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Spend on Wellingtons water infrastructure mapped over mayoral terms. by BaconWrappedEnigma in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's been chronically underfunded. A few years ago, I read that the estimated cost to bring Wellington's sewage and water infrastructure up to snuff was around $12B. Wellington has recently had fountains of crap springing up around town.

I moved away and I'm not really in touch with local politics there anymore, but I would guess they are forced to spend on it. I heard that it's not politically popular to spend money on maintaining infrastructure. Short term limits mean it's always more convenient for local politicians to kick the can down the road.

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'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The company plans to extract DNA from moa bones and use gene editing to modify "living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa".

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The Garage team - An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone used this successfully in their setup?

Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.

Garage is designed for storage clusters composed of nodes running at different physical locations, in order to easily provide a storage service that replicates data at these different locations and stays available even when some servers are unreachable. Garage also focuses on being lightweight, easy to operate, and highly resilient to machine failures.

Garage is built by Deuxfleurs, an experimental small-scale self hosted service provider, which has been using it in production since its first release in 2020.