https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/30101912...government

On TVNZ, except for those of course that are only maori.
Just my observations, but haven't noticed this In a while.
Coincidence after change of govt?

It does depend on what is altered or left out but when you look at what's happened in America this is quite worrying.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibFzELEU...MM&index=9


"The lead writer of the sexuality and relationship education guidelines is alarmed the new government has agreed to remove them.
The deal comes under National's coalition deal with New Zealand First, which campaigned on removing "gender ideology" from the curriculum.
Education professor Katie Fitzpatrick said removing the sexuality and relationship guidelines for schools was a backwards step.
"I think that would be a huge mistake. It would be really against what young people want. We've had three petitions to Parliament in the last seven years from young people advocating for better relationships and sexuality education in schools."

Fitzpatrick led the team which wrote the guidelines that were introduced in 2020 by NZ First MP and associate education minister at the time Tracey Martin.
There are two documents, one for Year 1 to 8 and another for Year 9 to 13.
She said they reflected huge progress in education around consent, inclusion and shifting societal norms.

There was a strong focus on teaching young people to think critically about social media, pornography and sexual content online, she said.
"There's a lot of information and messages about relationships, sexuality, body, gender and I think schools can really help young people engage with that."
Fitzpatrick said it was unclear from the coalition documents what the guidelines would be replaced with.

But she believed removing them would send a strong signal to schools to stop teaching about sexuality and relationships.
"We need to make sure that we're not going back to some sort of regressive form of schooling which looks to repress knowledge about health and sexuality for young people."


And it isn't just in the USA. Right winger people seem deeply disturbed by the idea of people being better informed about human sexuality.


Russia bans 'gay propaganda' - possibly as a result of Putin being tucked up with the Russian orthodox church.


https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-g...R20120229/


https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-...-killings/


The UK, apparently those opposed are not above using false information.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/s...explainer/

I have  read that in 2020 Microsoft decided to pull the plug on the Windows 7 Back up and Restore tool, and  it will  likely  be removed in a future Windows Update.  Apparently  Microsoft recommend using a third-party utilities to back up instead. As Macruim Reflect is no longer free, can anyone recommend a good free Back up utility that I can use.

Thanks

I thought my MB is doing well,13 years and not even the battery has needed replacing yet, but this morning my HDD died.

The backup thankfully, but when replacing it, I noted the date:
2009. 14 years so that was the oldest piece of hardware I had.

A Seagate sata. Still can't complain about that lifespan, can we?

that I have to wait for Spark to release the One UI update for my Samsung phone?

Or does it come via somewhere else? 

I bought a S23FE last week and I see that OneUI 6.0 is out but I have 5.1, and I've got FOMO like real bad.

My old PC has developed a problem:   it restarts by itself.  Happened two times since this morning.

First time was when it woke up from 'sleep', after using it for about 5 mins, it restarted by itself.  2nd time, just a few mins ago, it did the same.

Event viewer:  Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
Date:          30/11/2023 12:58:25 pm
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:        Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      SATURN
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xffff9d0f4f3ce370, 0xfffff806918c83e0, 0xffffffffc000009a, 0x0000000000000004). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\113023-8562-01.dmp. Report Id: d500fb2c-098b-4e37-a648-337d36d81a74.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting" Guid="{abce23e7-de45-4366-8631-84fa6c525952}" />
    <EventID>1001</EventID>
    <Version>1</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2023-11-29T23:58:25.9784272Z" />
    <EventRecordID>110377</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="992" ThreadID="996" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>SATURN</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">0x00000116 (0xffff9d0f4f3ce370, 0xfffff806918c83e0, 0xffffffffc000009a, 0x0000000000000004)</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\113023-8562-01.dmp</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">d500fb2c-098b-4e37-a648-337d36d81a74</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>


Help, please!

Worth a read as we are seeing a lot of right-wing behaviour in NZ.

Note there is a typo in the end of the article, second last paragraph: "same" should be "name"

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/29/trumps-...s-decline/

This morning.
Pre-sale overloaded the website, had to wait 20mins in the queue and said I had 80,000 in front of me.
Makes me wonder if it was full of bots on there or something because the venue can't hold that many people.
Spoke to a friend and he told me it was over 100,000 people in line!
He was unable to find any tickets by the time it let him in.
Main sale starts Friday, so hopefully he has a second chance.

My friend Alan is looking for a girlfriend online. Occasionally someone sends him a sexy picture and I have told him not to believe everything he sees. I have heard there is a room full of people pretending to be looking for love but they are very mercenary and are just out for whatever they can get.
I have heard somewhere that it is possible to find out where a picture originates but I don't know how it is done so I was hoping there is someone who can enlighten me so he could acertain where it has originated and so hopefully not be conned. 
Thank you for your help.
Roscoe.