lightnegative @ lightnegative @lemmy.world

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Ok reddit-esque echo chamber, here's a hot take - most of its pretty good and reverses several backwards trends.

• Nationals tax cuts are random and don't really do much. However reinstating deductibility on mortgage interest is a no brainer, since it's removing an arbitrary exception that makes tax law more complicated than it should be
• Treaty Principles Bill that everyone is complaining about - it's about clarifying things that are currently grey areas so there is certainty. We can't keep paying out for historical injustices forever. Besides, it's a bill that can still get shot down at select committee, not the referendum that ACT wanted
• Regional Infrastructure Fund aka Shane Jones slush fund - don't see anyone complaining about this. Last time they used it to upgrade and fix marae around the country, a good thing imo
• Removing the last of the covid BS - good. Throwing money at an inquiry about if the BS was justified - just move on already...
• ACT stopping large projects - some of those projects have been dragging on for too long and achieve very little (such as Let's Get Wellington Moving). Some are unnecessary (such as Three Waters). Not sure about the others but probably costing too much for what they're delivering. The need for some of the projects still exists, most likely those ones will be re-assessed, scope modified and relaunched under a new name
• Fees Free final year instead of first year - this would save a lot of money while also rewarding those who stick it out and finish instead of dropping out after a year. Maybe will result in more people actually graduating
• Retirement staying at 65 is just unsustainable, but this would have been Winston's doing. Thanks to the medical system people live longer and drag their lives out longer when they get terminally ill. Easy for Luxon to kick this can down the road though to get Winston onside
• Fair Pay agreements scrapped - good. These are compulsory unionism agreements. If you want to form a union then form a union, but don't make it compulsory for your entire industry to join...

...etc

What are you talking about, an entire duplicate Maori health authority was formed to prioritise the needs of Maori first, instead of New Zealanders in general.

Not to mention the duplicate Maori versions of other things due to co-governance, and things like Maori wards which put council seats aside just for Maori and no-one else.

We are a multicultural country with far more than two cultures, it can't be Maori vs everyone else. We need to be united as New Zealanders

In this case the premise is fundamentally flawed and can't really be fixed.

Therefore, it's logical to stop wasting time on it and spend the time on the new priorities instead

It's a good thing.

It sounds bad on the surface but what constitutes hate speech is completely subjective so impossible to define in a legal sense without also affecting freedom of speech.

Plus we already have laws against inciting violence etc so it's not like there's a gaping hole

PowerShell isn't the best way to anything except a migraine

That would be get up in the afternoon, and also you have Lupis

Damn security guys are trying to justify their existence again.

My Fedora is single user and the system handily comes with one called 'root'

SELinux is one of the first things I disable. It causes way more problems than it solves.

All my workloads are containerised so I'll trust the security of that machinery to sandbox them instead

Well, the barrier to entry is lower anyway.

Software also seems to be more complex than it was 10 years ago

Do it enough times and it stops being scary.

Using a tool like VSCode to perform the actual merges on individual files also helps because it shows what "yours" and "theirs" changes are from a user perspective, not a git perspective

cries in variable variables

Nah, that isn't racist.

Here's the racist version:

Sand removeds gon' sand nigg. They've been sand nigging for thousands of years and they will continue to sand nigg regardless of outsiders attempts to interfere.

Honestly we should just leave them to it

Must've been WSL1 which they eventually abandoned. Trying to reimplement all the Linux syscalls on top of the Windows kernel was always going to be a neverending game of catch up.

WSL2 they just run an actual Linux kernel within Hyper-V

I mean, it's what the Security guys do, right? Just copy+paste everything, mandate that everyone else does it too, Management won't argue because it's for "security" reasons.

Then the Security guys will sit around jerking each other off about how much more secure they made the system

Developing on VMs also sucks, neverending network issues on platforms like Windows which have a shitty networking stack (try forwarding ports or using VPN connections).

In fact, Windows is just a shitty dev platform in general for non-Microsoft technologies but I get that you needed to go for the least shit option

This was my experience too. Shitty group policies messing with my local changes

That's actually genius. Here's me writing a script to just move the mouse randomly lol, starting a Teams meeting would've been way simpler

It has the same problem as any kind of TLS interception/ traffic monitoring tool.

It just breaks everything and causes a lot of lost time and productivity firstly trying to configure everything to trust a new cert (plenty of apps refuse to use the system cert store) and secondly opening tickets with IT just to go to any useful site on the internet.

Thankfully, at least in my case, it's trivial to disable so it's the first thing I do when my computer restarts.

Security doesn't seem to do any checks about what processes are actually running, so they think they've done a good job and I can continue to do my job

Should've done Visual Basic, there's way more to it than dragging and dropping WinForms controls in the visual designer and writing event handlers to pop up messages when you click a button.

Try writing a Tic Tac Toe game for example.

For learning the basics of programming, it'll do if it's the only language on offer. If you ever make it into the industry, you'll eventually realise that the language doesn't matter as much as the concepts and you'll have to learn a bunch of languages anyway

Nvidia and Barrier (or any software KVM). I need something cross platform that can share my keyboard and mouse between my Linux box and the crappy MacBook I'm forced to use for work.

That's Barrier currently but it only works on X11