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Although now retired, I worked in Software Engineering most of my career in areas such as Telecoms, Finance, Cloud Computing and AI.
u3a.social is alive !
After many presentations, lots of discussions and one survey the fediverse site u3a.social is now up and running ! Feel free to request your own account on the server or[…]
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3D Printing – followup & discussion
This month, David Price will be gently taking us through an introduction to a table top scale manufacturing process. As usual, plenty of time is reserved for discussions. Joining details[…]
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Overview In February 2025, I started presented my talk Is it time to move to the Fediverse ? to on-line and local u3a groups. Whilst the main goal of the[…]
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Home networking – followup & discussion
This month we look at home networking. We’ll cover broadband, Wi-Fi, standards, speeds, firewalls, in-bound connections plus some additional options. If you aren’t a member, it’s free to join here[…]
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Real time bidding – followup & discussion
This month we look at the Real Time Bidding (RTB) system – this is the mechanism that provides targeted ads to your web pages and devices. We’ll cover the basic[…]
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Ask the group anything – followup & discussions
This month we ran a “ask the group anything” session. Please add any comments you have related to this session below. If there was a subject raised which you think[…]
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Installing desktop GNU/Linux – followup & discussion
This month we look at installing desktop GNU/Linux. The talk will be demo focused. If you aren’t a member, it’s free to join here https://u3acommunities.org/subscribe-to-computing-forum/. Plenty of time is reserved[…]
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Local Generative AI – followup
This month, we discuss some of the options and issues about running your own Generative AI at home. As well as avoiding privacy issues with online Generative AI and reducing[…]
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Home electricity – 1 year update
A year or so ago I presented How to reduce your electricity bill to zero talk – it’s now been running for a year, so time to check progress. Unfortunately,[…]
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