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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
#Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling

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strypey, to random
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Thatchet (n.): A blunt tool used to axe welfare benefits and close coal mines.

strypey, to meta
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It's a bit ranty towards the end, but there's some fascinating insights here into shifting sands of the ZuckerBorg's metrics, FarceBook enshittification, and so on:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/

strypey, to aotearoa
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"A new Bill... was introduced to Parliament in April 2024: the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill.

This Bill seeks to take us one step closer to creating a Right to Repair in New Zealand. It would do this by changing the Consumer Guarantees Act to require manufacturers to make spare parts and repair information available to consumers and to independent repairers so that we can get our belongings fixed if they break down."

https://www.repairnetworkaotearoa.org.nz/right-to-repair

strypey, to random
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Any suggestions on the best place for someone in Aotearoa to get a durable, USB-charged electric arc lighter (plasma lighter)?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a31133313/how-plasma-lighters-work/

I've seen them for sale in a Z station, and hell, I buy vegan pies there. But if there's a more ethical supplier, I'd much rather give them my business and have someone other than Z to send people if they want one too (same with the pies if anyone knows of any good vegan baking retailers in Waikato).

strypey,
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According to that Popular Mechanics article, they were a successful KickStarter project, which supplied backers with the goods, and as of 2021;

"...the company has opened its own shop and added a new pocket lighter...

... and there is a thriving, competitive market, with other companies marketing their own versions of the concept. This is exactly what crowdfunding was supposed to do; replace predatory Venture Capital with customers funding businesses they want to exist.

strypey,
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Me:
> I've seen them for sale in a Z station, and hell, I buy vegan pies there. But if there's a more ethical supplier...

@jomangee
> Supercheap Auto, Warehouse, Dick Smiths

Big box retail franchise corporations aren't quite what I had in mind ; )

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@jomangee
> I’ve seen them on Trade Me too

Right, but searching there is a bit like walking into a random greengrocer. Some of them have good quality veges cheaper than the supermarket. Others buy seconds and mark them up to supermarket prices. The best way to learn about a good one is from a satisfied customer, or someone who's spoken to one.

strypey, to random
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Once again, the fediverse article on Wikipedia has become a mess;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

Part of the problem is a lack of canonical history documents that would meet WP standards as sources, ie articles in an edited publiation, or papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Does anyone know of any? Anyone with a knowledge of the history, or time to do the research, have the capacity to get something published?

strypey, to TeslaMotors
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"Backed by billions of dollars in venture capital and established aerospace giants that include Boeing and Airbus, startups across the world such as Joby, Archer, Wisk and Lilium are spearheading this technological revolution, developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that could transform the way we travel."

#JameyJacob, 2024

https://theconversation.com/electric-air-taxis-are-on-the-way-quiet-evtols-may-be-flying-passengers-as-early-as-2025-228664

#EVTOL #EV #ElectricAviation

strypey,
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Just because it's what we're used to, there's no reason passenger air travel has to look like a train with wings and jet engines, whether it runs on kerosene, electric batteries, or something else. It's been fascinating hearing a bit about new, natively-electric passenger vehicle ideas like Seagliders (Wing-in-Ground effect vehicles) and eVTOL (electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing).

strypey, (edited ) to til
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that the NZ Grocery Commissioner gets paid $455,000 a year. That's $8750 a week. Lucky for some. Thanks to the Tova podcast for 23 May forv that little titbit.

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The NZ Official Information Act needs to be reformed so that it applies to anything that is funded by public money.

strypey, to Podcasts
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"I think [the government are] putting the money into the wrong areas. When you've got money that's taken off people that could be in their first home, and giving it to people that own multiple homes, there's a bit of an issue."

Vanessa, single Mum on Supported Living due to a spinal injury, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast/

#podcasts #Tova #NZPolitics

strypey,
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"I don't have a problem with tax breaks for people in business, whether that's running a business or being a landlord or whatever else, as long as the tax system across them is actually equitable."

Gavin, retired, adjunct academic, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast

(edited slightly to reflect intention stated in his comments)

strypey,
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"You've got ways in NZ at present in which you can generate income and not pay tax on it. I'm not going to advocate for a Capital Gains Tax, but I will advocate for a Capital Income Tax. In other words if somebody sells an asset, and they take the increase in [the value of] that asset] and use it for everyday expenditure as if it was an income stream, then that should be taxed."

Gavin, retired, adjunct academic, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast

strypey, to journalism
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What distinguished television from film as a medium, from its very early days, was live broadcasting. As time went on, and more and more TV shows were prerecorded, this was kind of forgotten. But until VHS came along and allowed audiences to timeshift both films and TV shows, television still retained that live event quality; be there or you missed it.

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strypey,
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Remember Telethons? Could the internet equivalent create that same sense of the whole country coming together to have fun and raise money for good causes?

The digital revolution has made timeshifting even easier. The proliferation of net-connected devices makes it even easier to have our own personalised broadcasting schedule. If television wants to survive as a medium, it needs to de-emphasize pre-recorded programming and lean into live broadcasting.

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strypey,
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So it's frustrating to see the current owners of TV3 doing the opposite. Warner Discovery have their roots in the production of films and TV shows, so it's not surprising to see them leaning into pre-recorded content. But a TV station that wants a future in the digital media age needs to be doing the opposite. The future of TV - if it has one - is live, and probably regionalised (Canterbury folks, remember The Mainland Touch?)

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strypey,
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I just reworked these ShowerThoughts about what makes television unique into a new Disintermedia article;

https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/a-future-for-television-in-aotearoa

#Disintermedia #TV #television #PublicMedia #NewsMedia

gsuberland, to random
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someone put a bunch of Ayrton Cobras (laser engine moving heads) near the lake at EMF and they're literally lighting up the clouds.

strypey,
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@gsuberland
> someone put a bunch of Ayrton Cobras (laser engine moving heads) near the lake at EMF and they're literally lighting up the clouds.

I'm intrigued but I'm struggling to parse this. What are...

> laser engine moving heads

... and why are they lighting up clouds?

What does EMF stand for in this context and where is it?

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The corporate wing of the Democrats has objectively terrible political instincts, because the corporate wing of the Dems wants things that are very unpopular with the electorate (this is a trait they share with the Republican establishment).

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/#nothing-would-fundamentally-change

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strypey,
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@MisterMoo
> the whole Gaza thing may be beside the point. Young voters rank it 15th on the list of issues facing the country

"The Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll surveyed 2,010 young Americans between 18- and 29 years old nationwide, and was conducted between March 14-21, 2024."

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024#key-takeaway--id--1567

In other words, this poll was done before the campus occupations and Biden's woeful response. Let's just say it may no longer reflect current attitudes among the surveyed group.

@pluralistic

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What the hell, where does the sudden #enshittification on #Startpage come from? There even are two additional "sponsored" entries on the bottom of the page, barely more results than ads. Doesn't get caught by µBlock Origin or another addon either.

Time to move to a better search provider. Probably a self-hosted one.

strypey,
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@Natanox
> I know a lot of engines, I'm tired of switching though once the one I'm using is becoming trash again.

Here's one advantage of a shared meta-search instance. The more people there are using it, the more anonymised the searches get, and the harder it is for the datafarms being searched to put you in a filter bubble.

> Just going to self-host

Which meta-search package? I know of Searx. Are there others?

@tokudan @MetaGer

strypey, to random
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"The Invidious docker image is only available on Quay because, unlike Docker Hub, Quay is Free and Open Source Software."

https://docs.invidious.io/installation/

strypey,
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Me:
> If you were starting from scratch today, would you use Docker?

@lightweight
> definitely

Docker Hub?

strypey, to random
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"Ocean Flyer, a business founded by former banker and Air Napier owner Shah Aslam​ and former New Zealand Air Force chief John Hamilton​, is among the earliest customers.

They have a $700m order for 25 seagliders that they plan to operate along New Zealand’s coast for about $30 to $60 one-way. Regent has about NZ$10 billion in orders from around the world."

#MelanieCarroll, 2022

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/129601892/ocean-flyer-promises-a-transport-revolution-but-perception-issues-remain

Sounds promising. Updates?

#seagliders #OceanFlyer #AirNapier #ShahAslam #JohnHamilton​

strypey,
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I'm a big fan of electric fast trains, even more since I experienced an 8 hour journey from Hong Kong to Shanghai by electric train. That's about the distance from Ōtepoti to Tamaki Makaurau. I love the idea of Aotearoa in 2050 having an electric train that goes between them in under 10 hours, with a tunnel under Te Moana o Raukawa (Cook Strait). But I've always wondered about the viability of making railways safe for fast trains in a mountainous, geologically active country like ours.

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strypey,
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"... that's the beauty of seagliders when you talk about electric aviation. People are a bit wary of flying 10-20,000 feet in the air with electric batteries. Whereas in our case we're only 10m above the water, and we're always above a runway. So in the absolute worst case, you can just glide back onto the water, send out a signal for a pickup."

#ShahAslam, CEO, Ocean Flyer

https://nz-tech-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/will-500km-h-e-seagliders-displace-ferries-and-planes

#podcasts #NZTech #seagliders

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