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[–] Dave 2 points 6 hours ago

It was only a few years back (2018) that Cloudflare released 1.1.1.1. I remember reading a cool post about how when they turned it on (which I believe was earlier than this public announcement) they got significant volumes of traffic from all the equipment assuming 1.1.1.1 was not a valid address (up to that point it was not allocated to anyone).

I wish I could find the post but can't find the one I was thinking of. It had details of the specific volume of traffic and the sources.

[–] Dave 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah I guess that fits their explanation, but I still don't get what they are trying to do.

[–] Dave 13 points 22 hours ago

We can demand his firing but unfortunately he's one of three founders, he's unlikely to be fired. But I hope it's a wakeup call to them that they should have a policy of keeping their mouth shut on politics, including all board members.

[–] Dave 4 points 22 hours ago

Huh. I mean, it doesn't really matter in this case because there are alternatives and it's only colouring but it's interesting there's such a black and white rule.

[–] Dave 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think you need to explain in more detail how your "listening" is set up. You don't normally "listen" on an IP address, if it gets as far as the program you're listening with then it's already arrived at the correct network address before your program knows about it.

[–] Dave 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Sorry, does that say that there is no evidence that it causes cancer but because it's possible to trigger cancer in mice using higher doses than people get, triggering a mechanism that doesn't apply in humans, they have no choice but to ban it because the law requires it?

Or have I misunderstood?

[–] Dave 7 points 23 hours ago

I don't see why this is a problem. Most of the people I work with can't compose a coherent email, doesn't this make the kids well prepared for the workforce?

[–] Dave 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From what I've seen done in spread sheets, I'm convinced a major change in Exel could cause global anarchy.

 

Last weeks thread here

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[–] Dave 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Reading some of the comments from the original post, it seems this is a trademark squatting situation. They registered the trademark (among many others I'm sure), then when they found a real tool they quickly built something similar and released it to support their claim. Suggestions on that post are that it happens all the time and ignoring them until it actually goes to arbitration is the best option (with the assumption that it would never get that far).

[–] Dave 11 points 1 day ago

One of my favourite things about using an email relay is how easy it was to change email addresses. Unfortunately I was changing to Proton. Fortunately I was using my own domain! Unfortunately I pre-paid 2 years.

[–] Dave 2 points 2 days ago

Haha don't worry, it's feigned offence 🙂

[–] Dave 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not much difference!? Aussies are all Feesh and Cheeps and we're more like Fush and Chups. They are all "Mate, can you get the goon bag out of the esky" and we're more like "Bro, can ya grab us a brew from the chilly bin?"

And if you ask for a tinnie you'll get something quite different in NZ vs Australia.

One time I was on a plane and the pilot was Australian. It took quite a while to work out the language he was speaking was English.

Hard to get them mixed up 😋

 

I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Dave to c/support
 

Hi all, welcome to Lemmy 0.19.8!

We had about 10 mins of downtime starting from 1:17 this afternoon as the database migrations ran. Apollogies if this interrupted your lunchtime scrolling, this was needed because the Controversial scores needed to be re-calculated as detailed below.

We have skipped a few versions, we were on 0.19.5, and so we have .6, .7, and .8 updates. A brief summary follows, with links to the Lemmy announcements.

Lemmy 0.19.6 changes:

  • This version introduces parallel sending, which should solve our issues with Lemmy.world and remove the need for the extra VPS in Finland. Unfortunately Lemmy.world needs to update for this to work, so it will be a while longer.
  • Changed sameSite cookie from Strict to Lax - I think this should help the issue where you are logged out from the browser a lot (especially in Firefox)
  • There's a change in how "Controversial" is calculated, to use exponents instead of multiplication, to match how Reddit does it. Unfortunately the Lemmy documentation page seems not to list Controversial ranking among the other explanations, but there is some discussion here.
  • Removed the "Trending" box from the home page. I kinda liked how it worked for us to find our local communities but oh well.
  • This was a reasonably big release but mostly backend stuff - see link above for more info.

Lemmy 0.19.7 and Lemmy 0.19.8 are small bugfix releases, some of which fix issues introduced by 0.19.6 so we didn't see them. I don't see anything of interest to an average user but if you're interested take a look at the announcement posts linked.

Let me know if you see any issues, or have any questions.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Dave to c/politics
 

Dame Tariana Turia, a former member of parliament and government minister, has died. She was 80.

The former Labour Party MP and founder and former co-leader of Te Pāti Māori was a champion of Māori aspirations.

She served in Parliament for 18 years, initially as a list MP and then in the Te Tai Hauāuru seat for over a decade.

Dame Tariana suffered a stroke over the New Year period. Her iwi said at the time she did not have much time left.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Dave to c/newzealand
 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

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  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
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  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Dave to c/newzealand
 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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submitted 4 weeks ago by Dave to c/newzealand
 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

 

The coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly "risk-averse approach" to free speech.

The proposed changes will set clear expectations on how universities should approach freedom of speech issues.

Each university will then have to adopt a "freedom of speech statement" consistent with the central government's expectations. The changes will also prohibit tertiary institutions from adopting positions on issues that do not relate to their core functions.

"Despite being required by the Education Act and the Bill of Rights Act to uphold academic freedom and freedom of expression, there is a growing trend of universities deplatforming speakers and cancelling events where they might be perceived as controversial or offensive.

 

New Zealand's oldest man and former prisoner of war James "Jim" Easton has celebrated another lap around the sun, hitting the grand old age of 108 this week.

When asked what he enjoyed most about his Army service, Easton replied: "Trying to get out!"

Many of Easton's friends suffered terrible nightmares, but he managed to develop a clever technique to prevent them.

"Whenever I felt one coming on I'd dream of nude women. That took it away immediately," he told the Herald after his 106th birthday.

In 2022, Easton was believed to be the first New Zealander to receive a birthday card from two monarchs: one from King Charles III for his 106th, and one from Queen Elizabeth II for his 100th.

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submitted 1 month ago by Dave to c/support
 

TL;DR: Lemmy upgrade some time early in the new year. I also recently enabled image proxying, let me know if you noticed.

I thought I'd make a quick post just to explain the plan for updating Lemmy.nz to the latest Lemmy version and another recent change to image proxying.

Lemmy upgrade

Some of you make have noticed that Lemmy 0.19.8 just came out, and yet we are still on Lemmy 0.19.5.

There have been various bugs in 0.19.6 and 0.19.7 that while not critical, there was also no reason to rush the upgrade and I decided to wait for 0.19.8 which had a fix for some thumbnails not working that was broken in I think 0.19.6.

My plan is to give a little time to see if others have issues, and then upgrade to 0.19.8. Most likely this will be early in the new year. I don't believe there should be any significant downtime so I will probably just do it when I am ready. Before I do, I'll do a test run and see how long it takes, then decide then.

As always, I'll post on the Lemmy.nz Matrix chat before I do it, and if I am having any issues.

Image proxying

You may have noticed I have enabled imaged proxying some 3 or 4 weeks back. This means all images are loaded from the Lemmy.nz server instead of whichever instance is hosting it. Personally I have found there to be significantly less instances of an image not loading. I have also noticed some images load a bit slower than before, which I think is if the image is not already cached then Lemmy.nz has to download it, then you have to download it from Lemmy.nz, so this tends to happen more on smaller communities.

However, overall I feel like the experience is improved with image proxying turned on (even if it has doubled CPU usage of the server).

As always, happy to answer any questions and hear your feedback 🙂

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dave to c/newzealand
 

A teenager appears to be lucky to be alive although he remained stuck after climbing a power pylon in Christchurch on Friday evening.

Just Perfect Detailing owner Josh Phillips was nearby as emergency services arrived and believes the teenage boy climbed the pole before grabbing the live wires.

"He's sweating, and he's got quite bad burns, there's red all over him. His shorts have disintegrated literally, and there were burned bits of fabric underneath the power line he climbed. His arms and legs are charred, and he's complaining he can't feel his legs and that he's cold."

This happened last night, but the article doesn't seem to have been updated (as of posting) this morning with any resolution.

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