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zeborah

@zeborah@mastodon.nz

Rage, rage against the lying of the Right. Nō Ingarani, nō Aerana, nō Kōtirana ōku tupuna, nā, he tangata Tiriti ahau.

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jonoabroad, to random
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sigh when you shut down your server so people can play with your electrical supply and you try doing a git push to said server

zeborah,
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@jonoabroad That's me when I don't have access to the internet. "Oh well in that case I'll just catch up on the news. ...No look I need to get entirely off the computer, I'll do some baking, let me just get that recipe from my bookmarks. ...This is hopeless, I'll have to give in and phone the ISP, now what's their phone number again?"

jonoabroad, to random
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Why the fuck does Pharmac keep on changing where we get our fucking medicine from?

/me shakes fist

zeborah,
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@jonoabroad I think the short (possibly simplistic) answer is that funding is constrained so they're constantly searching for a cheaper deal for everything, shopping the specials.

There really should be a bit of a stockpile of the basic common drugs though. It's ridiculous that we're constantly running out of this or that.

timClicks, to random
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nix is melting ❄️😰

afaict the community has been invaded by trolls and now the maintainers are quitting.

let's talk hypotheticals. let's say that you had a few million dollars to invest in creating a package manager that could "fix Nix".

what would that look like?

zeborah,
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@timClicks ...A generous salary for the maintainers?

zeborah,
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@timClicks I have absolutely no idea but they seem best placed to figure out what is needed and to have the expertise to implement whatever that is.

mez, (edited ) to random
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Poll for previous toot.

zeborah,
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@mez I said aligned to overall rectangle - I figure this puts it closer to the closet which might be handy when hunting for clothes.

But I think it also depends how you furnish the room. If the bed is centered along one wall you may want the light centred above it.

pekkatahkola, to random
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Conducted a survey (n=1700) in Finland about people who cycle (also) in the winter. I translated some of the key findings below. For example the differnce in sick leave days is very, very significant 🧵 1/

zeborah,
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@afewbugs Yeah, I'd expect there's some of each, but before getting too excited about how much $$$ biking saves society you do need to tease out how much is "biking more leads to healthier people" vs "healthier people bike more" vs "places with less traffic have less pollution to trigger/worsen respiratory illnesses and also make it easier to bike more", etc.

(I also side-eye anything about BMI though I guess it's slightly less scammy at the demographic level.)

@quixoticgeek @pekkatahkola

jackyan, to random
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This is though. I keep reading stories of multiple people having the same address.

https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/112223787627706514

zeborah,
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@andycarolan In my experience of receiving emails intended for other people (for a while I'd write back to the sender, and sometimes got hold of the intended recipient), it's user error somewhere.

Eg the user fills out a form with username@ymail.com and the data entry person goes "haha that looks like ymail what terrible handwriting I'll just enter gmail". Or they forget that they have username1 rather than username.

@jackyan @fesshole

zeborah, to random
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Hot take: The help info linked to from your computer's "can't connect to the internet" error message should not be located on the internet.

ajsadauskas, to business
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There's 24 people injured on a flight from Sydney to Auckland.

And what stands out for me is the frankly sociopathic statement from the airline:

"LATAM regrets the inconvenience and injury this situation may have caused its passengers, and reiterates its commitment to safety as a priority within the framework of its operational standards."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-11/latam-airlines-flights-requests-assistance-at-auckland-airport/103574168

First, how did we ever get to the point where this kind of, frankly, bullshit public relations response from companies is acceptable?

Who actually thinks this response to a crisis is remotely acceptable?

If 24 people are injured on a flight, clearly that airline's "framework of its operational standards" isn't working.

Frankly, after an incident, those operational standards probably need reviewing.

And just look at the passive voice in that first sentence. "This situation may have caused"? "Regret" rather than "sorry"? Passengers being rushed to hospital is an "inconvenience"?!

If this statement genuinely reflects this company's attitude towards safety, then frankly it should never fly again.

zeborah,
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@airwhale More detail at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511423/50-people-treated-after-incident-on-board-latam-airlines-flight-to-auckland - apparently a "mid-air drop" and yes, it was sure enough a Boeing.

@ajsadauskas

zeborah,
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@airwhale https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/350209071/sydney-auckland-flight-drops-suddenly-50-passengers-and-crew-injured has a passenger quoting the pilot as saying some gauges "blanked out". Obviously that's very second-hand but LATAM's statement did also refer to a "technical problem".

Agreed on keeping the seatbelt on!

@ajsadauskas @pmoeser

ThisCJ, to random
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I remember when Stuff (the NZ news site) used to serve content as HTML. Those were good days. Since Stuff's latest "upgrade" I haven't been able to load it on any of my devices.

No, I don't fancy turning off my security settings or ad-blockers. If the price of that is not reading Stuff any more, I'll pay that. I wonder how many others are in the same situation?

zeborah,
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@BobLefridge It's getting worse all the time too. A few days ago it started loading a Google login option. 🤯 @ThisCJ

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The very best journals, ceramics, clothing items, etc. are always made by some weirdo with a store that might or might not be open on any given day, if there is a store at all and it's not an etsy shop "on vacation" 8 months out of the year or a website and you have to email them.

"are you still making those blank books? I've love to buy another one..."
"nah, I need to walk in the woods for a bit... get centered."

I mean that's probably why they are such perfect journals...

zeborah,
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@futurebird There's a restaurant locally that may or may not open on any given day (and when it does you don't order, you get what you're given). I think they have a Facebook page or something maybe, but the other way to tell if they're open is the massive queue outside the door.

zeborah, to random
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<looks at weather forecast> Oh whoops I guess I should have tried to pick more peaches before it got dark, oh well...

(I've already bottled twice as many peaches as any other year, and also given peaches away to friends and family and neighbours.)

Cassandra, to random
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I just heard a story on the news that at least some Canadians are expected to work without pay on February 29, because it’s a leap year and the law doesn't "require" employers to pay for that day.

This seems like a pretty good example of employers thinking they own employees, as opposed to paying them for their labour.

zeborah,
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@Cassandra But the very next sentence is "Price says employers should take the leap year into account in order to be in compliance with provincial minimum wage legislation" and the next paragraph suggests ways to take it into account by paying more.

They're saying that if you happen to have calculated someone's annual salary so that it meets minimum wage exactly in a 365-day year, then you do need to fix that for a 366-day year.

@rogerparkinson

zeborah,
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@Cassandra Of course I don't think employers will do it voluntarily. But my reading of what he's saying is that they are in fact legally required to pay the minimum wage, and if this glitch means they're not paying the minimum wage then they're legally required to fix that. (The key phrase is his "should [etc]... to be in compliance with provincial minimum wage legislation").

I definitely agree employees should unionise and collectively negotiate improved salaries etc.

zeborah,
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@Cassandra Of course, some employers break the law. I'm only replying to a very narrow point: you originally said that the law doesn't require employers to pay for Feb 29 and then you talked about the minimum wage case. I'm only saying that if someone's salary is at minimum wage then the law does effectively require some adjustment as they still need to make minimum wage in a leap year.

I'm not disagreeing with anything else at all that you've said, just clarifying that one specific case.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand
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Wow just got my house insurance renewal though from AMI

Its 35% more than last year.

Wow. might have to shop around. Any recommendations?

zeborah,
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@Rjdlandscapes I think climate change is starting to hit the premiums. 😕

zeborah,
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@Rjdlandscapes That's a really good way of putting it. 😡

zeborah, to random
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omg omg I found it, I was trawling Word's preferences to find out where to turn the damn squiggles off and I also discovered how to set it so when you paste text from another document, it doesn't copy across the font/size etc and ruin your own document's formatting.

Go to:
> File
> Options
> Advanced
> Cut, copy, and paste

and set "Pasting within the same document", "Pasting between documents", and "Pasting from other programs" all to "Keep Text Only".

My life has been changed.

nzlemming, to random
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So, today I finally got a heatpump. 's very niiice. 38 page manual and chock full of functions I will never use.

zeborah,
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@vik Mine lives in my bedroom, specifically to keep the air warm while I sleep for purposes of less asthma, so I turn it on manually and have the auto-turnoff at 5am (as I get up at 6am).

My friends have been asking me recently how I've been enjoying the cooling function and I'd genuinely forgotten about it: my waterbed keeps me cool enough to sleep, and during the day I'm not in that room, and I use curtains strategically for free temperature control, and I quite like warmth. 🤷
@nzlemming

zeborah,
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@vik (Oh, I did need the manual for purposes of removing/cleaning the filter which is apparently good for health and efficiency. Other than that, yeah, most of those functions are never getting touched.)

@nzlemming

strypey, to random
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I may have already mentioned this but shoehorns are awesome!

My Dad has been singing their praises for years but I always just laughed it off. I finally gave in and tried it recently and I loved it so much I got my own and took it camping : P

zeborah,
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@ClaraListensprechen4 Have you tried sole music? @strypey

zeborah, to random
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I don't know what on earth is going on with my sewing machine's bobbin action at the moment, but the tension on the bobbin was at "Noooo you can't have my threaddd!" levels which I think is because it's 26 degrees in the living room and metal expands dunnit. So maybe some other metal part has expanded too and that's why the mechanism keeps creating loop upon loop without ever letting any of them go?

I'll try again when it's cooler but in the meantime I may be handsewing this shirt after all.

zeborah, to random
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My broccoli looks like a turtle.

jonoabroad, to random
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Why are they called swan plants?

Do they attract swans?

Noooooooooo.

Why not butterfly plants?

Bastards.

zeborah,
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@jonoabroad It's because the seed pods look like swans!

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