I'd be happy with saving ~$3b a year by means testing super.

While they are at it they could remove the landlords' interest deductions to save another ~$2b.

Perhaps we could spend this money of paying nurses enough so they want to stay here instead of move to Oz.

Please see rule #1.

I really wish Labour would see that the electorate has figured out that neoliberal policies don't make our lives better. They are in the perfect position to lead us through the changes that are coming. Their refusal to acknowledge the need for structural change reminds me of the impotence of the American democrats.

The old tricks aren't working anymore. They need to reinvent themselves based on what the Millenials and later actually want. Basically: stop robbing young people and giving it to the retirees.

Sorry for the rant. It's just frustrating to watch.

Here's a video showing how it's made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8mqVGDQ1s

I think QSV is the new "easiest" way if you have an Intel CPU. Here are some docker compose values that might help:

    group_add:
      - "110"
      - "44"
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

110 is render

44 is video

You can grep render /etc/group to find your values.

I found CPU accelerated transcoding to be as effective as using GPU acceleration for my small media server setup. Nvidia wasn't worth it for me.

There's some type of irony in the penalty being free housing (jail), or blood from a stone ($2k penalty).

I was just looking for the cost of keeping someone in jail fro 90 days and it looks like Bernard HIckey beat me to it:

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

From: The Kaka https://thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-threatens-to-imprison-homeless

Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?

Rice and dried beans and veggies are still pretty cheap, for now at least.

Is there a link to the actual text of the article or are we just sufficiently enraged by headlines now?

Have you tried a USB-C to HDMI cable for you phone?

Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can't we just transfer it in reusable bins?

I don't see either of the dominant political parties making any meaningful changes to address these issues. The current government acknowledges the issues in their Budget Policy Statement 2025 but then acts in contradiction to their own statements, by disestablishing Callaghan Innovation and gutting CRIs. Their Strategy for AI is basically a "legal thumbs up" with no incentives for businesses to move into this sector.

Instead of investing in public schools, they are allowing charter school which will make education pay-to-play, which will grow inequality at a time when young people are already locked out of the housing market. All while teachers are walking out in protest over low wages.

My fear is that when many young people are disenfranchised and aren't offered a "good deal" to participate in society, then we will get more crime and more drugs.

Labour isn't going to fix it and National seems to be actively sabotaging it.

I just read the book "Abundance" and I can see many of the partisan issues described in the book in the New Zealand context. We're cooked.

"If there weren't unions: people would just have to individually put up with our shit"