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Independent geek working for digital liberty. Standards@OSI. ORG Director. Founded Meshed Insights & Public SW. Other stuff before & now. My opinions alone.

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    May 23

    I should also say that you can also support my open source community work on Sponsors - I would be most grateful.

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    14 hours ago

    An approach to IP once seen as radical is now mainstream, yet open source feels so tenuous sometimes. It's clear: open source needs a bolder, more responsive, and representative OSI. Charting a course for 2020 and beyond, by OSI President .

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  3. 21 hours ago

    With Brad Smith's confession, I think Microsoft has embraced open source at least as genuinely as its peers. Can they take that last step?

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    May 31

    Asked how we’ll know “track & trace” call requiring you to isolate is genuine Govt’s answer via Jenny Harries is that “it will be evident from how they speak” I spent a lifetime prosecuting people speaking professionally while taking your money & your lives

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    May 31

    ‘How will I know if someone rings me from track & trace & tells me to isolate, that they are genuine’ John from Gloucester. Jenny Harries, deputy CMO: ‘It will be very obvious. These are professionally trained individuals. It will be evident from how they speak.’

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    May 31

    Government needs to answer this 👇

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    "We're exiting lockdown with a larger number of deaths than we did when we actually entered lockdown" Professor Devi Sridhar says countries that are opening up from lockdown have reduced daily infections to the low hundreds. England currently stands at 8,000 daily infections
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  7. May 31

    Everything being executed by the government prioritises the profit objectives of their circle rather than being an integrated expression of the NHS. That's why we're doing worse than any other comparable nation.

    We have 8000 cases daily, a private testing system set up without connection to primary care, call-centre tracing that appears a fiasco, and no digital app. After 4 months. Unless the population has hidden (T cell?) immunity, we're heading for resurgence.
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    May 30

    . say No to *wider opening of schools* as tests have not been met: ⛔ R rate too close to 1 (Chief Scientific Adviser) ⛔ Too soon (Independent Sage & Sage members) ⛔Test&Trace won't be fully operational until end of June (Dido Harding) 💚

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  9. May 30

    OH: "The Commons Clause is a sign of a business failure not a license failure."

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    May 30

    Mayor Carter said EVERY person arrested last night during the protests was from out of state. The governor said it is at least 80 percent, and that they will begin releasing the names. Dept of Safety Commissioner John Harrington says they are contract-tracing arrestees:

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  11. May 29

    Genius, the stuff of nightmares or both?

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    Used my time in lockdown to build a giant laughing Kookaburra.
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  12. May 28

    Again, this is just herd immunity + theatre.

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    May 28
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    It’s undoubtedly the aim to provide childcare. The national curriculum is going to remain suspended. The primary schools are teaching health education and mental health exercises. Yet they can’t provide all 6 hours of the school day so this whole plan is ridiculous.

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    May 28

    Please retweet if you support those parents who don't feel it's safe to send their children back to school on Monday.

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  15. May 28

    Our local primary school remains bemused by the assertion that starting with 4-6 year-olds is the best way to reopen schools. Could it be the priority is not education but rather freeing parents to go back to work?

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    May 28

    "We are really concerned that the level of infectivity across the country as a whole, is too high at the moment to open the schools."

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    May 28

    This strategy is just herd immunity + theatre.

    Dido Harding just told me that the app described by PM a week ago as “world-beating” is in fact just a “cherry on top” of the tracing system: which itself won’t be fully operational until end June... 4 weeks after lockdown restrictions ease. This is a high risk strategy.
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  18. May 28

    This strategy is just herd immunity + theatre.

    Dido Harding just told me that the app described by PM a week ago as “world-beating” is in fact just a “cherry on top” of the tracing system: which itself won’t be fully operational until end June... 4 weeks after lockdown restrictions ease. This is a high risk strategy.
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    May 28

    Dido Harding just told me that the app described by PM a week ago as “world-beating” is in fact just a “cherry on top” of the tracing system: which itself won’t be fully operational until end June... 4 weeks after lockdown restrictions ease. This is a high risk strategy.

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    May 27

    These coffee pods helpfully come with protection in case the drinker becomes over-caffeinated.

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  21. May 27

    These coffee pods helpfully come with protection in case the drinker becomes over-caffeinated.

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