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'Bright as': Fireball lights up skies above Taranaki Maunga https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/1555391/bright-as-fireball-lights-up-skies-above-taranaki-maunga
I reckon this is what I saw. Cool.
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Raglan Niall 
@Niall@mastodon.nz
mastodon 4.7.2Aotearoa / NZ based wannabe Climate Change Survivor trying to build a fantastic carbon free future. Despite techno-optimism I am not pro-techbro and believe we need fundamental political and systems changes too.
Keen Ebiker for transport, thrills and dog exercising.
Founder & Chief Chimp at The Infinite Monkey Lab developing grid batteries from End of Life EV batteries.
FWIW I do not consent to my information/posts/opinions being used by corporations of any sort without my express approval.
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Two ~600kg BYD E6 batteries (almost) mounted to a frame. Hard work, good work. This is about 120-160kWh of storage total. The batteries are from ex-Singaporean taxis which had done about 250,000km before crashing (the cars, not the batteries). I've owned a couple and seen plenty of 400,000km taxis with over 80% SOH so I think these batteries are likely to be plenty better.
The plan is coming together...
#EV #BESS #ReduceReuse
Educating myself on a Friday night
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@EdwardCam285@mastodon.social that is either the most deadpan or the most dumb response I've seen in a while. Congratulations! Choose which award you want and celebrate it :-)
@greenpeace@mastodon.social
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@mu@mastodon.nz Me too. Rather than banning kids, instead if we made the social media companies responsible for cleaning themselves up then all ages would be saved the toxic behaviour of the vocal few on these platforms. @ptoothfish@beige.party
help@netsafe.org.nz
Hi there,
I'm trying to figure out if I can find a date without either giving my data to an American corporation nor allowing that data to be used for purposes other than my finding a partner.
Your downloadable guide* sadly doesn't offer anything about this. The only mentions of privacy are in relation to other users of the site not the site itself. You don't mention data at all. I get that's not the point of the guide but I feel we should be careful of our data and be mindful of who has access to it, for how long. Do you have any advice that can help me find a service with privacy respecting terms? I haven't found one so far so I guess I'll stay single a while longer..
Finally your guide also reads like an advert from Bumble. Sponsorship is great but so is maintaining editorial control.
*https://netsafe.org.nz/online-safety-at-home/online-dating
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That was the biggest shake I've felt in Raglan ever.
#eqnz
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@quasirealsmiths@beige.party how?!
Apart from a highly improbable, perfectly timed breakdowns I really struggle to understand how cars get hit by things ON RAILS.
UK Scam alert, con artists using climate change for profit.
My elderly parents have just suffered through a heatwave in the UK. As a Kiwi I swear by heat pumps. I have been urging them to get one for years now. Finally they might be listening. But then...
"From Mum:
Is this an alternative to buying expensive air"conditioning?"
Oh good god, think, where does the heat go to?!?!
https://specsurge.com/lp_gsaegu_uk_6_22_26/
#Scam #ClimateChange #AirConditioning
Home Assistant Curious
Now my heat pump hot water cylinder is working I was about to download the app to control it. I was dreading the inevitable 'grant permissions' and 'agree to T&Cs' buttons so I searched and...
...its controllable with Home Assistant via this repo. I've been HA curious for a while, maybe this is the gateway?
Before I jump into the Home Assistant gravity well, can anyone recommend 'HA101' and 'HA quick start for dummies' videos? Ta :)
https://github.com/0xAHA/Midea-Heat-Pump-HA
#HomeAssistant@FlanFlinger@mastodon.social
This is a sad example of why you can't trust corporates.
Solar Zero's business model was a good one. But they took funding from vampires (blackrock) who demanded a very high growth rate to drive very high returns. When Solar Zero failed to keep up Blackrock pulled its money causing Solar Zero to collapse. Customers are now trapped in long contracts with some random company that has bought the wreckage. I wouldn't be surprised if the random company has found its bought crap also, anecdotes about what SZ were up to just before they went bust were not at all good.
I feel with patient capital and management that cares this could be turned into a good news story of helping people out of a hole. But patient capital is a bit of an oxymoron...
Angry customers complain about SolarZero contracts https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/712834/angry-customers-complain-about-solarzero-contracts
#PV #GreedyCapital #DeludedBosses
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For tonight we have a storyline. Of sorts.
I love you Mr President
https://youtu.be/PcR8I-7oCnU
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@leighelse@mastodon.nz this is important and depressing. Let it shake a few awake and maybe course-correct. Please.
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@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz sadly not collapse and die. He notes they run lots of important Government stuff so that'll get bailed/parted out. But the data center build-out is predicted to be dead. Also predicted to die is the takeover/merger of big TV companies by his kuds.
@phil_stevens@mastodon.nz
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Trying to submit on the various noxious bills which are open for submission. I get this. Turn VPN off I get this. I refuse to turn off uBlock. A bajillion other things work fine with my setup so this is either incompetence or design. Couple this with my deep skeptism that anything ever gets done based on submissions I'm out. If anyone wants to pass a simple message on to our dear leadership here it is:
Fuck this Government.
Enjoy the #altText
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@wavygk@mastodon.nz as of 2.5hours ago I am lightly injured. I'll follow your lead from the couch.
I went too fast at a wet grassy corner and low-sided my mountain bike. Bruised ribs, sore neck, I'll be fine.
Hope you get well quickly too!
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@ZLabe@fediscience.org attempted silver lining: Well at least our theories are matching the data...
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@ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz would coffee sacks fit the bill? Most roasters have a surplus, some of them try and sell them.
RE: https://aus.social/@crk5/117022852183880198
NdGT is cool.
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@phil_stevens@mastodon.nz so I inexpertly fiddled with the truss rod. Then I took a look under the cover by the bridge and found a 9V battery. It failed the tongue test so I put a new one in and now we have sounds! Big, gritty, reverby fun sounds. The action's little better but the results are much more fun :) I think I'll get it professionally setup so I know a good baseline. My adjustments are blind poking in the dark.
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@ysegrim@furry.engineer @quasirealsmiths@beige.party like the (almost certainly fake) conversation between a US aircraft carrier and a lighthouse.
Thought experiment:
You're flying to Canada from somewhere outside the US. Your plane has a technical issue which means it needs to land at the nearest airport. This happens to be in the US. You're someone from outside the US and have no paperwork/visa allowing you to be in the US.
What happens?
#ICE #USA #USPol
Prompted but not directly related to this story: https://infosec.exchange/@cremevax/116949827781287262
Thought experiment: You're flying to Canada from somewhere outside the US. Your plane has a technical issue which means it needs to land at the nearest airport. This happens to be in the US. You're someone from outside the US and have no paperwork/visa allowing you to be in the US. What happens? #IC
Britney Sabbath
Sabbath Toxic Sabbath
#JukeboxFridayNight #musicmusiciansandmashups https://youtu.be/s97E0y023Jw
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@joncounts@mastodon.nz It is related to how America came to get its tentacles into everything. More specifically in this book's case: Territory everywhere.
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@wavygk@mastodon.nz that's magic! How much for a meter's worth of those old books? I have an empty shelf :)
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@kotking@blorbo.social but we need the nuclear for the data centers for the AI so that it can tell us how to fix the climate and energy crisis. Or so those sociopathic grifters say. Its infuriating.
@timixretroplays@digipres.club
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@wavygk@mastodon.nz I think they say these things with a straight face by not actually processing what they're saying. Otherwise they'd combust in an explosion of fine BS & cognitive dissonance.
BTW I'm still waiting on a price for a line of old science books ;-)
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@ClareBear@mastodon.nz Not bad for a Kwasi-joke.
@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz @phil_stevens@mastodon.nz
When feeling sorry for oneself on the couch, this is a perfect video for nerds like me.
I am only just past the taco* and I'm saving the rest for after I go for a hobble with the dog.
*Spoiler: Nothing whatsoever to do with orange babies or politics
KiCAD Why why why?
Wiring a schematic, the wires don't snap onto the nearest component terminal. Researching, it seems you have to have set the grid to the correct size and that your components have to be drawn to that too. The schematic is just an abstract representation of the circuit. Precise location in space has no meaning. Locking wires to the grid and therefore having them look like they've connected but not really is (to me) bloody stupid.
I feel they should:
A/ Snap to nearest terminal by default
B/ Clearly highlight when they're loose-turn red, have a large coloured blob on the free end, something obvious.
I'm sure I'm missing something. If anyone has been through this and can explain what I'm missing I'm keen to hear please :)
#FirstWorldProblems #KiCAD
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@KathyReid@aus.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I couldn't find audio for this. Am I being blind?
Ed predicts Oracle collapse, amongst many other fun things. I hope he's right.
Did I post this ahead of @phil_stevens@mastodon.nz?
#AI #Bubble #Oracle
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@Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world oh but you'll have the biggest warehouse rave venue when it goes bust. Think of the boost to the economy!
@emilymbender@dair-community.social @alex@dair-community.social
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@SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz relevant:
"Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed"
https://youtu.be/pnv5iKB2hl4