Category: Presentations 2025
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Understanding Passkeys (sort of)
On Thursday, October 9, we tried to understand “Passkeys”. Websites such as Amazon have been asking account holders to set up “Passkeys” to log in, instead of using passwords. In the past, Club members treated these things with suspicion, since … Read more
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Hacienda is cracking down on Digital Platforms!
Our discussion on Thursday, 2 October, had been initiated by this article from EuroWeekly: ” Spain’s tax agency targets digital banks and cards: Over a million cards under the microscope ” https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/09/24/spains-tax-agency-targets-digital-banks-and-cards-over-a-million-cards-under-the-microscope/ (Chris noted that this was a translation … Read more
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TV and Cinema in the streaming age – it’s all change!
On Thursday, 18 September, we discussed what the future might hold for broadcast TV and cinema in the age of media streamed over the Internet. TV – The Past We recalled how in the early days of TV, there were … Read more
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Is the Internet herding you? (.. not me, of course ; ) )
On Thursday, September 11, we discussed the question: Is the Internet herding people around like sheep? Why does everyone seem to be going to Japan these days? What makes massive live performances so popular? Why is everything labelled Gluten Free?… Read more
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Linux Mint New Users Workshop
On Thursday 4th September we held a Mint workshop for 5 relatively new users and other interested members. Below is a summary of the points covered. Although Linux Mint is different from any other Operating System, it is fairly … Read more
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The World Wide Web is dying – and AI has a lot to do with it.
On Thursday, August 28, we discussed how much of the content on the Internet was AI, fake or generated automatically, and whether this was important to our daily lives. We started by watching this YouTube video presented by software engineer … Read more
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AI in managing photos and documents
On Thursday, August 21 we discussed whether AI could be used to manage photographs and documents on a PC. Locally installed AI tools (not in the Cloud) The problem with AI tools such as Microsoft’s CoPilot, Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT, and … Read more
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Getting to know Linux Mint
On Thursday, August 14, Chris and Peter demonstrated Linux Mint 22.1 and the “Cinnamon” desktop. This version of Linux is easy for newcomers to use because it has an interface similar to early versions of Windows. It is free, … Read more
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Preserving memories in the digital dark age
On Thursday August 7 we discussed how to preserve our personal digital data for the future. Many Club members already have files and videos which they cannot access because some old file formats are not compatible with new software, … Read more
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What to do if your phone gets snatched
On Thursday, July 31 we discussed the growing problem of mobile phone theft via snatching and measures we can take to secure our data. The discussion arose from an incident in which a member’s relative had had their phone snatched … Read more