That’s… an interesting contract. What happens if a government starts investing heavily in rehabilitation programmes and produces good results that you just can’t compete with not because you’re not doing well but because the other government prisons are doing well?
But yes, my concern about things like increasing prison sentence lengths is that there is lobbying happening. It reminds me of the time Act (I think) said that if they had to make their donor names public, they would lose 80% of their donations. Is that because it’s donations from companies running prisons and other conflicts of interest?
It is a weird contract. But it means they have to consistently do better than the government or pay us a lot, which is good. As long as they aren’t doing harm in the process.
It seems to heavily favour the government, if I was the prison company I’d be worried about signing it. There is probably more to the fine print, or perhaps just an exit clause so if in the unlikely event the government starts investing heavily in evidence based rehabilitation programmes then the private company can back out.
I’m very untrusting of the private sector getting involved in prisons in general. It’s open to all kinds of corruption and human rights violations. Justice, policing, armed forces, corrections, things like that - they all need to be under direct government control, in my opinion.
It feels, to me, like an insane thing to give up control of to a for-profit company.
I wish we could just ban political donations altogether. Or, probably better, set it at like $1,000 per person per year. Let people run campaigns on ideas, not advertising. Use the media to get the word out.
Parties get public funding for election advertising. I would support a ban on political donations, but I think that would need to come with a boost in public funding. I’d rather funding come without strings, though, so I’d be happy with that.
And, by the way, the only reason Act could have for wanting to hide their donors is because they know it will make them look corrupt.
That’s not necessarily true. There may well be people or companies (for example) publicly talking about their efforts to be more environmentally friendly, while privately donating to Act hoping for loosened rules. Even if the donations have no influence, making them public would make the donors seem like hypocrites.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a good reason to make them public (or ban them completely), but it could be either side of the transaction that would be made to look bad, and either may prevent the donations being made.
It’s worth noting that Act gets like 4X more donations than Labour as per the donation returns. In 2022 they received over $800,000 in donations under $15,000, and Labour received about $400,000 total.
This isn’t unexpected, but you do have to ask what the richest man in NZ gets out of donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to National and Act. I bet he doesn’t spend a cent that he doesn’t get a good return on.
Yes, it does seem to require a hard refresh. Shift+refresh seems to do it on a PC. On a phone it might be trickier, but I had success holding down the refresh button on Firefox for Android.
It does go green when you tick it though. I had assumed this was an intended change. You can mark it as read, and it doesn’t disappear straight away so you can undo it if you accidentally clicked that button.
These guys charged $150 for a Lord of the Rings & Hans Zimmer symphonic experience, but actually provided a shitty orchestra that played sound-a-like knock-offs. Then when people started wanting their money back they claim everybody loved it and that the NZ government is somehow crippling culture and arts. What a bunch of dicks.
The company blamed the New Zealand Government for “crippling culture and arts” by not granting their performers visas in time for the tour.
An Immigration NZ spokesperson confirmed Star Entertainment Gmbh filed requests for 47 people eligible for entry as they were from visa waiver countries, along with five visitor visas on May 9 – just three days before its first concert on May 12.
“We gave them less than 3 days and they didn’t grant us 47 entry visas and 5 visitor visa in time, it’s their fault”
Yeah but something just rubs me the wrong way about a for-profit performance being largely run on donated time. If it’s nonprofit then I have no issue with it.
The Screen Actors Guild has rules meaning Hollywood movies have to pay everyone (with specific minimums) because otherwise the whole industry would be people working for free in the hope of becoming the next Brad Pitt.
I’ve created a bot on a stopdrinking community at lemmy.world, and due to a bug it posted the wrong day in the title. I’ve manually updated it by logging in as the bot on lemmy.world, which works fine, but when visiting the post on lemmy.nz it still shows the old title....
I honestly find it hit and miss. You catch up with a friend from 10 years ago, sometimes it’s like old times but other times you realise how much 10 years changes you.
I happened to open Lemmy for the first time this weekend while the server was down. I got a bit worried before I headed over to the chat and saw you were onto it.
Not just onto it, I caused it!
It seems like keeping bots away is going to be one of the big struggles for Lemmy. At least for the time being. Though to be fair, it seems like a problem for all social media. At least Lemmy isn’t profiting off the controversy stirred up by a lot of them.
Lemmy/Fediverse has one disadvantage here. Facebook can control their bots by putting account creation controls in place. But spammers in Lemmy can spin up their own instance and then create loads of accounts, and start commenting on other instances. Then when enough instances block them, spin up a new one.
We can’t stop that from happening, and if we block new instances until they prove they aren’t spammers then that’s a huge blocker for the uptake of the Fediverse. I’ve seen other (not large) instances looking at trust calculations, but this is still a barrier to people being able to start a new instance. I don’t have any solutions but I hope we find one.
Ah no, so much drama this morning I forgot to make the thread! Thanks for making it!
Today I woke up to 8,000 new bot accounts (which are now disabled, but I’m still working on removing completely).
Then I tried to do the 0.18.0 update and it didn’t work and the site broke so I then had a frantic 30 mins or so trying to work out what was wrong and get it up and running again.
Then I loaded the kids in the car, disappeared out the door and didn’t come home until the late afternoon. But for the most part it sounds like the updated site is working ok.
We built a house 7 years ago and it's insulated and has double glazing. I've installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c...
So your house is insulated and warm, and presumably pretty sealed. I think you should be considering sources of water vapour.
Some common sources:
Shower
Drying clothes inside
Cooking
If you have a separate shower (rather than shower over bath) you can get a shower dome which significantly reduces steam leaking outside the shower. I don't much like using a shower with one but they are effective. You can also get a more powerful extractor fan, though even the super powerful ones don't seem to be that powerful (I want one that sucks your clothes off).
If you dry clothes inside, try not to. If you have a dryer that isn't a condenser dryer, try to vent it outside or at least open the window. Probably try to use it less though using it less and not drying clothes inside don't make for many options in the winter.
For cooking, make sure you have a rangehood to catch the steam from any boiling pots. And make sure it's externally vented. I have lived in placed with rangehoods that just push the air back into the room (I'm not sure of the point...) but I'd think with a house that new it wouldn't be an issue.
You might have other ideas about sources of water. Gas heaters can be one but it sounds like you heat with a heat pump.
An HRV/DVS can help but I'm not sure it's as effective in a newer house.
You also mention the living room is 55% in the day when heated to 21c, what temperature are the bedrooms when they are 70%? Colder air can hold less water, and so the relative humidity is higher with the same amount of water in the air.
This release has 46 contributors! Compared to the 17.4 release that had 3, or the 17.3 release that had 4. It's such a massive release, and with so many new users it has attracted many new devs!
I did not know that! Thanks for letting me know. I will make upgrading a priority, though we will probably need to turn on registration applications as the cloudflare bot detection doesn't seem to be working
There was a technical reason. This version removes websockets, which has performance improvements and solves a lot of outstanding issues.
Unfortunately the current captcha relies on websockets. The option is actually still there, it just causes an error on the registration page, stops registration from showing, and still doesn’t actually show a captcha.
Long story short, it’s just broken rather than deliberately removed (though originally they planned on dropping it which is why no effort went into solving the issues.
Thanks! What is the breaking change? I know the backend and frontend can't be combined with older versions (i.e. you have to update both at the same time), if that what you're referring to?
Ranked voting is already used in many places, it looks like the recommendation is to make this the standard everywhere.
The local councils/authorities thing is a bit weird. Not the recommendation, that's on point, but the way the different councils are set up. You have all these little ones and no one wants to change it because you have your own mayor and you get to chat with him at the pub and tell him your issues and you feel like you have input. The mayor doesn't want to change things because he's the mayor, it's a status symbol. The same for the other councilors.
National promises limits on judge discretion in sentencing (www.rnz.co.nz)
We are now running the latest version of Lemmy
Lemmy.nz is now running the latest version of Lemmy. This is a massive update. Some more discussion is available here....
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 24/6/2023
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'Bootleg' concert organisers blame Government for events deemed 'total scam' (www.stuff.co.nz)
These guys charged $150 for a Lord of the Rings & Hans Zimmer symphonic experience, but actually provided a shitty orchestra that played sound-a-like knock-offs. Then when people started wanting their money back they claim everybody loved it and that the NZ government is somehow crippling culture and arts. What a bunch of dicks.
Post on lemmy.world updated, not updated here?
I’ve created a bot on a stopdrinking community at lemmy.world, and due to a bug it posted the wrong day in the title. I’ve manually updated it by logging in as the bot on lemmy.world, which works fine, but when visiting the post on lemmy.nz it still shows the old title....
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 25/6/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero! Sorry it’s so late....
I think Dave fecked up (no.lastname.nz)
We've got an insulated house, heat it properly, ventilate it, but still see humidity levels of 70%+ in bed rooms. How to fix that?
We built a house 7 years ago and it's insulated and has double glazing. I've installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c...
Lemmy 0.18 released (join-lemmy.org)
This may impact lemmy.nz as well as it's a breaking change.
ACT proposes rules blocking contractors from claiming employee rights (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Future for Local Government review: What you need to know (www.rnz.co.nz)
This is a summary of the Future for Local Government report - He piki tūranga, he piki kōtuku....