New Zealand has just passed the legislation to ban semi-automatic guns. From the time of the terrorist attack to sweeping gun reform: 26 days.
New Zealand has just passed the legislation to ban semi-automatic guns. From the time of the terrorist attack to sweeping gun reform: 26 days.
Mad lib time:
The _______ is the _______ of the heart.
Julian Assange is not a hero. Ecuadorian embassy could expel Assange within ‘hours’.
There’s the Netflix series Titans and there’s Gotham, which is set long before Titans. There’s a series that everyone wants, and no one seems to be able to make: a modern Batman series.
Just bought something online with Apple Pay for the first time. Damn, that’s seamless.
One bonus reason we should change New Zealand’s name to Aotearoa, is we’d be right at the top, just above Argentina, in those “Select Your Country” drop downs.
“Hey Siri, what’s 30 dollars US in New Zealand Dollars?”
“$30.00 is $30.00. I wish they were all this easy.”
“Oh FFS. Hey Siri, what’s 30 US dollars in New Zealand Dollars?"
“US$30 is NZ$44”
Really. Siri should know that US Dollars and Dollars US are the same thing.
Finished watching Titans last night. Disappointed it ended on a cliff hanger, but there’s a second season in a year. Also watched the first episode of Black Lightning, which I really enjoyed.
Apple Photos knows what people look like and locations. Why aren’t there shared smart albums that automatically include certain people and places? Especially when more than one person in the family is taking pictures of the same people in the same place at the same time?
The new Joker movie looks horribly depressing. I think I’ll give it a miss.
If anyone is interested in watching public submissions for Aotearoa’s gun reform bill, you can watch it here now (Sorry it’s on Facebook).
Here’s one for @help/@manton: a bug with the iOS app: if you connect a keyboard, the tool bar at the bottom becomes unavailable (can’t be used), even though it’s still displayed right and the bottom of the screen.
Twitter can’t even accurately keep track of how many tweets someone has posted.
Hey micro.blog experts. Is there a way, by fining a post one wrote, to quickly find the conversation that followed it? I know where my post is, but I want to find a link someone posted as part of the conversation below it.
Well, time to dust off the winter dressing gown. Winter arrived on Tuesday 🥶
These warnings are on escalators all over Aotearoa. Jandals (flip flops) are our national footware, so the warnings are universally ignored.
April Fools was invented at Section 51 in order to confuse the masses and allow the reptilian overlords to harvest big dick energy to power their weather machines.
Titans on Netflix is surprisingly good.
Committed.
Digital bathroom scales are liars, pretending to be precise enough to weight to the nearest 100 g. Yet you hop on them over and over and the measurements vary by, sometimes, multiple kgs. I’m going back to a good, old-fashioned, battery-free, mechanical scale. Precision: 1 kg.
Update: found the setting. In System Preferences, Mission Control.
Is there a way to stop macOS rearranging the position of virtual desktops? I just want it to leave things where I put them. The fact this happens at all, and someone programmed it that way is beyond infuriating.
Happy Brexit day UK! 🇬🇷
Europe votes to ban single use plastics. What’s Aotearoa doing? Anything?
My next project for micro.blog is to automate a daily or weekly download of my posts and related media using python, or some such. This one may be tricky to share, as I’ll be doing it in the command line on macOS and Linux. But it could evolve into a GUI…