Dave @ Dave @lemmy.nz

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This is a typical government testing of the waters. They announce maybe they will do it, then see the public reaction to it. Now is a good time to react - perhaps with an email your local MP (or maybe to van Velden directly).

I don't think I've ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.

My Organic Maps doesn't have traffic (or doesn't for my area). I can't see anything about it online either, except discussions about how it could be implemented.

Where do you find the traffic info? Even if zoomed in to New York I see nothing.

Haha this is hilarious! I love it. Especially the reaction from the unnamed Herald staffer:

“I want you to know my available-for-publishing statement as an NZ Herald staffer is that the incident was ‘funny as fuck’.”

Hmm, it seems that with specifically the question type of multi choice, no comment, and other, it requires you put something in Other to even tick it. If you don't have something to say then just put in a dot or space or whatever, I don't think I can influence this, it's part of the software.

Vote privacy can be tricky in an environment where every vote gets sent to thousands of instances and needs to be verified as legit via the ActivityPub protocol.

Piefed does a good job of this I think. If vote privacy is enabled, they create a second account that is used only for votes. Other instances see the votes and can validate them against the vote account but it's not tied to the actual user (except in their home server database).

A benefit of this is that the vote account for the user is always the same, so you can still track vote manipulation, and ban the vote account if needed.

That seems somehow worse. People fill in the form and then it gets published as is on the website? Doesn't seem worth publishing as news or an opinion piece, I'm not even sure what kind of media that's supposed to be.

The question reminds me of this:

Ross: Why are you mad at me?

Phoebe: You said I was boring

Ross: When did I say you were boring?!

Phoebe: Oh my God, I remember now! We were playing chess!

Ross: Phoebe! You and I have never played chess!

Phoebe: Oh, come on! Yes, remember that time on the frozen lake? We were playing chess, you said I was boring, and then you took off your energy mask and you were Cameron Diaz! Okay, there's a chance this may have been a dream.

Interestingly, I love the Gnome workflow and could never get into KDE. I tried a KDE distro for a while but it was after I'd tried Gnome and it just didn't click for me.

Many of these things are down to the distro. So which one did you go with?

I didn't see you mention anywhere what you picked. Seems like Fedora or something Fedora based?

I hate to sound like I'm "blaming the victim" here, but something doesn't add up

I completely believe that she could be struggling on that income. I'm not blaming her I'm blaming the journalist for not realising (or caring) the numbers in their article don't add up.

I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, but I feel like this hardly counts as journalism. They have failed at telling the story.

Well I'm stumped! My guess is they guessed at what they spend and underestimated it.

I do wonder why the journalist didn't ask the question though, then we might have a real answer.

Yeah so some significant things not mentioned are rates and insurance, but they aren't going to fill that up.

My best guess is some sort of debt. Like credit card or hire purchases, but these would have to be super big to account for half of the in hand income.

Ah I didn't really see the drama, only brief bits of information from time to time.

The fediverse does feel like the next generation of the internet. There are a lot of obstacles but I do hope it continues to grow (at a sustainable pace).

I already considered kiwisaver and deducted tax using the IRD PAYE calculator. I also took a chunk out for rates though they don't say how much they are.

Private school would be an explanation for some of the extra.

I have no doubt a salary like that can disappear pretty quickly. But personally our biggest costs (after tax) are mortgage/rates and supermarket. Their expenses there seem really low which is why I'm curious what their big expenses are. They say they pinch every penny, which makes this so interesting to me.

I don't want to be that guy, but I'm struggling to understand this budget. After everything listed they should have about $40k a year left over?

Internet, power, phone plans must be less than $500 a month all up? Let's say $600ish or $7k a year.

What other big costs are there that will cost the remaining $33k a year?

I'm not trying to say they are wrong, these days I can understand that $113k a year with a kid is not exorbitant, but many of their expenses are less than I expected. I'm curious what big expenses there are that I haven't thought of?

Haha I just searched up this person using Google Drive as swap 😯

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/rrb7gk/you_cant_download_more_r/

I traced this back to a particular rogue website. But yeah I think GNOME uses more RAM anyway, then having everything containerised in Bazzite is extra RAM I'm sure. Then having like 5 chat apps, Steam Firefox, etc open was easily eating up my 16GB RAM. Of course more RAM means more is used because unused RAM is wasted RAM, so it's hard to judge one system against another.

Huh. I few weeks back I was in Hawera, and stopped at a park there. There was a tree absolutely swarming with what looked like monarchs. I managed to find a picture!

Now I know what it was!

That sounds like a performant way to run a system!