The hypocrisy of our politicians is stunning.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...arn-te-reo



[b]"Luxon defends taxpayer-funded te reo lessons, after his own criticism [/b]
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says it is important for public officials to have skills in te reo, after criticising other public service bosses for funding te reo lessons.

No doubt there are eager beaver journalists checking that even now....

They've pulled back on developing walkways & cycleways - idiocy in these times. It seems they're not bothered about the effect on their & our children, grandchildren & their descendants.
We - & every other country in the world - desperately need politicians with the ability to take a long term view, preferably before the planet is completely stuffed.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504...initatives


"The new government's Transport Minister has pulled the brakes on dozens of council projects designed to encourage cycling, walking and use of public transport across the country, sparking confusion in local authority ranks and fury amongst cycling advocates.
In a letter to local authorities Simeon Brown said he told the New Zealand Transport Authority (Waka Kotahi) to halt work on cycling and walking initiatives.
"I understand that some local authorities have been developing programmes with NZTA and other stakeholders to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) by the light vehicle fleet, using funding from the Climate Emergency Response Fund.

"I have given notice to NZTA to end its work on these programmes, and to not commit any further funding to local authorities (beyond existing contractual obligations) to develop these programmes. Thank you for your understanding as we work through these changes."

VKT programmes are designed to reduce reliance on cars, and support people to walk, cycle and use public transport.


Brown was not available for an interview, but in a statement said the cycling and walking initiatives were a waste of time and money."

I am experiencing this error recently when shutting down my PC:  

"Hidden Window: Logi Overlay.exe .. Application Error.  "   and, it prevents me from shutting down my PC.

It happens quite often but not always.   I think it's the software for the Logitech device, my MX Master 3 mouse.  There was a software update recently. 
It never happened before the update.

You reckon I can uninstall the software completely?

I have been using Google Chat for some time now and I have found that I can usually compose about 20 lines until I cannot enter any more and so I send that and start the next message. That is usually adequate for what I want to say but just recently it has only been possible to do 3 lines. This problem seems to have started since they introduced their new logo. But it seems to be a problem just with me as messages I receive have many lines, 2 to 3 times as much as I have been used to.
The temporary solution that I have found - about 3 lines - is manageable but not very convenient so I was hoping that someone could advise me how to remedy the problem.
Thank you in anticipation.

If you have a spare half an hour this is quite interesting.  Ingenious use of materials.


I live 25 meters above the ground. Safe place from wild animals and from BEAR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXu322agvo

Looks incredible.
I thought the video was CGI to begin with. Boston dynamics look a far more powerful and strong robot, but this has more human movements, with hands, etc and can perform more delicate tasks from what I can tell.

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/finance-mi...JOKD5H6CI/

Absolutely monstrous! After all the work to get this cruel practice stopped, this greed blinded idiot govt is about to reinstate the live export of animals.

Our international reputation appears to be rapidly descending down the toilet at a great rate of knots.  

They just appear to be hell bent on removing anything done by the previous govt, regardless of the harm it causes.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/50039...government


"For years, New Zealand exported cattle to China to help build their dairy herd, with nearly 135,000 cattle exported in 2021.
In April, Labour banned livestock exports, after an independent review found they could damage New Zealand's reputation regarding animal welfare.

National promised it would restart live exports, with 'gold standard' rules to protect animal welfare and safety.

Livestock Export New Zealand chairperson Mark Willis said the industry had been working on animal welfare rules for a while.

"Since Labour announced the ban (in September 2022), the industry has been working with the Ministry for Primary Industries on a weekly basis to improve welfare standards."


https://safe.org.nz/blog-articles/if-ele...ort-trade/

I've got a project I'm working on that uses a Teltonika 4G router on solar power.
These units seem pretty powerful and can run scripts and have analog inputs and outputs.
I was going to use an arduino, but if I can get the router to run a script for me it will make the whole unit less complex.
I basically want it to activate a relay when the battery drops to a preset level, it seems this should be possible.
An added bonus would be a way to monitor the battery voltage remotely, might be able to do this through the web browser, but it might be possible to run something using ssh or telnet?

Could easily spread across NZ.
Has been confined to only great barrier for some time.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/12/nzs-mo...raki-gulf/