Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

The doughnut of Damocles hangs ominously over us. It's ten year old boy birthday time!

It'd be quite cool if the Copyleft and the AGPL unravelled Trump's online ambitions. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-groups-violates-affero-gpl/

@alcinnz - I've been re-reading your and @ByronCinNZ's digital strategy recommendations: https://adrian.geek.nz/digital-strategy-letter & bsides supporting it all, I really like your point about "stayups" over startups... I've added a suggestion to my post (https://davelane.nz/suggestions-aotearoa-new-zealands-digital-strategy) about requiring businesses who receive government grants or R&D subsidies to repay them in full if they cease to be majority NZer-owned.Feel like that thought needs to be fleshed out. I agree that startups are mostly a wasteful exercise.

Wow, listening to Fonterra's CEO and the British High Commissioner to NZ talking about this trade agreement between NZ and the UK (and the UK joining the horrible #CPTPPA). Listening to them, I'm struck by the strong impression they are self-serving, wrong-thinking fools.

Doesn't get much funkier. https://invidious.snopyta.org/UFOwU96gkb0 the real funk starts around 1:26

@natecull @requiem @freakazoid @bhaugen @wim_v12e @Sandra @mathew @enkiv2 true, but you seemed to be suggesting that there is generally a benefit to having SQL features, too (which most NoSQL system add, badly, over time)... And my impression is that PostgreSQL is pretty crazy-fast with all the features it implements.

Was just talking to a new neighbour briefly, who, it turns out, runs a national gov't owned organisation. We were talking IT systems and she said (clearly expecting me to be impressed) that they were a fully Microsoft shop, and had just moved to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. Unfortunately I couldn't help but wince and had to say "you're throwing money into a hole"... We've agreed to discuss it in more detail over a pint in future...

So... I'm keen on the NodeJS and Svelte ecosystems, but I'm keen to avoid Microsoft dependencies - I actively avoid VSCode, Typescript, and Github. I develop on Linux, so is there a viable alternative to npm I can use there, given that it's also now owned (captured) by Microsoft?