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Oracle is now in the keep customers locked in business rather than the get new customers business.

It's a challenging time for OpenSource at the moment.

I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.

Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a lat…

That's not a loss, that's an investment in an asset. It's a loss because the assets have devalued.

I mean, they look better than your standard Mitsubishi or Panasonic heatpump, but other than cosmetics, what difference does this have from the normal sort of heatpumps that most h…

You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco…

No, New Zealand with UFB which is fibre to the door for about 90% of the population with rural broadband initiatives for the remaining 10%.

Wow, we have fibre to about 90% of the population and ripped out copper a few years ago. In rural areas there is government subsidised 4g internet and in the most rural it's govern…

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers. Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial Red…

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers. Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial Red…

Maybe in the developing world but I'd imagine most of the developed world got rid of wired internet and replaced it with fibre years ago.

You have to pay extra for 5g in the US?

We've even lost our post offices, I couldn't tell you where a post office is in the city I live in, they've been slowly disappearing for the last ten years or so. But small busines…

That's a good idea, one of the tough things about banks closing - espeacially in small towns where there isn't any around for miles, is the elderly struggle with technology.

Interesting that they say the number of tellers is up because the amount of branches is up, because where I live (New Zealand) it's practically impossible to find a bank branch now…

No, there is a lot of transparency and oversight, including to any member of the public, and ultimately the government sets policy. I can just request any document, and in fact I u…

Of course it does.

Sorry, I meant the lack of an overarching constitutional document gives more flexibility as it's not one thing which is held up as an almost holy document. The closest we've got it…

Yes, we have laws that's why we live in a society. People that work in the censorship office don't make calls based on morals, that make calls based on policy, they also face menta…

New Zealand

She does not have any power, her party has power collectively. A prime minister has no more power than any other minister. She's not like a president, she can't decree law. NZ also…

They don't want people to see it because it will motivate copy cats. People get perverse enjoyment from it, like that white supremacist from Christchurch who put a kill counter on …

Freedom is defined differently in different countries, in New Zealand the general rule is you have freedom to do what you want as long as it doesn't impact on the freedom of others…

New Zealand has very strong separation between policy makers (the government) and the agencies that enforce policies. The government can't tell the police what to do, they can't te…