Dave

Dave, 11 months ago

Hmm, interesting! For it to show up, someone must have successfully introduced the community to kbin. Unfortunately I have not used kbin at all, so I can't help :(

Dave, 11 months ago

Self-host Lemmy (and a bunch of other stuff).

Read a book. Read another.

Learn an instrument. Youtube is helpful for this.

Start going to the gym, every day.

Dave, 11 months ago

We have some friendly neighbourhood birds that clear them out for us (mostly). We'll just wake up one morning and there is moss and decomposed leaves lying all over the place, it took years to work out where it was coming from. I presume there are bugs or something in there that they are looking for?

Dave, 11 months ago

One of the main devs said in the lemmy instance admin chat that they are planning on releasing it next week.

Dave, 11 months ago

I'm keen to hear more about the "strange ways it's been used in the US"!

Also, I'm wondering if the US has seen changes in how gangs structure themselves or loopholes to avoid this issue? What about abuse by the police (e.g. what's the level of proof needed to show you're the gang leader)?

Dave, 11 months ago

You commented on comparing to leaving it in the landfill, which creates methane. But if it mostly doesn't get into the atmosphere it's probably an argument for leaving it in the landfill.

I just went on a dive into the internet researching how methane capture works. I don't know why, but I kind of imagined it as a big tarpaulin over the whole thing or something. It turns out it's just a bunch of pipes into the ground that lets the methane seep into them. So I can imagine a lot still isn't captured.

Dave, 11 months ago

In addition, do we do methane capture at any landfills?

Dave, 11 months ago

Lemmy is not ready for primetime yet. There is no way that 400 million reddit users can move here, when the biggest servers struggle with tens of thousands, and the total users active on Lemmy in the last month is around 30,000 (up from 1,000 a couple of weeks ago).

Not to mention that Lemmy is really not general-population-ready. Explaining it is a bit of a mouthful, but manageable. What's not manageable for most users is things like:

• Most people have no idea how to start. The join-lemmy site just points you at a massive list of instances and hopes you know what you're doing
• if you're reading a post on another instance and someone links to a community, the link won't work and you'll have to copy/paste the URL into your own instance.
• Hot/Active don't work because of a bug in refreshing them
• The post you're reading can suddenly change, especially if you have two tabs open with different posts
• If you want to subscribe to a community but no one on your instance has searched for it before, the search will show "No results" - but then suddenly have results if you wait 10 seconds (or sometimes never show it until you refresh)
• Posts just appear at the top of the list, and worse, pop up as a notification. Great when there were only 1000 users but now the All page just gets notification after notification and the feed keeps moving
• The right combination of events means that a community can just disappear
• The search form doesn't let you change between Subscribed/Local/All unless you search for something first
• Moderation is still a problem. One of the big instances is wholesale blocking dozens of instances, including some big ones, because they can't handle the moderation. When it comes to moderation, I suspect most of the big instances are just...not.

This is just off the top of my head. Lemmy is great because we are building a new community, but the polish will come with time. We need to slowly and organically grow the community (lemmy.nz as well as the "Lemmyverse"), so issues can be worked out. Luckily places like this tend to attract a more technical audience as they are more willing to put up with bugs, and because Lemmy is open source many of these people can help write code for bug fixes and new features. The number of people helping has gone up significantly in just the last two weeks.

So what I'm getting at is if people are unhappy with the actions of the reddit board, they are (probably) welcome here. But we do not need a significant number of new users overnight - that's only going to end in disappointment for everyone involved.

Dave, 11 months ago

I was thinking the same thing! I mean I guess if you think about it. There must be 10,000 or more people licenced to do the inspections (maybe 20,000, I dunno, can't seem to find any numbers). It's not that unthinkable that one a year gets caught breaking the terms of their licence, and when that happens it makes sense that they can't trust the inspections that they've done.

I guess it's no different to people losing their drivers licence, it's just that the impact is wider.

Dave, 11 months ago

This article from last year says "Israel has intensified strikes on Syria’s airports on the grounds that it wants to disrupt Tehran’s increasing use of aerial supply routes to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon, including Hezbollah, regional diplomatic and intelligence sources told Reuters."

I think the RNZ article was this one from January? In searching, it seems Israel is regularly attacking this airport, and it sounds like they are doing it to try to disrupt the Iranian supply lines bringing military supplies to Syria. In addition to my first link from September and the RNZ one from January, there's also this one from last June.

Dave, 11 months ago

It's not even a useful quote. It adds nothing.

Dave, 11 months ago

The article talks about all the experts needed to get the sturdy bridge down and how difficult it was, but the video just kind of looks like the excavator pulls an emergency release pin and the bridge collapses 😆

It seems a bit shit that the bridge was damaged in March last year and was closed to heavy vehicles because of the risk, then it wasn't until another storm nearly collapsed it that they considered replacing it. I feel like the new bridge construction should have been underway by now. I guess councils only have so much money to go around.

Dave, 11 months ago

I'm also not on iOS but have heard people talk about a new one Memmy.

Hopefully the instructions here are enough because it's not one the app store yet: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

Dave, 11 months ago

Looking at this issue, at a glance it looks like videos may not yet be supported regardless of size.

But yes, having embedded videos would be great. I think this is a polish thing that will be added over time as more critical things get resolved. If Lemmy continues to grow, that will also attract more help from developers as well so development may move faster.

Dave, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

There's only a small size limit (Here it's set to 5MB). I know the error message doesn't tell you that's the issue, but I don't think your error message is what I've seem. Maybe you can't upload videos? Or maybe it failed because it's too big, and the error is because something else failed because the file didn't upload.

In any case, it's encouraged to use a video website rather than uploading it as it could get heavy for the server to store and send to users (if for example someone on lemmy.world views a post on lemmy.nz, the post text is mirrored on lemmy.world but the media comes directly from lemmy.nz).

You might consider YouTube or similar, though I think more traditionally for Fediverse sites you'd use Peertube. Perhaps you could consider https://peertube.nz

Dave, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Most of the time people are probably making assumptions that may not be true. However, I think a new house counts. While borrowing is cheap, more new houses are built, and the competition for land for new houses pushes up prices. So it's possible it has skme impact, but it really depends on how exactly NZ (Stats NZ?) counts it. I would expect the land value to not be included but maybe it is, I haven't managed to find a list of what is and isn't included in GDP.

Rising housing costs are counted in inflation numbers, though.

Edit: you may be right about capital gains, it means more spending money for the sellers (and the buyers pay with debt so the drop on that side is delayed)

Dave, 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure the sale of an existing house is not counted in GDP, which is the vast majority. This is because no goods were produced and the house itself is not a service.

However, the lawyer and real estate agent fees I think are counted, as well as e.g. paying for a builder's report, registered valuation, etc.

I'm not certain on new houses, but I expect they would be included. So this could impact GDP, but it's probably minimal since most house sales are not of new builds, and also I believe new build values haven't fallen as much as others (since investor rules are different, and also the price to build sets a minimum sale value).

Dave, 11 months ago

Totally! It looks a lot like the Orange Guy now!

Dave, 11 months ago

It might be worth searching github for the issue, to see if it's been reported. There might even be more info in the issues as well.

Note that Lemmy has more than one Github repository, notably the Lemmy and Lemmy-UI ones that cover the server and website.

Dave, 11 months ago

It's there for me. But the communities are listed with their display names. So if I search just Communities for "piracy", I see it there. But it's not listed as " piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but as "Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com"

Dave, 11 months ago

I have considered this, grabbing posts that hit a certain threshold. You'd want it in it's own community so people could choose to subscribe. However, I haven't actually seen a ready to go bot for this.

Dave, 11 months ago

If it's the title and a link to the reddit post then it's just the title. Given titles are not all that long, it's very unlikely to meet the threshold required for copyright.

Dave, 11 months ago

Yeah, I'd think you could get pretty good coverage though. Reddit has millions of subreddits, so I think you'd add the ones you want manually. But if you're just looking for top posts, you probably don't need to check too frequently. Every 30 mins or hour seems like plenty often enough.

I'm not familiar with reddit's API, but I would expect requesting one page of the top posts for a subreddit to be one API call. You could do 3,000 subreddits refreshing once every 30 minutes.

Dave, 11 months ago

A separate community may still pollute the "Local" feed. But there's no reason it couldn't be it's own instance. You could take the top posts from various subs on reddit and post them in a matching community on the instance.

In fact, this bot exists, there's no reason for this to be NZ specific, are we sure such an instance doesn't already exist?

Dave, 11 months ago

Nice, I had searched but hadn't found that. Give it a test, and if you have questions try in the lemmy.nz chat. There are some pretty technical people hanging out there.