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Is it time to move to the fediverse – followup

Tue 18 Feb 2025 peter Computing

Regular social media has been a source of concern for many years, with specific concerns around data gathering, profiling and hidden algorithms used to sell more ads. In 2016 the[…]

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Tuya as a component in my Smart Home – followup

Tue 21 Jan 2025 peter Computing

In todays talk, Peter Weston will be taking us through how he uses Tuya devices in his smart home.  We will also cover some of the protocols used in home[…]

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Numerical Computing and Computer Algebra follow-up

Tue 17 Dec 2024 peter Computing, General

This month, Tomy Duby showed that a modern computer (including a smartphone) can also do complex scientific and engineering calculations. To achieve this, one needs suitable programs. Using two free[…]

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Backups – follow-up

Tue 19 Nov 2024 peter Computing

This month we had a talk about various aspects of backups. We’ll touch on why, different backup schemes and what I do.  Included are a couple of videos. Plenty of[…]

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Computing event feedback

Wed 6 Nov 2024 peter Computing

If you have any feedback, thoughts or ideas on the talk you attended, please fill out the forum below. This helps us improve future events. (red * indicates mandatory question)

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immich – the Open Source alternative to Google Photos – followup

Tue 15 Oct 2024 peter Computing

This month we have a talk about immich – the open source alternative to Google Photos. We will discuss its features, why we would want to use it, architecture, containers,[…]

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Virtual Machines, Containers and related technologies – followup

Tue 17 Sep 2024 peter Computing

This is the follow-up post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. This month we have a talk about virtual machines, containers and related technologies. We will discuss how[…]

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Wokingham council picked up the recent “How to reduce your electricity bill to zero” talk

Mon 26 Aug 2024 peter Computing, Frontpage

I noticed that the local council picked up on the recent talk “how to reduce your electricity bill to zero“. See Wokingham climate bulletin. Nice 🙂

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Computing group taking August off

Thu 1 Aug 2024 peter Computing, Frontpage

Since its peak festival season, the computing group is taking August off. Next meeting will be September 17th when we will discuss virtual machines, containers and related subjects. If interested,[…]

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Moving away from Windows .. to Linux – followup

Tue 16 Jul 2024 peter Computing

This is the follow-up post to the on-line meeting containing the materials used. This month, David Price takes us through how and why we could move away from Windows to[…]

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