Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Interesting. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150422-glyphosate-roundup-herbicide-weeds/ With any proprietary technology with such vast market reach, I'm very very skeptical of research which finds it "completely safe"... Sadly, the precautionary principle generally isn't observed by profit-motivated entities.

Minor #eqnz just before... first noticeable one in a new house (rental while building)...

And, a quick web search shows me that my friend Hadley, as per usual, is way ahead of me! Should've known :) - https://nicegear.nz/blog/hacking-a-mitsubishi-heat-pump-air-conditioner/

Do any of my Fediverse or Twitterverse contacts know of any ducted home heatpump systems that have an open API for controlling ducting and/or the heatpump's parameters? Ideally one that also heats the hot water cylinder? Please let me know asap if so! (we're building a house)

Watch this - it's hugely illuminating for both those staring down the barrel of Brexit... and those who have to live in a post-Brexit world anywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDFegpX5gI

Wow, full on: phages in place of anti-biotics... Let's hope we can keep this knowledge open, instead of locked up behind patents by mega-pharma-corps. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/14/18618618/phage-therapy-antibiotic-resistance

"I want to pour this song in a rocks glass and drink it slowly." spot on comment on a great song, Bloodless, by superb artist... Andrew Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFLR2JnMd0 Make sure you read the notes...

@GeoffreyGevalt Just left a comment on your blog post about the Dark Ages for education... I tend to agree (probably unsurprisingly :) )... but I also think there's an antidote... https://davelane.nz/different-approach-digital-technology-schools

I'd just like to remind everyone in NZ what happened the last time we had a Christian party... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5592034/Graham-Capill-out-on-parole Irony doesn't get much richer. If it wasn't for innocent kids being the victim, this would be uproariously funny. The NZ National party's salvation won't be found here. It'll be found in identify and living up to a set of well defined principles. And because of that, the new coalition will be with us for a long time.

I'm reminded of the last Christian party we had in NZ. This photo of its leader is just as superb as his actions and *righteousness* were abhorrent and nauseating: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5592034/Graham-Capill-out-on-parole - I hope the new contender hasn't got any skeletons in his closet...

NZ is entering some very dangerous waters with this, and I'm not impressed by our leadership: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/17-05-2019/shell-be-right-attitude-to-rocket-lab-putting-nuclear-free-nz-at-risk-experts-say/

I encourage you to read this - specific to NZ, but I suspect similar situations are occurnig the world over... https://www.pmcsa.ac.nz/2019/05/17/foulden-maar/

Just found an error in old MediaWiki code while moving an old site to a new location, with this comment directly above: "// FIXME: This is probably the ugliest thing I have ever done to
// PHP. I'm half-expecting it to segfault, just out of disgust. -- TS" Gotta award points for honesty..

Thank goodness that at least Docker lets me encapsulate the badness. And throw it away when I'm done.