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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 8 hours ago

Well I am a step closer to the answer. Here a similar photo taken on the Artemis II mission with the same identifying features: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009212

In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale's left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

Long story short, like 3/4 of what is in this photo is the near side of the moon.

As a side note, the coloured image on the left of the OP appears to be this image that reddit detectives have decided was edited by OP. No one has found that coloured version on any NASA release.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I'm half confused. Light source - the sun, just take it when the moon is in it's new moon phase (side facing earth is dark, side facing sun is light).

But the moon is tidally locked to earth, we always see the same side, so what is taking the photo?

Artemis II visited while the far side was dark, so I guess this is an old tweet otherwise why would NASA be releasing it now?

Happy to be told I'm dumb if I got something wrong...

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh so when you said:

subscribed community | posts (today|week)

You weren't asking for a way to see posts for a particular subscribed community, you wanted a list of communities with the number of new posts in each?

I'm not aware of a way to do that, no. But I wonder if the communities list page might help you find them? If you go to the communities page and sort by Scaled, like this:

https://discuss.online/communities?listingType=Local&sort=Scaled&page=1

Then small communities with recent activity should show at the top?

 

It's Lemmyvision time again! Here's a post about it.

TL;DR: we pick a song released after 1 Jan 2025 to submit and then everyone votes!

This is the post for ideas, so please everyone get your ideas in and then we will do a vote later on which to enter.

They allow one song per language so we can submit one in English and one in Māori if we want to.

Rules

  • Each Lemmy community is responsible for their own organization.
  • Only one (1) song per language per community is to be sent.
  • If the song contains vocals then it must be in (one of) the official language(s) of your choice, or a regional language of your choice.
  • Songs must have been released after January 1st, 2025.
  • Songs must not be international hits[1].
  • Submit your songs in their own thread in this community
  • Verification will just require a link to the discussion thread created within your community, to ensure it’s a community (not a single person’s) decision.

[1] this is to prevent drama that happened in the past on Reddit, where Germany sent a Rammstein song and obviously won. It’s up to my own appreciation of what international hit means, because it’s hard to measure (metrics on different streaming platforms aren’t the same), but I’m pretty lenient, just ask me if you’re not sure, better to discuss than argue

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 0 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not quite following.

If you go to the community and sort by new you'll see new posts? That seems to be what you're asking.

Also see the "scaled" option for your subscribed feed. This makes low activity communities show up higher in the list to try to stop them being drowned out by high-activity communities.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

Given that anyone can make a donation, I'm not keen on having my details publicly available. It's one reason I picked this service.

Happy to add another service if it let's me not have my identity on a public page. Happy to do bitcoin or something if someone can tell me how to turn it into money!

 

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs

Timetable from here, NZ time:

Tuesday

6:45am - Lunar observation period set to begin, with NASA to start the livestream at 5am.

10:47am - NASA are expecting a loss of communications that could last up to 40 minutes. During this time at the crew is expected to reach their maximum distance from Earth.

12:35pm - The crew to witness the moon eclipsing the sun.

1:20pm - Lunar observation period and flyby to conclude.

2:50pm - The crew will appear live to share in detail what they've just witnessed.

The link above has the rest of the mission schedule through to splashdown.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

On thinking about this, it has basically the same trajectory as the ship, which is to use the moon's gravity to come around and head back to earth. So the wastewater would do the same?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But they are on a return trajectory because of the moon's gravity. So I guess the wastewater will come back towards earth?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure they need much fuel anymore, their current trajectory gets them around the moon and back towards earth using just the moon's gravity.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

So they just dump the wastewater into space? What happens when the next mission hits that at 2000mph?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Cadbury was considered quality chocolate in NZ, regularly topped the most trusted brands in NZ lists. Then they tried to replace cocoa solids with palm oil (perhaps 20 years ago), and what feels like overnight they were outed and now are hardly ever mentioned. A local brand took over the quality chocolate spot, and eventually Carbury had to shut the NZ factory.

I like to think people learn about it when studying marketing / branding degrees.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 days ago

I have been sent flowers when other people died, does that count?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm from a colony and pudding would normally be dessert unless further specified. I'm curious what specifically it was, was it anything listed in the top-ish section here?

Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Sweet puddings include bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding, tapioca pudding, and rice pudding. Unless qualified, however, pudding usually means dessert and in the United Kingdom, pudding is used as a synonym for dessert.

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Hi all, this is (I think) the first Lemmy.nz financial update! In case you missed it, we are no longer piggybacking on someone else's hosting and now have our own virtual server.

Now that we have to pay our own way, I am going to start doing semi-regular updates about how things are going. I am thinking quarterly updates.

This quarter we have migrated to a new VPS and moved images to object storage, each of which has an ongoing cost. Other potential costs are email sending (which to date I don't believe we have ever crossed over the free sending threshold for Mailgun) and the domain registration, which is already paid up for a couple of years.

Expenses for January-March 2026: $369.53

The expenses are made up of:

  • VPS: $358.10
  • Image and backup storage: $11.43

Expenses are allocated to the period they were paid, not to the period they cover. The VPS expense covers the first month, plus a further 6 months, which makes this look a lot more expensive than it should. The image and backup storage only includes a partial month for February and does not include March as March will be billed in April based on usage.

Contributions in January-March 2026: $35

We received two donations totalling $35 this quarter.

Overall position: -$289.53

This ending balance is mostly because I have paid for hosting 6 months in advance. I started collecting donations late last year, and we had $45 donated, so we actually started with $45 at the start of the quarter.

  • Opening balance: $45
  • Contributions: $35
  • Expenses: -$369.53
  • Total: -$289.53
  • Percent of expenses paid for by contributions: 21%

An update on our move to the VPS

We have now had over a month on the VPS. The specs we have seem to be appropriate with RAM constantly at 80% use, the CPU peaks at an occasional 90% but averaging around 40%, and the hard drive storage at about 83% which may need a little more space soon, adding another dollar or two a month.

In March we cut it pretty close on bandwidth usage as I am using a new backup tool and didn't have compression set up right initially, which burnt through a lot of data in the first week. So I have been carefully rationing what is used for offsite transfer to keep us within the 1TB allocation for this month, however, it does feel like we could move away from Cloudflare's caching and still be within the 1TB in the future. I will let it run all April and see what sort of usage we have.

Donations

If you want to contribute to the cost of running Lemmy.nz, see the post here.

The usual caveat: Please don't contribute if it will impact you financially. I don't want to see anyone saying "I only had $5 in my bank account but Lemmy is important so I donated my last $5" like I've seen on other instances. If you can't afford it then don't feel bad, this round is on me. I don't mind, truly. But if you can easily chip in a few bucks a month, then it is appreciated 🙂

Pātai

As usual, feel free to ask any questions!

 

[Last thread here](https://lemmy.nz/post/35827490

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
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  • 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?

 

Some excepts:

David Tamihere has had his convictions quashed, 36 years after he was found guilty of murdering two Swedish backpackers in the Coromandel.

In a decision released on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed a retrial but said it was up to the Crown to decide whether one should be held.

The court found there was a fundamental error in Tamihere's 1990 trial which made it unfair - and the Crown case had changed so "radically" since then that it had not actually been tested by a jury.

In 2017, a key witness in crown case, prison informant Robert Conchie Harris was found guilty of perjury .

Tamihere took the case to the Court of Appeal which in 2024 found there had been a miscarriage of justice because of Harris's evidence but it did not quash its conviction because the court remained convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Tamihere was guilty.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court found the Court of Appeal did not have the right to make a call on Tamihere's guilt after it had found the miscarriage of justice - that could only be made by a jury.

 

Last thread here

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Up to 320mm of rain could fall in Northland in 48 hours from 4pm this afternoon, MetService is warning.

A number of other watches and warnings are in place across the country in what MetService is calling an "impactful" weather event.

MetService meteorologist John Law said the heaviest rainfall was expected from Northland to Bay of Plenty and its intensity and duration would bring "threat to life from dangerous river conditions, significant flooding, and slips".

 

I, like tens of thousands of NZers, fill in the NZ Attitudes and Values survey each year. This is their annual newsletter, and it covers some of the results of the survey from last year.

Things like video game usage at different ages (men more than woman at young ages, women more than men in the later years), social media usage (women more than men, young more than old), alcohol consumption (younger drink less, older drink more), hours spent working each week (men more than women at all ages, with some interesting bumps), hours spent doing chores (women more than men at all ages, generally more the older you are), thoughts on AI regulation (women support more than men, but all ages support more than against), attitudes towards self, negative thoughts, etc (generally better as you age), trust in police (meh), and trust in politicians (across gender and ages, no one trusts them).

Plus a bunch of other things. It's full of graphs so hard to summarise.

I thought it was interesting so I thought I'd share.

 

Last thread here

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Thousands queued up outside the Wellington Central Library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui on Saturday as it reopened for the first time in seven years.

The building had been closed since March 2019, due to earthquake risk, with pop-up libraries in the city in the interim, while it underwent a $217 million makeover.

 

Last thread here

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

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A Department of Conservation (DoC) livestream of a nesting Kākāpo on a remote island off the coast of the South Island, has attracted international attention.

Through a hidden camera, viewers can watch Rakiura as she raises her chick, who looks more like a sentient ball of fluff than a bird, at this stage.

Link to live stream

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