Kai Koenig

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[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@samjarman ...unless you try to depart from the US right now...😂

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@bmwhocking @Econgrad5143 Why would NZ data centers be government owned though?

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

Operating and business systems monoculture:

Microsoft is down -> plenty of businesses are down -> government is down etc.

Sovereign Cloud and sovereign AI, folks.

That's where we need to land eventually and have a stable mix of local and distributed infrastructure.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@DanielW_Kiwi It will work well for you for that purpose if you can charge over night at home in the garage. For 5k you should be able to get a 2013/2014 model at the moment.

Use Leaf Spy with a dongle to actually check the battery yourself before you buy.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

Reader, I came to @philliphaydon's rescue about 5 mins after his tweet. He survived.

[🇹🇼 Phillip Haydon 🇹🇼 @philliphaydon]

Which reminds me… @agentK where the fuck are you? I need coffee.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@AlexH2035 I'm not sure if and how that works with Wayland these days, but with X11 you could do some awesome remote display tinkering stuff under *nix, sending window output to dumb terminals etc.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

All those companies that lock their customer data behind artificial gates, sub-par APIs, no MCPs or ridiculous fees for non-browser access will come to regret it in the next few years.

There's quite a few companies I'm looking at there - and that's only just me as a personal customer/user point of view.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

The Labour caucus should roll Hipkins for his absolutely wrong comments of the election having been stolen. Such a sore loser. I hope that he doesn't get even near power by random luck in December.

The National caucus should equally roll Luxon because he's the antithesis of a leader and a good PM. They won because of electorate inertia and a lot of electorates outside of the city being more blue than red usually. But the party vote should be an embarrassment for a first term government wantingnto he reelected.

Getting rid of both Chrises would make the political scene of the country better instantly.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@DanielW_Kiwi Any Linux system can be easily tweaked and managed by AI now. Omarchy pushed a lot of ideas how to out there, but most of them apply to Ubuntu and others, too.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@traskjd 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

None of these things are inherent to a particular electorate system. We clearly need more transparency around donations and funding regardless - on all sides.

Not sure if you mean voting should be compulsory - I'd disagree heavily with that. Compulsory voting is in my view a sign of an unhealthy and semi-totalitarian system, I grew up too close to the GDR/Stasi system to ever be comfortable with compulsory voting.

Enrolling right up to and on election day - I don't think that's a particular issue to be honest. Even enrolling up to 2 weeks before the election is very, very liberal compared to other countries we like to compare ourselves with.

[John-Daniel Trask @traskjd]

This.

There's a range of SaaS companies that are making it very difficult for their customers to connect AI to them.

Next year we'll likely just ship them all as @autohiveai apps and give them away. We'll make the revenue on the AI component and give away the apps.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@MrHilariouskiwi @greytownbuilder Similar problems on a 20x scale and with a 40+ yr headstart 😂

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

I'm not sure if that's the case though. It's not that hard, 2 votes for 2 different things. I'm maybe biases from growing up with this system and my parents both having been involved politically, but I've almost always split voted in Germany and here.

It simply never made any sense to give an electorate vote to smaller parties like Green, Act, NZ first (apart from a handful of fringe-leaning or "deal" electorates) - it's essentially a wasted vote.

Give it to the candidate of your wider camp that actually has a chance of winning the electorate or to the candidate that actually *is* there for his local electorate.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@traskjd @kellyenz @DanielW_Kiwi on the topic of MMP, I can really recommend the piece from @oliverhartwich that @traskjd is linking to here.

[John-Daniel Trask @traskjd]

@kellyenz Highly recommend a read from Oliver Hartwich at the New Zealand Initiative on this.

https://t.co/3IvqGjRknA

The PDF on the side is worth a read through.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

@brnnnmcdnld And when the players all start to realize that their "bottom lines" might mean no government, NZ becoming the Belgium of the South Pacific and another round of this in 6 months.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

I don't think this election is in the bag for the current coalition yet. The special and overseas votes will have a different effect this time round due to the big overhang, but they will in the end quite likely need Opportunity - and at that stage all bets are off.

New government of whatever setup not before Xmas 🙄.

[Kai Koenig @agentK]

The other thing this election once again shows: it's the economy.

National have done a shit job over the last 3 yrs - and the global bs going on didn't help.

But Labour and the Greens have not presented a coherent and widely accepted alternative either. Turns out CGT and wealth taxes are less popular than their strategists expected.