I suspect the “Slow The Fuck Down.” one is the one they’re saying is offensive.

That’s a great response to the article! Covers other issues I had with it as well.

Interesting to see overseas coverage of this. There seems to be a few errors or misunderstandings. One key one repeated in the article:

There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s population of 5.3 million. They are represented by Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, which currently holds six of the 123 seats in Parliament.

This implies the Māori Party is the only representation, and implies 6/123 MPs represent 19% of the country. In reality, there is nothing special about The Māori Party, and Māori people vote for who they want to represent them like anyone else (yes there are Māori electorates but that’s different and Māori can choose if they want to be on that system).

At multiple points they present the Māori Party as if they are the designated representation for Māori, which isn’t true.

I’ve always used rechargeables. While I agree to some extent, the action to pop them out makes it a lot easier to get them out than in the Xbox 360 controller from around the same time. The Xbone ones are easier now but perhaps they will do steam controller 2 in a similar way to the 1 but leave a little extra clearance.

Better battery placement, because the original is a nightmare to get batteries out.

I’m curious about this. There’s a little switchy button thing and the batteries pop right out. I’m not sure what makes it a nightmare, I quite like the battery placement.

Yeah I’ve often had this thought about protests too. As a student, the student’s association would organise protests with a free BBQ to get the students to come.

In this specific case, I think the entertainment was at Waitangi Park? So it’s an event for protestors, but in my mind the protest itself was the walking from Cape Reinga/Bluff and gathering at parliament.

Oh the metservice app is almost unusable without blocking the ads. Even with the ads blocked it’s full of sponsorship.

I want to like the NIWA app, but I can never tell what the actual weather is going to be.

Maybe I should just use the website.

Are you talking about the app specifically, or about Bluesky as a platform?

I find this quite interesting. The rules about blocking a driveway don’t only apply to being on the side of the road but also the public property part between the road and the privately owned section.

I wouldn’t have parked there but I wouldn’t have complained if someone wasn’t blocking the route along the footpath. It’s pretty common that places around Wellington don’t have anywhere else to park.

I guess I can see both sides of this argument. Yes the council might be following the law (or might not be, based on the later part of the article), but it’s not exactly well known and it’s a bit of a dick move for the council to change their stance and not tell anyone, just double the fine then start handing out fines.

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

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

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.

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!

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/

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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!