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I have my DNS on my phone set to dns.adguard-dns.com - seems to work fine for most websites, blocking ads where appropriate. Not so stuff.co.nz. Just seems to hang at their stupid 'scrolling S' loading screen. Any ideas?

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I was one of the people on board Kaitaki when this happened, I'm a bit surprised it went as far as charges being laid though.

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Had heard people talking about "bluebottles" spoiling beach trips further up the coast, and there were loads of these at Lyall bay yesterday (we weren't there to swim so nothing spoiled).

Where I'm from bluebottles are a large fly but reading on Wikipedia these are actually the same species as the famous Portuguese Man O'War (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o'_war).

I was renewing with Tower and it's gone up a lot, even though I haven't made a claim and nothing has changed. Same old car. I just thought stuff it, and I downgraded to third party only with no theft or fire cover (I have one of the best alarms)

On the phone they explained that part of the reason was that the value of my car had been adjusted (about $1,000 higher) but when they used the calculator to figure out the premium cost for a lower agreed value, it didn't change to the price I expected.

Prices must have gone up due to inflation or corporate greed.

I'd still trust Tower over AMI. Once I used AMI and my renewal package got lost in the post, and my insurance expired, but they didn't even text or email me. With Tower it automatically renews. So while AMI might be cheaper, they are really bad with communication, and won't even spend 2 cents to send an SMS to your phone.

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Web browser seems to work fine with the same login, and was previously working in sync.

I thought this was incredibly fucked up. Parliament seems like a pretty toxic workplace, but put constant threats in too of that and its not hard to see how it could affect a person.

Shaw said that Parliament was a stressful place for anybody.

"However, Golriz herself has been subject to pretty much continuous threats of sexual violence, physical violence, death threats since the day she was elected to Parliament and so that has added a higher level of stress than is experienced by most Members of Parliament.

"And that has meant, for example there have been police investigations into those threats almost the entire time that she has been a Member of Parliament, and so obviously if you're living with that level of threat in what is already quite a stressful situation then there are going to be consequences for that," Shaw said.

A few surprises here, namely that PHEVs will pay a lower rate of RUCs, I was under the impression there would be a rebate scheme for petrol purchased.

No revisions to the weight brackets, which I imagine will be necessary before all vehicles eventually go to RUCs.

Problem solved.

Funny

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Welcome to the latest version of Lemmy!

• If you're having trouble logging in, clear your cookies.
• If the bottom of the page tells you "BE: 0.18.5" then you need to shift-refresh your page (or clear browser cache).
• If your app doesn't work anymore, try to sign out and sign back in.
• If it really doesn't work, it's probably because Lemmy 0.19 introduces many big changes with how things work. Apps still being maintained by their developer should work. Apps that have not been updated in the last couple of months most likely will not work.
• If you're using an alternate web frontent (a.lemmy.nz, t.lemmy.nz, p.lemmy.nz, voyager.lemmy.nz) then you will most likely have to clear your cache, or at the very least log out and back in.

There's a post about this release by the developers here.

Also see the blog post about the original 0.19.0 release, which is where the major changes are.

Some key things:

• There's a new scaled sort that helps posts from small communities be seen in your feed
• Users can now block entire instances
• Two factor authentication should no longer lock you out of your account (no recovery codes, though?)
• You can now export your user data (community follows, blocklists, profile settings) and import into another server as a way of migrating accounts.
• "active user" stats shown on the home page will now count users that vote as active. Previously a user needed to post or comment.

Let me know if you see any issues!

TLDR:

• All going well, there will be an outage of approx 30 mins starting at approx 8:30pm tonight
• If things don’t go well, there may be a further outage
• Lemmy 0.19 has breaking changes, the key impact of this is that old lemmy apps that haven’t been updated in the last month or two are likely to break as they won’t have had the lemmy changes incorporated.
• Lemmy caches the website - after the update you will most likely have to clear your browser cache to get the new version, otherwise it won’t be able to communicate with the server. The easiest way is to click the browser refresh button while holding SHIFT. On mobile you may be able to do the same by long-pressing the refresh button in the menu.

Today's downtime

Just to start, I want to acknowledge we have had some downtime today. The guys that donate hosting to us (the fediservices.nz guys) had downtime today, so all their services have been intermittently down as well as us. It should now be solved, sorry about that. Hopefully no one urgently needed to browse lemmy.

Lemmy 0.19.2

After cancelling the planned update to lemmy 0.19.1 on learning of some serious federation issues other instances have had, a new version was released that has resolved these issues for those instances. Therefore, I am planning to upgrade this evening. See the previous post for more info.

Now is the time for objections, so speak up if you have any objections to us updating.

The starting time should be around 8:30pm tonight NZDT (when this post is 2.5 hours old), but I may start a bit earlier if I get kids to sleep earlier. Or later if kids are asleep later. I'll post progress in the lemmy matrix chatroom.

I'm hoping for less than 30 mins of downtime, but this of course depends on everything going smoothly.

New Zealand Giant Stick Insect - Argosarchus horridus

Was visited by this not so wee one yesterday. Never seen a stick insect this big outside of the zoo - was probably close to 18cm long (judging size against weatherboards).

My daughter named it Dave.

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Apparently two incidents, and $15k taken according to the Herald.

NZ herald has more details

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Despite talk of rampant youth crime, Generation Z - that cohort of New Zealanders now in their teens and early 20s - are less likely to get into trouble with the law than any other age group in decades.

There are a small number of them who do flout the law and they tend to do it spectacularly, often by ramming a stolen vehicle into a shop and posting about it on TikTok.

This offending is highly visible, and it has a big impact on the besieged shop owners and communities around them, which is why the public rightly get alarmed.

Generally, people believe youth crime is getting worse. Surveys suggest 87 percent of New Zealanders believe it has increased in the past five years. This belief, however, is contrary to what statistics tell us.

Overall, Ministry of Justice data shows youth crime rates dropping year on year.

The trend is not always consistent, and there has been a significant post-Covid uptick, but the number of children and youths aged 16 or under coming before the courts has halved over the past decade.