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?
I’m still not feeling the best, but back at work today anyway (well, not at work, but working).
Also got an interesting spam message by a bot trying to register for an account here:
The question is “Where are you from”, so they missed the mark a bit. The day before there was a registration application from a person, they read the instructions, answered the question, waited to be approved, then when they got approved they posted a spam URL and were immediately banned by the automod. Imagine all that hard work undone in a second.
Yeah it’s been a life saver. It’s only been running for a couple of months, I set it up when there was a massive whole-of-fediverse spam wave happening all sharing the same URL. Thousands of spam posts and most of them could be automatically removed before anyone saw them! One down side (and arguably up-side) of the fediverse is that if the home instance of the user doesn’t ban them then every other instance has to ban them individually. Automods help to ease this burden, but each instance has to set up an automod and maintain their own rules.
I expect over time we will probably see more lemmy compatible tools to help, since Lemmy is still in the early days.
I’ve signed up for Lemmy.nz after the huge delays to my comments via Lemmy.world. Had better think of something to comment about now. Will definitely comment once I get my hearing aids on Monday.
Thanks, and thanks for your detailed reply to my Lemmy.world sourced comment.
I’ve been online gaming recently and I keep running into this feeling that Oceanic internet is so dead. When I go to european based communities they have heaps of groups of people wanting to play all different types of games. Same for America but here we have small groups of people who play the 5 most popular games and nothing else. Maybe I just do what ever 30 year old Kiwi man does and get a shed full of tools and half finish a bunch of diy projects.
I suspect it’s because Europe and the US have far more people! And of course if there aren’t many people, then others don’t join because there’s never anyone online, and it’s a compounding problem.
Maybe play games that don’t rely on ping so much, so you can play with the Europeans and Americans?
A shed full of tools works too!
I’m back at work this is my 3rd week, slowly increasing my hours back to normal.
I was very sick for a while.
I hope you’re recovering well! One off or something that could come back?
Recovering.
I got pneumonia, with a bunch of complications.
Hopefully it never comes back.
Oh that’s no good! Sounds like you’re through the thick of it now so it’s good to hear you’re mending.
I did a trip up to Waihi beach over the “long weekend”, leaving Wed. My car blew a head gasket just north of Taihape, and we ended up getting a rental and towing my trailer the rest of the way, which meant we arrived early the next day. I did two trips up the coast, and the third day was spent playing in the surf.
Now I need to work out the most cost effective way to get my car back home, and sell it.
Here’s the GPS tracks and a few photos from the trip.
Thursday, coastal paddle and rock gardening. https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqN1DG9zG6
Friday, coastal paddle, rock gardening and a walk up a stream. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq
Saturday morning, surf practice. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYxAoEq
Sunday afternoon, surf practice and comp. comp https://www.relive.cc/view/vYvE2mAWBGO
It’s been a great weekend, and I plan to be back next time.
Sucks about the car but it looks like you had a good trip!
When you say “rock gardening”, you’re talking about riding waves over rocks like this?
And for “surf practice and comp”, is this a competition? And you’re not meaning surf as in surf board, but still in kayaks?
Edit: Oh and one last question, what’s the photo at 0:31 in this one? https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq
That’s the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it’s a slightly different game to board surfing as we’re catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.
I think that’s the inside of my pocket, I didn’t notice that photo was in there.
