These 'individuals' need to be dealt with now.  This is crossing a line...

Quote:Protesters have painted over a rainbow crossing on Gisborne's main street.
A group of people identifying themselves as Destiny Church members blocked off Gladstone Road and painted a layer of white over the crossing on Monday evening.
Posts on social media link the actions to opposition to a Rainbow Storytime show at HB Williams Memorial Library on Tuesday.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5126...f-gisborne

This is our largest trading partner?

Quote:New Zealand is backing the United Kingdom in its condemnation of People's Republic of China (PRC) state-backed malicious cyber activity, but won't be introducing sanctions.
The GCSB's National Cyber Security Centre completed an assessment following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC state-sponsored group known as APT40, GCSB Minister Judith Collins says.
Judith Collins on Tuesday revealed a second hack in 2021 but says the malicious activity was contained and the actor was removed shortly after accessing the networks.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512...th-collins

Chris Finlayson is not a happy camper; the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations & attorney general agrees with political commentator Mathew Hooton.

You really have to wonder about David Seymour's motivation.

Quote:"Chris Finlayson, the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations and attorney-general, and political commentator Matthew Hooton agree on one point - the National-led Government should not support the Act PartyÔÇÖs Treaty referendum.
Finlayson, who held those key portfolios under former National Party leader Sir John Key, and┬áNZ Herald┬ácolumnist Hooton, a political analyst and advisor, said the Act PartyÔÇÖs desire for a referendum would derail years of good faith bargaining and empower weirdos.

"It will bring out of the woodwork the sort of people who used to write to me and say, ÔÇÿwhy donÔÇÖt you get cancer?ÔÇÖ, ÔÇÿhow dare you give property rights to people above their stationÔÇÖ or, as sometimes even happens now walking along Lambton Quay, someone will call me a ÔÇÿM─üori-loving c***ÔÇÖ," Finlayson told current affairs host┬áMoana Maniapoto on┬áTe Ao with Moana."

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/form...reaty-plan

On Win 10 PCs I've often done this in the past and clicked the restart to update button.
Today 2 PCs successfully updated from v 123.0.1 to v 124.0.1
A third one just resulted in the error message 124.0.1ÔÇÖ is not compatible with miniVersion > = 124.0 maxVersion < = 124.0, and Firefox won't open at all.
Looks like I'll have to reinstall and copy over all the profile files from a backup, when all I wanted was a quick update.
Lesson learned - Close Firefox and reopen rather than try to restart - just in case. If that had been the prompt, at least I'd have known.
On googling the error message, I found someone complained about a similar thing with v120. Wouldn't ya think Mozilla would do something better by now.
Am I being unreasonable?

NZ is quite highly priced but America even more so:

   

Right, I'm going to be in a Microsoft teams call in which they are going to share their screen and I don't have a laptop or webcam. Usually I use my phone for video calls but it's too small to see the screen they are sharing.
So basically I want to use my phone as webcam and mic and mirror the screen to my PC. On Endless OS preferably. I have miracast on the phone and the PC has a wirless internet adapter (although I haven't used it).

Another option is I use my old Win 10 pc but it doesn't have wireless. USB cable connection?

Endless OS is linux. IS there an app for this? What would it be called?

Well done her, a really interesting series & a well deserved award.

Quote:"Robyn Malcolm has won a best actress award at a film festival in France.

Malcolm won the award, in the International Panorama section, at the S├®ries Mania Film Festival in Lille

She was recognised for her performance in After the Party, a series she co-created with writer Dianne Taylor.

It was the first time an entry from New Zealand had been considered for an award at the festival.

Malcolm said it was a proud moment after she decided 10 years ago to stay in Aotearoa because she was committed to telling New Zealand stories.

"We're a long way away and you really feel that when you're in a festival in the middle of France. You feel a long way away.

"But the fact that that story connected - and it really connected to predominantly French people who were watching it - just made New Zealand feel really close. So it was wonderful, wonderful."

After the Party follows Penny, played by Malcolm, who accuses her husband Phil of a sex crime against a teenager - but no one believes her.

The festival described Malcolm and her co-star Peter Mullan as an "incredible pair" who "deliver a remarkable story about the weight of accusation and truth".

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...vdigoPSYkA

Looks like some good deals on at the moment eg Samsung SSD 500GB SATA for $69

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/promotions/eofy-it-deals

This should hopefully put alot of the rumors to bed.
Just wish people would respect their privacy. 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...17228.html

It has long been known that there is an association between viruses and autoimmune disease onset (eg glandular fever and MS) so I check the literature from time to time out of personal interest because I have two albeit mild conditions already diagnosed, and a strong family history of others. I've been stable for very many years, but fear Covid greatly because of the risk of it setting off something new.

I have just seen this article "New-onset autoimmune disease after COVID-19" https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...37406/full.

It's a formal medical article so pretty hard to read in depth, but the last paragraph says:
" In summary, several autoimmune diseases were more likely to be diagnosed within the first year after COVID-19 than in age- and sex-matched controls. The risk of new-onset autoimmune diseases after COVID-19 appears to be attenuated with the more recent Omicron strains. Positive ANA test is more common after COVID-19 and is predictive of incident autoimmune diseases. This suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be a trigger for certain autoimmune diseases. Future work must focus on longer-term observational cohorts and should assess the persistence and predictive value of different measured autoantibodies. "

So it seems that the risk is reducing with the Omicron variants that now dominate. Which is great news. Although of course it's still better to avoid catching Covid if possible (and yes, I have had it and luckily it was mild, although it did leave me with some digestive issues that are slowly resolving. The vaccine did its job in ensuring that it wasn't worse).