Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Most of the technologists I most respect are thoughtful, capable of great focus, but very conscious of & concerned about the world around them, truthful (almost) to a fault, but they tend to be reserved and don't often speak out. I don't share the latter trait, which makes me a somewhat unusual among technologist...

should be "we *need* to realise"...

They're very common (and I usually choose them over Phillips head screws) at our hardware stores here in NZ.

Fascinating... I've been using "high speed" (square hole) screws extensively, which, it turns out, is the Robertson design... https://invidio.us/watch?v=R-mDqKtivuI

Most tech billionaires, especially in the US, are a result of policy failure, anti-competitive practices, and poor ethics. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/11/07/have-billionaires-accumulated-their-wealth-illegitimately We to realise Bernie Sanders' sound ideal: Billionaires should not exist.

Shame that gov't agency Kainga Ora isn't making use of open source tools like those created by Whare Hauora, and not respecting tenant privacy and giving *them* control of their data. Good to hear the charity's kaiwhakahaere, Hiria Te Rangi, on RNZ helping gov't lift its ill-informed game... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018727259/concerns-over-plans-to-put-sensors-in-state-housing

This makes a lot of sense. The world cannot afford more Trump. https://invidio.us/watch?v=FoJ7V5dfBYQ

Luna (our golden retriever) is currently having a vivid dream on the sunporch... lots of dream barks, ferocious growling, and a bit of running.

And no Internet users would even need to sacrifice their personal sovereignty, privacy, and rights (as is required every time we contribute any content to an overseas proprietary online service) to participate... To me that's a core element of open.

One cool way for InternetNZ to strike a blow for a more open, uncapturable Internet for NZers... would be to use an NZ-based #FOSS surveying tool to ask its members how it's doing rather than a proprietary overseas tool like SurveyMonkey. I and the NZOSS would be happy to help - they could use the NZOSS' on-shore survey.nzoss.nz survey tool (an instance of the superb LimeSurvey)... There're plenty of other examples of how we could easily make the Internet in NZ more open for *all*.

Yup. https://open.tube/videos/watch/95efe744-0f92-4c02-80ba-3755a55d86e4

So... turns out the Idiocracy is highly contagious.

I've decided to spend the coming year attempting to identify and then resolve the cognitive dissonances I've been harbouring for most of my life. I suspect we (and the world around us) would all be better off if we tried to do that...

Very cool... a ~$50 #FOSS water turbine that can be assembled from commonly available parts... https://invidio.us/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw

For folks not wanting to use Youtube to what this exposé on Microsoft and its colonising of the EU, thanks to @ITwrx for providing this alternative link: https://itwrx.org/ITwrx-news/microsoft-cyber-attack