Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 4/8/23
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
First actual frost at our place overnight. Was hoping to get away with none this winter. My youngish paw paw tree did not like it, probably going to lose its leaves now. Some how my outdoor sweet pepper plant still looks ok.
Stay warm everyone!
Another shooting! Was it always like this or are we just getting more coverage now?
In other news, I replaced my PC speakers with a UE Boom 3 I got off Trademe. Desk is much clearer without the speakers, there's no cables, got rid of the sub under my desk, and was able to remove a whole 4 plug with better management. I highly recommend this option if you get minimalist urges like me. It's so clean
And there's a new ADV Podcasts episode out! They are showing footage of the flooding in Beijing. Hooooly crap.
On speaker recommendations, I'm a huge fan of my Edifier R1700BT speakers. They're a fantastic budget option, and can go for under $200 on sale. They have more cabling than a UE boom, but you could connect them to your PC via Bluetooth, and they sound gorgeous.
Those do look nice...
Wouldn't fit on my desk though unfortunately.
It feels like its been like this for the last year or two. There was a few months where my area was getting at least a shooting per week
Yes and no. Overall the murder rate is going down (barring 15 March 2019): https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/crime-rate-statistics
There's more recent years in this PDF: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/historic-new-zealand-murder-offences-1926-2021.pdf
So we get 10-11 murders per 1 million population. This is half what it was in the 90s.
However, there has been a recent violent crime increase. This is also not unexpected, as Labour has a policy of reducing the prison population. Putting less people in prison has longer term societal benefits but you can imagine it would lead to shorter term increases in violent crime, which does appear to be the case: https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/130965380/the-whole-truth-has-violent-crime-gone-up-under-labour
Friends, I've discovered today is International Beer Day. It's on Wikipedia, so it's legit.
According to Wikipedia we can observe this noble day with such time honoured events as trivia nights, beer flights, and binge drinking.
I knew I should have checked here before grabbing a bottle of wine on the way home, haha. I've decided my beer of choice is 0% Asahi but tonight I've got an Aussie pinot gris.
Happy Friday!
Just joined Lemmy as sync has been released, so glad to see NZ is active here!
If anyone is wondering, I tried rolling back the website frontend (on a test server) to see if it would solve the issue with "Show context". It didn't solve the issue, it seems to be a change on the server side that's conflicting with the front end, as apps don't seem to be affected.
I recognise not everyone is technical so I'll try to explain some key concepts.
The website that you access and the server that works out what content to show are two separate things. When you access the website, it sends requests to the server for what content to show.
When you use an app, the app sends requests directly to the server similar to how the website does. Therefore issues on the website don't necessarily show up in apps, because the app doesn't go through the website.
I'm happy to explain other parts if anyone wants me to.
Ohhh I was wondering why the context function didn't seem to be working.
Yeah, it's an issue with the latest Lemmy version. We had a bit of a chat about it in the Lemmy.nz Matrix chat room. Seems to be that the database optimisations have caused comments to come in a different order than the website side is expecting, so I guess it fails to contruct them on the page.
Unfortunately rolling back the server probably isn't possible, because of the database changes. At the very least it's risky. Might be better to use an app, or another frontend like old.lemmy.nz or voyager.lemmy.nz as hopefully they aren't affected.
I'm closely monitoring the bug report waiting for the fix, but it seems at the moment every release it's two steps forward, one step back.