a cool sunset tinted fog has descended onto the city
Daily Discussion Thread 🌅🌈⛱️ Sunday, 24 November 2024
Submitted 1 month ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
While the humidity is soooo gross, I’ve been loving the gothamesque feels of our city when it’s like this. 🖤
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
definitely Gothamesque
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Back to Melbs today.
Have to leave behind the fence jumper Winston who just had a bath by his owners and here he is a few minutes later in my place rolling around in dirt:
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Good boy Winston 🐶
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Well I’m off to bed now. I’m not particularly tired because I accidentally dozed off between 8am-12pm, but with a sufficient amount of melatonin and laying dead still for a few hours I’m sure I’ll get there eventually…
4am wakeup 😟 very jam packed day. I’ll post unsolicited photos of train stations that stopped being train stations approx 5 decades ago tomorrow Arvo!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 month ago
[deleted]Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I find it very helpful. It’s not a sedative though, it basically just creates tiredness is how I’d describe it. But it doesn’t knock you out, so if you get too stuck in your head it’s not particularly effective. And if I get too excited or too into planning, I can’t sleep until I’ve finished the thought process. Super useful for resetting sleep schedules though
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Do you follow Thebusofdoomfsx on YouTube? I think they’d be right up your alley
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yep, sure do. I don’t watch very much anymore, I’ve gotten more into the ones with voiceovers (ie TaitSet, Quazzy Transport, Philip Mallis), but during the lockdowns I binged so much bus of doom
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yay! Looking forward to it!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Do you follow Thebusofdoomfsx on YouTube? I think they’d be right up your alley
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Half past and there was no daily thread yet. Hope nobody minds me doing it
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Thank you, Baku. I was worried about doubling up!
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Haha, I was too honestly. You should’ve seen how many times I refreshed the page making sure nobody posted at the exact same time 😅
By the way, if anybody doubles up, I’ll probably point and laugh, but it’s all in jest, there’s no hard feelings, and doubling up is better than going til 9 in the morning without a DT ;)
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Not at all. It’s currently being done by whoever’s up and alert at this hour.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hmm, maybe I should see if I can work out how to setup a knockoff botbot
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Done!
Time to learn a couple of new songs.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
🙂
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yass, giving me life!
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Reading a thread on the other place, from auscorp and people being fired for accessing data they shouldn’t. Man, why? Like, firstly, the Privacy Act is really fucking strict, and is drilled in during training, with excerpts used in the e-learning and whatnot. Secondly, one user states their ex-colleague looked up the CEOs account for the bank they worked at lol, so so so dumb 😭
Reminded me of when I worked at one of the energy companies, and I heard Hugh Jackman had an account with us. We were told, so extremely explicitly, not to access it at all, don’t even think of accessing it, he has an account manager so we mere phone monkeys have no reason to check it out and we’ll be fired if we do.
Nek minit, my colleague left her brain cells at home and did the dumb. 😂 She was fired so fast time stopped for her 😂
Smdh
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah, I remember years back someone phone up a radio station saying that a well known celebrity claimed their cosmetic surgery as medical procedures. It’s like dumbass, someone will recognise your voice.
The level of entitlement to know people’s personal information is mind boggling.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s so stupid and audacious 😭 like, the company will have ways to find whether you accessed data in good faith, and will kick you to the curb if you didn’t note the account with a good reason as to why it was accessed. People have been seriously injured and died from assholed accessing data to find where they live. It’s protection that should never be violated.
Like, we were even told not to access our own accounts, or accounts of people we know. If we got a call from someone we knew, we had to transfer it to a different consultant.
Like, what goes through these people’s heads that they think they won’t be caught and sacked? I don’t get it 😭
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I realise this is a controversial opinion, but tbh I reckon some of the blame for these kind of things needs to rest on the company, too. The principle of least privilege should always be used where possible. If you don’t need to access information, you really shouldn’t even have the option, at least not without either the client/customer’s approval, or a managers authorisation
Humans are curious things, it’s bounds to happen. Firing people after it does is a reactionary response, not a preventative one. And prevention is better than cure, especially when it comes to personal information
(My perspective comes mostly from being in care, because pretty much every single piece of information about me, including things often said in confidence, lives in a little grey box with no transparency about what goes on or who has access. And there have been data breaches in the past, where people from certain organisations managed to gain access to the files for clients within completely separate organisations, with multiple instances of support workers using that access to do terrible things. I wasn’t involved in that, and have never even worked with that organisation, but it’s still something that used to play on my mind a lot and made me quite upset and worried. I realise that my views are probably a little OTT for certain industries that handle less confidential information, but that are still covered under the privacy Act. I still believe all systems handling PII should always use the principle of least privilege and fail safe, though)
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The principle of least privilege should always be used where possible. If you don’t need to access information, you really shouldn’t even have the option, at least not without either the client/customer’s approval, or a managers authorisation
Nice idea in theory, but imagine you had a bank or energy account and had to call customer service. If the agent has to get approval to access every account, that would be so, so time consuming, the company wouldn’t have clients/customers. There isn’t enough managers on the floor or available for that to be feasible. So they drill into us phone monkeys that we are not to access that kind of data (celebrities, people we know). The authorisation to access comes from the customer calling in, and asking for an action or info on their account. This is also why, in the back end, everything is logged: the date and time, which agent, whether a note was left, what the interaction was for, etc. We are told, over and over, not to do it, with Privacy Act citations.
Besides, there are preventions in place. Example: I was trained, at one point, to deal with only residential customers. I could not access Small-to-Medium business accounts, nor Large Business accounts. When I was promoted, that’s when further training was provided and my access upgraded. Again, everything is logged, and every phone monkey KNOWS it’s illegal to access that info without a customer asking, or without a manager asking. I had to access Large Business accounts without a customer telling me to, because I was doing remittance. I’m talking over $1m in one payment from one company.
The phone monkeys know it’s wrong without authorisation. I promise you they KNOW. It’s on them at that point and they should expect at least a firing, if not legal action.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
why would they even mention hugh jackman’s name? 🙄
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ikr stupid on the managers part there 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I found one of Hugh’s early autographs at work the other week. It’s rather timid looking, don’t think he was used to it yet.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
According to a voicemail I received overnight from a private number, my dad is gay and apparently great in bed. It’s a tough conversation and so I understand his choice to send a giggly teen boy as a messenger to let me know. Though given we haven’t spoken in years I think the call could have waited a bit longer until a more hospitable hour.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sorry this gave me a much needed giggle 😂 prank callers really have lost their gravitas haha
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Quite a progressive youngster though. As a teen boy you’d usually have fucked someone’s mum, not their dad. The youth are going to be OK.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sorted 2 garbage bags of clothing for donation. Made maple syrup gingerbread people to try a different recipe (also used last of the golden syrup with yesterday’s batch). Made different coloured icing and put it into little bags so the Minipeelers could get creative (and messy!). Don’t think it’s quite as good as the original recipe, but the original recipe is a banger. Took the Minipeelers out for a walk, was very humid and kinda yucky. Found bathing suits and goggles for Miniest for her school based week of swimming lessons. Locksmith is coming tomorrow to fix our door lock (Mr P’s key snapped in the lock late last week and we couldn’t get it out. Then he tried to fix it himself 🙆🏼♀️). Now I’m having McDonald’s because I can’t be bothered doing anything else.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Alright 2 songs down to an acceptable level. I’ve earned some fucking around time lol
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sky pretty. Glowing mushroom pink.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wow, fog! It’s so thick too! Can’t see the tops of adjacent skyscrapers in the city at all.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Watched the Buy Now documentary on Netflix. I don’t like the Netflix documentary style, but the message is still worth watching for. Am disgusted by how much waste we create. Not much we can do on an individual scale, and corporates and governments have no incentive to change anything. Consumption is profit. Economy above all else.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
and yet it isn’t small purchases that improve our lives but co-operative purchases like government infrastructure and services that do
another thing is that consumerism is subtle. No one who has an out of fashion kitchen remodelled and gets new appliances thinks their purchases count towards environmental degradation. It’s just the people with 4 cars.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My foot has swelled a bit over the past few days. Probably a mild sprain. I should be more careful, feet seem to take ages to heal.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I sprained my ankle real bad my first night in Barcelona. Couldn’t weight bare for 3 weeks
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
bandage, cold , put it up , rest
and hugs 🫂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah I’ve underestimated how much it saps one’s energy. I forget this every time summer rolls over. Can’t bring myself to run the AC a third day in a row tho.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Lying in bed listening to the rain is lovely
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
That’s exactly what I’m doing too. Relishing it before everyone else wakes up and starts wanting things lol.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 month ago
So good. I have a lot to get through today but another hour here listening is too good.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Fuckit, ordered more food for pickup next week, I realise I’m just gonna be flat out doing long days at work. Still so much unpacking to do and life admin to sort out too. If I do cook it can go in the freezer.
Last episode of Fisk was bitter-sweet. Seems like they’ve set it up for the show to end, it won’t be the same if they continued on with the characters’ lives where they are.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Austin is good too.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I do not miss little flies. Ugh.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Went for a walk along the beach yesterday morning and URG, everyone constantly doing the Great Australian Wave because of the little fuckers.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hate fly season. Blowfly flew into house today. Managed to chase it out thankfully.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
So just wondering, how do you guys keep cool during the hot days (especially when it’s in the 40s) without A/C?
It’s been so long at this point since I lived in the country without A/C that I’ve kind of forgotten how to do the do. I don’t pay the power bill, so at the moment I have pretty much zero hesitation about turning the air con on the night before hot days to keep the house cool. But once I move, I will start paying for my own utilities, and in any case, the house doesn’t have a splitty or anything, just a single gas heater in the living room
The only thing that’s coming to mind is a wet towel draped over a pedestal fan or two. I’d prefer not to buy one of those portable ones with the pipe that goes out the window because in my experience they usually just end up heating the space it’s in, with the only cooling being the air it blows out (mike used to radiate heat out the sides like mad). And I’m a bit concerned with energy efficiency
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
So, are you guys still doing your chores today or nah?
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
80% humidity, vom. I have just remembered the Dry function on my AC so that’s getting cranked up while I finally sit down and eat something - had nothing but a coffee and a handful of soy crisps all day, no wonder I feel like death.
Bed has been remantled, along with painstakingly working out which slat goes where; suitcase of Immediate Clothes unpacked, and towels and sheets. Everything given a good vac along with the bag and filters replaced.
Need to unpack the boxes with pots and pans and just shove stuff somewhere for now. Then boil some pasta and I think that’s it for today. zzzz
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ugh. Crap sleep gang checking in.
Been up twice already. Finally got a clue and set up the fan as the bedroom has copped the heat for the past few days.
Third time’s the charm hopefully. 🤞🏻
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yaaay rainsh
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Nope. 3 or so more hours.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I distinctly recall being promised rain.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The plan would have been the miniature train in Eltham if it want raining. I guess we’ll stay inside today, but for the opposite reason of yesterday
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Tickets to Singapore and Tokyo have been booked, AWWW YISSSS
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yay! I’m hopeful going to Japan next year and I’m looking forward to Daiso and all their competitors. So much interesting shit to buy.
Enjoy your holiday!!!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
GIIIIIIIRL you are gonna lose your mind in Donki!! And Hands!! Omg I can’t wait to hear what you think. When are you thinking of going? Of course you have your NZ trip before then = when’s take off before that?!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
eee! eat all the gyoza for us.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’ll post pics!
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Take me in a suitcase, pls.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sure, on the way there, but on the way back you gotta find your own way because I am planning on bringing back enough Mofusand stuff to shame myself.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeeeee!!! When are you going?
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Going to Singapore to 31/12 and then Tokyo a couple of days after that! Much excite!
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Shit yeah, you go!