@resist1984 ans is Middle-Earth too 😉 @Gina

@Gina @resist1984 New Zealand's awfully difficult to get into these days, I hear. It was tricky enough to go there for work even before Covid but now…

@ghostdancer

@edavies @ghostdancer @Gina yeah i thought it might be. I recall looking at the point system several years ago and it looked like i fell short of the requirement. I guess that's way wealthy ppl like Peter Thiel are spending lots of money to get NZ citizenship.

@Gina @ghostdancer @edavies although I also vaguely recall a list of careers that were in short supply which eased immigration, and the IT sector was on that list.

@edavies @ghostdancer @Gina There it is: https://www.careers.govt.nz/job-hunting/whats-happening-in-the-job-market/jobs-in-skill-shortage/ & https://skillshortages.immigration.govt.nz/

@Gina @ghostdancer @edavies But indeed, the #covid19 travel restrictions to #NewZealand are no joke: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/covid-19/border-closures-and-exceptions/entry-to-new-zealand/critical-purpose-reasons-you-can-travel-to-new-zealand It seems if you are vaccinated, test negative, and are willing to quarantine there is still no way for most ppl with no history in NZ to enter.

@resist1984 @Gina @ghostdancer @edavies yeeeah it’s a bit crazy, it I would have suggested it myself. My brother goes to Aussie for work and struggles to get back into NZ (We’re nz citizens).

@Albright @resist1984 everyone should

@werwolf @Albright Indeed werwolf. Most #Cloudflare sites are configured as ticotimes, which exclusively discriminates against some classes of ppl (e.g. some Tor users & those whose ISP uses #CGNAT [often in impoverised areas]). CF's #hCAPTCHA also discriminates against the disabled. Since CF sites are not open to the general public, it's not good to share CF sites in a msg that is open to the public.

@Albright @werwolf I highly recommend following @altlink. That's an automated service that will follow you back, & detect whenever you inadvertently post a #Cloudflare URL. It will then DM you w/a non-CF replacement URL. For some more background on Cloudflare wrongdoing, I suggest these articles: https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/rap_sheets/cloudflare.md

@altlink @werwolf @Albright and https://git.nogafam.es/deCloudflare/deCloudflare

I don't object to the sites, I object to the choice of imposing cloudflare captchas on users. but then I end up avoiding the sites because there's no other reasonable way to access them.