Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz Dave @lemmy.nz 6 mo. ago

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 23/5/2024

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 doesn’t 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
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like a hippo
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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Instance birthday

On 2 June we will celebrate 1 year of lemmy.nz! Anyone got ideas on how to celebrate?
- Woah, can't believe it's been an year already!
  
  For the anniversary day, maybe we could have a post showcasing a few highlights of our community over the past year, something like Spotify's Wrapped, but for Lemmy - so maybe a highlight of the most upvoted posts/comments, most profilic posters, membership counts, major server changes and little victories (maybe share some of your experiences in keeping the ship afloat)?
  
  Nice idea! Any thoughts on presentation? A post with info, links, and screen shots would probably be easiest, but maybe we can do better?
  
  I'll try to think of some major things that have happened in the last year.
  
  Looking back through old posts I'm feeling sad about all the cool people who have slowly dropped off over the year. But also all the ones who are still here so that's cool!
- Weird. My account is already showing 1 year.
  
  Guessing voyager must be rounding somehow.
  
  Mine says that too, on Lemmy-UI. Probably just switches to 1 yr when it gets close. 1 year (ish).
Hi all, sorry for being a bit slow on creating this new thread.

I have a few updates but I'll post them in separate comments so they have separate comment chains.

Census

I'm working on a census survey like lemmy.ca did here. I didn't have access to the original survey questions but I'm trying to align with their survey so we can compare against it. Though not everything is relevant so some things will be a bit different. I'm planning on doing this some time around the instance birthday at the start of June, and repeating it each year as Lemmy.ca does.

Anyone want to participate in helping refine it?
- No volunteers to review the census questionnaire?
  
  Any questions that anyone is particularly interested in asking the community?
Work is a little surreal today. I'm at one of the ministries and today is the last day of pretty much everyone who took voluntary redundancy. The farewell morning teas are sequentially occupying the kitchen areas.
- I have heard this can be hardest on those left behind. People feel a form of survivor's guilt, while most of the ones that took the voluntary redundancy are happy to be going.
  
  I don't know about guilt but I can confirm their work did not leave with them.
Down time

I've been fighting with lemmy a bit recently, it's going down randomly and I'm not sure why. I have started disabling things to see if I can isolate it. The main one you might notice missing is the automod that handles spam, so if you see spam please report it and I'll handle it manually.
- It keeps timing out on me. It's sporatic but more frequent than I would expect.
  
  Yeah, I have a tracker (Uptime Kuma) that's testing every minute. There has been failures or time outs every day for the last week or so, but it was much better before that. I'm not sure what's changed that's caused the issue.
  
  There have been 6 separate outages today, and it needs two checks in a row to fail to count it as an outage. Though most have only been a few minutes.
  
  If anyone has suggestions on how to troubleshoot, I'm listening!
- Sorry guys, today we have the double whammy of the host having issues as well as lemmy itself having issues, so it's all a bit flaky today.
How come nobody is reporting on covid anymore? From what I understand there has been a serious spike in cases over the last couple of weeks.
- My wife got her flu jab earlier this week and the nurse recommended her to get a COVID booster if she can because cases are spiking again apparently. I think the general public doesn't care as much any more
  
  I was under the impression that our vaccines have not been updated and are not very useful against the latest variants.
- It's probably not news anymore. No one is reading articles about it, so they don't publish the stories.
  
  In Wellington there's this flu study that also tracks COVID, but they have only just started tracking the 2024 flu season. Still, there's a substantial number of COVID cases. In the past the most recent week has always been inaccurate as they are still waiting for the results of some testing to come through, so ignore that as it's probably not actually a drop (based on the other axis we should see it higher than the first week's results).
  
  Given the lack of rigorous testing and monitoring I suspect actual reported number of cases should be doubled or tripled. The hospitalisation and deaths are more reliable and that's what we should be monitoring.
Have to say I love when stuff gets shipped with DHL. Practically overnight shipping from Australia. I know it costs more but so worth it sometimes.
- Between them, DHL and FedEx get almost all of our parts orders from Melbourne to Pukekohe overnight. They are unbelievably efficient compared to outfits places like Toll or Aramex that can't get packages across Auckland in under a week.
  
  Do FedEx have their own drivers in Auckland? IIRC they get handed over to Nz Couriers here in Hamilton, who I find aren’t as reliable as the DHL drivers.
  
  It’s usually too expensive for me but occasionally I stump up for it, as I find Auspost to be really slow, which most sites use when sending here from Oz.

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