Nel corso della prossima legislatura verranno rivisti sia il programma quadro dell'UE per la ricerca, #Horizon Europe, sia il programma educativo #Erasmus plus.
I paesi dell’UE stabiliscono le proprie politiche per l’istruzione superiore e la ricerca, ma le elezioni al Parlamento europeo hanno ancora una certa influenza. Nel prossimo mandato, ad esempio, i programmi di ricerca e formazione dell'UE dovranno essere rinnovati.
So the good news is that the bill to exonerate the SubPostmasters gained Royal Assent last night, freeing up the fixed compensation scheme for those whose convictions are now quashed (or allowing them to apply to have their individual case assessed).
The, perhaps, not so good news, as much legal commentary has been focusing on is the (potential) precedent it sets for governments to reverse the decisions of Courts.
In this case it would seem pretty just, but in the future?
@ChrisMayLA6 I think the pardoning of "witches", homosexuals and (in Canada) users of marijuana, were all done by the parliaments and not the courts, but perhaps that's because there was no compensation involved.
Convictions regarding possession of marijuana dated from the 1960s and up until it was made legal in Canada. It meant they couldn't get a passport and were locked out of many jobs.
Another #Horizon thought: tech teams seemingly didn't know Horizon data may be used for criminal prosecution.
If devs don't know how a system is to be used, they can't exercise good judgment in making it.
People snark about "software craftsmanship" being hipstery, but there's truth to it: good software is far more Savile Row than it is Henry Ford. Business may want interchangeable cogs but good software needs skilled people empowered to think carefully, do good work and give a shit.
That's not even an ACAB "they wouldn't work on a system they knew would send people to jail" point (thought it might be for some developers depending on their ethical views), it is a "if you want to build a system with the sort of data integrity and reliability such that you can put the data in front of a court, please let me know ahead of time because that's an important set of constraints the developers need to understand" point.
I've started playing #Horizon Zero Dawn in the last few days and I've gotta say, it's amazing. The incredible graphics and intriguing story that makes me wanna play more to learn about what is actually going on, but at the same time to spend my time enjoy and explore the environment as well.
The evidence of the callousness & mendacity of the various parties who persecuted & destroyed the lives of sub-postmasters gets more extensive by the week... these people should be prosecuted & locked-up for what they have done....
Its a picture of how the institutions of power in this country have a complete contempt for those who they think are obstructing them.
@ChrisMayLA6 the Law Societies (England and Scotland) are pretty easy on ‘unethical’ behaviour - in the moral sense.they are very hot on the technical sort. My sibling has suggested that the English Law Society was sniffing around white early on and some hearings, private of course, have been underway for some years.
As she says, brown underwear time for a number of prominent (in the business/profession) time for more than a few.
The #PostOfficeInquiry has just been told that internally, #Horizon was described as having "military level encryption".
Remember, yesterday, we found out they were using MD5 for hashing the audit log data despite being being built after 1996 (and apparently having fairly shaky security on the stored hashes).
Also, remember the training slide: "Link for instance is unable to decrypt the encryption we have, so we have to decrypt before sending!" (para 80 of the Technical Appendix).
One more #Horizon#PostOfficeInquiry thought for the day—the email threads that are shown in the Inquiry are a synecdoche of the hellscape of working in the big corporate world.
Pages of blathering from deeply mediocre people incapable of thinking beyond hashtags, KPIs, bullet points and mission statements. Neverending CC chains for arse covering. Constant prioritisation of comms over reality. Hideous typography.
It's both aesthetically repulsive and morally bankrupt.
Today at the #Horizon#PostOfficeInquiry emails from Post Office were shown discussing what terminology could be used in place of “bugs” which was considered both “slang” and “emotive” (despite being a completely normal term used by software developers).
They considered using “defects”, and seemed to settle on “exception” which they treated as synonymous with “anomaly”.
(Let’s ignore the fact that “exception” has a very specific technical meaning in many programming languages…)