Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024
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 doesn’t 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 a hippo
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how's it going?
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I'm still not feeling the best, but back at work today anyway (well, not at work, but working).
Also got an interesting spam message by a bot trying to register for an account here:
The question is "Where are you from", so they missed the mark a bit. The day before there was a registration application from a person, they read the instructions, answered the question, waited to be approved, then when they got approved they posted a spam URL and were immediately banned by the automod. Imagine all that hard work undone in a second.
That’s great the automod worked like a treat.
Yeah it's been a life saver. It's only been running for a couple of months, I set it up when there was a massive whole-of-fediverse spam wave happening all sharing the same URL. Thousands of spam posts and most of them could be automatically removed before anyone saw them! One down side (and arguably up-side) of the fediverse is that if the home instance of the user doesn't ban them then every other instance has to ban them individually. Automods help to ease this burden, but each instance has to set up an automod and maintain their own rules.
I expect over time we will probably see more lemmy compatible tools to help, since Lemmy is still in the early days.
I’ve signed up for Lemmy.nz after the huge delays to my comments via Lemmy.world. Had better think of something to comment about now. Will definitely comment once I get my hearing aids on Monday.
Welcome!
Thanks, and thanks for your detailed reply to my Lemmy.world sourced comment.
No problem, I hope it was helpful 🙂
I finally managed to convince my siblings to join me on a bike ride and we went over to Hunua on Sunday and did the easy ride from the top of Moumoukai Hill Road down to the Clevedon market. Highly recommend if you're in the area, and it was a ridiculously beautiful day for it.
Looks like a nice ride!
Although if the ride is downhill almost all the way, does that mean you have to ride uphill almost all the way back to your car?
Like some kind of masochist, I volunteered to head in about 90 minutes early, park at Clevedon, and ride to meet them at the top. I was only about five minutes short of actually beating them to the top, which I'm pretty proud of. That climb is hard.
Wow, good job!
I did a trip up to Waihi beach over the "long weekend", leaving Wed. My car blew a head gasket just north of Taihape, and we ended up getting a rental and towing my trailer the rest of the way, which meant we arrived early the next day. I did two trips up the coast, and the third day was spent playing in the surf.
Now I need to work out the most cost effective way to get my car back home, and sell it.
Here's the GPS tracks and a few photos from the trip.
Thursday, coastal paddle and rock gardening. https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqN1DG9zG6
Friday, coastal paddle, rock gardening and a walk up a stream. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq
Saturday morning, surf practice. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYxAoEq
Sunday afternoon, surf practice and comp. comp https://www.relive.cc/view/vYvE2mAWBGO
It's been a great weekend, and I plan to be back next time.
Waihi Beach is a great little place. I used to live there.
Sucks about the car but it looks like you had a good trip!
When you say "rock gardening", you're talking about riding waves over rocks like this?
And for "surf practice and comp", is this a competition? And you're not meaning surf as in surf board, but still in kayaks?
Edit: Oh and one last question, what's the photo at 0:31 in this one? https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq
That's the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it's a slightly different game to board surfing as we're catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.
I think that's the inside of my pocket, I didn't notice that photo was in there.
Congrats on third place! That's so cool, sounds like a lot of fun!
Haha, it looks a lot like a photo taken pointing down into the water!
That looks like fun!
That website your using is so cool.
I've been online gaming recently and I keep running into this feeling that Oceanic internet is so dead. When I go to european based communities they have heaps of groups of people wanting to play all different types of games. Same for America but here we have small groups of people who play the 5 most popular games and nothing else. Maybe I just do what ever 30 year old Kiwi man does and get a shed full of tools and half finish a bunch of diy projects.
I suspect it's because Europe and the US have far more people! And of course if there aren't many people, then others don't join because there's never anyone online, and it's a compounding problem.
Maybe play games that don't rely on ping so much, so you can play with the Europeans and Americans?
A shed full of tools works too!
I do play games with Europeans but they are mega autistic and sound weird. Americans are more normal to play with but don't compare to aussie nz banter.
Is it partly a timezone thing?
I'm back at work this is my 3rd week, slowly increasing my hours back to normal.
I was very sick for a while.
I hope you're recovering well! One off or something that could come back?
Recovering.
I got pneumonia, with a bunch of complications.
Hopefully it never comes back.
Oh that's no good! Sounds like you're through the thick of it now so it's good to hear you're mending.
Thanks
Glad you're getting better. Slowly increasing your hours is the way to go.
We headed to Ohakune for a weekend escape with the kids. Took them for Trout Fishing Lessons at the Tongariro National Trout Centre then did a few tramps etc... was a good weekend.
Sounds like fun! What do trout fishing lessons look like?
When I was younger we would go trout fishing on a charter boat, the captain would put lures on downriggers, we'd chill out until there was one on the line, then pull it in. In hindsight this feel a bit like the UK's pheasant shooting where you stand with a gun and wait for people to bring the birds to you 😆
I'm guessing the trout fishing lessons are more along the lines of fishing in a river?
More like young kids standing with a adult around a man made pool haha getting taught how to swing the rod back and forth and basically waiting for a bite from one of the 4000 adolescent fish in the pool. Then slowly reeling them in and netting them.
Ah yes, I seem to remember doing that 30 years ago at a prawn farm in Taupo.
haha awesome!!
A bit of a long shot, but can anyone recommend a battery powered inverter that uses pure sine wave, that isn't painfully expensive?
I'm trying to power some outdoor festoon lighting that uses LED bulbs, the original plan was to use the Ryobi battery topper so I could use my existing batteries. But after a little research I found out it uses modified sine wave, which apparently isn't great for LED lighting (runs inefficiently and generates more heat, thus reducing lifespan). Not sure if my search skills are lacking or is really nothing in that range
I can't be of any help but those Ryobi ones look quite interesting. Didn't know they existed. Though at 150W, you'd be constantly changing out batteries!
Does your lighting plus straight an AC wall outlet?
Yeah it plugs into a standard wall outlet.
I guess it would depend on what you’re using it for, the max is 150W. Seems like a good way to utilise their batteries as power banks in an emergency, especially if you’re already in their ecosystem. They do have up to 9ah batteries. I have multiple 4ah batteries which I believed should have run the lights for a few hours, if only it was suitable
just from having a think about it, your basically going DC (from the battery) to AC from the inverter back to DC via some inverter incorporated into the Festoon lights right? Do you already have the lights?, Or are there versions of the light that use DC?
Already have them unfortunately, but I did learn after the fact that running them on DC would be the most efficient.
Mainly I don’t want to go through the hassle of getting an outlet installed outside as we’d only ever run them for an hour or two if we were outside when it’s dark. Something portable I could just plug in when we wanted to use them was the idea
Just testing out a system to try to catch us up to Lemmy.world, which seems to be working! You might see a bunch of notifications for comment replies coming through as they get synced across.
If this works well I'll post a post to explain a bit more about it, but as always I'm also happy to answer questions!
Also let me know if something seems broken or missing.
Heard fireworks go off at 2:11AM in Welly... very random. Anyone know what could be the reason?
Cold. Pesky winter. We hates it yes.
How are people feeling about the Tegal ad?
the original lyrics are:
We're gonna have a good day And ain't nobody gotta cry today 'Cause ain't nobody gonna die today Save that drama for another day
cutting that line in particular just feels uncomfortable to me. Almost insensitive
Is the as on YouTube or something? I don't get to see ads except when I visit our parents. I see some on YouTube but nothing too recent.
Nah TVNZ ads. Not seen them anywhere else actually
Ah I block those too, so haven't seen them.