Nice! Voyager started as a web frontend, and it was one of the first alternative frontends we hosted (when it was called wefwef). If you're ever without your app you can get to it at https://voyager.lemmy.nz
It works on desktop but it's a bit of an odd experience, best for mobile I think.
Hmm some sort of secret Santa where we all post each other deserts we made? Just remember, it's gotta be packaged to survive a 2m drop (and the occasional dropkick), plus no refrigeration, so that might limit which desserts we can do.
She said Wellington was particularly affected by government job cuts, and the flow-on effects to other businesses.
Many government job losses are not in Wellington, but the highest concentration is in Wellington, so the flow on impact of government job cuts as well as general cost cutting likely has a huge impact across the country.
To be fair, I'm not convinced I could anymore. It's been a long time.
Haha oh boy, if there's one eternal rule with complex excel sheets it's that no one other than the person who made it will ever truely understand it š. But you can write VBA functions and throw them in the formulas to make them a bit tidier.
Haha nice! There were some things that didn't really make sense to show as a pie chart so they don't have one. Probably my fault for mentioning spoiler tags might not work - if I hadn't mentioned it you might not have been expecting it š.
This is so dumb. I particularly dispise the idea of testing 5 year olds. Many countries, especially ones we compare ourselves with, don't start school until 6 or 7. Hell, we don't require school until 6. We know that forcing young kids into academics before they are ready can be detrimental to their later learning, which is why the first couple of years only have casual learning and lots of social interaction to build those skills.
Could the government be wrong? No! It is the experts who are wrong.
I suspect that it would be true to say āStraight White Maleā is the norm.
It's the most common, but it's certainly not the only group. We are a lot less straight than average, for example. Having worked in IT there are people from almost every culture, and NZ European is underrepresented (partly because we have to find the skills from elsewhere). I'm curious what makes Lemmy such a technical bunch of IT workers but we've somehow only attracted the white ones.
I have a āAverage NZā That you are very welcome to mock ourselves on if !offtopic@lemmy.nz doesnāt seem to fit
Oh, I forgot about this one! I have added it to the NZ community list post.
Iām surprised at some of the small group size on some of the answers.
We got 69 responses, which is pretty good considering our userbase, but as soon as we try to break people into groups there aren't many in each group.
I realise I didn't write it here, but have talked a lot in the past about trying to stick with the Lemmy.ca questions for comparison purposes, but I tried to make the changes you suggested for next time in your results post.
I thought it was really cool that you were running an instance census and ever since I saw it have been intending to run one here, but it took me a while to get around to it.
Are you aware of any other instances doing something similar?
Yeah I think we need a bigger userbase before we can justify splitting out these things.
Could do some sort of sudden death competition? Pair up all the options, winners go to the next round, losers are knocked out.
I have no idea if store bought crumble is a thing, it sounds awful š
Are you proposing everyone makes and eat each dessert to fairly rank them?
I also hate Excel, but it's more of a love/hate relationship.
I'll always remember helping someone with excel and having to explain "yes, I know you've gone through some nice GUI menu and come to this field asking you for the date, but you gotta write in 42654.523, so it's easier if you just ask me every time instead of me trying to teach you why it's this way."
I'm pretty sure the real secret behind living a really long time is some combination of genetics and statistics (as in, if you have a 0.0001% chance of living that long, if you apply this to 8B people then you get 8,000 of these people).
Sure! But it doesn't tie a specific userame to a specific client. And federated services are mostly bot chatter between servers to sends posts and the actions for users on other instances. And between that are the pings from apps and frontends to check for notifications and that sort of things. Then to work out proportions I've gotta somehow identify which requests are all from one user then only count them once, and of course the same user can use different apps. Could I use the logs to check the apps people are using? Sure.
But it's easier to just ask people.
Haha yes, I'm a bit of a job hopper so people tend to not try to tell me what to do. Definitely seen people who dread the thought of a new job be taken advantage of, though.
You've got to be careful with single data points. There are also 100 years olds saying the secret to longevity is a whiskey before breakfast, and a pack of cigarettes a day to keep the bugs away.
Thanks for the offer but you're too slow. Results post is up: https://lemmy.nz/post/12001861
You can still proof read it, though š
Nice! I don't follow this but always interesting to see kiwis doing well on the world stage.
I have no desire to live to 100! But maybe now I know about anticholinergic burden I might be able to be a sprightly 100 year old.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete the 2024 Lemmy.nz Census survey!
I asked for volunteers to proof read but got no offers so let me know if anything needs fixing. Especially let me know if terminology I have used is incorrect, I know some words hold a lot of weight to some people.
All fully completed surveys are included in this summary, if someone didn't submit, their partial responses are not included. No questions were mandatory so if someone didn't answer the question, it's not included in the results unless specified.
Overall, we got 69 responses, which is pretty good I think. On average (mean), it took 5 minutes 40 seconds to complete. The median was 4 minutes 39 seconds. The longest was just over 30 minutes, and the shortest was a little under 2 minutes.
You can see here the number of submissions each day in blue, and the running total in red. There was a spike when first posted, and a further spike when I posted a reminder post. The final submission was when I reopened the survey for a day on request as someone hadn't managed to complete the survey and wanted to.
!line graph showing number of submissions over time
Let's get into the actual responses. I've been told I should stick to bar charts because "pie charts are for marketing and pizza", but I think it's nice to represent some of these as proportions. However, where I've used a pie chart I've also included a bar chart in spoiler tags. I know in the past some apps have had trouble with spoiler tags, so if you have issues maybe read this on desktop. It's a lengthy read anyway!
Where are we?
Where do you live?
In a result that will shock no one, the vast majority of responses came from people living in NZ.
!pie graph showing country of respondents
Bar graph
Within NZ, Wellington is over represented but otherwise we seem to be spread out rather evenly by the population of each area. To my knowledge, /r/wellington is the only subreddit that had a post about Lemmy with any traction, so I presume this is the reason for the higher proportion of Wellingtonians.
!graph of region of NZ of NZ respondents
How big is your community?
Most of us live in urban or suburban areas, with some write in options. Nationally, around 15% of us live rurally, but for survey respondents this was around 7%.
!Pie graph of community (urban,suburban, rural)
In your opinion, what is the quality of your internet connection?
Most of us think our internet quality is great, with almost 81% stating the quality of their internet connection is Excellent.
!Pie graph of quality of internet connection
Bar graph
This makes sense, since most of us have fibre.
!Pie graph of type of internet
Bar graph
Within those with fibre, we are pretty evenly split on being under 300Mbps and over 1000Mbps. I foolishly forgot to add an option in the middle, but one person responded 600Mbps in their "Other" option.
Bar graph
Who are we?
What is your ethnicity?
We are a pretty white bunch. Way less ethnic diversity than I was expecting. The 2023 NZ census showed around 44% of people identify with MÄori, Asian, or Pacific enthnicities, so we are remarkably different from the general population. Three people indicated they preferred the term "PÄkehÄ" to "NZ European", though these are grouped together.
Bar graph
What age range do you fall into?
We have a reasonably older age than perhaps reddit does, but this is largely in line with Lemmy.ca and probably Lemmy as a whole.
What is your gender identity?
We are mostly men here, with this spread being broadly in line with Lemmy.ca's results, so this may be representative of Lemmy. We do have a higher proportion of women and a lower proportion of people who are non-binary, but this is probably due to normal variance with the low sample size.
Bar graph
Are you someone with trans experience (meaning your gender identity does not align with your sex assigned at birth)?
Two users identified as trans, and these users both identified as non-binary in the previous question. One user selected Other and indicated they have a gender identity for society, not for themselves.
!Pie graph of those with trans experience
Bar graph
How do you identify?
Almost 85% of us identified as straight, or 91% if you include those identifying as "straightish". This value is much lower than the general population. StatsNZ reports (based on a survey, not a census) that 4.1% of NZ belong to what StatsNZ referred to as the "sexual minorities population", compared to 9-15% of respondents (depending on how you categorise "straightish").
Bar graph
What is your disability status?
To start, here is a graph of all respondents vs those that indicate a disability. Note that we did not have a way to differentiate between someone without a disability and someone who didn't want to answer the question. 8 people specifically said they don't have a condition or disability.
!Pie graph of those with disability vs those with no answer
For those that indicated a condition, we see quite a range. For this question, there was a free text field and answers don't nicely group, so in the interest of having a graph I have tried to nudge them into categories. Mostly, this means if someone wrote "Probably" or "Maybe", I've assumed they have this condition. Hopefully I haven't miscategorised anyone, but remember to take this with a grain of salt.
Also, conditions are listed separately. If someone listed three conditions, they will show as three items in this graph.
!Pie graph of the type of condition
Bar graph
Are you currently studying?
Around 10% of us are studying at the moment.
!Pie graph of if currently studying
Bar graph
What is your highest level of education achieved?
Almost 75% of us have a post-secondary school qualification! I thought I might find some cool relationship between the people who indicated ADHD and the people who had completed "Some university". Despite 10 of the 13 who completed "Some university" indicating they were not currently studying, only one of these people indicated ADHD (and in fact, this was the only person in the group indicating any disability or condition).
!Pie graph of education level achieved
Bar graph
What's your employment status?
89% of us are in paid work, which is higher than Lemmy.ca's results, but this could be due to having a lot fewer respondents so a single person's answer can change the outcome by a fair bit.
!Pie chart of employment status
Bar graph
If employed, what field of work do you work in?
This question was a free text field. I have tried to group them into similar categories. This was hard, especially since there's not a detailed job description for each, so take this with a grain of salt. Without these groups, there were many different answers with just one respondent with that answer. But rest assured we have everything from mechanics and plumbers, tourism operators and hospitality workers, researchers, archivists, engineers, manufacturers and those that do film visual effects. And this is all on top of the 57% of us that work in Information and Communication Technology (IT and communication). 23% of respondents listed just "IT", and a further 23% stated "Software Developer", "Software Engineer", or "Web developer".
!Bar chart of employment field
Bar graph
Lemmy and us
Which instances do you have an account on?
Unsurprisingly, the largest group was lemmy.nz, followed by the larger Lemmy instances. Note that this was multiselect, so a user may be listed in more than one place.
!Bar graph of which instances people have accounts on
What other Fediverse services do you use?
Lots of Mastodon users. Many use Matrix as well, which is unsurprising since Matrix chats are quite common with Lemmy, and Lemmy even allows a Matrix account to be linked to a Lemmy account to add a button to message a user on Matrix. And on top of that, we have a Matrix chat which would also encourage people to use Matrix.
!Bar graph of other Fediverse services people use
On average, how much time do you spend on Lemmy each day (whether on Lemmy.nz or other instances)
Most people are here less than 2 hours a day, which is similar to Lemmy.ca's results.
!Bar graph of how much time people spend on Lemmy
How do you access Lemmy most often?
Most of us use mobile more often than desktop to access Lemmy. There was one "Other" selection stating "iPad".
!Pie graph of device type used to access Lemmy
On mobile, which OS do you use?
Over 80% of mobile users are using Android. We had users state GrapheneOS and CalyxOS (one each), I have included these in Android. We also had one user write "Both", which I have added.
Bar graph
On mobile, which app(s) do you use?
The most popular app was Voyager, followed by just using the website in a mobile browser. This was actually quite different from Lemmy.ca, who had Sync as their most popular, followed by Jerboa and then Voyager.
!Bar graph of the apps people use on mobile
On desktop, which interfaces do you use?
On desktop, people tended to only use the default Lemmy UI. This may partly be because it's not particularly obvious that our other frontends exist.
!Pie graph of most common ways to access Lemmy on desktop
If you primarily access lemmy.nz through a different Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon/etc instance, please list it below
For those not directly accessing through Lemmy.nz, Lemmy.world was the only instance with multiple people using it as their primary way of accessing Lemmy.nz.
Final questions
What's your favourite desert?
I'm an idiot and, after reading the Lemmy.ca answer about The Sahara, accidentally wrote Desert instead of Dessert.
For favourite Desert, we have three votes for the Antarctic/Antarctica, two for Sahara, and one each for Gobi, Central North Island, and Arrakis.
For favourite Dessert, I have grouped and graphed the results, though I am sure to have offended someone with my groupings. The top answer was ice cream, followed by cheese cake, which mirrors Lemmy.ca's results. One person decided "Ice-cream cheescake mix" was their favourite, which is not counted in either category and is instead listed separately.
Of those that answered with a dessert, here is the full list:
- Apple crumble x 2
- Blackberry and apple crumble
- Cheesecake x 2
- Cheesecake!
- Cheesecake, Strawberry
- Chocolate
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Cookies and cream ice cream
- Creme brulee
- Custard
- Don't eat sugar
- Halo halo
- Home made pav with fresh strawberries
- Ice cream x 3
- Ice-cream cheescake mix
- Kapiti Ice Cream
- Much Moore's Double Choc Fudge Ice-cream
- Peacan pie
- Revenge
- Strawberry rhubarb pie
- Tarta de queso
- Tiramisu
- Tub of jelly tip ice cream
- Vegan Cheese Cake
Do you use the Matrix chat?
Almost half of people didn't know we have a Lemmy.nz Matrix chat room. Now you do! You can find instructions for joining here. If you're having trouble, reply in the post and we can offer help.
!Pie graph of those what use matrix chat room
Bar graph
Are there any communities you would like to see created on Lemmy.nz?
There were a handful of suggestions here, but no two people suggested the same thing. Firstly, we have a post here that outlines some NZ communities across Lemmy. It hasn't been updated in some time, so feel free to reply with any that you know of to be added.
Some people replied with things they don't want, but I have filtered this out as people can block communities they don't want to see.
- /r/diynz
- A dedicated outdoors community
- Hurdy gurdy discourse
- More regional NZ content
- NZ mechanics, stained glass, or growing weed.
- Something cheesy/cringe where we mock ourselves, kuhy-wee accent and maybe even small town monuments, etc. Almost nostalgia bit with shit posting and rivalry... Still got a way to go, but I reckon the ideas got legs. Bring back top town!
- thetron - Hamilton
In my view, I'd think most of these would be better posted to the !newzealand community, which has the bigger userbase. Some exceptions:
- Growing weed - there's !trees@no.lastname.nz
- Outdoors - there's !outdoors@no.lastname.nz
- Mocking outselves - this might be better in !offtopic@lemmy.nz
I'm also not sure we have the population to support a Hamilton community. Originally the idea was anyone in the top half of the North Island could use !auckland@lemmy.nz, anyone in the bottom half could use !wellington@lemmy.nz, and then we had !southisland@lemmy.nz. We intended to split communities as they got too big, which I don't think has happened, especially since we have a comment about wanting more regional content.
I also think people should feel comfortable posting things to the !newzealand@lemmy.nz community if they don't fit in another community, even if it's not relevant to all of NZ. Others may have a different view, but I would be wary of fragmenting the users across too many communities.
What are your thoughts on the Lemmy.nz post and comment language options?
The options here were:
- I don't use this feature and don't have an opinion.
- We should stick to these three languages, as it makes it easier to find the language I want
- We shouldn't limit the languages, all should be available.
- We should use a small list of languages, but I would like us to add ___.
I have shortened them in the graphs so they fit.
!Pie graph of language preferences
Bar graph
We had some comments as well.
One user mentioned MÄori would never be used, I'd counter argue that it's weirder for an NZ instance to actively not allow it than it is to have it as an option.
Someone mentioned they didn't know it was an option. On the website, there is a dropdown box under the box where you write your post or comment. If you use an app this could be in a different place. There are plans to have Lemmy auto-fill this in future.
One comment saying NZ Sign Language isn't an option, and we should support it as it's an official national language. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't support sign languages at this time, so we will have to try to think of another way users can communicate non-audibly. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
One comment asking for Cantonese, and another saying we should add pacific languages. I don't have any reason not to do this so will look at adding these.
One person said voting should help decide as people would upvote content they can read - unfortunately you can't see content for languages you haven't selected, and currently Lemmy.nz doesn't let you select languages outside the two current options. We would have to open up to all languages to allow this, which makes it harder to select one you are looking for as the list is huge. This was one reason for asking this question, to see if there were any other languages people wanted to read but couldn't.
Do you have any other feedback about lemmy.nz, this survey, or anything else?
I've grouped the feedback into generic answers. "I don't know what's happening" encompasses answers from (paraphrased) "I'm new and not sure what to think of Lemmy" through to "I've been here a year and still don't understand how it all works".
Are you happy for your responses to be released in a public data set?
We had 52 respondents happy to have their responses released publicly, and a further user marked as "Other" that was happy to have their data included with some parts redacted.
Please let me know if you are interested in doing some analysis on these results. I wanted to preemptively collect consent but I'll only release the data if someone is actually interested in doing some analysis.
!Pie graph of those happy for data to be released publically
Final comments
Thanks to everyone for filling in the survey, and bearing with me as I wrote up the results. I had thought I'd get to do more analysis on subgroups, but you get quite small groups when you do that and so it's hard to draw conclusions from. If anyone has ideas for further analysis, leave a comment!
Artificial Intelligence has a big future with tasks like helping kids to learn and assessing medical results, says Cabinet Minister Judith Collins.
> Cabinet Minister Judith Collins wants the government to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI), starting with the health and education sectors where it could be used to assess mammogram results and provide AI tutors for children.
> "It doesn't do the work for them. It says some things like 'go back, rethink that one, look at that number,' those sorts of things. What an exciting way to do your homework if you're a child."
> Deploying AI in education and health would be seen as high risk uses under new legislation passed by the European Union regulating AI. > > Using AI in those settings in EU countries must include high levels of transparency, accuracy and human oversight.
> But New Zealand has no specific AI regulation and Collins is keen to get productivity gains from extending its use across government, including using it to process Official Information Act requests.
> An OIA request by RNZ for a government Cabinet paper on AI was turned down (by a human) on the grounds that the policy is under live consideration.
Welcome to this weekās casual kÅrero thread!
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And why there's $9 billion in coins and notes still floating around.
> In a world of Afterpay, tap and go and online shopping, cash is - surprisingly - still king. > > Many said they still carry notes and coins in their wallets, and the amount of cash in circulation has almost doubled in the past 10 years.
> One person spoken to by RNZ said they carried cash they received in tips from working in a restaurant, while another said her mum often gave her cash. > > But a third said it felt "flippant" to carry cash: "I don't really like to keep it because then I tend to spend it and I'm trying to control my spending." > > Some said carrying notes and coins was essential in a natural disaster. > > "I do love to have cash because I kind of feel secure," one man told First Up.
Researcher Barbara Sumner discovered the "deeply disturbing" conversation through an Official Information Act request.
> Two Ministry of Justice workers are in hot water for describing a researcher as a "bitch" in an online conversation. > > Academic and author Barbara Sumner made a number of Official Information Act requests as part of her PhD research into the systems around adoption. Then, in October last year, she asked for all correspondence mentioning her by name. > > "Because I had felt all along that there was a resistance to everything I sent in and you know, just the sort of snottiness, I guess, of some of the responses that came in that request. I wanted to understand how they were treating me throughout the process." > > One page of the response stood out among more than 100 others. A November 2022 Teams conversation between two staffers, whose names were redacted, complained about Sumner's latest request. > > They described it as "a waste of time" and said it "should have been refused on the ground of substantial collation" or that the ministry should "charge her for it and get a contractor". > > "our ministerial services team sucks cuz they wouldnt let us refuse, and helen didnt push back hard [sic]," one worker wrote. > > "but also shes a bitch for wanting everything. does she think govt just has unlimited resources for this type of crap lol. > > "like theres no public interest in our emails back and forward."
Welcome to the latest version of Lemmy!
Version 0.19.5 is a minor release with some bug fixes for 0.19.4. We were never running 0.19.4 so the bug fixes are less important than that new features in 0.19.4.
Release notes for 0.19.4 are here.
Release notes for 0.19.5 are here.
The upgrade took a bit longer than expected, perhaps 40 minutes of downtime. Partly this is because of an issue with postgres memory that happened before I started the actual upgrade.
Probably the two biggest new features for users are the ability to hide posts, and the ability to see any images you've uploaded (since lemmy started tracking).
There is also a new setting to change how upvotes are displayed, and we have a new option to have communities that don't federate. Maybe this community is a good target for that? Let me know your thoughts.
Let me know if you have any questions or see any strangeness!
Lemmy 0.19.5 has been released with some bug fixes, and we haven't upgraded to 0.19.4 yet, so I'm planning on doing the upgrade (to 0.19.5) this weekend.
Relase notes here: 0.19.4 / 0.19.5
No specific time, but in my test run it was less than 10 mins. This assumes that nothing goes wrong š
I'll do it over the weekend when we normally have lower traffic.
As always, I'll post updates in the Matrix chat.
If anyone knows of any reason why we should hold off on the update, that would be good to know too!
State of emergencies have been declared in the Heretaunga Ward in Hastings and Wairoa, due to the potential risk to lives and properties.
> Evacuations are under way in parts of Tai RÄwhiti, with police going door to door, as heavy rains and wind continue to lash the district.
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Roger Faber says the three dead fishers were among those lured out by blue fin tuna and a supposed weather window.
> Three bodies believed to be those of the missing fishers have been found on the shore at MÄhia this morning. > > Police said formal identification was under way but the bodies were believed to be of the fishers who were reported missing on Monday.
Police believe the man was on his way to collect more cash from a previous victim.
> A man who scammed people out of nearly $300,000 by pretending to be a police officer has been arrested. > > On Monday the 25-year-old man, a UK national, was chased by police through Auckland central on foot. > > The scam involved a call to a landline by someone pretending to be a police officer and providing a fake badge number. > > There were 18 Aucklanders, aged between 56 and 90, with the majority over 80, allegedly duped out of money. > > "The scam will always involve this so-called officer asking for financial information or asking you to withdraw cash to be collected as part of an investigation into banks," Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Bolton said.
The man's "reckless behaviour" was an attempt to gain publicity, police say.
> A 57-year-old man has been arrested after pretending to be injured on the East TÄmaki overbridge on Auckland's Southern Motorway. > > Emergency services were called to reports of a man who appeared injured at about 7.46am on Monday. > > Police arrived to find the man "who was pretending to be injured as part of what we can only describe as reckless behaviour in an attempt to gain publicity", Inspector Danny Meade said.
> Traffic was unusually heavy during peak-hour as a result.
Canterbury businesses say the vandalism is costing them thousands of dollars in repairs and back-up generators.
> Copper wire thieves are wearing hi-vis vests to look like legitimate lines workers in Christchurch, as repeated vandalism costs city businesses thousands.
> Police have charged seven people with stealing copper wire from power lines near schools, preschools and residential streets.
>The thefts began last year in the suburban red zone but have since spread to areas where the electricity is live.
> He said thieves had left live powerlines hanging and cost the business thousands of dollars in fees.
Companies have the right to monitor employees to ensure productivity, an Auckland uni lecturer says.
> Companies have the right to monitor employees to ensure productivity but they must also protect the employee's privacy, an Auckland University Business School lecturer says. > > Last week US banking giant Wells Fargo sacked more than a dozen people for allegedly faking keyboard activity, pretending they were working at home when they were not. > > The bank has not said how it picked up on the problem. > > But a survey last year of 1000 US-based companies showed 96 percent of them were using some kind of monitoring to check up on employees working from home. > > All of this raises questions around ethics and productivity.
Watch: A Queenstown resident says he rushed outdoors after hearing loud booms coming from a stricken flight above his home.
> Flames were seen coming out the back of a Boeing 737 that departed from Queenstown on Monday evening, before landing safely in Invercargill. > > Virgin Australia flight VA148 departed Queenstown Airport at 5.59pm, bound for Melbourne with 67 passengers and six crew on board, before turning around and heading south. > > "It experienced an issue just after take-off and has been diverted to Invercargill Airport," Queenstown Airport said in a statement earlier. > > The plane - a 737-800 registered VH-YIV - landed safely in Invercargill shortly before 7pm. > > The airline later said it was a "possible bird strike on take-off". > > "The aircraft has been met by emergency services at Invercargill Airport," Virgin Australia chief operations officer Stuart Aggs said. "The safety of our guests and crew is our highest priority." > > The airline later on Monday night said it was not aware of any injuries.
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832
> turns out I did my math wrong, so itās a little less than 30 days
>
> # July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT
>
> https://canvas.fediverse.events
>
> āØ this yearās event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!
>
> (you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc)
> (peertube accounts will not work)
>
> you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @canvas@fediverse.events link
>
> chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (theyāre bridged)
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- Something frustrating that happened to you
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Buyers "have the upper hand" as a glut of houses for sale contributes to stagnating prices.
> House values continue to fall, with some main centres seeing an increase in the rate of decline. > > The latest QV House Price Index shows home values fell by a national average of 0.2 percent over the three months to the end of May, which was down slightly from the 0.1 percent quarterly growth reported in April. > > The average house value was sitting at $923,713, which was 3.9 percent up on the year earlier, though 13 percent down from the peak in late 2021. > > Auckland led the market down with a 1.4 percent drop in quarterly values for the fourth month in a row.
New research shows that a tsunami in Milford Sound could leave no survivors, making it New Zealand's worst disaster.
> A recent Master's thesis has found a Milford Sound tsunami - triggered by a landslide - may leave no survivors, with as many as 3500 dying if the wave hits during the peak of the tourist season. > > The new modelling, which builds on more than a decade of research, shows the best chance of survival relies on people running for higher ground before the shaking stops. > > The best-case scenario shows 5.2 percent of people would survive the wave, and in this case the tsunami would have to hit at night, during the winter offseason, when only a few hundred people would be in the area.
Edited title to make it sound less like there was just a tsunami and everyone died.
Police were searching an Auckland property when a man ran over an officer with a car and another fled into the bush.
> A man has been shot by police after he hit one of them with a vehicle, and another remains on the run, after a raid in South Auckland.
