I supported ACT at the election but they’ve become increasingly unhinged lately and started doing a bunch of stuff I don’t really agree with.

Still, I’m happy that MMP finally worked for the first time since it was introduced to NZ. A coalition of more than 2 parties is a net win imo and at the next election I’m hoping the minor parties get more support

France is a safe haven for foss media codecs because its law does not consider software patentable

TIL there is a country that sees reason about software patents

If I was a bot author intent on causing misery I’d just use the user agent from the latest version of Firefox/Chrome/Edge that legitimate users would use.

It’s just a string controlled by the client at the end of the day and I’m surprised the GPT and OpenAI bots announce themselves in it. Associating meaning on the server side is always going to be problematic if the client can control the value

But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

Well, we have one group of people saying “the treaty means this”. And we have another group of people saying “no, the treaty means this”.

Which group is right? Currently it’s impossible to tell, because they’ve interpreted parts of the treaty in different ways. And there is some precedent in case law thanks to Waitangi tribunal rulings.

Clarifying the principles removes the ambiguity and makes it clear for everyone.

I understand the opposition though, Maori stand to lose a bunch of Maori-specific things they fought long and hard for if it’s decided that actually all citizens of New Zealand have the same rights and duties under NZ law

Every company enshittifies eventually, it’s a fact of life.

It might take a while but it will happen. Eventually Gabe will step down or die, new leadership will come in and the enshittification will commence.

Or they sell to a competitor who will do big cuts to remove now redundant positions and you guessed it - the enshittification will commence.