Ah I see. So RocketLab might be taking it a step further and putting more sensitive sensors on in the hope the additional data might help, with a secondary benefit being the PR from being able to reproduce audio from space.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.

My Organic Maps doesn’t have traffic (or doesn’t for my area). I can’t see anything about it online either, except discussions about how it could be implemented.

Where do you find the traffic info? Even if zoomed in to New York I see nothing.

Now when I think about it, is it even possible to run lemmy on a cluster, like a regular web app, or is it a monolith?

There’s a page for info on horizontal scaling Lemmy here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/horizontal_scaling.html

It does seem to be out of date (for one, it mentions that pict-rs can’t be horizontally scaled due to the sled database, but pict-rs now supports postgres so maybe that has changed.

I know larger instances run a separate federation container and many instances (including mine) run multiple lemmy-ui containers for the front end, but as I understand it the Lemmy backend can only run as a single service.

Yeah I assumed it wasn’t just for the gimmick. Really cool about using the acoustic triangulation to identify the issue.

So SpaceX are already using microphones/vibration sensors so could have done the audio reproduction that RocketLab have done here?

Haha this is hilarious! I love it. Especially the reaction from the unnamed Herald staffer:

“I want you to know my available-for-publishing statement as an NZ Herald staffer is that the incident was ‘funny as fuck’.”

Yes, such a cool addition to have space audio! Presumably there is a technical reason it’s worthwhile as well? Does it help with troubleshooting engine issues or something?

Hmm, it seems that with specifically the question type of multi choice, no comment, and other, it requires you put something in Other to even tick it. If you don’t have something to say then just put in a dot or space or whatever, I don’t think I can influence this, it’s part of the software.

Ah right. It was a solid 10 paragraphs long so I didn’t make it.

Vote privacy can be tricky in an environment where every vote gets sent to thousands of instances and needs to be verified as legit via the ActivityPub protocol.

Piefed does a good job of this I think. If vote privacy is enabled, they create a second account that is used only for votes. Other instances see the votes and can validate them against the vote account but it’s not tied to the actual user (except in their home server database).

A benefit of this is that the vote account for the user is always the same, so you can still track vote manipulation, and ban the vote account if needed.

And apparently Jim ain’t gonna make it.

That seems somehow worse. People fill in the form and then it gets published as is on the website? Doesn’t seem worth publishing as news or an opinion piece, I’m not even sure what kind of media that’s supposed to be.

Ah nice find. So the weather is now unlikely to affect who can vote.

This part is perhaps relevant:

20.5.2 Prohibition on interjections during party vote

Interjections during the conduct of a party vote are regarded as particularly serious since there is no debate in progress, so they can have no justification. In particular, members are not permitted to comment as party votes are cast.[39] Indeed, the Speaker has suggested that interjections at this point, as well as promoting confusion, could, if intimidatory, amount to a breach of privilege.[40]

It seems once the debate is over and they are into voting, no one should talk, and doing so is deemed particularly serious. In this case we have two Te Pāti Māori members making a quite disruptive “interjection” just after Act had voted. The part “since there is no debate in progress, so they can have no justification” would apply in this case, even though perhaps there wasn’t an actual party currently voting (as I understand it).

Even though, it doesn’t sit right with me that the government can prevent the opposition from voting for a period of time (and especially not the length of time in this case). Surely removing them from the floor (e.g. through suspension) would achieve any goal of restoring order to parliament, and there would be no reason not to let their party vote on their behalf.

Not the one I was looking at: https://f-droid.org/packages/it.danieleverducci.lunatracker/

I do see with a web search there is a period tracker with the same name. Confusing!

F-droid has LunaTracker. It says you can sync via WebDAV (e.g. Nextcloud or others).

I haven’t used it so can’t vouch for it but it looks nice and simple to use.

The question reminds me of this:

Ross: Why are you mad at me?

Phoebe: You said I was boring

Ross: When did I say you were boring?!

Phoebe: Oh my God, I remember now! We were playing chess!

Ross: Phoebe! You and I have never played chess!

Phoebe: Oh, come on! Yes, remember that time on the frozen lake? We were playing chess, you said I was boring, and then you took off your energy mask and you were Cameron Diaz! Okay, there’s a chance this may have been a dream.

So long as you’re in the right timeline/universe. I’m not sure I’d fit into the Terran Empire that well.

That’s crazy. Absentee votes should be available for MPs. In the case of the suspended MPs they are not allowed to vote, but do you know if we have ways for MPs to vote if they simply couldn’t make it to parliament? With widespread internet access it should be easy to do.

Yes Android is basically a laptop in your pocket, dumb phones used to last a week on a charge. Though the main thing I miss is that the alarm would still go off even if the battery went flat 😅

Dumb phones still exist. There’s a market for them from people who want big physical buttons through to parents who want their kids to have an emergency phone.

I can’t tell where to find them but here in NZ I just search “dumb phone NZ” and get heaps of options.