Dave

It's the Bunnings slogan everyone's heard - a promise to beat a competitor's price on the same stocked item by 10 per cent.

But there's a catch to the hardware giant's famous price guarantee.

While Coles and Woolworths have been under intense scrutiny, Bunnings - which has a much higher profit margin than either of them - has mostly escaped attention.

In-store, a 0.9m Citeco ladder sits behind a large red sign with the same commitment: Find a competitor with the same in-stock item - 10 per cent off.

But there is no competitor that stocks the Citeco 0.9m ladder.

That's because Citeco is a Bunnings home brand. Not only is it manufactured for Bunnings, the hardware giant also owns the Citeco trademark.

It's far from the only item.

Through the trademark register and questions to Bunnings, Four Corners has found the hardware giant has more than 9000 home-brand products.

If you can find these Bunnings buckets cheaper elsewhere, Bunnings says it will beat the price.

Pornography found on the work computer of former deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming is being investigated as alleged objectionable material, RNZ understands.

McSkimming resigned as the country's second most powerful cop on Monday amid a four-month investigation by the Independent Police Conduct Authority and police.

RNZ understands his resignation came after he was confronted with allegations that pornography, being investigated as alleged objectionable material, was found on his work computer.

McSkimming declined to comment on the allegations through his lawyer.

The government is "testing children to death" with the announcement of a new maths test for the youngest children, says the head of the Principals Federation.

Next week's Budget will include $4 million to develop and introduce a "maths check" for children in their first two years of schooling.

"Yes, it gives us information, but teachers will be able to tell you that they already know which children need that extra support. They don't need a test to tell them that so what is this test for, who is this test for, is what I will be asking. We've now got a phonics test for literacy in Year 1. We've now got a numeracy test in Year 2. We're testing our kids to death here."

When government's have introduced compulsory testing in primary school, overseas statistics show there have been negative unintended consequences, Pomeroy told Morning Report.

I have some quotes out of order as the article is discussing two things. Here is the second:

It also announced $56m over four years to employ the equivalent of 143 full-time maths intervention teachers to help primary school children who were struggling with the subject, and $40m over four years for small group maths tutoring for up to 34,000 children in Year 7-8 each year.

Otene said principals would welcome the funding for expert teachers, provided they targeted the children who were furthest behind in maths - those classed as "tier three" meaning they needed support from externally-sourced specialists.

"We need that intervention support. But I'm really hoping that that's not just for tier two students... we need desperately learning support for those children who are 'well below'," she said.

Otene said the funding for tutoring at intermediate schools was premature because it extended a pilot scheme that had not yet been assessed.

"I'm a bit concerned that the minister does not have evidence to support the extending of that," she said.

New Zealand's latest measles case could have nightmare consequences from a medical perspective, a leading paediatrician says.

Dr Owen Sinclair is among many medical experts with grave concerns for vulnerable groups if there is a measles outbreak in Auckland.

Health alerts have been issued after a new measles case was confirmed yesterday, with people in Auckland asked to check if they could have been exposed.

Health New Zealand said the case was linked to overseas travel in Asia, and the person with measles had been at Woolworths Kelston, on Fullers360 ferries, and at an Auckland carpark during the time they could be infectious.

More locations of interest - including a second supermarket and a West Auckland pharmacy - were confirmed late this afternoon.

"The last time we had sort of an outbreak in Auckland, it was attributed to two deaths in New Zealand, and then the measles that occurred here moved to Samoa and 83 people died over there.

"We really thought we'd got rid of it, but now it's come back due to a number of reasons," said Dr Sinclair.

Dr Sinclair said low rates of vaccination were often caused by difficulty in accessing immunisation healthcare.

New Zealand's overall vaccination rates against measles is at about 80 percent, according to Health NZ.

Earlier this month, Health Minister Simeon Brown said the government was targeting 95 percent of children being fully vaccinated by 24 months.

Dr Sinclair said at 95 percent coverage, New Zealand would effectively have herd immunity.

Have you ever asked yourself: what would rugby look like if it was played in a pool? If the answer is yes, hold your breath for some good news. Underwater Rugby a very much a real sport, with a team from Auckland heading to the Australian National Championships this weekend in Brisbane.

There's no scrums, lineouts or goal kicking, but Underwater Rugby does share the contact, fitness levels and camaraderie found in the more well-known, land-based version of the sport.

Goals are scored by putting a ball (filled with saltwater to decrease buoyancy) into baskets at either end of the pool, which vary in depths due to whatever is available but generally around four metres. Being able to hold your breath is a key component, as well as special awareness.

The Auckland team will head to Brisbane with a feeling of the unknown, given that it will be their first tournament together.

"As coach I'm very excited, it's going to be a tough one because it will be the international [players] of Australia. The tournament will be three days, we will do our best and it will be tough one and we have to train a lot."

I'm not really sure where the right place to ask is, but I figure this is a good place for docker related questions.

I have recently installed Bazzite as my daily driver, previously I was on Nobara. The main difference here is that Bazzite is immutable, so you can't (or shouldn't) install stuff in the normal way as it may get overwritten by updates.

I have a bunch of docker compose YAML files. I want to run these locally. But I also don't want to tweak anything in the files to get them running because they should be able to be copied to a prod environment as is or the local test environment isn't a good test. Prod would be either my Linux Mint server or an Ubuntu Server one.

Bazzite has a ujust script available for installing docker, but this doesn't include docker compose, and I'm not sure how to add that in.

Searching online shows everyone saying just use podman, it comes pre-installed and is a drop in replacement. The problem is that it doesn't work.

Maybe that's my question, why isn't my compose.yaml working with podman?

For example, the container gives me a bunch of messages about missing environment variables, but they are set in the compose.yaml.

I also get a bunch of permissions errors. E.g. here is the mariadb trying to access a directory and then trying to change the ownership:

[db]         | find: ‘/var/lib/mysql/’: Permission denied
[db]         | chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/mysql/': Permission denied

Volumes are all bind mounts. After the container created the local directories, I set all the permissions to 777 as a test and took the containers down then up and it still complains about permissions.

I feel like there is something specific to podman or Bazzite I'm not understanding. Any help?

I'm also happy to take suggestions on other ways to use docker compose in Bazzite.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have solved this by adding a Z flag to my bind mounts (./localdir:/containerdir:Z) as per this answer.

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The Commerce Commission has filed criminal charges against Woolworths NZ for alleged inaccurate pricing and misleading specials that may have breached the Fair Trading Act.

The commission filed the charges against Woolworths in the Auckland District Court.

It indicated in December last year that it would be filing separate criminal charges against Woolworths and two Pak'nSave supermarkets.

At that time, the commission said there were ongoing issues with pricing in the supermarket sector and the operators may have breached the Fair Trading Act.

An Auckland bird hospital wants public light displays like the Harbour Bridge and Sky Tower to be dimmed on cloudy nights, to help prevent native seabirds being injured or grounded.

BirdCare Aotearoa cares for hundreds of seabirds each autumn, and believed that light pollution from Auckland was disorientating juvenile birds.

Although light pollution came from across the city, large, bright LED displays were a particular problem, the charity said.

SkyCity - which lights the Sky Tower - has subsequently agreed to meet with BirdCare to discuss the issue and how it might be able to help.

Vandals in four-wheel drives have mowed down 38 pōhutukawa trees on Napier's Marine Parade.

The damage was done overnight on Saturday, after the vandals first removed new vehicle barriers in front of the trees, Napier Mayor Kirsten Wise said.

She said the council was concerned at the behaviour and said an early estimate to replace the damage came to $20,000. What's left of a pohutukawa tree after vandals mowed 38 of them down on Napier's Marine Parade.

"These trees were planted for our community by the Rotary Club as a gift over the past five years," Wise said.

The National Party wants to ban 16-year-olds from accessing social media by forcing companies to use age verification measures, but for now that's not government policy.

National MP Catherine Wedd, with the backing of leader Christopher Luxon, has put forward a members' bill which would follow Australia's lead on cracking down on the social media giants.

The Prime Minister said he wanted to explore picking it up as a "broader government bill," which would mean it could become law more quickly.

Right now the legislation does not have government-endorsed, meaning it would be debated only if it was drawn from the ballot at random.

The government is making it harder to make a claim for pay equity that will cut costs, saying the current system is too loose.

There have been massive pay equity claims in recent years for nurses and resthome workers.

Workplace Minister Brooke van Velden announced the moves to raise the threshold for proving work has been historically undervalued to support a claim, on Tuesday saying changes back in 2020 had created problems.

"Claims have been able to progress without strong evidence of undervaluation and there have been very broad claims where it is difficult to tell whether differences in pay are due to sex-based discrimination or other factors."

Claims were concentrated in the public sector, with costs to the Crown of all settlements so far totalling $1.78 billion a year, she said.

"The changes I am proposing will significantly reduce costs to the Crown," she said.

"The changes will discontinue current pay equity claims