To get the good stuff, you have to go with someone that speaks Thai.

In ten years there will be a bold imitative to embrace history, return to the roots and past culture of excellence. It will be re-branded to Athletics Australia.

Maybe, but I have had all of my family on Signal for close to 9 years now. Inertia and the network effect is a big part of why platforms stay around.

It took me saying to my mum, that I would ONLY share pictures of her new grandson on Signal to get her to install it. Once mum was on board, the rest followed pretty quickly.

The thought of getting mum to install a new messaging app now, and she is nearly 10 years older. Well it isn’t worth the effort. My threat threat model is low enough, to choose the convenience/security slider at Signal.

As a side note, every month or two; another of my contacts shows up on Signal. I have around 50 contacts using Signal now, as I said before around 98% of my messaging is through Signal.

While there may be better options out there, from a purely security standpoint.

The real world, with non-tech people needs solutions that are easy, fast and as close to foolproof as possible.

I choose Signal, because my mum, my sisters and brothers (none of which are tech people) can all go to their app stores and install Signal, it works and it is easy. Signal is private BY DEFAULT, I don’t have to remind them to turn on security for each chat, there is voice and video chat for individuals and groups, I can use it to send files. It is really good. Secure communication is their primary goal.

I have been using Signal since it was called TextSecure and I only had one contact using it.

Yes it sucked when they dropped SMS support; but these days about 98% of my messaging goes through Signal. Any SMS is usually from my doctor/dentist/bank.

I never really trusted Telegram, too many compromises. Secure communication is not their primary goal.

I wend to the brickman exhibit with the kids, the price was quite reasonable.

My work mate just went to the Dr Who one; not sure about the costs.

But we both had to travel from Taupo; and stay/eat/entertain in Wellington. The ticket price to get into the event was negligible on the total cost of the trip. So it is not 100% on the event to make money, money is brought into the CBD/region.

Also; were the projected visitor numbers reasonable. The economy is in a bit of a shambles with the current government trying to bludgeon us back to the 80’s.

Bathurst reported $213m in export sales in the 2024 financial year, and internal reports said the company spent around $85 million on wages and $240 million on equipment, fuel and other practical expenses.

So a $325M cost of operation on $213M of export sales…what total sales?

Also

more than it collected in royalties for all coal mining nationwide the same year.

What are “royalties”; how are they distinct from tax?

Starship troopers.

I saw it when it came out. I was young and the action was awesome.

Watching at an adult… The fascist themes are so obvious, I wonder how young me missed them.

No it’s the whole movie.

It is the story of an oppressed people, in their desperation they follow a con artist who is only out for himself.

Their uprising and short lived victory, is marked by incompetence and grift.

After being in power for a while, the old regime returns. They kill the leader and ruthlessly crush the now demoralised people.

In the end the old monarchy rules again, the oppressed people are scattered, this culture and way of life vilified, even moreso than in the past.

The lion king.

A kugelblitz power station. With a full set of plans to build another.

Something in the order of 10GW power output. Solve energy generation and have a viable spaceship drive in one go.

My partner is kiwi Chinese, 3rd gen NZ, but full blood.

She experiences a fair amount of casual racism. But it is pretty low key, very uncommon to have anything overt.

Individually, most people are nice.

I see “smart home” tech the same way.

From RNZ

One attendee at the rally told AFP he thought Musk was making the gesture as a joke.

“He’s very humorous, and he uses a lot of sarcasm. So when he did that on the stage, I don’t think he meant it,” said Brandon Galambos, a 29-year-old pastor and tech worker.

This is complete bullshit, you don’t get to make a joke about being a Nazi, when you are on the world stage. It is like joking about carrying a bomb at the boarding gate in the airport. People will take you seriously.

Musk is an idiot, he has been sliding further right for the last decade.

This was unambiguously aimed at the far right, it may not be precisely a Sieg Heil, but those he was trying to reach know what he means.

If someone is proposing a simple solution to a complex problem, there is a good chance they don’t understand it or they are trying to control your opinions.

If you receive some information (no matter how) and you feel a strong emotion, be extra skeptical.

I made the switch in 2010.

I dual booted for a while, one day I realised that I hadn’t booted into windows for 3 months. At that point I reinstalled, no more dual booting. I haven’t looked back.

I keep a windows VM, currently has Win10 installed, I haven’t had to use it in about 3 years.

My advice is, keep dual booting. One day you’ll realise that booting into windows feels like a chore, you haven’t done it in months, so why keep it around…

This has a caveat though, you have to assume that both cars are the same mass.

If a truck hits a car head on, it is likely that the car doesn’t go just to 0 but to some -ve number as the much more massive truck plows through the car and reverses its direction.

The idea that racism can be good is very strange. “I’m going to be racist, but for a good cause” doesn’t fit well.

I get the goal was to encourage Tangata Moana to attend, but it is in effect a disincentive to the “allies” because they are being punished.

The fact that there is tiered pricing for other things doesn’t excuse this behavior. It turns out that Students/Youth/Elderly are different than Maori/White/Pasifika.

I just read the attached link, not the bill. But this looks every easy to abuse.

I fixed this issue, but being an arsehole for a month.

Get a loud stereo with an alarm clock function; have it go off 1 minute after your alarm, and be really really loud.

Trust me, shocking yourself awake with a huge noise just after the little beep-beep works a treat. After a week or two, you will bolt out of bed to catch the stereo before it wakes everybody else up and pisses them off.

The lord of the rings!

I love reading…I read a lot. But Tolkien’s style just never worked for me, the movies were great.