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A leading scientist is welcoming the end to a gene technology ban, saying New Zealand has missed opportunities because of outdated rules.

cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/739915

WHAKAARI / WHITE ISLAND The Volcanic Alert Level has been raised to Level 3 at White Island and the Aviation Colour Code raised to orange.

Aviation Colour Code Orange indicates that a volcanic eruption is underway but with little or no ash being produced.

On Geonet's website, duty volcanologist Geoff Kilgour said the volcano had produced "a more vigorous plume" on Friday afternoon, moving volcanic ash to the east of the island.

Today, 10th August, Whakaari exhibited vigorous activity at the vent, which maintained a constant plume that was visibly depositing ash into the sea. The latest official information is available from GeoNet at https://www.geonet.org.nz/mbl/news/6C...

Just to clarify, a drone has no sound, from the brief times we could hear the sound it was identical to Dukono in Indonesia. This was the sound used in this video.

Credit to @philo@lemmy.ca for the idea Edit 1:

Hint:

Edit 2:

Thanks for all the guesses, the correct answer was The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel

After the post the other day , this is the price I have to pay for 2 visits to the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, about 10 to 12 X-rays, a CT scan, two nights in hospital (so far) and all the drugs

Glad to not live in the ‘land of the free’

Started to move off Google's services to proton:

"Streetpunk Sexy" - Visualize a portrait of Neo. Neo is a young 22 year old woman. Neo is on an medieval street in a small village where the (second stories jut over the street)+++. The streets are cobbled.it is rainy afternoon,The shot, taken from a distance, captures Neo walking away in the golden hour. Neo is wearing a long and flowing red riding cape with detailed leaf and vine patterns stitched into it over a (black gothic dress:2) .The humid atmosphere ads mist to the street and the (mountains in the distance):2. Long dark messy hair escapes the red hood of Neo's cape, The image showcases the natural late afternoon light, in hyperrealistic detail under soft lighting. The depth of field focuses on her against a backdrop of soothing,muted tones and high contrast,creating a dark,yet gorgeous (1.2) and immersive evening scene.

Negative prompt: text, watermark, low-quality, signature, moiré pattern, downsampling, aliasing, distorted, blurry, glossy, blur, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, poorly drawn, low-resolution, bad, distortion, twisted, excessive, exaggerated pose, exaggerated limbs, grainy, symmetrical, duplicate, error, pattern, beginner, pixelated, fake, hyper, glitch, overexposed, high-contrast, bad-contrast

Steps: 26, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 995203940, Face restoration: CodeFormer, Size: 1024x512, Model hash: a19b862e79, Model: fullyREALXL_v30ForREAL, Pad conds: True, Version: v1.7.0

Prompt: an old bottle on a worn wooden counter in an antiques shop, you can see shelves in the background covered in trinkets. the bottle contains a miniature village nestled in mountains

Hi all

Just snagged a fortigate 60D from work that has gone EoL, what can/should I do with it.

another quick question, the 5gHz wifi seems very slow - any pointers?