Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 34

@Coffee have you tried #Pattle? Also now available in F-Droid.

@bigblen woah. That's a layer of the rabbithole I hadn't considered.

@aldobelus achievement unlocked! Thanks for the update :)

@marcozehe have you posted an issue on the Pinafore repo? If @nolan can do something about this I'm sure he'll be willing.

It seems to me that #NZ has struggled to adequately fund public broadcasting since the TV license fee was abolished in 1999. Back then, kiwis were starting to access publicly funded content via the net, and this has only increased over the last 20 years, so keeping the license fee wouldn't have solved the funding problem. But what about a similar fee on internet connections, collected by ISPs?

#RadioNZ #Mediawatch put together almost an hour long #podcast of interviews with journalists and academics, comparing the #PublicBroadcasting models of various countries and discussing what the government can learn from them as it considers merging #RadioNZ and #TVNZ:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018724866/mediawatch-for-1-december-2019

@acrata 119990 THB!?! Isn't that 3,960.51 USD? That makes #Purism laptops look cheap:
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-13/

#Crowdfunding for #TheyWorkForYou, a non-profit that helps #UK citizens hold their elected officials accountable:
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/26/hansard-plus-plus.html

If kiwis vote "no" in the #referendum next year, that won't make cannabis disappear from the country overnight. It's a vote against quality-controlled cannabis being sold to adults, by licensed, tax-paying retailers. So in effect, it's a vote *for* unregulated cannabis (or analogues) being sold to anyone with money, by totally unregulated black market dealers who pay no tax on it, not even the income tax and GST people selling groceries have to pay. Who would vote for that?
#MakeItLegal

It's now clear that in 2020 kiwis will be voting on whether to allow adults 20 or over to buy cannabis from licensed, taxed retailers:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/404771/green-party-s-chloe-swarbrick-says-prohibition-model-on-cannabis-has-failed

@Anke is the server side code under a free license as well? Could you self-host?
@vicorva

I didn't even notice the first time around that they did the same to Kes, half way through season 3. Replacing her short helmet hairdo with long, curly locks, and her modest costumes with a body stocking not unlike Seven's costume.

Been rewatching #StarTrek #Voyager, and finally reached season 4 and the appearance of Seven of Nine. I'd forgotten just how desperately they pimped her out trying to improve their ratings. Even her #BORG costume left remarkably little to the imagination.

Anyone still unwilling to acknowledge that injecting a medication directly into a baby's bloodstream is a high risk way to administer it, with potentially fatal consequences if something goes wrong?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018725410/nurses-fatal-vaccination-error-in-samoa-was-against-parents-wishes

However, we also need to learn from the experience of the Mesa Verde peoples. Isolated self-sufficiency isn't a resilient strategy either. Being independent of the grid doesn't require being completely #OffGrid, and there are benefits to being connected to the grid even when you don't (usually) need it. It may be that a combination of both autonomous and cooperative systems allows human societies to function at our most adaptable.

We need to start thinking of large-scale electric and data grids as a supplement to autonomous local systems, not as essential core infrastructure. If we reduce our dependence on them, that reduces the strain on them and the people who maintain them, as well as reducing the impact it would have on our lives if and when they become less reliable.