More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded", RNZ can reveal.

"From the audit which covered over 4.6 million breath tests performed between 1 July 2024 and 17 August 2025, the initial analysis suggested there were tests conducted that were simulated without the involvement of a driver.

The audit indicated that some staff had recorded breath screening tests that hadn't occurred.

Johnson said that despite this, Police's obligation to deliver 3.3 million tests for NZTA and Ministry of Transport had been met and was not compromised.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52101112world

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The original link is in German, this is a paraphrased translation.

Germany's consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest warns against toxic and dangerous products offered on the Temu and Shein sales platforms. It examined 162 third-party products that use Temu and Shein as a sales platform – 110 did not meet EU security requirements, the foundation said on Thursday. The testers found pollutants in baby play towels, toxic heavy metals in jewelry and too hot chargers.

• The German testers found too high a dose of formaldehyde in colorful cloths for babies; the substance may cause contact allergies. Many products lacked warnings. Two necklaces contained dangerous amounts of cadmium, exceeding the permitted limit by 8,500 times. Cadmium is classified as carcinogenic - the products must be brought to a pollutant collection point

• If you have purchased one of the pieces of cadmium-contaminated jewelry, dispose of it. The German testers warn that Toxic harmful substances do not belong in the household waste, bring the jewelry to a harmful material collection point, such as a recycling yard. Keep the chains away from children. Young children could swallow the follower.

• Almost all tested USB chargers did not meet the EU security requirements. Numerous products have become too hot during loading, up to around 88 degrees Celsius. A maximum limit of 77 degrees is allowed in the EU. Heavy heat can deform the charger’s plastic housing, damage the electronic insulation inside and, in the worst case, lead to fire.

The platforms Temu and Shein, founded in China, specialise in the direct sale of goods from abroad in the EU. They lure with extremely cheap offers. In Brussels, both companies are under investigation for possible breaches of EU consumer protection laws and online platform rules. In the case of Temu, the EU Commission has already come to the preliminary conclusion that consumers there are very likely to encounter non-consumer protection-compliant products.

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The original link is in German, this is a paraphrased translation.

Germany's consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest warns against toxic and dangerous products offered on the Temu and Shein sales platforms. It examined 162 third-party products that use Temu and Shein as a sales platform – 110 did not meet EU security requirements, the foundation said on Thursday. The testers found pollutants in baby play towels, toxic heavy metals in jewelry and too hot chargers.

• The German testers found too high a dose of formaldehyde in colorful cloths for babies; the substance may cause contact allergies. Many products lacked warnings. Two necklaces contained dangerous amounts of cadmium, exceeding the permitted limit by 8,500 times. Cadmium is classified as carcinogenic - the products must be brought to a pollutant collection point

• If you have purchased one of the pieces of cadmium-contaminated jewelry, dispose of it. The German testers warn that Toxic harmful substances do not belong in the household waste, bring the jewelry to a harmful material collection point, such as a recycling yard. Keep the chains away from children. Young children could swallow the follower.

• Almost all tested USB chargers did not meet the EU security requirements. Numerous products have become too hot during loading, up to around 88 degrees Celsius. A maximum limit of 77 degrees is allowed in the EU. Heavy heat can deform the charger’s plastic housing, damage the electronic insulation inside and, in the worst case, lead to fire.

The platforms Temu and Shein, founded in China, specialise in the direct sale of goods from abroad in the EU. They lure with extremely cheap offers. In Brussels, both companies are under investigation for possible breaches of EU consumer protection laws and online platform rules. In the case of Temu, the EU Commission has already come to the preliminary conclusion that consumers there are very likely to encounter non-consumer protection-compliant products.

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kind of a continuation of a previous post i made in here awhile back.

I feel like Nio waking from the Matrix, Dorothy falling down the rabbithole, like that dude from the great gatsby having finally made it big realizing he'll never be apart of this world he see's, like...you get the idea.

one big problem here is just this...i was pretty much raised by tv/movies/the internet, and i'v spent such an ...unhealthily... amount of time alone through my developing years and beyond (an american otaku i guess) that...as I make all these references to movies and shit i relate to...i start to doubt even myself, i'v done some psychedelics in the past so i know how fragile the human psyche can be.

on top of that, if anyone here is familiar with Alan Watts...I feel now exactly has he describes people who are "awakened" (i know he's an entertainer first...just saying his lectures describe how i feel lately exactly)

I can't help but feel like...there are a lot of basic things I should know, a lot of things people seem to take as so basic they don't need explaining, while others seem to completely avoid these same things like the very idea of looking at objective measurable truth threatens their very existence. but again...i doubt my own eyes and ears so what judge am i of objective measurable truth

imagine if you will an innocent little boy from the midwest, who had no father figure of note and whose mother was too busy working non-stop to feed/cloth/house him, that she never really got into the weeds of raising him. and imagine if this boy somehow made it to his late 20's before...well, before losing his innocence as they say. but he's so unsure of his own self that he doesn't know where his problems end (because there obviously is something wrong with him/his brain) and which are just...a natural reaction to a fucked up society. hell..what if there isnt anything wrong with my head and this is this just...me coming out of a decades long addiction/escapism spiral or something?

so here's the question...

what things should this boy have been taught? what basic facts of life is everyone else working on they're not?

(please don't worry for my health or anything...I uh...i'm pretty sure I'm going to check into some kind of wellness/rehab facility soon)

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Of course.

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https://archive.is/9Jk4Q

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https://archive.is/in0UE

https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/

Besides some people here of course.

Hi fellow self-hosters! Has anyone ran Element Server Suite or updated their existing Synapse to include Element Call? How many users do you have?

I have been running Matrix Synapse server on a 1 CPU 1 GB RAM VPS for about 5 years. Just a few close people and a WhatsApp bridge (also for just a few people who use that). It worked fairly well.

Now that Element took over many of the Matrix things, they are expanding the server architecture and bundling the server install as Element Server Suite. The Community Edition is said to be aimed at "small to mid-sized deployments (1–100 users)", but looking at the architecture and requirements... the setup requires Kubernetes (!), at least 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM, a handful of services, each with their own sub-domain.

Is this corporatesque setup overkill for only a handful of users, or is this my inner Luddite talking? For comparison, Snikket (bundled XMPP server that provides very similar functionality) requires only 128MB RAM. Not sure if it's worth it trying to set up Element Call alongside existing Synapse, starting over with ESS, or going to Snikket.

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The proposed rollback of the EU’s corporate accountability rules will significantly weaken their ability to address labour violations within the EU, experts and labour union representatives have told EUobserver.