RaoulDuke

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[–] RaoulDuke 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, if it's a link to a news story or website, I agree, it should just be a direct link. I'm mostly thinking about content created by Reddit users and posted up there themselves.

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago

I love that it made President xi as Winnie the poo!

There may or may not have been some editorialising of the prompt on my part...

[–] RaoulDuke 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't even think of the privacy aspect. Of course they put their tracking pixels there, ffs. I bet Reddit does too.

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago

I think for TV, the broadcaster is responsible for setting the content rating. And they're answerable to the BSA if they get it wrong, which is what this is about. But don't quote me on that.

[–] RaoulDuke 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you put in as your prompts? I've been playing around with Stable Diffusion online, and everything comes out all kinds of fucked up, like the ones I recently put up -

John Oliver, All Black

and

Chris Hipkins meeting President Xi

I find Stable Diffusion is the only one that will make images of famous people

[–] RaoulDuke 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Personally, I think it's fine for people to cross-post stuff they think is relevant to the communities here. I'd prefer it over links to Reddit, because it lets people engage with the content here. I doubt posts in !newzealand@lemmit.online will get nearly as much attention as the ones on lemmy.nz. The Lemmit bot makes it pretty obvious that it's taken from Reddit. I think one guideline would be not to remove the bot's text from the post, nor the "cross-posted from" text that's generated when it's cross-posted here.

As for question posts, it would be a weird thing to cross-post. I guess if someone wanted to give credit to the OP on Reddit. I can't see that happening too often, unless it's a pretty broad question that generates discussion - in which case, it doesn't seem to matter to me if there's a separate discussion going on here.

[–] RaoulDuke 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is @Dave's comment from the daily kōrero:

Do we need guidelines about using it? Like sure you can subscribe, but what about cross posting to !newzealand?

Cross posts ok? Guidelines on not cross posting questions just links (articles etc) because the questions don’t come with the answers? Any thoughts?

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago

I've put up a post about it because I think all the Reddit refugees will be keen, at least in the short term. I think we should have this discussion there so everyone can have their input. It will get lost here.

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We actually used to have little "mod" and "admin" things before this, but they were much more subtle. You can see my mod one in the comments here on the Web Archive.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RaoulDuke to c/newzealand
 

For those struggling to wean yourselves off Reddit, someone has made a bot that copies posts from subreddits to Lemmy so you can follow the subreddits from here. I made a post about doing something similar a couple of weeks ago.

They have their own instance at lemmit.online. The r/newzealand is clone is at !newzealand@lemmit.online.

Most of the communities there aren't showing up in the search here without the full link yet, so go to their list of local communities, open a community you want to subscribe to, then copy the link that looks like [!newzealand@lemmit.online](/c/newzealand@lemmit.online) from the sidebar into the search on Lemmy.nz (or your local instance). If the subreddit you want isn't listed on lemmy.online, you can post a request in !requests@lemmit.online. It was pretty much instant for me.

[–] RaoulDuke 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm one of the mods there haha

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, nice. Just requested it and their bot made the community almost instantly. Might put up a post about it here.

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r/newzealand (self.requests)
[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well, would you look at that?

I just went back to the community that wasn't showing the subscribe button for me and it's back there now too.

 

These researchers from Canterbury University have come up with an idea that they say can cheaply remove 3 million tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year. And it utilises existing infrastructure.

The TLDR is that geothermal water contains CO₂, and the stations here have systems that capture and dissolve that CO₂ into the water before it's reinjected. This CO₂ rich water is heavier than the surrounding water, so it sinks to the bottom.

The heat from geothermal wells is not replenished at the speed it's taken by the stations, so eventually the water coming out isn't hot enough and new wells need to be drilled.

The scientists are suggesting that instead of simply drilling a new wells, we burn biomass from forestry to heat the warm water up the last bit. The carbon in this fuel has been gathered by the trees, and if it was released into the atmosphere it would be carbon neutral. But if you use the station's existing CO₂ capture and dissolve systems, the carbon goes underground permanently. The operation becomes a carbon sink that also enables the use of geothermal energy that would otherwise be unusable.

They say, "in terms of buying ourselves out of an emissions liability, geothermal carbon removal is one of the cheapest options out there." They compare it with the cost of switching from a petrol to electric car - US$700 for each tonne of CO₂ saved. With the existing infrastructure, they say their plan would remove CO₂ at a cost of about US$55 a tonne.

Their papers and a bunch more evidence and info is linked in the article.

 

Nature series Our Big Blue Backyard drew one complaint to media watchdog that it should not have given the program a G, or general, classification

[...] In the offending scene, a female dolphin is targeted by a pack of male dolphins that mate with her.

“She’s trapped at the surface, and the males take turns. Once they’ve all mated with her, they leave her alone,” the narrator says, accompanied by underwater footage of the encounter and dramatic music.

The BSA said the footage included “the male dolphins swarming around the female with their genitalia visible, and at one point a male visibly entered the female … accompanied by audio of dolphin cries”.

Other coverage:

 

Sheep numbers in sharp decline as farmers increasingly shift to forestry, fuelled by demand to earn carbon credits

 

An increasingly crowded field of parties are competing to harness the vestigial energy of the parliamentary occupation.

 

Former TV presenter turned anti-vaccination campaigner Liz Gunn has launched a new political party, asking people to donate up to $1 million.

 

The government is following through on a promised ban on new coal boilers, and phasing out existing ones by 2037.

Other changes announced yesterday include new standards requiring councils to factor in climate change in decisions about consents for furnaces that burn fossil fuels.

Currently more than half of the heat used to process raw material - for example in dairy and paper production - comes from burning fossil fuels.

It accounts for 8 percent of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy and Resources Minister Dr Megan Woods said the changes would reduce emissions equivalent to the exhaust fumes from 100,000 cars a year. [...]

The ban on installing new coal heating devices kicks in from late next month, with the new nationally consistent standards for councils ready for implementation before the end of the year.

The new standards only cover devices used to generate heat for industrial processes.

Stuff had a related story this morning about the last coke-powered foundry in NZ shutting down.

 

Took this on my morning walk a couple of days ago

 

Ngā mihi o Matariki, te tau hou Māori!

Greetings of Matariki, the Māori new year!

This month, we've got a bit of a Matariki theme. Matariki festivals are already underway in many parts of the country, and events will continue until around the end of July. A bunch of them are listed on the Matariki.com events page.

The public holiday falls on the 14th this year, with a celebration period of 11-17 July. The 2023 Tangaroa lunar period, when the rising of Matariki is observed, is 10-13 July.

I'm planning on posting up some more Matariki stuff later.

Also, if you've got an idea for next month's banner, leave a comment below.

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Icon vote (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RaoulDuke to c/newzealand
 

I want to finally get an icon up for !newzealand , but I want you to decide between these two.

The icon will show up as a circle in some places and a square in others. Both could have some small tweaks if they're chosen.

Vote on the comments. Best score at 10pm Thursday will be the icon.

EDIT: Well that was pretty clear. The kiwi it is. Thanks to @sortofblue@lemmy.nz for the suggestion.

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