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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who's idea was it to have busses replace trains on the weekend when RailEx is on 🤦

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The others I'm aware of (that still seem to get updates) are Stunt Rally and TORCS.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone else usually have DNS ad blocking but suddenly the Metservice app is full of ads?

Just normal Google ones. Did they change something or is something broken on my end?

Edit: I seemed to have solved it by disabling Private DNS on my phone. Not sure why it was working until now.

 

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha does that actually work? I would think you'd see them in quite different places, and depending on the time of day you might not see a dog very often at all!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago

It depends specifically on the registrar as to whether there is an option to hide those details.

However, many places offer domain privacy services, where they put in their addresses and forward on any contact. Such as https://www.namecheap.com/security/what-is-domain-privacy-definition/

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 4 days ago

I don't think anyone really knows. It's the single person issue, that Ernest was the only person to have access to do anything. It seems something is personally wrong for him, maybe unwell, maybe something else, but no one hears from him for months. The flagship kbin instance run by Ernest, https://kbin.social/, has had an error and hasn't worked for months.

To my knowledge, this is the last anyone has heard from him:

I have been away from home for a long time now and do not have all accesses. I will try to restore access in the coming days. The care of the instance will also be handed over.

That was 5 months ago.

It's clear something is very wrong, but because Ernest is the only one with access that means no one can help. Mbin forked Kbin and have been actively developing Mbin. Many, if not most of the sites called "kbin" are now running Mbin.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Register your own domain! Pick a paid email service that supports it and then you never have trouble moving to a new provider again.

If you get an email provider that does a catchall then you can just make up emails on the spot and any email to any address on your domain will pop into your inbox.

I get simplelogin with Proton and I love that too, generate new email addresses that can't be tied to you but all go to your one inbox.

BTW your concerns with Proton are valid and it can be annoying not being able to use an alternate app for mobile.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yip, Sublinks.

I'm not sure how far along they are, I don't think I've seen a sublinks instance in the wild. Their demo seems to be running the Lemmy frontend still, if I'm understanding things right. But it's basically a community project to build lemmy but in java instead of rust and they have a lot more moderation tools. It's what Beehaw are planning to migrate to, but I think it might not be ready yet.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Kbin is dead, Mbin is good but different to Lemmy. Also see PieFed and Sublinks.

The wonderful thing about federated services is that you can have fun with all the users on Lemmy and see all the content but not have to actually use the Lemmy software. You can even follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon and interact with posts from there (just in a Mastodon way).

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For me it was displayed in an info box underneath the form that was linked by the above user. It might depend on region or some other factor, but as per the other comment it is best to use the form as the email can have a slow response.

screen show of page showing support email address

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh I didn't realise this! I'll have to investigate more. Even if you want proxying, it makes way more sense to use the proxy image functionality that actually deletes the images after a period of time.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I'm quite excited about it 😆

Edit: seems like it's been an option since 0.19.0!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

First, don't stress over it. Most instances are not strict on only federating with guaranteed instances. Most do not auto-sync with Fediseer at all, and the ones that do are more likely to only be syncing censures (when other instances are reporting the instance as problematic).

To get guaranteed on Fediseer, you need another instance to guarantee you. If you start your instance, hang out in the spam defense chat, and are generally sensible with your instance, then you'll find someone willing to do it no problem. Guarantees are not a huge risk to an instance since they can also be revoked at any time. If someone guarantees you then you start being a dick, they can just remove your guarantee. So it's not a big decision, people wil be happy to guarantee someone who seems reasonable.

 

An investigative journalist who was barred from attending the national apology to survivors of abuse in care has now been granted accreditation.

Parliament's speaker has now granted temporary Press Gallery accreditation to journalist Aaron Smale for Tuesday's apology for abuse in care. He must, however, be accompanied by a Newsroom reporter at all times.

Last week, speaker Gerry Brownlee declined an application from Newsroom for Smale to report on the apology.

Parliament's Press Gallery gallery had asked for an explanation, as a refusal was quite rare, especially when a reporter met the gallery's criteria for accreditation.

It was told the application was declined, with the speaker citing Smale's conduct on a prior occasion.

On Monday afternoon, the press gallery wrote to the speaker, requesting a more fulsome explanation.

In an about-turn, the speaker approved the application.

At a media conference at Parliament in July, Smale and the Prime Minister had an exchange over the government's law and order policies, and whether the Prime Minister would acknowledge the link between abuse and gang membership.

According to Newsroom, Smale had also attended a media event at a youth justice facility in Palmerston North, and pressed children's minister Karen Chhour over whether it had been appropriate to associate the memory of the Māori Battalion with the new youth justice programme.

"The Beehive was in touch with us to say they believed he had been too forceful and too rude, in their view, in those two occasions," Newsroom's co-editor Tim Murphy told Nine to Noon.

Murphy said that Smale had conceded he had pushed the children's minister a bit far.

"But the one in Parliament, he was asking specific questions and kept asking them of the Prime Minister and I think that became irritating to the Prime Minister," Murphy said.

Describing Smale as "the most informed, possibly, probably of all New Zealand journalists" on the issue of abuse in state care institutions, Murphy said political discomfort should not be a reason to exclude Smale, and the ban should not stand.

"As a society that values the role of the fourth estate, we should value the work of journalists like Aaron, because it helps us take a critical look at where we have gone wrong and how we may move forward," said the Greens' media and communications spokesperson Hūhana Lyndon.

"Barring a leading journalist from an important event like this speaks to this Government's lack of accountability. It is something we might expect in Putin's Russia, not 21st century Aotearoa New Zealand."

 

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24799790

Dunedin Airport CEO Daniel De Bono weighed in on the topic in an interview with New Zealand’s RNZ radio. Describing airports as “hotbeds of emotion,” he pointed to a study suggesting a 20-second hug is enough to get a burst of the “love hormone” oxytocin and argued that moving customers along quickly allows more people to get more hugs.

 

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Submissions on tolling the replacement gorge road have now closed, but Woodville residents are refusing to give up fighting.

Under the current proposal, those driving between Palmerston North and Woodville in a light vehicle could pay $4.30 per trip, $8.60 for a return - and up to $17.20 for heavy vehicles.

The former State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge closed in 2017 due to rockfall.

 

Companies and shareholders associated with 12 fast-track projects gave more than $500,000 in political donations to National, Act and New Zealand First and their candidates, RNZ analysis shows.

The projects include a quarry extension into conservation land and a development whose owner was publicly supported by National MPs during a legal battle with Kāinga Ora.

University of Otago legal expert Professor Andrew Geddis said the Cabinet Manual doesn't cover whether receiving a donation is a conflict of interest.

In a political system where a lot of the money used for campaigning comes from private sources, it would be difficult to bar parties from being involved in decisions which impact donors.

"The unions give lots of money to the Labour Party. If that was then to mean that the Labour Party couldn't pass workplace relations legislation that impacts on unions, it would take a huge policy issue just out of play."

If this was the rule, donors wouldn't donate, he said.

 

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Over time I've been on the lookout for social media for family to use. I haven't really found anything suitable, key thing is that posting photos and videos needs to be user friendly. For example, Friendica all but requiring you to upload your video to YouTube and post the embedded video is just not gonna fly.

I've seen Zusam in the past, which looks like it could become something but I don't think it's ready for me to try to get extended family into. (It's worth mentioning here that certain extended family have shown interest in using something like this)

Recently I've had a look around at some Enterprise social solutions, and have had a play with HumHub. It has a much more familiar look, things are separated into spaces that are similar to Facebook groups, and while media uploads aren't perfect I think they will work well enough.

HumHub has modules, many of which cost a decent amount of money, because they target the enterprise market. However, the community version is open source and the base features and free modules seem to work well.

Does anyone have experience using it? Any warnings I should know about? Any similar software that does a better job?

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