Hi all, sorry for being a bit slow on creating this new thread.
I have a few updates but I’ll post them in separate comments so they have separate comment chains.
Census
I’m working on a census survey like lemmy.ca did here. I didn’t have access to the original survey questions but I’m trying to align with their survey so we can compare against it. Though not everything is relevant so some things will be a bit different. I’m planning on doing this some time around the instance birthday at the start of June, and repeating it each year as Lemmy.ca does.
Nice idea! Any thoughts on presentation? A post with info, links, and screen shots would probably be easiest, but maybe we can do better?
I’ll try to think of some major things that have happened in the last year.
Looking back through old posts I’m feeling sad about all the cool people who have slowly dropped off over the year. But also all the ones who are still here so that’s cool!
It’s probably not news anymore. No one is reading articles about it, so they don’t publish the stories.
In Wellington there’s this flu study that also tracks COVID, but they have only just started tracking the 2024 flu season. Still, there’s a substantial number of COVID cases. In the past the most recent week has always been inaccurate as they are still waiting for the results of some testing to come through, so ignore that as it’s probably not actually a drop (based on the other axis we should see it higher than the first week’s results).
Yeah, I have a tracker (Uptime Kuma) that’s testing every minute. There has been failures or time outs every day for the last week or so, but it was much better before that. I’m not sure what’s changed that’s caused the issue.
There have been 6 separate outages today, and it needs two checks in a row to fail to count it as an outage. Though most have only been a few minutes.
If anyone has suggestions on how to troubleshoot, I’m listening!
In terms of MOH reporting, absolutely. Triple is probably still underestimating. You’re right about hospitalisations and deaths, data is much better when we don’t rely on people self-reporting. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to find the right data (though I didn’t try particularly hard).
The graph I posted about is from a flu study, the numbers should be very reliable, just affected by the small sample size (from my rough calculations based on the graph, about 1,300 participants). From the graph it looks like about 20/80 confirmed cases, so 20/1300. With a very rough 400,000 people in the Wellington region, that’s 6,000 people with COVID in Wellington alone.
Just tracking HTTP status of lemmy.nz. Host is in an Auckland datacenter, but I don’t control it, it’s hosted by the guys at fediservices.nz. Monitoring is minimal, other than the up/down I’ve gotta dive into logs.
I’ve been fighting with lemmy a bit recently, it’s going down randomly and I’m not sure why. I have started disabling things to see if I can isolate it. The main one you might notice missing is the automod that handles spam, so if you see spam please report it and I’ll handle it manually.
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 23/5/2024
Last weeks thread here...