Kiwi Lightweight
@kiwilightweight.bsky.social
This is a stub profile, here to claim my username. I don't use BlueSky. I'm active in the Fediverse. It's a better place. If you want to find me there, see https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight See you there.
some suspect they've installed charges on all cables supplying data to Europe. In a future conflict, they could use these to continually disrupt European communications & intelligence. Who's to say that the US/China/others? haven't done the same to us? Baseless fear? [2/2]
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
some suspect they've installed charges on all cables supplying data to Europe. In a future conflict, they could use these to continually disrupt European communications & intelligence. Who's to say that the US/China/others? haven't done the same to us? Baseless fear? [2/2]
Or the fact that new LLMs are trained on content that might be mostly LLM-generated content, with constantly declining veracity. [2/2]
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Or the fact that new LLMs are trained on content that might be mostly LLM-generated content, with constantly declining veracity. [2/2]
By the way, if anyone's interested in the construction of the greenhouse, there's an album for that: https://photos.lane.net.nz/index.php?/category/126
Lane Greenhouse
Lane Greenhouse
photos.lane.net.nz
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
By the way, if anyone's interested in the construction of the greenhouse, there's an album for that: https://photos.lane.net.nz/index.php?/category/126
The plants are tied to the steel wires with strips of old bicycle inner tubes. They work great! [2/2]
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The plants are tied to the steel wires with strips of old bicycle inner tubes. They work great! [2/2]
And Kathryn didn't even question the legitimacy of that concept. Come on Kathryn, you need to call this stuff out. [2/2]
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And Kathryn didn't even question the legitimacy of that concept. Come on Kathryn, you need to call this stuff out. [2/2]
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
that b) makes it's single biggest market (China & the rest of Asia) sick: the majority of them are lactose intolerant. [3/3]
that b) makes it's single biggest market (China & the rest of Asia) sick: the majority of them are lactose intolerant. [3/3]
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
that b) makes it's single biggest market (China & the rest of Asia) sick: the majority of them are lactose intolerant. [3/3]
that b) makes it's single biggest market (China & the rest of Asia) sick: the majority of them are lactose intolerant. [3/3]
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
And they're deluded into thinking that a) dairy is necessary food (it's not - it's commodity protein delivered as coal-heat-dried milk powder used in plenty of luxury foods), [2/3]
And they're deluded into thinking that a) dairy is necessary food (it's not - it's commodity protein delivered as coal-heat-dried milk powder used in plenty of luxury foods), [2/3]
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
And they're deluded into thinking that a) dairy is necessary food (it's not - it's commodity protein delivered as coal-heat-dried milk powder used in plenty of luxury foods), [2/3]
And they're deluded into thinking that a) dairy is necessary food (it's not - it's commodity protein delivered as coal-heat-dried milk powder used in plenty of luxury foods), [2/3]
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
But they're not 'the backbone of NZ' - that's a comforting but misleading narrative. The only thing that trickles down in that industry is nitrogen pollution (from urine and fossil-fuel-derived fertilizer). [2/2]
But they're not 'the backbone of NZ' - that's a comforting but misleading narrative. The only thing that trickles down in that industry is nitrogen pollution (from urine and fossil-fuel-derived fertilizer). [2/2]
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
CW: NZ Dairy & Ruminant industries & Climate Change
But they're not 'the backbone of NZ' - that's a comforting but misleading narrative. The only thing that trickles down in that industry is nitrogen pollution (from urine and fossil-fuel-derived fertilizer). [2/2]
But they're not 'the backbone of NZ' - that's a comforting but misleading narrative. The only thing that trickles down in that industry is nitrogen pollution (from urine and fossil-fuel-derived fertilizer). [2/2]
CW: NZ Tax software rewrite... successful project?
I wrote this about it a while back (10 years ago): https://davelane.nz/ird-how-avoid-catastrophic-failure I was and continue to be extremely sceptical. [3/3]
I wrote this about it a while back (10 years ago): https://davelane.nz/ird-how-avoid-catastrophic-failure I was and continue to be extremely sceptical. [3/3]
IRD: How to Avoid Catastrophic Failure | Dave Lane
Greg James of IRD (NZ's tax department for anyone not from NZ) has chosen to replace the current obsolete, unmaintainable monolithic bespoke software system (that's what, 30 years old?)... with a similarly monolithic COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) system. This fills me with dread.
davelane.nz
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
CW: NZ Tax software rewrite... successful project?
I wrote this about it a while back (10 years ago): https://davelane.nz/ird-how-avoid-catastrophic-failure I was and continue to be extremely sceptical. [3/3]
I wrote this about it a while back (10 years ago): https://davelane.nz/ird-how-avoid-catastrophic-failure I was and continue to be extremely sceptical. [3/3]
Sadly, few politicians have sufficient spine to do that. [2/2]
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Sadly, few politicians have sufficient spine to do that. [2/2]