Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure […]

For those interested in local and self-hosting, gonna be running our monthly #libre/#FOSS catchup at https://meeting.iridescent.nz tonight at 20:00 NZST talking about migrating our *many* web services built with Docker to our new hosting platform, setting up a more modern environment in the […]

@Firesphere @Codeberg yup. Codeberg's a great option. Or perhaps something a bit more local... let's see what happens. A great migration away from GitHub is very appropriate and timely. The next thing we need is a pan-libre-forge search system, to which a self-hoster can register their instance […]

@wagesj45 that's what web searches are for. Link to it from everywhere.

For those fretting about Microsoft's inevitable further enshittification of the already shit Github, I can report (having ditched it the day Microsoft announced its acquisition) that Forgejo (https://forgejo.org - the #libre forge underlying Codeberg) is very easy to host and is superb to use […]

[NZPol Luxon and the Greens...]

And, what's more, Luxon's benefactors (and beneficiaries), i.e. his (actual) 'constituents' (the rich rentier class of NZ) *benefit* directly from NZ going into greater debt... because they *hold* that debt. We should just be taxing the shit out of them. If they […]

[NZPol Luxon and the Greens...]

Luxon is just plain horrible. As a leader of his party, or our society, or as a 'financial steward'. He's not fit for any of those purposes. I suspect he'd be useless for just about any other purpose, too.

[NZPol Luxon and the Greens...]

Wow, just listening to Luxon waffle on about how all the problems his gov't is facing about a failing economy were caused by the past Gov't. He throws huge shade at Clöe Swarbrick and her financial chops, implying his party is far better, and claiming the Greens […]

Not sure where I found this link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0v0bo5u8zu8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0bo5u8zu8 (if you want to feed the Google machine), but it highlights how *completely* most of us are pwned by US #BigTech. Microsoft and Apple are just as bad as Google, i.e. *horrible* […]

@ocdtrekkie Yeah, it's a pretty good system, all things considered.

@ocdtrekkie it's NZ"s process for 'inspecting' a car and deeming it road-worthy (or not)...

There's a lot to be said for having an old car that's suitable for all the messy jobs.

For what it's worth (not much, I accept), I've owned the car for the past 28 years, and it's 33 years old. It doesn't owe me much, but its engine's probably still got an easy 150k kilometers in it. It's just the rest of the car that's disintegrating around it a bit.

Sadly, the prognosis on the vehicle whose fate was being decided while I was attempting to work in various cafes is not auspicious. Looks like it's not worth doing much of anything to fix it given its state & max potential value. My boy, a learner driver, loves the car, as it's a 4WD wagon with […]

Turns out the music is the barista's choice (a young woman) - given that, besides me and the occasional takeaway customer, she's alone in here... fair enough.

In another cafe now (work on car is taking longer than expected)... this one's relatively quiet. But the music vibe (alt country!?) is offputting. The chorus of the last song is 'Thank god' this and that - a weird Christian musical abomination. Maybe that's how the proprietors of this cafe roll […]

At the table next to mine, a trio are talking about how they're going to integrate 'AI' into their organisational portal. These people do not inspire *any* confidence in their understanding or competence.

Could be confirmation bias, but I keep hearing people saying 'AI' all around me. It feels like people's minds have been colonised by bigtech's propaganda. It's quite alarming, actually.

Sitting in a noisy cafe trying to be productive. Regretting that I didn't bring my noise-cancelling earbuds. Sigh. Next time will remember. Luckily this doesn't happen often.

At least significant number of the members of both communities have joined me on a Matrix instance I run... which will soon be moved to its new sponsored hosting infrastructure, thanks to Prodigi.nz! Hazzah. Here's to locally-hosted, community-run, not-for-profit, decentralised, (actually) […]

So, there're a couple communities I want to be part of which force me to use Slack. What a puke-in-the-mouth experience. Constantly being advertised to by the system (which is holding the community's content hostage - it is a ransomware business model). Just got a message telling me to 'go pro' […]

@joncounts desperately sad.

@dangillmor ”There must be in-groups who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups who the law binds but does not not protect.”
-Frank Wilhoit

This is the only true rule of conservatism.

And it was made in the context of pointing out that we have no other politics than #conservatism […]

If you want to understand what threatens power - and particularly the power of capital - look at everything that NatACT First are repealing in their first term. Particularly things like the wellbeing reporting requirements in the Public Finance Act. These are the things we need to demand the […]

[NZPol Luxon]

He's nauseating to listen to. So flimsy, so vacuous. There's nothing even vaguely compelling about him. He's just a massive disappointment.

Huh, I'm not aware of anyone in our household receiving even a single tsunami alert.

Thanks to @RichardJMurphy for this intriguing thought experiment: what if economics is wrong in its assumption of 'scarcity'? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YR2FcHoQLlU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR2FcHoQLlU

#FoodForThought

@davemosk do you talk to her under the EdTech banner?

@davemosk this Gov't are, pretty uniformly, idiots. They're systematically dismantling & destroying the fabric of this place. I've long had a dim view of Minister Collins: https://davelane.nz/nzfuelfail-worthy-further-investigation

@davemosk Wonder how many people in our gov't bureaucracy 'get this'? No one with any decision-making power, it would appear.

Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.

👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US […]