Aotearoa / New Zealand

Long weekend! Are you guys planning on attending the ANZAC dawn service (or later services) tomorrow? I used to go each year but haven't been since we had kids. Can't get them up early enough 😅

This week I've been on a spending spree. I have a new security camera that I'll put over the driveway, that will hopefully let me see both number plates of cars in the driveway and the kerb where we put our rubbish/recycling bins, letting me play with automations around reminders of putting the wheelie bins out or notifications of who is in the driveway. That will bring it to 3 security cameras + a doorbell camera, which is the final state I intended. It doesn't do a good job of security as someone could easily skirt around them, but it will do a great job of covering things that make for fun times in Frigate/Home Assistant!

I had to get a new switch as I've used all the 8 ports + extra 4 on my mini switch. I also can't thread any more ethernet cable into the ceiling through the existing hole, it won't fit more, so I'm going to roof mount the new switch, which has 7 POE ports which should cover everything.

Another thing I bought this week is a 20kg bag of Wairarapa grown flour. Shipping was a killer, I seriously considered driving there to pick it up but in the end I decided to just suck it up. It was an impulse purchase, not sure what I'm going ot use it for but we generally go through a lot of flour anyway. I might have to bake some bread, which I haven't done in a while.

Hopefully will find enough time (and nice weather) to fix the robotic mower's boundary wire. And by fix I mean rip the whole lot out and replace with the heavy duty wire. It's done well to last so long, but it's in too poor condition now for me to bother trying to patch whichever section is corroded.

Then I have to put my fancy new Old Man Mountain front rack on my bicycle and figure out how to mount my light to it.

I got banned permanently of reddit for quoting someone else, absolutely bizarre.

Now it seems I'm IP Banned for trying to circumvent the ban?

Then I realised I really can't be arsed changing my IP or browser to be apart of a site that's becoming increasingly ruled by an Automatic Robot Mod.

I'm working on my game and reading papers about information warfare. It makes me feel like a schzio how blatant it all is. People know it's happening and they assume it's everyone else but them. I think the first layer is common knowledge like fake accounts sharing content and arguing to waste time and sow division but I don't think people are as aware of the boosting aspect. Having 1000s of fake accounts boost content from a real person like tim pool.

There was a piece of normie content that came out about how kick would pay people to share clips of its streamers and it would artificially inflate them and made them famous even with no redeemable traits. Just a ton of people from 3rd world countries spamming clips for $2 an hour. That's happening all across the internet, advertisers and platforms vs nation state troll farms vs advertisers click farms. All completing to serve inorganic content to users.

It kind of makes me want an internal internet that is realme verified so you know you're actually interacting with new Zealanders. I can live with someone being a cunt if they're genuinely just a cunt voicing their opinion about their country. Nz people are easy to regulate if they cross the line and are intentionally spending harmful narratives. This is something that needs to be addressed because its so hard to regain trust in institutions and government especially when it's lost from something completely fabricated.

Also, reminder to submit a suggestion of a 2025 NZ song for Lemmyvision.

And if you're a LemmyNZ user and want to get more involved in managing the instance, see this post.