ArticleKDE.org Description Update
The KDE Applications website was a minimal possible change to move it from an unmaintained and incomplete site to a self-maintaining and complete site. It’s been fun to see it get picked up in places...
View ArticleThe 2016 Referendum on EU Membership Was Not Democratic
Even though the UK leaving the EU would result in democratic unaccountability (because we would inevitably end up being subject to EU rules without a democratic say) and economic decline (basic free...
View ArticlePlasma Vision
The Plasma Vision got written a couple years ago, a short text saying what Plasma is and hopes to create and defines our approach to making a useful and productive work environment for your computer....
View ArticleNew Facebook Account
Facebook is a business selling very targeted advertising channels. This is not new, Royal Mail Advertising Mail service offers ‘precision targeting’. But Facebook does it with many more precision...
View ArticleKDE.org Applications Site
I’ve updated the kde.org/applications site so KDE now has web pages and lists the applications we produce. In the update this week it’s gained Console apps and Addons. Some exciting console apps we...
View Articlepolkit-qt-1 0.113.0 Released
Some 5 years after the previous release KDE has made a new release of polkit-qt-1, versioned 0.113.0. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like...
View ArticleYes and No vs Leave and Remain
The electoral commission approved a Yes and No question for the 2014 Scottish indy ref but changed to a Leave vs Remain question for the 2016 EU referendum. There is an argument that Yes allows for...
View ArticleOpenUK Meets the Crumbling of UK Democracy
This week I went to Parliament square in Edinburgh where the highest court of the land, the Court of Session sits. The court room viewing gallery was full, concerned citizens there to watch and...
View ArticleFSRT Instructor Refresh (Moderation)
Three years after doing my FSRT instructor training it’s time for a refresh which for some reason is called a ‘moderation’. Dave Rossetter and Lyle Smith took 11 of us on a sunny day to swim in Loch...
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