Hardware acceleration is off, I’ve cleared all browser data, running the latest version, system is up to date so should have latest drivers, deleted the favicon/places databases.

The only suggestion left on that link is an add on. I’ve now disabled everything exect uBlock and bitwarden, let’s see if that helps. Not holding my breath though!

Interesting stuff! A bit damning that the most used platforms are Meta owned.

Like 60-70% of people putting data privacy as their #2 issue while facebook being the most used site.

I think I read this a bit different. If we are talking about the same thing, it is talking about data security not data privacy. I see this as “data privacy” is not wanting companies to exploit your data (something I’m concerned about), “data security” is not wanting “hackers” to break into your facebook account and scam your friends, something that apparently the average NZ internet user is worried about.

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I’d guess it’s dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?

He says Canada has committed to making changes to its dairy quotas which will deliver up to $157 million to New Zealand dairy exporters.

According to this we exported $26B of dairy products in 2023.

It seems like a pretty minor amount in this agreement with Canada. I guess we are hoping it’s the start of something more?

Cheers, I have disabled the hardware acceleration, and now I’ll see if that fixes it!

Based on the place (a supermarket rewards card), I’m assuming legacy code. But you’re right, the most likely answer is it’s shitty legacy code.

I considered database stuff, but my password shouldn’t go anywhere near the database!

If they are storing it as plain text in this day and age, then there is no hope for the human race 🤦

I have nearly 800. I think I need to do some cleaning.

I got a “we’ve had customers accounts breached, please update your password” email the other day.

They specifically called out you can’t use # in your password, and it’s been bugging me why that is. What part if their system let’s in other special characters but # is off limits?

Random problem I’m having: The Firefox UI randomly freezes until I restart it. I can use a particular tab fine but I can’t close it, click buttons in the UI, etc. It seems the process running the main UI is freezing.

It’s been happening for ages, running under Gnome on Nobara (and I saw the same thing under Bazzite as well).

I’ll eventually go ask in a tech support community but I thought I’d ask here just in case someone knows what’s up :)

Yes, very good point. “GST is the only way we tax the wealthy” was a very poor argument for keeping GST on my part.

lol the thumbnail isn’t even of her.

I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the original song until now (embedded in article).

I spent ages buying games on steam with Bitcoin years ago. They dropped it when transaction fees got bigger than the game cost (I don’t think they ever supported crypto other than Bitcoin, and that was through a specific payment processor that took the Bitcoin and gave Valve real money).

Ah yes. Presumably there would be records of exports and records of sales to local retailers (as well as records to e.g. places that can foods), there must currently be enough information recorded to know where food ends up. So probably isn’t that much overhead to have this process.

Makes sense.

Since NZ produces way more food than we consume, how would that work in practice? Are there models for this in other countries we could follow?

When you talk about a targeted subsidy, the farmers would receive this regardless of if their product is sold in NZ or overseas? Or would there be some apportionment of subsidy based on how much is sold locally?

I have mixed emotions over all this.

To start, I agree, flat taxes are regressive and a bad way to tax people.

However, NZ gets a lot of tourists and GST is an effective way to collect money from them to fund the things they use. You could say just tax them directly, but I think a $1000 entry fee would put off many tourists that otherwise would come here and happily pay that much GST in their spending.

We also have no true capital gains tax. Without this, GST is practically the only way we get tax from the ultra wealthy, right?

So instead we could leave GST alone and provide subsidies to make fresh food cheaper, but that seems to also be making the system more complex by balancing tax collection against subsidies for the same thing, and also creating a whole chain of questions about where the subsidies go. Do we give them to potato farmers that then get pressured for cheaper prices from the duopoly, who don’t pass along the full discount and end up subsidising their profits? (This will likely happen with removing GST too, but we won’t have to work out which farmers get subsidies and which don’t). If we subsidise farmers then we also subsidise overseas consumers that they sell to.

So do we just hand cash to supermarkets to make certain products cheaper? This seems more complex than just removing GST.

I have no view on what’s the right thing here because it seems complex and like there might not be a right answer. But I am curious how subsidies would work in practice.

I searched up her name, and found it listed on the Free Speech Union website saying they helped her lodge the suit. That explains some things.

https://www.fsu.nz/blog/who-else-would-stand-up-for-the-silenced

Yeah except for the people around you trying to work as you jibber jabber 😆