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[–] Dave 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The thread you mention has a reply saying there's already an extension to do it via Rclone.

[–] Dave 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Isn't that the one that OP is talking about? I'm not aware of any other major ones, other than the great piracy community on dbzer0 that OP recently learned about.

[–] Dave 2 points 3 hours ago

So, ignoring we know they did bad:

Is it really suitable to risk cleaning it then transporting consumable food items in it? Especially one that was carrying lead of all things?

I am not an expert. I could not tell you whether the triple rub and dub scrub (or whatever) routine is the industry standard procedure, I guess that's for MPI to determine. So I try not to judge based on how it sounds.

Also the fact they didn’t even detect the extent of the lead contamination until after it had already been used in production.

Again, I'm not an expert. Is the standard process that they do a test for every bag? Every sack? Once for the boat? Is lead testing even a standard test for sugar? If they followed an industry standard process, and that process failed, then that's an MPI problem. In this case it sounds like they did not, but I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt.

I’m not saying they should be made bankrupt, but it should probably have more impact than “the cost of doing business”

Yeah, I don't think I took in the article the first time I read it. This seems like there was a clear violation of what they should be doing, and that's why MPI brought charges. $150k seems very low. I bet the MPI staff time to bring about the charges cost significantly more than that.

[–] Dave 1 points 4 hours ago

This might be an agree to disagree situation but if the company runs for 50 years and has one mistake like this, I don't think the intent should be to bankrupt them because they screwed up.

I screw up in my job from time to time and no one is firing me because mistakes happen and we learn from them.

[–] Dave 6 points 4 hours ago

For a bit more info, Lemmy communicates with other instances with a protocol called ActivityPub.

ActivityPub it not just used by Lemmy, but also by Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc. While it doesn't always play nice because of the specifics, it's possible for example to subscribe to a Lemmy community from Mastodon (Lemmy currently doesn't support the other direction, following a Mastodon user using your Lemmy account, but this is mostly only because no one has built it for Lemmy).

ActivityPub works by sending information to other servers (e.g. posts, comments, votes). Each server keeps a copy of everything federated to it (not every server gets everything, it's subscription based, so all servers aren't exact copies).

So with all instances having local copies, this means anyone with access to the database (e.g. the person running the instance) can simply look at the votes and see who voted which way. Since anyone can run an instance, this is one layer in which votes are public. Instance admins can actually see the individual votes right in the UI (hidden under some clicks).

Now I mentioned other software like Mastodon earlier. Mastodon is twitter-like. Lemmy is reddit-like. But there is also other software that is similar to Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed come to mind. These also run ActivityPub and receive all posts, comments, votes like a Lemmy instance, but they aren't Lemmy. They can decide what do do with the information, including showing it to their users. But there is very little Lemmy can do to stop this since they aren't running Lemmy software.

For this reason many think Lemmy should show the votes so people don't assume no one can see them became they can't.

[–] Dave 1 points 4 hours ago

Ah thanks, that gives me something to research.

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

It could be a case of the planned ship broke down and they needed an alternative. If they swapped to a different ship and it turned out it was contaminated, that's one thing. But being told it's not suitable and using anyway is a whole nother level.

Edit: or did it mean they were told it's not suitable, then they had it cleaned and the cleanliness report said it was fine but it actually wasn't? That's different again.

[–] Dave 3 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

My argument was "we don't know the detail so let's give some benefit of the doubt". But I missed that part, if they knew they shouldn't and did it anyway then $150k does not seem big enough.

[–] Dave 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Would that be two disks under a type of RAID or does ZFS have something?

[–] Dave 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

If one company spends millions trying to do the right thing and got driven to bankruptcy by a mistake that could have happened to any large company, the other companies might instead just not do anything except the bare minimum then spend that money on insurance.

Edit: this is now hypothetical as it's been pointed out to me they were not trying to do the right thing.

[–] Dave 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah that's an idea. It does seem like I'd need a lot of disks though. And I don't actually have a disk reader or writer at all at the moment.

[–] Dave 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah from some other comments I think my initial plan (that I'll research some more) will be:

  • buy a new HDD, format with ZFS or btrfs for error correction
  • copy data onto drive
  • store in cupboard with sata-> USB cable and instructions about what it is, how to access .
  • every year, load the previous year's data onto the drive
  • about every 5 years, replace the drive by copying onto a brand new one (timeframe will likely depend on when my other HDD drives die)

This way I should get a chance to update storage medium as technology changes as well.

 

I have backups on a backup hard drive and also synced to B2, but I am thinking about backing up to some format to put in the cupboard.

The issue I see is that if I don't have a catastrophic failure and instead just accidentally delete some files one day while organising and don't realise, at some point the oldest backup state is removed and the files are gone.

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

So I'm thinking of a plain old unencrypted copy of photos etc that anyone could find and use. Bonus points if I can just do a new CD or whatever each year with additions.

I have about 700GB of photos and videos which is the main content I'm concerned about. Do people use DVDs for this or is there something bigger? I am adding 60GB or more each year, would be nice to do one annual addition or something like that.

 

Chelsea Sugar (also known as the New Zealand Sugar Company) has been fined $149,500 for importing and selling sugar products tainted with lead.

More than 970 tonnes of products were manufactured from sugar contaminated during sea transportation from Australia, resulting in the company recalling thousands of products in late 2021.

Two more recalls were needed when it was revealed incorrect information was provided to supermarkets resulting in more tainted goods being released to consumers.

 

The new Minister of Transport has opened the door for public consultation on at least some of the speed limit changes the government said would be automatic.

Announcing the changes to speed limits last week, Transport Minister Chris Bishop issued two lists - one containing 49 stretches of state highway where there would be public consultation on whether to up the limits and one of 38 areas that would automatically return to higher speed limits.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 week 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 Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Taranaki Maunga passed its second and third reading in Parliament on Thursday.

Around 400 people from the eight iwi of Taranaki - Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Tama, Taranaki iwi and Te Ātiawa - were at Parliament to see the settlement become law.

The Crown profoundly apologised for its confiscation of Taranaki Maunga and almost half a million hectares (1.2 million acres) of Taranaki lands in 1865.

As part of the settlement Mt Egmont will cease to be an official geographic name. The name of the national park, currently called Egmont National Park, will become Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki (meaning the highly regarded and treasured lands of Taranaki), while the highest peak will be Taranaki Maunga.

The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person, its peaks will be named Te Kāhui Tupua - so the park will effectively own itself. But Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi, a collective of both iwi and Crown representatives, will manage the park and develop plans which will be approved by the Conservation Minister.

 

Another major exhibition at Wellington's $180 million convention centre has failed to break even, with the council refusing to say exactly how many people visited it.

Last July RNZ reported the first two major exhibitions at Tākina, Jurassic World by Brickman and Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Exhibition failed to either break even or reach their target visitor numbers.

The Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder ran from 1 June to 28 October and featured props from the BBC sci-fi show which first aired in 1963.

 

Reversals on blanket speed limit reductions will begin on Wednesday night, starting with State Highway 2 in the Wairarapa, and will be complete by 1 July.

The National and Act coalition agreement committed to reversing the reductions implemented under the previous Labour government.

In total 38 sections of the state highway network will be reversed back to their previous higher speed limits by NZTA over the next five months.

The state highway speed limit changes will take effect across the country in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Whanganui, Greater Wellington, Canterbury, and the top of the South Island.

 

A former car dealer with a history of sending explicit pictures to disgruntled customers has now been caught sending photos of genitalia to a woman attempting to recoup money from his company.

 

Trees are down and there are widespread power outages after a tornado in Northland's Mangawhai.

Hato Hone St John transported two patients from Mangawhai in a serious condition. One was transported to Auckland Hospital by helicopter, while the other was transported to North Shore hospital by road.

Northpower's outage map showed three "widespread" outages covering Mangawhai, Mangawhai Heads and Langs Beach.

The power went out just before 3am Sunday.

"We have a widespread outage affecting all of our network due to a TORNADO damaging property and power lines in the wider Mangawhai Area," Northpower's website said.

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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:

  • 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?

 

Mystery and intrigue is rippling through a Lower Hutt community, where random letterboxes have been stuffed with romantic literature over the past week.

Erotica and romance - or smut - has been soaring in popularity amongst Generation Z, but the books being delivered to letterboxes from Eastbourne to Lowry Bay are no modern reads.

They mostly appear to be tales from the 1980s, like Lovestorm by Barbara Benedict, in which the protagonist is "stripped of her pride by a dashing rogue" and learns "the sweet fury of passion's tempest".

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