strypey

strypey, 8 minutes ago

@Natanox
> I wanted to try this one

Haven't heard of Goosle. Curious to know what experiences folks have had with it.

> Put it in a Docker and add Mullvad VPN in front of it

Good solution to the anonymisation problem.

@tokudan @MetaGer

strypey, 10 minutes ago

@foldworks
> Here's a more balanced view of Zuckerberg

Thanks, I'll have a listen. Added the feed to AntennaPod and downloading the episode.

strypey, 16 minutes ago

@thomasbeagle
> Z vegan pies are made by The Hub and are available frozen

Good to know, but that's a different product category to buying them warmed and ready to eat.

Having said that, I've seen The Hub pies in some of the greengrocers and other small food shops around town. Most of them have added sugar, so I can't eat them. But the ones I can eat were lovely.

strypey, 55 minutes ago

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub
> so much of the services of the state are done by government funded ‘independent’ organizations

Ae, and one of the reasons for this, is that it allows governments to dodge OIA transparency. Changing the OIA so transparency obligations follow public money wherever it goes would reduce the incentive for that.

strypey, 54 minutes ago

Parliamentary supremacy being what it is in NZ, a future government that wanted to go back to dodging transparency could just change the OIA back. But that would look pretty shifty. In practice, successive governments have been hesitant to tinker with laws regulating government itself (including the OIA) for petty partisan reasons.

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub

strypey, 39 minutes ago

@inlaing
>speaking as an intermittent recipient of public money in the form of small community and arts grants AND someone who has processed privacy and oia for govt departments anything is dangerously expansive

I've been the former, as part of various organisations I've worked with, so I can relate. The devil, as always, is in the details.

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strypey, 39 minutes ago

The main change I'd make to the OIA is that public entities that pass money to NGOs have to respond to OIA requests about whatever that money is used to fund. As if they were spending it internally. No more responding with; well I'd like to tell you, but that service has been outsourced to an entity not subject to the OIA.

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@inlaing

strypey, 39 minutes ago

The same carve-outs for stuff like "commercial sensitivity" could apply. Although I suspect that like outsourcing, these are often used as a loophole to dodge transparency. The rules around such exceptions, and when they can be used, probably need to be tightened up too. Based on what's been learned from observing their use since the OIA came into force.

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@inlaing

strypey, 1 hour ago

@chrisU
> treason is still a capital offense

@zakalwe
> the US has to be in an active state of declared war

We're some of the whistleblowers charged with treason? Or do you mean it's only a crime the state can legally kill you for when the country is at war?

@Nonilex

strypey, 1 hour ago

@LovesTha
> Apparently it was off for -56 minutes, probably 4 actual minutes. It was advertised as 7 hours

It would be much worse if it was the other way round ; )

strypey, 1 hour ago

"Just because we expect technology, and engagement with the wider internet, to bring ever-worsening disappointment doesn’t mean better outcomes aren’t possible.

...

It’s possible to create the communities we want, based on the goals and parameters that are important to us. This exercise also proved to me that with good inputs and thoughtful preparation, you can get great outcomes, even with something as emergent as an internet community."

@anthrocypher

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want

Great stuff!

strypey, 1 hour ago

Also, this!

"Whatever your goals: the internet we need is waiting for us to create it. Years of mega-scale social platforms have trained us to accept a one-size fits all approach to community, and it doesn’t work that well.."

@anthrocypher

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want

strypey, 2 hours ago

@theindex
> Biden allows Ukraine to use U.S. weapons for limited strikes inside Russia to defend Kharkiv

Maybe this is explained in the linked source, but what gives the US any power of what Ukraine does with weapons once they've been delivered? Surely supplying weapons under US command blurs the lines between supplying weapons to assist a sovereign state in its self defence (proxy war), and entering the war themselves?