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Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.

Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.

Personally I don't like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.

It depends on exactly what you mean by independent.

I like https://rnz.co.nz/, but this is a government news source. It has editorial independence and doesn't have adverts so you know they aren't considering advertisors in their angles, but it is government owned, and has been threatened with having funding cut on occasion.

https://stuff.co.nz/ I believe is currently independently owned but it was owned by a big Aussie company until it wasn't doing well and the local CEO bought it for a token $1.

If you want a more Left leaning, non-mainstream source, then thespinoff.co.nz

There aren't many other sources I'd read, but others may chime in with others I've forgotten.

Its nice to think of us as a strong democracy but we have the same influences as the rest of the western world, so even if we have a nice voting system you could argue it's not a good democracy if everyone is manipulated by big tech and billionaires.

Edit: oh, I forgot to mention a lot of syndication happens, so it's common to see articles from one NZ news source on another news site.

There's a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:

In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.

Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider's web interface. No additional software is required.

So it's pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn't help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.

Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there's no validation that it's true.

Eradication is likely impossible, but there is still a lot that can be done to control populations. But it seems no one is even thinking about it yet (and it might need the "pest" label before anyone puts money into control).

I like the implication that the AI screening saw "vengeance" and decided they were worthy for short listing.

I like the implication that the interviewer saw it in the job application and decided to invite them to a formal interview before even mentioning it.

Ah, interesting. Thinking about it, do they have vanity plates? If so then all my arguments are invalid.

Currently there is a system. One number, three letters, three numbers. So no chance of mixing up certain characters. If you introduce a different system you will need to make sure you know what system is being used. With your plan you could get a plate that looks exactly like the old system except it's using 0 instead of O.

I suspect there is also a lot of benefit in knowing where numbers and letters will be for having more accurate plate recognition cameras.

The issue is probably that those I, O, Z, and Ss are already on plates since the system is different?

I first saw them in the Wellington Town Hall some 20+ years ago. Amazing show, Jon Toogood was hanging off the mezzanine playing guitar, after climbing up a stack of speakers. I agree, they really give it their all.

These guys have been everywhere my whole life. I seem to have missed the news they had decided to call it quits.

I know the fish album well, but I have some favorites from many of their other albums as well.

I was thinking a bunch of these would make good state houses. Their current pricing is based on negotiated prices, but if you said you were going to build 10,000 I'm sure they could reduce the cost some more using economies of scale.

With that said, the land is still expensive (and in many places still likely to cost as much as the house and possibly more). If we were gonna build in bulk, we would probably want to fit more houses in. Ultimately these are still standalone houses, and you could probably get a cheaper overall cost by building medium density two story terraced housing to really cut down on that land cost.

Through the middle of the day we are hitting the export cap most days, but we also try to turn on the dishwasher or charge the car at that time because it's better to use the power than sell to the grid and buy it back later.

We've only had it through the summer so I'm curious what the winter will be like.

We get 20c per KWh at a fixed rate, which is much better than some companies that do 10c or less or some don't pay you at all. We are with SolarEdge, a specialist electricity company that only work with people who have solar or other renewable power (e.g. wind). Apparently they can't do it in all areas, though.

All in all it will be interesting to pull out a spread sheet after a year and try to work out whether it's been financially worth it.

Yeah I am hoping the rush on EVs continues and the big bucks keep being put into battery research. I am really tempted to get a second battery, but then I remember the battery alone costs a good $10-15k depending on model., I reckon in 5 years or so when I'm hoping capacities have doubled (so getting one more will triple our current capacity).

It's hard watching the solar output get capped because the battery is full and you can only provide 5KW to the grid on single phase power systems.

An update, some of you might remember we had federation issues with Lemmy.world. For a long time now we have had a second server in Finland that Lemmy.world was pointed at, then that server would pass the activities in bulk to our Lemmy.nz server in NZ. This has worked for a long time to prevent a delay federating all the Lemmy.world content.

A recent version of Lemmy added a way to send activities in parallel. Lemmy.world has turned this on, and not long ago this morning have started sending the activities directly to the Lemmy.nz server again, bypassing the extra one.

Let me know if you see anything strange, but it does seem to be working from what I've seen monitoring it this morning.

I used to be like that on reddit. Coming here I decided I'd just say things that came to mind. If it doesn't resonate with people then they don't reply and no harm no foul, but very often it triggers replies and conversations. I think it's a great way to get value out of lemmy.

Wikipedia mentions the term "quirina", I wonder if that would be more familiar to them?