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#3134284 26-Sep-2023 20:30

networkn: What an awesome human being.

Could we trade all the protesters heading to Parliament right now for just 1 more of her?

Great idea.

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#3134331 26-Sep-2023 20:31

Without question

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#3134341 26-Sep-2023 22:17

Our cat came home at 3am Monday after disappearing to location unknown on Friday night and spending the wet stormy weekend somewhere.

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#3135418 27-Sep-2023 10:59

I always buy something for myself around my birthday. This year a Balrog. Been wanting this for quite awhile now, so smiling today, it looks great.

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#3135895 28-Sep-2023 12:45

I have been playing Bethesda’s new Xbox/PC game Starfield. A few of the NPCs have strong Australian accents - almost a caricature of the accent.

Yesterday I came across a minor NPC called Manaia Adams. I thought I detected a soft Kiwi accent and I became sure of that when one of her first dialogue lines was “My supplies may be pakaru …”. I don’t have a lot of Te Reo but I know pakaru means broken or damaged. IIRC pakaru devolved into Te Reo from the English expression ‘buggered-up’.

I checked the cast list - Manaia Adams is played by Maori singer/actor Jaedyn Randell who contributed her voice and likeness. I thought all this was cool and it made me smile.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3135965 28-Sep-2023 15:11

Went on a family outing last night to see a play which was a writing and directing debut for our friend’s son for his Uni course. Who would have thought something described as an original comedic sci-fi murder mystery musical would create so much laughter. It was very good and big smiles all round. To see his interest in theatre over the years turn into this event was very cool.

‘Mongoose: The Musical’ playing at factory theatre Auckland for next three nights.

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#3136132 28-Sep-2023 21:23

Raspberry Pi 5 4/8GB RAM is out … and needs a 5V/5A (25W peak!) power supply now … 😄

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#3136201 29-Sep-2023 07:13

Tinkerisk:

This week, an unknown, massive cyber attack scenario on the nation's state and government functions will be practised here - without affecting normal functions. Perhaps unannounced, extraterritorial actors are also involved? I am very curious about the outcome. 🙂

Seems like all private lines in the DSLAM are being throttled to 10M/1M down/up right now. Hmmm.

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#3136298 29-Sep-2023 09:27

eracode:
Yesterday I came across a minor NPC called Manaia Adams. I thought I detected a soft Kiwi accent and I became sure of that when one of her first dialogue lines was “My supplies may be pakaru …”. I don’t have a lot of Te Reo but I know pakaru means broken or damaged. IIRC pakaru devolved into Te Reo from the English expression ‘buggered-up’.

As far as I can tell it was the reverse, pakaru meaning broken was the origin of the slang term puckeroo.

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#3136477 29-Sep-2023 11:56

The wonderful naming juxtaposition of "PSA" and "Grandstream" when associated with "prostate" instead of "Wifi".

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#3136624 29-Sep-2023 16:16

I needed to free up space on my Samsung galaxy phone, so I inserted a new 64GB micro sd card and moved all DCIM photos over to memory card.

Now in the past, every time I've done this, google photos has always re-uploaded all photos again!

So I went to google photos app and checked backup and says backing up 1 of 2000 odd photos and thought crap here we go... BUT no, this time it was smart enough to work out all those photos existing and didn't re-upload a single photo.

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#3136696 29-Sep-2023 20:00

Summer is breaking and the slide towards the lovely winter weather has begun. We should get lows under 30 degrees next week.

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#3136742 30-Sep-2023 05:09

Bung:
eracode:

Yesterday I came across a minor NPC called Manaia Adams. I thought I detected a soft Kiwi accent and I became sure of that when one of her first dialogue lines was “My supplies may be pakaru …”. I don’t have a lot of Te Reo but I know pakaru means broken or damaged. IIRC pakaru devolved into Te Reo from the English expression ‘buggered-up’.

As far as I can tell it was the reverse, pakaru meaning broken was the origin of the slang term puckeroo.

It’s not necessarily an either/or thing. It’s entirely possible that pakaru came from ‘buggered-up’ - then pukeroo came from pakaru. So things have gone full-circle.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3136753 30-Sep-2023 08:38

In Max Cryer's "The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and Phrases" he states that the settlers adopted the word from Maori first print appearance 1820. At that point there were over 100,000 Maori and only 200 - 300 settlers.

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#3137133 30-Sep-2023 18:55

Tinkerisk:

Tinkerisk:

This week, an unknown, massive cyber attack scenario on the nation's state and government functions will be practised here - without affecting normal functions. Perhaps unannounced, extraterritorial actors are also involved? I am very curious about the outcome. 🙂

Seems like all private lines in the DSLAM are being throttled to 10M/1M down/up right now. Hmmm.

Back to normal now. The key lessons learned will now be summarised in an evaluation report (valid for GER).

The central objective of the exercise was to maintain state and government functions against the backdrop of a cyber attack by a hacker group. Important state functions were subjected to a stress test. It became clear that the maintenance of various functions is made more difficult by significant factors, including the high dependence of critical administrative processes on information technology and the danger of an IT crisis spreading quickly.

Among other things, the participants had to deal with problems in water and electricity supply and were confronted with having to make decisions under uncertainty and high pressure, just like in real crises. They also practised how to deal with disinformation and how to react to threatening videos from the attack group.

Glad to see this being done.

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