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#3438100 28-Nov-2025 07:36

That's basically in the category of all search engines are Google, all photocopiers are Xerox, all smart phones are iPhones etc.

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#3438113 28-Nov-2025 09:05

freitasm:

NZ Herald: "Auckland engineer who tried to film sex worker with Google Glasses escapes conviction"

But the article says they were Ray Ban Meta smart glasses. Those are not the same as "Google Glasses".

And "engineer" is not the same as "software engineer".

A secondary bonus for first mover advantage -

Most of the lazy MSM include your brand in the new product category, even when yours made the wearer look like Jeff Tracey and have been long discontinued.

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#3438602 29-Nov-2025 17:09

Betteridge's Law strikes again, but this time as a clickbait technique.

Headline on front page: Will the government do XYZ?
Headline once you click into the actual article: Government says it won't do XYZ.

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#3438690 30-Nov-2025 12:04

RNZ website front page

Will NZ follow UK ban on wet wipes?

Go to the article, the headline is

UK bans wet wipes containing plastics, but NZ won't, government says

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#3438849 30-Nov-2025 20:21

Whilst this is a general rant about mobile "customer service" during an undocumented outage

Some of the uneducated comments from a supposed educated journalist are pretty staggering...

"Journalism is a job where you need to be able to make and take calls at any time. So suddenly having no cellphone coverage is a work disaster."

Hmm, so your redundancy provision to prevent the vital work disaster is ????

But the biggest clanger has to be this;

"Back on the community Facebook page, Carl has also ventured into the customer service vortex, abandoned hope, and switched to wifi calling. Which is useful for phoning out, but no use for people trying to call you if they don’t know you have no cell coverage."

Err, So you haven't activated wifi calling.... despite have a stable BB connection throughout the outage because "i'd have to tell people calling us"

I gave up the will to keep reading the column at this point ...

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360892040/if-customer-service-were-all-doomed

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#3438876 1-Dec-2025 08:13

And to make it clear, VoWiFi works both ways even with no cell coverage. And no need to tell anyone.

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#3438896 1-Dec-2025 10:13

freitasm:

And to make it clear, VoWiFi works both ways even with no cell coverage. And no need to tell anyone.

Maybe One need to reach out to the journalist and remind their helpdesk.

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#3440734 6-Dec-2025 17:21

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/frank-gehry-who-stretched-architectures-boundaries-dies-at-96/EVRR5DS7SFGT7MMAIQNWBEDPYM/

The Herald announcing the death of the greatest visual architect of the last 50 years. Frank Gehry's style was unconventional, outrageous, inspiring & in many cases, magnificent. The Miracle of Bilbao, the Guggenhiem museum in Bilbao, built without 1 single tile being repeated is often referred to as the greatest public building ever, one that changed Bilbao from a sleepy little Spanish town to a bustling city hosting over 1m visitors per year who come as much for the building as it's contents.

The Disney Theatre, Sydney University has a Gehry building, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Memorial, Louis Vuitton Foundation art museum in Paris, Paul Allen's Rock Museum in Seattle & many more. Everything he touched was so memorable on first glance.

So influential as an architect that Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

The NZ Herald article contains only 1 image with Gehry standing in front of a wall at the Guggenheim, Bilbao. There are no further images. Not one.

Here's my first search result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frank%20gehry%20buildings&t=newext&atb=v497-1&ia=images&iax=images

NZ Herald, this is a glaring oversight. You've GOT to do better.

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#3441992 9-Dec-2025 13:53

RNZ ran a story yesterday which they have since fixed up but from this part of the URL you get the idea: wellington-region-to-ditch-snapper-public-transport-cards

When I saw it and the top part of the story, I got the impression right away that in the first part of next year our Snapper Cards were redundant. The re-write confirms the cards are not being ditched but the system updated to read contactless Debit/Credit Cards

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#3441995 9-Dec-2025 14:07

DjShadow:

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When I saw it and the top part of the story, I got the impression right away that in the first part of next year our Snapper Cards were redundant. The re-write confirms the cards are not being ditched but the system updated to read contactless Debit/Credit Cards

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Drifting off-topic, and I'm cheekily taking a quote out of context here, but the irony of

Regional council chair Daran Ponter:

But Wellingtonians, people in the Wellington region, have been waiting a long time...

hasn't escaped me.

Also, I'm keen to understand how they intend to check on the trains if people have tagged on. For non-Wellington train commuters, while in transit the train manager (or conductor in old-school jargon) will on occasion walk through the carriage and ask people to present their Snapper cards to his/her cellphone which will validate that you have indeed tagged your card before jumping on the train. I don't mind doing this with my Snapper but I have no intention of waving my credit card underneath the cellphone of some bloke or woman I don't know.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3441999 9-Dec-2025 14:47

floydbloke:

Also, I'm keen to understand how they intend to check on the trains if people have tagged on. For non-Wellington train commuters, while in transit the train manager (or conductor in old-school jargon) will on occasion walk through the carriage and ask people to present their Snapper cards to his/her cellphone which will validate that you have indeed tagged your card before jumping on the train. I don't mind doing this with my Snapper but I have no intention of waving my credit card underneath the cellphone of some bloke or woman I don't know.

You raise a good point.
I wonder how they do it in Sydney ("Opal" card smart 'ticket', but you can just use your credit/debit card) and other places?

The relative anonymity of your Snapper card will remain an advantage.

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#3442000 9-Dec-2025 14:52

PolicyGuy:

floydbloke:

Also, I'm keen to understand how they intend to check on the trains if people have tagged on. For non-Wellington train commuters, while in transit the train manager (or conductor in old-school jargon) will on occasion walk through the carriage and ask people to present their Snapper cards to his/her cellphone which will validate that you have indeed tagged your card before jumping on the train. I don't mind doing this with my Snapper but I have no intention of waving my credit card underneath the cellphone of some bloke or woman I don't know.

You raise a good point.
I wonder how they do it in Sydney ("Opal" card smart 'ticket', but you can just use your credit/debit card) and other places?

The relative anonymity of your Snapper card will remain an advantage.

Does that mean that we might be able to use Snapper via the app rather than having to have a separate card?

Still raises the same issue of getting inadvertently paywaved by someone ostensibly checking that you've tagged on.

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#3442001 9-Dec-2025 14:54

PolicyGuy:

I wonder how they do it in Sydney ("Opal" card smart 'ticket', but you can just use your credit/debit card) and other places?

Because they don't have train managers, you HAVE to go through the ticketing process before hopping on the train. Usually in the form of the gates where you tap your card and it opens.

They have cameras so they can record and identify offenders.

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#3442015 9-Dec-2025 15:34

Jase2985:

PolicyGuy:

I wonder how they do it in Sydney ("Opal" card smart 'ticket', but you can just use your credit/debit card) and other places?

Because they don't have train managers, you HAVE to go through the ticketing process before hopping on the train. Usually in the form of the gates where you tap your card and it opens.

They have cameras so they can record and identify offenders.

Sydney uses: Tag on at entry gate to rail or ferry station and tag off on bollard or pole on platform, walk out through one way open exit. Tag on and off within bus or light rail.

The system uses Opal card, contactless card (Credit Cards) and Digital Wallet. Pensioners best to use Opal card which offers unlimited travel for $2.50 a day, requiring a Pensioner Concession Card for eligibility and application.

I believe the other states either use a slightly similar or even different system each. So even the great Australia can not have a universal system, so what do you expect little old NZ to do. Reinvent the wheel, of course.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3444310 15-Dec-2025 18:33

Why is this under "Drinks"

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