Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

@strypey @bigblen it looks like @disroot is using their NextCloud instance to manage user accounts - is that right?

@bigblen interesting - any insights on their SSO @strypey?

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

@strypey dunno if their tutorial materials will be #OERs or not...

@strypey yes, I'm aware of it...

@strypey @alcinnz fair enough.

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

@alcinnz @strypey the big problem with home networks is configuring port-forwarding for your network connection, and getting a static IP... Sadly, few NZ ISPs offer IPv6 by default... (I've recently upgraded all of my hosted stuff to be IPv6-aware, but still have some challenges there, e.g. firewalling).

@alcinnz @strypey yep, there're a bunch of basic skills to learn, but those are arguably the "basic literacy" of the digital age... everyone should learn this stuff for sure.