I suppose I’m really interested in locally-owned media outlets that receive their funding from the readers/grants thus avoiding the ownership of oligarchs/conglomerates.

Yeah so rnz.co.nz is government funded, so doesn’t really meet this definition, which was the source of my question as it’s my most trusted but not really “independent”, though it’s not billionaire owned.

Stuff.co.nz is probably the closest to what you’ve asked for. It’s funded by ads, subscriptions, and user donations, among grants etc. But I wouldn’t normally call them high quality, though they do occasionally impress me.

RNZ are general news sites. They report on anything and everything and generally do 24 hours a day, with a lot syndicated from Reuters or Associated Press. They report on world news not just NZ.

The spinoff is funded from ads, grants, and donations, and is a lot smaller outfit. They don’t do general news, they do more opinion pieces and long form journalism (and various other things). You wouldn’t read them for news about the pope, it’s more NZ focused and often opinionated or with a clear angle. They talk about important issues but pretty much all of their content should be read as if it were an opinion piece.

We must keep encouraging people to support local cooperatives, democratic participation, transparency and decentralization. We will need to be creative in how we defend democracy around the globe.

Yes for sure. I think NZ’s democracy is certainly in a better state than the US and many other countries, I was just pointing out it’s not a utopia of democracy. Something to learn from but not without it’s own faults to correct for.

I’ve just straight cross posted from a Lemmy.ca post, resources included, as it seems like important world news.

Awesome, thanks!

My log is full of “Failed to fetch endorsements from Fediseer”, over and over.

Does this indicate an issue with connecting to Fediseer, or is it something I can solve?

Just reading your comment gave me arthritis.

Haha no the prongs of the first one looks good. But the handle looks too thin for my big hands. That thick fork looks like a nightmare, though.

Personally I don’t like that handle either. Needs to be thicker.

It depends on exactly what you mean by independent.

I like https://rnz.co.nz/, but this is a government news source. It has editorial independence and doesn’t have adverts so you know they aren’t considering advertisors in their angles, but it is government owned, and has been threatened with having funding cut on occasion.

https://stuff.co.nz/ I believe is currently independently owned but it was owned by a big Aussie company until it wasn’t doing well and the local CEO bought it for a token $1.

If you want a more Left leaning, non-mainstream source, then thespinoff.co.nz

There aren’t many other sources I’d read, but others may chime in with others I’ve forgotten.

Its nice to think of us as a strong democracy but we have the same influences as the rest of the western world, so even if we have a nice voting system you could argue it’s not a good democracy if everyone is manipulated by big tech and billionaires.

Edit: oh, I forgot to mention a lot of syndication happens, so it’s common to see articles from one NZ news source on another news site.

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There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:

In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.

Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.

So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.

Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.

Ah that’s a shame.

I found this:

On this page: https://www.fireandemergency.nz/incidents-and-news/incident-reports/incidents/?region=2&day=Wednesday

I guess the link will not work for long since it literally just says Wednesday in the URL and not a specific date, but the incident number is F4198690.

Is there a way to find more information about it?

Eradication is likely impossible, but there is still a lot that can be done to control populations. But it seems no one is even thinking about it yet (and it might need the “pest” label before anyone puts money into control).

Here’s how you can tell if it’s actually decentralised.

Was there any more info released about this? Or will we never know the full story?

I like the implication that the AI screening saw “vengeance” and decided they were worthy for short listing.

I like the implication that the interviewer saw it in the job application and decided to invite them to a formal interview before even mentioning it.

Ah, interesting. Thinking about it, do they have vanity plates? If so then all my arguments are invalid.

Currently there is a system. One number, three letters, three numbers. So no chance of mixing up certain characters. If you introduce a different system you will need to make sure you know what system is being used. With your plan you could get a plate that looks exactly like the old system except it’s using 0 instead of O.

I suspect there is also a lot of benefit in knowing where numbers and letters will be for having more accurate plate recognition cameras.

The issue is probably that those I, O, Z, and Ss are already on plates since the system is different?