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Efeso Collins died today. This quote is from his maiden speech in parliament (lemmy.nz)
 

"It's hard to be poor, it's expensive to be poor, and moreover, public discourse is making it socially unacceptable to be poor. Whether it's bashing on beneficiaries, dragging our feet towards a living wage, throwing shade on school breakfast programmes, or restricting people's ability to collectively bargain for fairer working conditions, we must do better to lift aspirations and the lived realities of all our people. To that end, | want to say to this House with complete surety that the neoliberal experiment of the 1980s has failed. The economics of creating unemployment to manage inflation is farcical when domestic inflation in New Zealand has been driven by big corporates making excessive profits. It's time to draw a line in the sand, and alongside my colleagues here in Te Pati Kakariki, we've come as the pallbearers of neoliberalism, to bury these shallow, insufferable ideas once and for all. And this, sir, is our act of love."

Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

Very interesting, thanks!

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What ever happened to the $2 billion that was poured into mental healthcare? (www.rnz.co.nz)
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National plans to gut Kainga Ora (www.stuff.co.nz)
 

The National Party is promising to axe swathes of jobs and “clean out” Kāinga Ora, the Government’s social housing landlord and developer.

When asked if there will be job losses at the agency, he said: “Hope so”.

Kāinga Ora was set up four years ago, and derailing it now would be “stupid”, Bill McKay, a senior lecturer in architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, explained.

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How NZ got played by NZ Herald (e-tangata.co.nz)
 

News stories don’t just pre-exist somewhere out there, walking around intact and whole, waiting for an equal chance to step through the door of a media outlet and into the public arena.

They exist in tiny bits and pieces, among heaps of junk and distortions and agendas — and the bits are selected, assessed, ranked, and assembled, according to the rigour and professionalism, or the whim and worldview, of the journalists and outlets involved.

Barry Soper chose to construct a pretty ugly beast out of their scraps. The Herald chose to parade it. Then they stepped back and let everyone else feed it, until the whole thing became something big and real-seeming enough to cause genuine uncertainty and fear, and to prompt genuine attempts to do the proper journalistic work of understanding what this new health initiative is all about.

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Can you detect fake headlines? (yourmist.streamlit.app)
Pythörhead, the lemmy python library, now supports all post operations in c/python@programming.dev
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here come the bots!

What is considerd a small idea/project and how do you all find motivation? in c/programming@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Motivation is a tricky thing. You need to create it, it's not something anyone has innately.

Something I've been using lately, with good results, is to spend a few minutes at the start of each day reminding myself of the vision I have for my future. I previously collected photos or symbols of those things and spend a few seconds dwelling on each of them and trying to imagine how my life will be better then. Cultivate the dream.

A lot of those things I dream of will take a long time to happen so they need to be broken down into smaller sub-goals. Use chatgpt to help with this?

Once my vision has been refreshed I make a to-do list for the day.

Executive functioning is often hard for people with autism. Some of the techniques that people with ADHD use can be helpful, as they have the same issues. Lots of info on the web out there about this and your public library will have free books on it too.

What disros works on low end, slow, very outdated pc's? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

There is a lesson to be learned here in c/fediverse@kbin.social
Blackouts haven’t impacted Reddit's decision, “that’s our business decision, and we’re not undoing that business decision.” in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 years ago

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

Is installing personal packages with pipx an anti-pattern? in c/python@sh.itjust.works
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

This seems ok to me. Over time you might come to regret it if you have many scripts and they want to use different package versions...

Another approach could be to write a shell script which loads the virtual environment and then starts the main script. something like

cd /home/rimu/path_to_my_script/
source venv/bin/activate
python myscript.py

Put your shell script in ~/bin and ensure that ~/bin is in your $PATH.

Refurbishing an old ThinkPad for a friend -- Debian, Fedora or something else? in c/linux@sopuli.xyz
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.

But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.

I've read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they're mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.

How do you guys use a distro that doesn't have the AUR (or equivalent?) in c/linux@sh.itjust.works
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:

./configure
make
make install

It's the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.

Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.

Programming and Humility in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago

If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn't attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.

Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren't.

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? in c/technology@beehaw.org
Redditors, how do you like Lemmy? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] rimu@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.

It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.

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Wish Lemmy used more screen real estate? Or that replies are indented more? Or that horrible green is blue? Read on (userstyles.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rimu@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Install this User Style (requires a browser extension) to make Lemmy look better.

I just whipped this up in a few minutes so there is more to do but whatever. Enjoy.

https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

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