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

Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?

You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won't show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

At about 11am this morning, the host had an outage of maybe 5-10 mins. That would have been not long before you posted this post.

Are you still seeing issues or was it only at that time?

[–] Dave 1 points 2 hours ago

Mitchell Baker leaving is pretty big news. She's been involved since forever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

[–] Dave 1 points 2 hours ago

Well you wouldn't have been able to do docker compose up if it was like that, right? So it must have been changed while it was running.

Lemmy-UI and the backend are completely separate, so if the UI is not working apps can still connect to the back end if that's running.

[–] Dave 9 points 4 hours ago

The one recording seems to be in a pretty dangerous position at times.

[–] Dave 2 points 4 hours ago

I think peace keepers mostly help train local security forces so locals are helping locals instead of foreign forces telling citizens what to do.

Its something you could easily look up: https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/peace-rights-and-security/international-security/peace-support-operations

[–] Dave 1 points 4 hours ago

The great thing about DM spam on Lemmy is it's hard to defend against. They start spamming them out, and only the targetted users can see it. When someone eventually reports it, they get banned, but banning them doesn't remove the DMs already sent 🙁

[–] Dave 1 points 6 hours ago

Ha! Take that, people who say jam and cheese, honey and cheese, banana and cheese, etc are weird. Parmesan ice cream is more proof cheese goes with anything!

I love that ice cream invention and how similar it is to what I use today. It's basically the same design except for some innovation in the freezing bowl and adding a motor!

[–] Dave 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

If there is an ongoing hot war you are not sending peacekeepers, you are sending mercenaries.

The article says he was asked about if there was a cease fire:

Asked whether New Zealand would be prepared to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of any ceasefire, Christopher Luxon told RNZ that was something he would consider.

If the war is over why do you need peacekeepers?

NZ do a lot of peacekeeping operations. In places that were previously at war. What do you think peacekeepers do?

[–] Dave 2 points 18 hours ago

It would be really hard to guarantee it. There are definitely times it has taken more than an hour to go around the store. It takes at least 45 mins on a normal trip, and the more kids that are with me the longer it takes. You need a lot of groceries when you're eating for 5.

[–] Dave 10 points 22 hours ago

Haha this Wikipedia description:

Star Trek: Section 31 was released on Paramount+ on January 24, 2025. It received mostly negative reviews from critics and was considered by some to be the worst entry in the Star Trek franchise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31

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

Nah it's apparently a really unique thing that people love. The talk gave a lot of insight into the kind of thing they were going for, but I can't find the video anymore. I found this one, but that's not the one I watched. It might have similar stuff though.

I haven't played one, but I think the idea is not that you only get to play one game, but that you are working your way through a narrative. You get to play 10 or 15 or 20 games, but each game is different because you are unlocking things and going through a story line. Different player groups get a different experience depending on what decisions they make or whether they are winning or losing the games. E.g. for Pandemic Legacy I believe it has a sort of auto-balancing of the difficulty. But once you've played through the story line then you can't play anymore. That sort of permanency means you bring a different attitude to the game and are a bit more careful or deliberate, and the emotions are different.

It sounds like fun and I think I will get to it one day, but locally Pandemic Legacy Season 1 costs more than 3 times what Zombie Kidz Evolution costs, so I haven't pulled the trigger yet.

 

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?

 

Investors will only have to remain in New Zealand for 21 days over three years to gain residency under changes to the so-called 'golden visa' to attract wealthy investors to New Zealand, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.

From 1 April, the Active Investor Plus visa will be replaced with two, simplified investment categories.

The first, the 'Growth' category, will focus on higher-risk investments, including direct investments in New Zealand businesses.

It will require a minimum investment of $5 million for a minimum period of three years.

The second, the 'Balanced' category, will focus on mixed investments, with the ability to choose ones that are lower risk.

There will be a minimum investment of $10 million over five years.

 

Health New Zealand's new strategy to "fail early, fail often, succeed over time" when it comes to crucial data and digital operations has been labelled "unacceptable" by a union.

Te Whatu Ora has proposed to cut almost half its data and digital positions - more than 1000 of them.

PSA assistant secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said New Zealanders would not accept that Health NZ could ever fail early when it came to health records.

"The stakes are too high. I think it's quite shocking."

But the feedback leaked to RNZ displayed a lot of fear and consternation. Staff had got letters about the proposed jobs being cut.

"My letter has the wrong job title and I am not even from that team," responded one.

 

Two people have been injured in Central Auckland after debris fell from a building.

Police were called to a building on Queen St on Monday morning after an object fell and shattered glass.

Two pedestrians were moderately injured and were taken to a nearby medical centre, a police spokesperson said.

 

Preferably for plain old green cabbage, since I bought half a head on a whim without a plan.

 

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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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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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.

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