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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Worldwide, I don't think that's typical. I live in an urban area and I don't think I know anyone that works more than 45 hours per week. 37.5-40 is more typical for full time roles.

I don't think getting up early to go to your job should be considered impacting on your sleep, if you also get to go home early. Assuming you are getting up after say 6am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I've been using tab groups in Firefox for a while (I think I enabled it in about:config). It has been a bit janky so I'm excited to see if this update polishes it a bit.

I have previously tried using both vertical tabs and tab groups and that just broke everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I have an old laptop running LibreELEC (literally) strapped to the back of my TV. With a PC connected remote it works great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Eh I don't even need to think about this anymore. I have a cron job that backs up every March 31st.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Where do you live that every job eats into your sleep? Or are you just a night owl that resents getting up early?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It seems you've worked it out, but for others coming across this, it's an instance specific setting. Whoever is running your instance can decide if users can make their own communities. Most instances let users create communities, including yours.

One caveat is that you can only create a community on the instance your account is on. This is because functionality to create communities on other instances hasn't been implemented yet.

Though you can moderate a community on another instance, so a workaround is creating an account on another instance you want to create a community on, use it to create a community, then use it to assign your main account as moderator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I'm afraid not.

My kid made a spider web (as in spider man - a spider web on the end of a longer thread about 4m long, all made from paper). Tells me they took it to school and did a prank. Not sure how exactly that worked.

They also said one kid hit other kids as a prank. I don't think that counts though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Well that wasn't very exciting either! Worked. Cooked tea. Put kids to bed. Tuesdays aren't normally very exciting 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

It's 8PM on 1st April so my plans from here are not very exciting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm the $1B number came from Labour. They are probably referring to a total cost of the project, which would not all be wasted as that investigative work would form the basis of the new plan.

Interesting how the project was ballooning to possibly $4B. That's some massive cost to build new terminals. I'd support spending it if they build the southern one near Blenheim instead of Picton, for cutting the journey time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think the major cost saving is having smaller ships means less port side infrastructure, so even if we do upgrade the port to modern standards, it will still be cheaper.

Does that include $1B in cancellation costs? (number from near end of article)

It will be interesting to see when they announce the cost. I'm not sure they even know, it doesn't seem like they have asked for quotes yet. Just browsed for ferries on trade me.

Also, forty rail cars is a lot, each one is equivalent to a fully loaded truck at least.

We currently have one ferry that can take 27 rail cars. Are the new ones intended to replace the old ones or work alongside them? I'm assuming replace them. So I hope both of the new ferries can take rail, as every time someone drives Aratere into something the rail capacity vanishes:

As of 2024, Aratere is New Zealand's only rail ferry. When the vessel is not available, rail freight between the North and South Islands must be transferred to trucks, driven onto other Cook Strait ferries, and then transferred back to rail after the crossing, with associated additional time and cost.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They could have had them not use a screen for some parts of the study and use it for others, but after reading the article and skimming the paper I can't see any indication they did this. It seems they just sent out a survey to 45k people and concluded people who use their phones in bed go to sleep later so that must be the cause.

 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

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Beneficiaries sanctioned with money management cards will often be unable to pay rent, government data shows, putting them at risk of homelessness.

The sanction for non-complying Jobseekers would lock half their benefit into payment cards that cannot be spent on rent - but official statistics from MSD show the average beneficiary is already spending more than 53 percent of their income on housing costs.

MSD confirmed to RNZ the cards - being introduced from 26 May - would see beneficiaries' Jobseeker payments split, with half going onto a payment card unable to be used on rent.

"The Money Management card will be able to be used at grocery, transport, healthcare (including prescriptions) and education suppliers ... [it] cannot be used on other expenses such as rent or utilities," general manager income Shannon Soughtton said.

 

International media and scientific organisations are lapping up footage of a real life 'Sharktopus' filmed in the Hauraki Gulf.

Marine biologist Professor Rochelle Constantine said the encounter in December 2023 was a tale to top them all.

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I submitted a post here asking for ideas for a song to submit to Lemmyvision 2025.

This is the post where we vote on which song to submit!

There's more info on Lemmyvision here.

Here is the list of songs nominated:

Please head to the following link to vote: https://survey.lemmy.nz/index.php/757833?lang=en

 

A Dunedin local who has been giving free skateboarding lessons to the city's new migrants is hoping to encourage even more people into the sport by opening up to the wider community.

"We started teaching new migrants - a friend of ours who is part of our group now had a contact in the Red Cross and said it would be great to see if any of them were interested in learning how to skate. And sure enough, a couple came along for a lesson, and then next week more came along, and it started growing that way."

He said they had given lessons to dozens of people, with the Saturday morning lessons selling out for every session so far.

 

Apologies for the bit of downtime. I've just updated Lemmy.nz to 0.19.10 as well as aligning our nginx config with the latest config from the Lemmy repository. We had been running an original one from when the instance started, with some custom changes. Now we should benefit from changes over the last couple of years.

Details of the latest release are here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA

Some highlights:

  • Youtube thumbnails should be fixed
  • DMs are now removed when banning user with content removal (i.e. deletes scammer "Nicole the Fediverse chick" DMs)
  • Resolving some language setting issues

I was hoping to solve a video streaming issue but the update to the nginx config doesn't seem to have helped so I need to play with it some more. So there may be more brief outages tonight but I will try things in my test instance first.

 

Thanks for everyone's suggestions for cabbage recipes from the other week. Some great stuff, but now I'm sick of cabbage.

Does anyone have some great recipes that taste good and are loaded with vegetables?

Preferably ones where cabbage isn't the main ingredient.

 

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

 

Across the ditch, her risk of “inciting discord” was deemed too great to allow her into Australia. But in Aotearoa, ministerial discretion was used to overturn the rejection of Candace Owens’ visa application, with the right to practise free speech – hers considered by many to be antisemitic, transphobic, racist and extremist – considered to outweigh considerations of her being an excluded person.

So how did it happen? Documents released under the Official Information Act reveal the process that led to associate immigration minister Chris Penk overturning Immigration NZ’s decision to deny Owens a visa to visit New Zealand for a speaking event, after the Free Speech Union went in to bat for the controversial conservative American commentator.

Owens – named as the person who influenced the Christchurch shooter “above all” in his own manifesto – will deliver a speech at Auckland’s Trusts Arena next January (if you haven’t already grabbed a ticket, sales have been paused). She was due to host her first-ever live event on New Zealand’s shores in late 2024, but a decision on her Australian visa by that country’s immigration minister Tony Burke had a ripple effect across the Tasman.

 

New Zealand's game development industry is growing more than 10 times faster than the global average, and on track to reach $1 billion annual export revenue in the next few years, an industry report says.

NZ Game Developers Association (NZGDA) inaugural report indicates the game development sector grew 26 percent on the year earlier, which exceeded the global forecast of 2.1 percent growth.

 

Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of Facebook, New Zealander Sarah Wynn Williams, from promoting or further distributing copies of her book.

Her publisher, Pan Macmillan, said in a statement the book was first person narrative account of what the author herself witnessed during her seven years at the company.

Meta supplied a statement to RNZ, in which it called the book "a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives".

It said Wynn-Williams ceased working at the company eight years ago, and an investigation at the time found she had made "misleading and unfounded allegations of harassment".

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