I just went down a bit of a rabbit hole on YouTube but I can confirm there are other songs that people play on bagpipes! 😆

Apparently it’s a bit hard as there aren’t that many notes and the nature of them means you have to play notes constantly so you can’t use pauses, but there’s still a lot they can do.

There’s Amazing Grace that you hear occasionally, but also stuff like:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hDw9IHmgN4s

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-m0F-7e6ELM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7uqoJ1_spiQ

Very cool!

Why do bagpipes always play that same song 🫤

Yeah pretty cool to have so many options! Heaps of mobile apps too, there’s a list of both here: https://lemmyapps.com/

So organisations like the Taxpayers Union already register as a political organisation so they can run election ads and that sort of thing. I wonder if declaring who they represent would work, I suspect they would just say they represent the average tax payer even though that’s not true at all.

Are there other countries that have properly solved this problem? I suspect not since (before this government) we were ranked high on the low corruption list, and we have this problem.

That sounds amazing! I’ve seen a few TV shows with Brian Cox and always thought he was great. I feel like I first saw him on QI!

This does sound like a great show, but like you say pretty short notice haha

I don’t think music will be an issue. Streaming lots of video (like with Jellyfin) has gotten some people blocked, you hear stories occasionally.

Most of the problems I had were trying to uploaded big videos (300MB+) to Zusam, a sort of private sharing forum. I hit both the request limit and the timeout when trying to upload via a slow connection.

If you can, set DNS entries within your network as well so things you do at home don’t have to go via Cloudflare.

Ah yes a classic. Some things that might catch you out as you built out your home lab, things that caught me out:

• Cloudflare has a 100 second timeout
• Cloudflare has a 100MB request size limit
• Cloudflare doesn’t like you streaming large amounts of video
• Cloudflare only does the HTTP and HTTPS ports. Services relying on other ports can fail.

This all applies to the free version of Cloudflare, presumably you can do more if you pay.

I have spent countless hours trying to solve issues caused by these things without knowing they were the cause 😅

It’s weird, I sometimes get a pay wall with The Press and sometimes not. Mostly it just says it can’t show the content because of my network settings. But today (but not always) I can read it fine with Firefox’s reader mode 🤷

Welcome! It’s always great when you finally get something up and running that you’ve been working on for a while. Did you just go for a reverse proxy and port forwarding, a Cloudflare tunnel, or something fancier?

That’s awesome! I’ve only scuba dived once that wasn’t in a pool, and I was barely a teenager, but I have a friend who got certified and has dived all over the world. He loves it, and it sounds like a lot of fun!

I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect a lawyer should have known better.

It’s a hard problem to solve. People don’t have enough money, but if you give them money then they just have to pass that money on to people who already have plenty. A realistic solution is to tax existing wealth and then pass that money back to people, but the people with the substantial share of the wealth stand a lot to lose so they lobby like crazy to stop it happening. And much of it is never declared, e.g. donations to the Taxpayers Union, NZ Initiative, etc.

Just an update on the logo vote - I cancelled the vote, it became clear that people cared about it more than I thought, and many people particularly liked the banner (laser kiwi) so I regret grouping the logo and banner together and should have let people vote separately.

I am going to try to get some other options and then we’ll give it another go.

It’s hard to argue with the aesthetics of people living on the street. I love to look out the window at poverty.

In surprising news, government that significantly cut access to social housing has caused highest level of homelessness in history.

I thought the same which made it pretty funny that everyone knew who she meant. But then Edmonds is Labour’s finance spokesperson and mentions standing up each week to talk to her so I’m guessing the implication was obvious to those in the room since it’s probably the only regular person she has to speak to in the house like that.

Come vote! https://lemmy.nz/post/37995790

Games are hard! Designing a game is a job in and of itself, then you have to actually program it! Anyone that completes a game with any amount of depth has completed a massive achievement.

A little cleaned up and rounded:

And full flag version: I’ll make a poll for people to vote!

😂