Efeso Collins died today. This quote is from his maiden speech in parliament
"It's hard to be poor, it's expensive to be poor, and moreover, public discourse is making it socially unacceptable to be poor. Whether it's bashing on beneficiaries, dragging our feet towards a living wage, throwing shade on school breakfast programmes, or restricting people's ability to collectively bargain for fairer working conditions, we must do better to lift aspirations and the lived realities of all our people. To that end, | want to say to this House with complete surety that the neoliberal experiment of the 1980s has failed. The economics of creating unemployment to manage inflation is farcical when domestic inflation in New Zealand has been driven by big corporates making excessive profits. It's time to draw a line in the sand, and alongside my colleagues here in Te Pati Kakariki, we've come as the pallbearers of neoliberalism, to bury these shallow, insufferable ideas once and for all. And this, sir, is our act of love."
Please be safe in the water this summer
Swimmers are being urged to follow safety advice at the beach, after lifeguards performed 13 rescues and 10 assists on Christmas Day alone.
Swim between the flags, people!
What ever happened to the $2 billion that was poured into mental healthcare?
Over almost half a decade, an historic $2b was poured into mental healthcare. What has it actually achieved?
The Gathering was really the spark that make the dance music scene take off in NZ. By around 2000 there were events happening all over the country and there was less need to trek to the middle of nowhere for a festival. The initial enthusiasm and idealism that energised the early days started to fade so money was needed then suddenly it's a much harder game.
National plans to gut Kainga Ora
Bishop is yet to reveal the social housing policy the party will take to the election, but when asked if there will be job losses at Kāinga Ora he said "hope so".
The National Party is promising to axe swathes of jobs and “clean out” Kāinga Ora, the Government’s social housing landlord and developer.
When asked if there will be job losses at the agency, he said: “Hope so”.
Kāinga Ora was set up four years ago, and derailing it now would be “stupid”, Bill McKay, a senior lecturer in architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, explained.
Part 2 is available now: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018902908/crown-vs-cow-part-two-how-agriculture-and-government-fell-out-and-the-climate-lost
God, this stuff is complex!
Pretty terrible how at the end it is revealed that the govt and industry had completely different ideas about the goal of the partnership, all along.
Is NZ too small to make a difference on climate change?
Attached: 1 video Now the climate crisis is self-evident, a common argument by those who STILL defend polluters is that “NZ is too small to make a difference, and so shouldn’t have to stop intensive dairy farming or driving Ford rangers to school in Auckland” Rod Carr destroys it in this mic-drop ...
Now the climate crisis is self-evident, a common argument by those who STILL defend polluters is that “NZ is too small to make a difference, and so shouldn’t have to stop intensive dairy farming or driving Ford rangers to school in Auckland”
Rod Carr destroys it in this mic-drop moment.
How NZ got played by NZ Herald
“The central issue the story raises is one of media responsibility. Why was there no rush to demand that the people who kicked it off justify their angle, their selection of voices, and their framing?” — Connie Buchanan.
News stories don’t just pre-exist somewhere out there, walking around intact and whole, waiting for an equal chance to step through the door of a media outlet and into the public arena.
They exist in tiny bits and pieces, among heaps of junk and distortions and agendas — and the bits are selected, assessed, ranked, and assembled, according to the rigour and professionalism, or the whim and worldview, of the journalists and outlets involved.
Barry Soper chose to construct a pretty ugly beast out of their scraps. The Herald chose to parade it. Then they stepped back and let everyone else feed it, until the whole thing became something big and real-seeming enough to cause genuine uncertainty and fear, and to prompt genuine attempts to do the proper journalistic work of understanding what this new health initiative is all about.
This isn't the end of reddit's enshittification process. They're just getting started.
I tried last week and gave up as the docs were no good. But since then they've been updated and are now quite comprehensive!
Have you looked at this? https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki#admin-guide
Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.
Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.
Misleading headline.
Maximum penalties are only used for the worst possible cases. As far as "fraud" goes, this seems super tame.
This seems ok to me. Over time you might come to regret it if you have many scripts and they want to use different package versions...
Another approach could be to write a shell script which loads the virtual environment and then starts the main script. something like
cd /home/rimu/path_to_my_script/
source venv/bin/activate
python myscript.py
Put your shell script in ~/bin and ensure that ~/bin is in your $PATH.
Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.
But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.
I've read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they're mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.
Yeah 0.1% would be within some sort of margin of error, surely.
80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:
./configure
make
make install
It's the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.
Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.
If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn't attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.
Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren't.
Lemmy Fediverse Browser (Lemmyverse)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.tgxn.net/post/11707
> I made this website to crawl and display Lemmy instances since the existing ones were lacking certain filtering and search options. > > I have licensed it as MIT and the code is on https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer > > Let me know if there's any issues, and create a GitHub issue if you want some features :D
Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.
It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.
One of the big weaknesses of Mastodon is it does a poor job of showing replies to posts, if you're on a small server. A lot of replies don't get federated, so you won't see them. It's rubbish. I spent weeks trying other software until I found one that proactively goes to the original server and retrieves replies on the fly, when you view the thread. It is called 'Akkoma' and it is fantastic.
https://mycrowd.ca/ is the Akkoma instance that I settled on.
Another major limitation of Mastodon is all replies are shown in a single long list, unlike lemmy. For this reason I quite like Friendica. Friendica has a UI that is reminiscent of Facebook. https://venera.social/ is a good instance. However now that Lemmy/Kbin is blowing up I feel less need for it.
Only to agitate for the indefinite blackout https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/
There is only one admin and it is also the only kbin developer.
Kbin is not ready, I'm sad to say.
There are hardly any experienced Rust developers. It's going to be a big problem.