I'm still not feeling the best, but back at work today anyway (well, not at work, but working).
Also got an interesting spam message by a bot trying to register for an account here:
The question is "Where are you from", so they missed the mark a bit. The day before there was a registration application from a person, they read the instructions, answered the question, waited to be approved, then when they got approved they posted a spam URL and were immediately banned by the automod. Imagine all that hard work undone in a second.
Yeah it's been a life saver. It's only been running for a couple of months, I set it up when there was a massive whole-of-fediverse spam wave happening all sharing the same URL. Thousands of spam posts and most of them could be automatically removed before anyone saw them! One down side (and arguably up-side) of the fediverse is that if the home instance of the user doesn't ban them then every other instance has to ban them individually. Automods help to ease this burden, but each instance has to set up an automod and maintain their own rules.
I expect over time we will probably see more lemmy compatible tools to help, since Lemmy is still in the early days.
I’ve signed up for Lemmy.nz after the huge delays to my comments via Lemmy.world. Had better think of something to comment about now. Will definitely comment once I get my hearing aids on Monday.
We headed to Ohakune for a weekend escape with the kids. Took them for Trout Fishing Lessons at the Tongariro National Trout Centre then did a few tramps etc... was a good weekend.
Sounds like fun! What do trout fishing lessons look like?
When I was younger we would go trout fishing on a charter boat, the captain would put lures on downriggers, we'd chill out until there was one on the line, then pull it in. In hindsight this feel a bit like the UK's pheasant shooting where you stand with a gun and wait for people to bring the birds to you 😆
I'm guessing the trout fishing lessons are more along the lines of fishing in a river?
More like young kids standing with a adult around a man made pool haha getting taught how to swing the rod back and forth and basically waiting for a bite from one of the 4000 adolescent fish in the pool. Then slowly reeling them in and netting them.
I've been online gaming recently and I keep running into this feeling that Oceanic internet is so dead. When I go to european based communities they have heaps of groups of people wanting to play all different types of games. Same for America but here we have small groups of people who play the 5 most popular games and nothing else. Maybe I just do what ever 30 year old Kiwi man does and get a shed full of tools and half finish a bunch of diy projects.
I suspect it's because Europe and the US have far more people! And of course if there aren't many people, then others don't join because there's never anyone online, and it's a compounding problem.
Maybe play games that don't rely on ping so much, so you can play with the Europeans and Americans?
I do play games with Europeans but they are mega autistic and sound weird. Americans are more normal to play with but don't compare to aussie nz banter.
I did a trip up to Waihi beach over the "long weekend", leaving Wed. My car blew a head gasket just north of Taihape, and we ended up getting a rental and towing my trailer the rest of the way, which meant we arrived early the next day. I did two trips up the coast, and the third day was spent playing in the surf.
Now I need to work out the most cost effective way to get my car back home, and sell it.
Here's the GPS tracks and a few photos from the trip.
That's the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it's a slightly different game to board surfing as we're catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.
I think that's the inside of my pocket, I didn't notice that photo was in there.
Like some kind of masochist, I volunteered to head in about 90 minutes early, park at Clevedon, and ride to meet them at the top. I was only about five minutes short of actually beating them to the top, which I'm pretty proud of. That climb is hard.
A bit of a long shot, but can anyone recommend a battery powered inverter that uses pure sine wave, that isn't painfully expensive?
I'm trying to power some outdoor festoon lighting that uses LED bulbs, the original plan was to use the Ryobi battery topper so I could use my existing batteries. But after a little research I found out it uses modified sine wave, which apparently isn't great for LED lighting (runs inefficiently and generates more heat, thus reducing lifespan). Not sure if my search skills are lacking or is really nothing in that range
I can't be of any help but those Ryobi ones look quite interesting. Didn't know they existed. Though at 150W, you'd be constantly changing out batteries!
Does your lighting plus straight an AC wall outlet?
I guess it would depend on what you’re using it for, the max is 150W. Seems like a good way to utilise their batteries as power banks in an emergency, especially if you’re already in their ecosystem. They do have up to 9ah batteries. I have multiple 4ah batteries which I believed should have run the lights for a few hours, if only it was suitable
Just testing out a system to try to catch us up to Lemmy.world, which seems to be working! You might see a bunch of notifications for comment replies coming through as they get synced across.
If this works well I'll post a post to explain a bit more about it, but as always I'm also happy to answer questions!
Also let me know if something seems broken or missing.