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If your solar punk story doesn't have "solar panel cleaning", well you're missing out (in a tropical climate, the stuff on it is jungle gunk. In a dry climate, it would be dust. In a place that gets c...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1785466205

Heck yeah. I get about a 10% bump in production when I wash the pollen off my panels in late spring.

I see a lot of people in my town have left their panels and let them get dirty to the point where they have actual lichen growing on them.

Have you any thoughts on harsher, longer acting cleaners that would take a few months to remove those? eg, locally we have "30 Seconds" which contains <10% Benzalkonium Chloride, <1% Didecyldimethyl Ammonium Chloride, and some amines.

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mk30 · 5d

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Chatting to the postie. He says he's delivering a lot of passports recently for people who are moving overseas.

Remember, you can still vote the NAct coalition out from overseas.

https://vote.nz/voting/how-to-vote/vote-from-overseas

#NZpol

Jon Sullivan · 5d

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@nprofile1q... Can you also pick up bats on that microphone?

And did you solder the microphone on to the dev board or does it have a jack? I'm looking at Digikey. Is that why you got the dev board?

Jon Sullivan · 5d

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Jon Sullivan · 5d

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7mw7ejdqn6xet2afjky0gl3y8rn7373athrqhx5d2vl8jr8sl9qsrctd4u Oh, and if you're doing bats, the audio file sizes are of course much bigger, and the batteries get discharged really fast. If you're doing bird recording and bat recording, it would be ...

Jon Sullivan · 5d

Morena from Ōtautahi and Whakaraupō. I had to get up early this morning to get up in the hills and swap over batteries in some of my bird recorders on the way to work. Here's Christchurch City at s...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1785453402

Do you have more details about the hardware and software on these bird recorders?

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Jon Sullivan · 5d

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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag: · 6d

In a triumph for NZ First's fragile white cookers and racists everywhere, English has become an "official" language of NZ. Ignoring the facts -- NZ laws are written in English and Parliament conducts...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1785447638

Of course they’d put that lying liar Goldsmith’s face on the news article.

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Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1785442329

Frank Drebin: Hey! You call this slop? Real slop has got chunks of things in it! This is more like gruel! And this Château le Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled! This is room temperature! What do you think we are? Animals?

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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag: · 1w

While the fast-tracked Datagrid project has been calculated to use 280 megawatts, the company has a secret plan to make it four times bigger and thirstier at 1000MW. An MBIE briefing from last year r...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1785058206

Many years ago there was that kid who made videos of impractical inventions and put them on YouTube. Laughable things that didn’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny. Cartoon style cars that would pop their wheels up on jacks to drive over congestion. Nobody took it seriously.

So why do people take Data Grid seriously?

Can someone do an investigation into who Data Grid are and their past record for doing anything similar?

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JeremyJupiterJones :tinoflag: · 1w

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: · 1w

Bernard does an excellent teardown of Luxon's doom loop. Aotearoa's net public debt is one of the lowest in the OECD and the Crown has a solid balance sheet. It's the private sector that's leverage...

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I’ve been reading Ray Dalio’s book on debt cycles and he describes the different effects that various government interventions have on the economy. Austerity is the worst and due to the negative effects on the entire country is usually reversed quickly, like within months. This bloody coalition have been forcing austerity on us for three years and grinding us to dust.

We’re 30% of the way to post-Brexit UK and they’re doing very poorly.

https://youtu.be/SoKr0QVCLPA

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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 2w

Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspac...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1784605136

At least one of my domains is somehow still on the free Google Workspace tier.

For $0/user/month I get email, SSO, all the usual features on Chromebooks and Android phones.

For a moment they threatened to start charging me, but so far so good.

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Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 · 2w

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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag: · 2w

In the meantime, here's a good account of a Wellington chap who had a fencing dispute with Matthew Ryan. TLDR: the good guy won. https://geoffpalmer.co.nz/chronicle-of-a-debt-foretold/ The "Statuto...

Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1784597931

I'm not sure if it was a "Statutory Demand" but my Dad did similar to a landlord who wouldn't pay their share of an invoice for some work done on their shared driveway.

After he applied to have them wound up, suddenly, Mrs NeverHeardOfThem INoSpeakEnglish was very willing to pay her share of the invoice.

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leighelse{} · 2w

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Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1784581908

That InfoWars is completely unhinged and off the rails. I guess that means it’s an accurate parody?

Production values look quite high.

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Thomas Beagle · 2w

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Future Sprog @Future Sprog 1784238086

As an alternative I would recommend the endemic Zeanecrophilus thayerae beetle.

Cute and hungry for flesh.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/232438708

https://www.inaturalist.nz/taxa/399008-Zeanecrophilus-thayerae

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Philip (is looking for work) · 2w

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