My workplace is drunk on slop. slop emails, slop documentation, slop reports id be laughing if it wasnt so fucking depressing given we're very government involved and public services should be the most stable resilient systems in the country.

Saying gov was slow to move to the cloud is so fucking triggering. They moved to the cloud at massive cost increase and at the end of the day its still government owned hardware in government owned sections of the data center so why the fuck doesnt the government just own it and put it in their own datacenter. They've already got the IT department to manage it.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The government needs to prioritize moving away from IT systems reliance that is not NZ based.

Software/hardware need to be NZ based and NZ owned. All systems should be FOSS; and only allow non-FOSS where a very good reason exists.

[–] nsh@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

It would've been a great opportunity to do what many European governments are now doing, reducing the reliance on US tech companies. Instead, they decided to do the exact opposite.

Sometimes I wonder if they actually believe what they are saying. Or is "AI" just an excuse to further push their neoliberal agenda.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sovereign software at the bare minimum. I'm fine with hardware from allies because I doubt we are capable for making that here. But US doesnt count as an ally anymore in my eyes.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indeed, but the hardware needs to be NZ based.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back to pen and paper then

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

Not made... Located

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah but FOSS doesn't take decision makers out to dinner, send them to junkets or give out free swag.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago

I cannot wait for this idiotic bubble to burst, these overvalued companies have a colossal value correction, and for it to become painfully uncool to use AI to communicate with another human being.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The Register seems to have lost its edge, all its articles have the apologetic, middle of the road rambling of LLM text.