Are gamers getting older? It would be interesting to see how this breaks down by age.
I’m getting older. I have 3 kids and no time. 10 years ago I had no kids and 3 time. Now when I play, I just put it on the easiest setting and play it like an interactive movie.
It was great while I remembered what was happening! But sometimes your only reference to a quest is something that says “Go out the door, take the third left, and look for an orange door” and you just have no idea even what city you were in when you got that note 😆
During the couple of weeks I was playing it, I didn’t actually feel lost at all. But now trying to return to it just feels more like a chore than a good time. I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 now instead, I’m back in the era of quest markers!
I started playing Morrowind maybe 6 months back, got hours into the game and was having a good time. Then I didn’t get a chance to play for a month, now I haven’t gone back because I have no idea what I was doing since half the stuff doesn’t seem to be written in the journal, and when it is, it assumes I remember who the person is or where I was supposed to be going. So I just haven’t picked it up again.
I use it, and like it. They dropped prices a while back so now you can get unlimited searches for $10 a month (they also have a $5 limited tier and a free trial).
First thing is I’d like to live in a world where search engines (and the internet in general) don’t have to be ad supported. This is a different model so I want to support it.
But also Kagi has some nice features. My favourite is how I can block Pinterest, and boost the ranking of other sites like Wikipedia. Basically you can have some control over search results.
If you’re familiar with SearxNG, that’s basically how Kagi works. They run the searches on a bunch of search engines and then present one cohesive search results page. But SearxNG for me takes several seconds to get the results, and Kagi is almost instant.
I don’t know if it’s significantly better than the free options, but I like using it and it’s pretty cheap really.
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
As mentioned in the article, what it would take is a minimum of a billion dollars a year.
There isn’t a lot of market for a paid search engine. Kagi are trying, and have about 30,000 subscribers, but that’s a tiny drop in the bucket. If all those subscribers were on the unlimited plan ($10 a month), then they are bringing in 3.6 million in revenue a year.
If the search index itself costs a billion dollars to maintain, they also need to cover payment fees, support costs, and of course the cost of building and maintaining a website to actually access that search index.
If we wanted to fund it on donations, we need at least 1,000,000 people to donate $1,000 each per year.
Google had a great environment to start their search engine because the internet was small. Now you have an internet that’s more than half bot traffic and billions of websites generated by AI, on top of all the good stuff. Plus the expectation of real time search results, that Google didn’t have to deal with before web 2.0.
I am not convinced a new traditional search engine can compete. Any true competitor or successor to Google will probably have to do what they did: completely redefine search.
This is Lemmy so I’m gonna hit the screw with a hammer and suggest maybe some sort of federated search with an instance trust model that lets each instance take care of only a small part of the web but have a way of boosting results from more trustworthy instances.
Only on request though! The only reason this post is showing here is because they specifically tagged the !newzealand community. It works the same way between lemmy servers, our All feed has content from other instances, but only from communities that people on Lemmy.nz have subscribed to (with one little exception where we have a specific seeder account that is subscribed to a bunch of popular communities so we don’t miss out on popular stuff on other instances that no one has subscribed to).
Yes, this is a mastodon post where they have tagged the !newzealand community. It’s how they display in Lemmy. I’d like to think over time the integration could be refined so it didn’t show so… messy.
I have heard this can be hardest on those left behind. People feel a form of survivor’s guilt, while most of the ones that took the voluntary redundancy are happy to be going.
To my knowledge, the host issues were only yesterday. The problems over the week or more before that were probably not a problem with the host. But now those are solved I can get back to trying to solve the original issue 😅
Oh sorry, should have mentioned they have it hosted on proxmox and I have access to view the dashboard. I can see the resource usage you mentioned including history.
I have access to and full control over the proxmox container, but don’t have any specific monitoring outside of the logging.
Unfortunately neither the resource usage nor the logs have given away anything. Resource usage is often all over the place. CPU spikes are common and always have been, and whenever there is downtime it’s followed by a resource spike as federation catches up. Plus, federation is pretty random, especially when kbin fires a bunch of stuff at lemmy.world and messes everyone up.
Over the course of today I’ve done a lot of log reading, and I have identified one possible problem and made a tweak tonight. Time will tell if it helps.
Today was also particularly rocky as the host had various spots of downtime, mixed in with lemmy being down at times. I’ll keep monitoring tomorrow and see if it’s better, today was particularly bad.
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!
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).
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.
The federation doesn’t generally seem to be a problem, but many of the large instances do run inbound federation in a separate container.
My problem has been that I haven’t managed to narrow it down to a component, so splitting out the containers may not help me troubleshoot. It’s definitely on my list of things to try though, if I don’t manage to narrow it down.
Currently we have had a run of 5 hours with no outages! So we are doing much better than yesterday. But I suspect that’s probably just the host solving their issues.
I’ve been neck deep in Lemmy stuff recently and realised we don’t have a post that explains the different frontend options that are available on Lemmy.nz....
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?
So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It’s been some years....
Woolworths tells 79,000 they won a prize, then rescinds it (www.rnz.co.nz)
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....
Stratford-revered glockenspiel stops working (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13990064...
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 23/5/2024
Last weeks thread here...
Alternate frontends
I’ve been neck deep in Lemmy stuff recently and realised we don’t have a post that explains the different frontend options that are available on Lemmy.nz....