BlueÆther
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BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz•Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 10/4/2026
2·6 days agoI hope we dont get the rain that we got last month, they estimate we had 300-400mm in the hills above our local water catchment and it wiped out the Reservoir.
The weather station is all DIY built around ESP boards, some temp probes and BGT-W815S pro. I scored for free, as only the wind speed/direction is working, the temp/pressure and rain all seem to supply corrupted data
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz•Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 10/4/2026
3·6 days agoWaiting for the weather to hit over on the west side

Only wind as the rain gauge is not working
I’ve only done the Pyg Track, and it was about as claggy
I’m sort of happy if we get forgotten about in the current world.
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz•Bigger storms, more often: new study projects likely future rainfall impacts on NZ
4·13 days agoIf the last four or so years are anything to go on we are in for some shit.
Just in this summer we have had 4 storms come through NZ where we have over 250mm of rain in 12-24 hours. It was estimated that there was 380mm of rain fall on the mountain (large hill by international standards) here at home in just 8 hours. That is 1/6th of our yearly rain falling in 1/2 a day
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I’m of an age where much fun was had in the back of the Ford version

BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Aotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz•What will it take for NZ to move to fuel alert level two?
0·19 days agoI guess I’ll be on the priority list again, just like covid: The joy of managing a food processing plant - no time off
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?
3·26 days agothis is an interesting point, I think my /all was much better before cm0002 made an account on my instance an pulled in a lot of marginal communities
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?
4·26 days agoand how does that really help, it is the same content on piefed
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you hallucinate (without drugs)? What is it like for you?
2·26 days agoI get the standard lights/patterns with migraines, sometime have vivid dreams if I’m over tired/over worked.
I did have a real vivid hallucination session while on prescription pain meds after breaking my shoulder 2 years ago, this was weird as hell and my heart rate was pegged at ~100-120 for 2-3+ hours.
I believe that the only place that lemmy stores an IP is on application, otherwise it is firewall and reverse proxy logs
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the ArrowsEnglish
4·1 month agoThanks, TIL…
anyway I got a auto mod for mentioning that F word
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the ArrowsEnglish
14·1 month agoI think in [oldish] English that would be a faggot, I dont know that we need to use that language (and all of it’s modern history) to describe the current US leadership. There are better terms like ‘fascist’ and hatemonger.
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?
43·1 month agoI have used AI to make a few games for my kids, and a couple of apps that I wanted for my own wants/needs. In both cases it was very frustrating and I cant beleave people that say the current state is ‘great’. It was barely fictional and needed constant over-site - if I didn’t know at least basic C++/PHP/javascript and html/css I don’t know if it would be that usefull.
It helped me to rapidly prototype, but needed lots of work to keep it on track. I can see how agents go rogue and delete whole dir trees etc.
As for the environmental costs, even with out LLMs I think we are fucked with what we have done up to now and what the US seems hell bent on bringing on us (the rest or the world)
It was more or less the default many moons ago, then just a username became more common, now it is back to email or some third party login
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•What are you brewing?English
3·1 month agothis is the second time Ive done this, it really needs to be aged for at least 6 months and back sweetening
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•What are you brewing?English
2·1 month agooh, I also have a cold brew coffee mead bulk aging
https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/3FA5VXRlE9r3ozsxGKrV/coffee-with-a-punch
BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzto
Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider@sopuli.xyz•What are you brewing?English
3·1 month agoI have just finished a small batch of rhubarb mead - my first time using rhubarb for brewing. turned out well, but a little cloudy.
https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/eAXKGn7t3kf7XURALz22/rhubarb-mead
I have ~30L of Luisa mead, this had just a hint of Luisa, and on early tasting is going to be very nice
https://goldendrop.blueether.net/recipes/4a45MqhNsLIc5yIGKWrt/larissa-and-pear
















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