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I'm in Dunedin, but I didn't even know these birds came here! That's amazing. Do you know if DOC or whoever are planning anything to help?

People aren't allowed to go into the breeding areas on the Otago Peninsula for Albatrosses, surely something similar could be done for these?

I just wish our govt would assert more control in our EEZ from illegal fishing. It's very saddening when you read articles about how the adult birds get caught in the nests etc.

  Yet the most pernicious threats to albatrosses today are not to chicks but to adult birds. Along with other seabirds, they are locked in a competitive battle with humankind for the food resources of the sea—and the birds are losing. This is not just because of the efficiency of modern fishing practices but because fishing equipment—hooks, nets and trawl wires—inflicts a heavy toll of injury and death.[0]

[0] https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/in-harms-way/

My son was born in 2013. For some reason I immediately blurted out "Archer" when we found out we were having a boy. My wife did not like it, I loved the name! I kept referring to him as Archer, and then soon she couldn't think of him as anything other than Archer, haha. It's a great name and it suits him so well, and it's unique enough (it was not a popular name back in 2012-2013) but I'm seeing it become more popular now.

He's still the only Archer at his school though. (no, I hadn't even watched the Archer TV series or heard about it, but one day I will...)

My experience is with South Island, so primarily Ngāi Tahu and others. The one you linked is total crap, I agree.

Ha. Reminds me of my grandmother. She's quite old now but the doctors told us she had dementia. One day Mum was telling me about it and I said, "make sure they understand she's deaf, and will just smile and nod if she doesn't hear properly."

Next appt, mum goes with her and lo and behold, she doesn't have dementia, she needs a new hearing aid.

(deafness runs in my family, if you're interested: https://medium.com/@veb/my-journey-to-a-cochlear-implant-8ce... - had to remove part 2 because lawyers...)

I think you'd find that Māori are doing OK. Better than Pacific Islanders.

But yes, there's hard-to-reach people in every ethnicity. What I've enjoyed is the orgs who are vaccinating Māori and Pacific Islanders - always tell the community to come along even if you don't fit in either ethnicity, you'll still get a jab. I just love that. It's the way it should be!

We're all people, let's look after each other.

This is kind of already happening with the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So you get hundreds of games to play, but you actually don't own any of them.

I understand you meant it in a different light but I thought I'd give it a mention.

I'm in NZ, and we have very large (I'd wager true wilderness) forests with native trees and fauna. Even cutting native trees on your property can be pretty bad (people get convicted for this). Unless say, the tree is about to fall on your house. We have a lot of national parks, I just would like us to get some more national marine reserves considering we have a pretty large EEZ zone around the country: https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/33830/exclusive-economic-zones (which is the forth largest in the world).

There's so much we can do better, and we are trying. Pine, etc we don't care about cutting down. Ngāi Tahu a South Island Maōri tribe actually own a lot of these forests and the idea is that when they're felled for timber, natives are grown in place. I hope they keep that up, and to be fair, they're not really in need of much more money considering they are the richest tribe in NZ as they've re-invested everything they got after the Treaty of Waitangi.

We should do more though, always.

If you ever visit, there's places in Stewart Island for example that have been completely made rodent free - and things are blooming there. On a school camp (we stayed on a yacht for a week), we got to experience a magical full moon-lit beach and got to witness all the wee kiwis come out and play. It was the most magical sight I've ever seen.

Thanks for the link to that blog post, really interesting!

yikes, only 5 cables for NZ. still... better than it used to be I suppose1 superb visualisations though. really cool to see.

GP can prescribe it if the patient has been diagnosed by a specialist (like the psychiatrist/paediatrician you mentioned). They can't prescribe it if you have not been diagnosed. This is just so the patients can get repeats on their meds without having to see the specialists all the time.

That and there's more than cocaine out there on the darkweb.

Sure feels like it. One would tend to tell HN about their "showing".

This actually does help. The problem I have is it all returns years later which is why some people have LSD once a year or shrooms once a year or whatever. I'd love to trial this in a clinical situation but it's gonna be a long time until we see that I imagine.

Not only that, their apps are pretty good too.

I've been in hospital recently after suffering a large oil burn to my left arm, and part of my chest. As most of us probably know, wards get very noisy. I only ever used my cochlear implant processor when I'd see the team of doctors first thing in the morning, otherwise I'd just chill and watch my laptop with captions on.

Absolutely shocked me every time I'd turn my processor on and the world would roar into my ears. "How the fuck is anyone sleeping" I'd ask myself.

I ignore all calls to my phone, my wife has set my voicemail up to say I'm deaf, to text me instead.

I've got a rather expensive system set up to every doorbell, and smoke alarm in the house that also functions as my alarm clock in which it'll vibrate the mattress (just a small circular vibration device to place under the bed).

Lip-reading over video is good enough IF you can hear enough, so because I have a cochlear implant I can do both and that's usually good enough. Without the processor on, I'm profoundly deaf - so video would be quite useless. (thus the reasoning for a vibrating smoke alarm thingy).

I keep my phone on vibrate-only.

At the end of the day I'm a little different because I rely on my cochlear implant and for some people in some communities (see deaf vs Deaf), there's quite a lot of stigma.

> We say deaf & hard-of-hearing please, not hearing-impaired.

Which is different all around the world.

Best thing anyone can do is to familiarise themselves with what they take, and what the key indications are with mixing medication and what happens when you stop. In NZ we have medsafe (https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/), a govt website that lists everything they give out. There's also the The New Zealand Formulary (http://nzformulary.org/)

An example here is that too many doctors believe that Pregabalin has no withdrawals. They're very wrong. Here, they will prescribe it for anything. It works really well too, but there's a lot of hidden bullshit. As an example, they give it to people with epilepsy, but one of the main contradictions is that it can actually cause seizures. So when that started happening for me, they put me on clonazepam (2mg, six times a day).

When I burned myself, I told the hospital I did not want either medicine. There's no point in taking Pregabalin if I have to take so much clonazepam to fix the side effects.

A week later (while still in hospital) I had a panicked pharmacist for the ward visit me and he's like "omg we weren't giving you these two" and I said, "nah mate, it's fine. I feel okay apart from the pain" and he's like, "hang on, you just stopped 12mg of clonazepam a day and you feel fine?" and so I said yes, it's because it simply stopped working and my body has decided it doesn't work on me anymore, which is why I can't take the Pregabalin either... and the stupid thing is the Pregabalin is probably one of the best things I could take right now due to it's amazing nerve pain relief. I'd rather not have seizures though, nor have to find the right kind of benzo to help. I doubt I'd find one that's different enough from the rest to help.

Just a warning, Tramadol reacts very badly in some people. Like myself, just a single pill will cause me to have tonic-clonic seizures leading up to a grand-mal seizure later on in the day.

Tramadol also has a bunch of shit in it, I feel like it's a 'dirty' drug. For example, it's very closely related to the chemical structures of antidepressants. This can be helpful, but not when you need to stop it. You also can't really take any serotonergic medicine either as you'd be at a very high risk of serotonin syndrome. Nobody wants that.

Honestly, old and true medicines really do work. I'm not saying the Sacklers are awesome, they're fuckin'evil and didn't value human lives - but the drug works for those who need it.

And Cannabis is not legal in New Zealand, at least yet. We'll find out on the 30th if it's going to be...

(I have to be on it after burning my entire left arm, and chest with burning hot oil - I also educate myself on medicines as I used to work in said sector, and I do have seizures and Tramadol is well known to lower the seizure threshold very very fast)

tricky one. i've had 1Gbit internet here in nz for a few years now, and heck I'm usually on wireless which sorta caps out about 20MB/s (eventually I'll spring for a new router), but when they installed my connection at my current place and the ONT they put in was basically a router (even had wireless antennas on it). I asked why, and the fella said that when they upgrade me to 4Gbit, the specific ONT he installed would be able to utilise it and won't need the router anymore.

honestly, it's more than enough to have 50 TVs streaming Netflix or YouTube, the computers downloading stuff, phones being used and so on.

I am really not sure how 1Tbit would even matter for 99% of the population. Maybe if streaming (actual) 4k became a thing. Perhaps for remote-gaming, but latency would need to be very low. I cannot imagine the latency on a train.

I had the same issue with Twilio, they couldn't send anything to my number because of the prefix. After many emails, they finally got it working - then two weeks later it was broken again and I simply gave up.

1. I write something when I'm in the mood and have done something tech-related I think others would stumble upon.

2. I just made a github page for my domain. Easy.

3. Going back to 1, it's all about my mood. If I've done something that I think others would benefit from, I'll probably do a quick write-up.

4. I've always been writing on the internets, probably because I'm deaf and have always turned to the internet for communication.

My blog albeit small is https://veb.co.nz

Even PixelFed, https://pixelfed.org (Federation)

You might like PixelFed (https://pixelfed.social/) it's a completely open sourced project based on federation.

This is exactly what I do.

I haven't deactivated my Facebook profile, but I have not visited it in six months or so. I can't be bothered, my news feed became too commercial. However I use messenger.com to talk to my real life friends and family. I also use Messenger Lite on my phone.

Talking about an interesting side-effect about videos in social media in recent times is they've learned to put text (or captions) in their videos for people (because they might have sound off) which made it far easier for deaf people to understand them! For which I am glad, but I barely use Facebook these days at all - just messenger.com

Especially because OP said he works for a "... fairly large software company...". I bet they've got a lot of lawyers on the speed dial.

Yup, this is exactly the right way of going about things. Because when they ask you why it wasn't a good fit, you're able to actually speak up about your experience. Instead of a one sided conversation, you're able to make it your own and interviewers like that. That's my experience anyway.

I don't get it. With Lets Encrypt, it's like one or two lines to get everything set up.

I'm guessing people aren't as lucky as I am to be running on newer machines and such.

I mean it even edits your nginx files to redirect http to https if you agree. It's not hard.

How... boring.

Such a saturated field I thought. I know "boring" startups are they ones that make money pretty quickly, but seriously, it's an absolute saturated market.

Also, I hate time saving apps, or having to record my time. I'd rather just do my job and code.