Sorry, you’re completely right. I went back and reread the article and I had misunderstood. This is a bit much and I agree with your take.

Thanks for the correction

OK sure it’s a big raise. But from what I gather they are doing (could be completely misunderstanding the job or the article hasn’t clearly defined well enough for me) but I’d think that was inline with other sectors with that kind of responsibility. Maybe I’m completely deluded 🤷

Tbh, the pay rise is reasonable. But the rhetoric from government is never the same. It’s just what they want it to be.

There’s no money for public services. Except this one time. And this other time. Oh and for our mates

Speaking of the free speech union.

I joined Internet NZ after there was a post on reddit about the free speech union trying to take that over. I see there are two people standing from them. Who I won’t be voting for.

But any body standing out as should get a vote?

Just explaining how I understand it, could be wrong. Essentially, the theory is Google is scared that they’ll be split up. To this end to try to protect themselves somewhat they are still publishing AOSP, but only as an online image. This makes it harder to find the commits needed to build ROMs, but it is still possible. Just more time consuming.

Again, just what I understand, could be wrong

It’s one thing to know this, but seeing it succinctly like this is rather profound

As a non American, even I can see this is just a scam to further invade privacy and the data used to get increase health insurance costs

You missed the step where when surgeries go wrong in private, they are quickly shuffled to public at great expense with no concern at all