Yeah for sure! Hearing the story, I wonder if this happens all the time. It’s sounds like some new astronaut mentioned they will miss their morning spread and NASA just tells them no problem they will sort it. If the requirements are basically that you package in a tube then I can’t imagine many companies saying no to a little bit of awkward packaging in return for a massive publicity boost.
“We watch Bluey every week as a family, and I tell you, when Bandit sat Bluey down to explain to her that what she saw was just him and Mum doing something the therapist made them promise they’d do every Sunday night at precisely 7:30 p.m., I teared up,”
Lemmy has a system whereby admins talk to each other and share details of ban evaders, but different instances decide what is a bannable offence and not all of the 1000+ instances are involved.
International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers....
I’ve also just noticed the study with poor results is for 2020/2021, where as the better results test was in 2022.
At young ages, brain development is a key factor for academic skills. Maybe we fell behind during covid because of our heavy handed lockdowns compared to other countries, but then kids quickly caught back up to the level they were capable of based on their brain development.
So what this shows us is that education is complicated
I feel this could be applied to pretty much anything that politics argues over.
I’ve heard some people take the approach of “merge everything”. Whatever people contribute, merge it. People like to feel like their time is valuable, and that their work is valued.
You can follow up the merge with polish or tweaks but if you merge contributions you’re more likely to see more.
😆 I don’t think you’re supposed to take it literally. And it’s advice for everyone’s pet open source projects that no one else ever seems to contribute to, not really good advice for software that holds up civilization.
Oh for sure. I don’t think this advice applies to projects that already have a following. But many, perhaps most, projects don’t have much of a following even if you intended for others to use it. If you have a pet project that a reasonably small number of users, you might find you get occasional pull requests but they never meet the code standards, or you ask for changes but they never happen and the pull request sits there, or you reject them because you wouldn’t have structured it like that - well consider accepting the pull request and merging as is. Then you can follow up with changes to fix code quality with your own changes.
This approach shows you appreciate the contribution, even though it’s not perfect. If you find the same person contributing often but making the same errors, then for sure mention it in a way that’s easy for them to understand how to resolve it. But if you’re rigid then you probably won’t get so many contributions as people will think they aren’t up to your standards.
I’d also argue that merging then fixing up yourself later would be more time efficient than reviewing code and providing feedback on changes to be made 😆
Pretty sure MPs across the spectrum have these interactions. Not sure if it’s the stress, the type of person that volunteers for the job, or just that some percent of the population is like this and MPs aren’t special.
We should pick MPs like we pick a Jury. People are randomly selected, some limited ability to challenge a selected person if they would be terrible, people serve their term but never again.
I’m not serious, but the more I wrote it the more I started to convince myself…
but I could see a big loophole if you couldn’t be touched for effectively picking up and amplifying the original claim with some qualifying words around it.
I think there’s a huge difference between an article stating “John Smith a fraudster” and then backing it up by using Winston as a source (which is what I believe your quoted part is for), vs an article that says “In parliament on Wednesday NZ First Leader Winston Peters called John Smith a fraudster”. RNZ aren’t actually claiming the things that Winston said, so in my view there would be no case against them, but now I think about it RNZ probably got a cease and desist and didn’t think it was worth fighting over (which it’s not).
This bit is interesting (about what defamation is):
where no defence (usually truth, opinion, or qualified privilege) is available
So even if it was said outside of parliamentary privilege, Winston could just say it’s his opinion. But the media could get in trouble for reporting he said it because it’s not their opinion!
I’m sure it’s structured this way for a reason, after all, rules are written in blood, but to an outsider it seems like it would prevent a lot of political news being published!
Now how come they can print that Julie Anne Genter yelled at a florist? They only have the florist’s word. Its that enough to prove truth? We only have Winston’s word about the other guy.
Yeah it’s interesting stuff. On one hand the media needs to have a high level of scrutiny so we can trust it. On the other hand we are getting a biased view because some are blocking articles while others aren’t.
Hi. So when I’m watching a tv show or movie, and it hits me in the feels, I will think something like “Oh, this movie is wholesome, or this tv show is wholesome” Even if it has swearing in it, as long as the message is a good one. I’ve been on Lemmy now a couple days, and I rate lemmy super-duper wholesome. Maybe it was...
Kohuora, Auckland South Corrections Facility opened in May 2015 and holds up to 960 sentenced male prisoners. Kohuora is operated by Serco under a 25 year agreement with the Department of Corrections.
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....
Before Kagi I was running self hosted Searx (technically searxng as it keeps getting forked) which is a search aggregator. It runs the same search over multiple engines then lists the results based on which ones come up the most often. I like Searx but it’s slow (takes a few seconds to retrieve all results from search engines and build the page). Kagi does the same but is very fast.
I’m not sure the search results are generally better with Kagi but it does have some great features. E.g. you can block, lower, raise, or pin certain sites. So I block all the Pinterest domains so they don’t show up in results, and I pin Wikipedia so if it’s in the results it’s always at the top.
Raise and lower just bump up or down that site’s importance.
There are also some AI things like summarising pages and one I recently discovered is you can type in a question and get a chatGPT-like response (but it’s not using chatGPT).
I think the main reason I use it is not that it’s better but that I like to support projects that are trying to do things different, I want a world to exist where a search engine can sustain itself without ads (since I’m gonna block them anyway). I’m lucky that the cost isn’t an issue for me, so I see this as a way to support the goal.
If you want to test it out, you can sign up for 100 free searches (and can then also have a look around all the customisation options), but if you’re already a pretty skilled searcher I wouldn’t expect it to be significantly better.
They have lenses, which is a way of searching under specific categories (For example, “Recipes” or “Programming”). But this is kinda the opposite, it’s not grouping results by category but rather filtering by category.
You could check out searxng as well. I ran it on a server but it’s the kind of thing you could probably run locally on your laptop (and perhaps that would be best, so you can always access it without running a service for the world). I haven’t tried it, but you could probably do it using Docker Desktop. It should all be pretty light weight and run on pretty much anything. Could be a fun project!
Still there, last I checked. Doesn’t seem to be getting any bigger, though. I feel a little not like the lady in the Roald Dahl book Esio Trot thinking her tortoise is growing too slow.
Sorry it takes 4 days to get a response to you! It’s not really lemmy.world’s fault, lemmy has a bug (more like a design problem) that means servers can only send one federation activity (post, comment, or vote) at a time. It has to wait for a response before sending the next one. Because their server is on the other side of the world to ours (plus some other technical reasons), we can only receive around 4 or 5 activities per second. Unfortunately they have gone over that threshold, it’s so big they are creating more activities than we can receive. There are other servers in our area having the same issue, auzzie.zone is over 5 days behind! There are various people working on various things to help this, but it’s all taking time.
So as for accounts, they only exist on one instance. A bit like an email address where dave@gmail.com would be different to dave@outlook.com. However, the last lemmy update added the ability to export your settings (found on your settings page on the website). So now you can create a new account on another instance and move all your settings over, including the communities you follow, but this isn’t quite the same as moving your account. For example, you’ll have to log in to the lemmy.world account to see any replies to comments you made on that account. Nothing is “forwarded” to your new account (Mastodon actually has something along these lines, but Lemmy doesn’t yet).
There are many people on this instance who use multiple accounts. Because how the federation works in lemmy, different instances see different posts in the Local feed (only communities hosted on that instance) and the All feed. This is because the All feed is posts from all the communities that the members of your instance are subscribed to. Different instances have different members with different subscriptions and so you’ll see different content. So many people like to have a few different accounts and switch between them,
Lemmy.world is so massive it would be interesting to hear what other instances are like in comparison! On lemmy.nz our Local feed is mostly posts in the newzealand or politics communities, with occasional regional posts. All has a lot more content, but at the moment we are missing lemmy.world posts for the most part. Because of a special prefetching that’s set up to try to help with the issue, we get them straight away but with no votes on them. We can’t prefetch the votes so they take 3 days to come across, by which point the posts are all three days old. So the Hot posts never have lemmy.world content at the moment because they have no votes on them.
There are plenty of other instances too. At this point most instances are up to date with both lemmy.world and us, just the handful that are having problems. You can actually check which ones are having issues - here’s lemmy.world’s status. Lemmy federates with lots of other platforms so many are mastodon, kbin, or others, but you can have a look for an instance and check how it’s doing by putting it into that site.
I guess the other thing to know is that different sites de-federate from each other. For example, beehaw.org is a nice, big, friendly instance, but they defederated from lemmy.world because Beehaw are strict moderators and have a vision for their site and lemmy.world was too big, too many users from lemmy.world causing issues on beehaw. Some instances don’t defederate from anyone, but that can be a bit crazy too. Most of the larger instances would be fine to join, though.
Accounts are also free, so just pick any and if you don’t like it try another! Most will have registration applications turned on though (so you can’t use your new account until you’ve been approved), as spam is becoming quite a problem and reviewing each new user is an easy way to avoid being the instance spambots like to use. But I’m sure you’re patient enough, most instance will approve new users so long as the follow the instructions.
Happy to answer questions but I know it’s going to take 3 or 4 days before I see your response so maybe pick an instance and sign up, then come back here and ask your questions with your new account 😆
Fix & Fogg nut butter launched into space (www.rnz.co.nz)
One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before....
‘Bluey’ Praised For Tackling Difficult Subject Of Walking In On Parents During Their Scheduled Weekly Sex (www.theonion.com)
“We watch Bluey every week as a family, and I tell you, when Bandit sat Bluey down to explain to her that what she saw was just him and Mum doing something the therapist made them promise they’d do every Sunday night at precisely 7:30 p.m., I teared up,”
How does lemmy deal with ban evasion?
How bad at reading are New Zealand children? [not that bad] (www.rnz.co.nz)
International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers....
it is what it is (lemmy.world)
2 May 2024Julie Anne Genter: Greens had 'no prior knowledge' of fresh complaint against MP (www.rnz.co.nz)
Man, Wellington shop owners must dread seeing a green MP walk in the door at this point.
Winston Peters accused of 'entirely defamatory' remarks about ex-Australian minister (www.rnz.co.nz)
Lol. Q3 here sets out what he (edit: allegedly) said (anything said in the House is protected by Parliamentary privilege)...
My rating of Lemmy
Hi. So when I’m watching a tv show or movie, and it hits me in the feels, I will think something like “Oh, this movie is wholesome, or this tv show is wholesome” Even if it has swearing in it, as long as the message is a good one. I’ve been on Lemmy now a couple days, and I rate lemmy super-duper wholesome. Maybe it was...
Over $300K spent on slushy syrup and maintaining machines for prison staff (www.rnz.co.nz)
Corrections has spent over $305,000 on slushy syrup and maintaining frozen ice machines in the past six years....
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....
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