Discussion Thread: Monday, 10 March 2025
Submitted 3 months ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I’m surprised cookie monster is there. Surely Vicpol with their extremely sound judgement chucked him in the drunk tank, then refused to do a blood test, fail to communicate the charge, then didn’t offer him 2 phone calls and just chucked him out on the street at 4am on a monday with no way home except for an 8km walk. (It was a while ago but I’m still bitter).
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
He doesn’t know where he is. He’s high as hoeing down cookies. He wouldn’t remember his age let alone a phone number.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I’m sure Oscar got good reason
dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 months ago
He lives on the street, he knows what’s up.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I just signed up to Proton Mail & am changing over my email, calendar, setting up the VPN and migrating all my stuff to their cloud server. I’ve only just started the process and I’m exhausted already. I haven’t even looked at the password manager yet to decide if I want to change to that or not. But storing my digital life in Switzerland instead of USA seems like a very good idea at the moment.
Pilk@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I have one I’m afraid to contaminate with data leaks so I literally use it for nothing. No, I don’t follow the logic either.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I’m in the process of the same thing.
proton and mastodon.
might move my gmail , not that i use it much
I’m still using tor a lot and had my exit node set to usa ( I pasted in some code ) but I might start using proton vpn and try for yerp
Lemmy is nice but hardly secure .
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I have multiple emails I use. Being able to use alias emails will be useful, and I’ll also be able to set up email using my own domain name through Proton - which means I can move them ito another company in the future if I decide Proton’s not the best option anymore. It also means I can set up lots of emails along the lines of companyname@myname.website, and have a seperate address for each of the major companies I deal with (like banks and insurance companies) to create another difference so that data matching won’t expose as much information. I’d looked at doing this using the company that hosts my website, but their interface did not work well for emails and it’s not very secure.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I’ve got proton mail and I love the security of it. Haven’t looked at the other parts of it yet tho, just the mail.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Google seems to be becoming a worse country, migrating away looks like a good idea.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yeah, I’ve been contemplating it for a while, it’s just taken the recent issues in US to give me enough push to actually act.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Happy Labour Day!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Have a big trip tomorrow. It’ll take a about 2 hours one way which I’m not looking forward to.
Need to go catchup with the other guitarist in the metal band. He’s a good guy and I promised I would.
Goodnight all ❤️
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 months ago
One discombobulated Boyo is back home after discovering halfway into work that they’ve given everyone the day off.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 3 months ago
So hot outside. Could be worse, could be humid. 12 more new records to go… then I just need to redo 16 more completely and I’m almost done. The rest only need remeasuring with a tape measure… which is more about driving around to do the bastard things real quick. I could do some while I’m out here and traffic is chill. Leave about 70 to update with more precision on some cooler weather day. The end is in sight for this side of town!
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Working the public holiday is bad enough, but whyyy did our central engineering team have to throw a spanner in the works and break stuff to ‘keep things interesting’ and make today extra-not-cruisy?!? 🤬
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Coming back from beechworth, we all had a great time. The boys got to pat lizards and feed frogs. There were animals grazing around the grounds and they got to watch a crocodile be fed.
To top it all off, they use a product work sells that lines up perfectly with an upcoming product launch. I asked if I could use them as a case study and they said yes, so I could retroactively spin this as a work trip
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Definitely a work trip, and the boys were the quality testing team
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
a cockroach thought im food
shiny_idea@aussie.zone 3 months ago
How did that go for the cockroach?
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
It shall go no more
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 3 months ago
You are bacon
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
that is true
just_kitten@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Holy sweaty shirtballs. I am COOKED, was out from 11 to 6 jumping in and out of the car but I got the time sensitive stuff done, and I pushed on through to correct ALL the other measurements in one day to make the most of cruisey traffic… and I’M DONE WITH MY DATA COLLECTION!!1!1! (for that side of town, anyway. Got one more area that I might have to let go of if the weather doesn’t play nice this weekend/next week)
I’ll be glad to not drive over the effing Westgate for another year now, thank you very much.
Bonus is I managed to get some cheap Asian veggies while stopping for refreshments (kang kung, choy sum, winter gourd and very cheap small round eggplants). Plus a full tank of cheap petrol. Ordered pizza for dinner as a very well-deserved treat… just waiting for the clothes to wash and I’ll pick it up while I do the laundromat run. Whew, what a day.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yay. 👍☺️
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Address changing underway, along with resetting passwords for a zillion customer portals I’ve not logged into since last move and have inevitably forgotten. Blargh.
Duenan@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yuck. Who broke the weather?
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 months ago
So many days of hot weather! 😭😭 This is SHIT!
Remind me to bring my sunscreen today lol
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Only three days to go until the cool change! Kill me now
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
smh gods these days…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
it’s not really that hot, just mildly hot, hot is mid 40s, but the number of days at this temp is not nice
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
the little strawberry yoghurt ice pops were delicious, I chose very very red small straws for a strong flavour
I don’t feel guilty eating these either 🙂
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Fun fact - the old English word for strawberry is streawberige, etymology is light on this but it could have the same etymology as straw, as in, it is strewn (literally “that which is scattered or strewn”), based on how strawberry plants grow across the ground. Related to Proto-Indo European *stere meaning “to spread”.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
when I lived in Europe sometimes species wild strawberries would appear in my garden beds, such tiny little berries, very little taste but they edible, they are very pretty and the robins love them
I read somewhere the strawberries we cultivate and eat are native to America
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 months ago
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Happy Second Sunday!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I feel a bit like I didn’t get much done today, but I have made significant progress in de-Goggling my life.
I’ve also removed Reddit. Again. Apparently it’s like cancer. I obviously didn’t get rid of it all when I moved over here and it regrew. Now it’s been cut out again.
Hopefully with a new influx to Lemmy there will be a bit more engagement here. Although we are all terrible people who “incite violence” so maybe we should just riot instead?
dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 months ago
You could say you luigi’d your reddit.
Nath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Hey hey hey - you can’t use that word or um, the Americans will ban you!
An nobody upvote him either or they’ll get ya!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I could say that, but only here. Try to say that on Reddit and they luigi you 🤣
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
i feel like I aged ten years just figuring out how to use mastodon
it’s like lemmy but they don’t actually tell you what server you signed up on or what server you’re on, so that’s fun. Also, you don’t actually sign in with your mastodon ID, which is so intuitive 😵💫
now to move my gmail to proton
I use duckduckgo anyway, but even that algorithm is getting more and more shitty, getting really hard to actually find anything
reddit, I am so blocked on most of my accounts I couldn’t delete them even if I wanted
maybe if i tried the computers at the library it would work 🤷♀️
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I haven’t actually looked at mastodon. Lemmy took a whe to figure out initially too, it’s probably similar and it just takes a bit of time.
I managed to avoid an actual ban on reddit (probably because i didn’t use it much) and only had comments banned with a warning.
In many ways I miss the old 90s newsgroups.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 3 months ago
what happened to reddit THIS time?
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 months ago
They are going overboard with censorship, which seems to be aimed primarily at anyone expressing anti-Trump sentiments. Not just banning people for making comments but also people who upvoted them. They have very wide criteria they classify as “inciting violence” - including using the name Luigi or the phrase “eat the rich”, but they are not transparent about what their criteria are. They have also been banning people for reporting too many comments, regardless of whether or not those reports are valid or not.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Go to print something in black and white and it refuses because the colour is low. Fuck HP printers.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Check out reject shop daiso etc. for christmas wrapping paper. Maybe even colesworth. Some kinds have squared grids on the back in 1 cm intervals for ease of wrapping presents. I bought a couple of rolls and use that for pattern drafting. At a couple of bux per roll its MUCH cheaper than formal drafting paper and just as good. And if I screw up a pattern it’s no big deal to do it again on a new bit of paper. Buying paper patterns is expensive and they usually need to be adjusted (for me anyway) before they fit.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Thanks, that’s smart! I have Xmas wrapping paper but sadly no grid on the back.
Sorry for the ninja edit, I figured my weird activities weren’t actually that interesting
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Long day! Remembered sunscreen and I remain pale and unburnt.
Now sitting outside the laundromat, washing mein liebes pants for his interview tomorrow. He has used all his spoons, so I sent him back upstairs to rest lol
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 months ago
washing mein liebes pants for his interview
May your washing of pant land him the prospect of more pant.
StudChud@aussie.zone 3 months ago
💜💜
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
After about six hours of gaming, and maybe two hours of phone scrolling and napping; now that the sun has set, I finally feel like getting Things™ done.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
inspired by Low’s recommendation I bought a lot of cosmetics today ☺️ lots of eyebrow and eyelash stuff, new liquid eye liners too
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Oooh, tell me more. I’m a cosmetics fiend and wish to know all of the details!! Brands! Colours! Finishes!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Electric toothbrush or manual toothbrush?
Pilk@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Manual, do it in the shower and you get an extra few minutes for free
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Manual. Gotta get that exercise in somehow.
tone212_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Electric, better clean
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
With less effort
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Manual!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
manual
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Electric all the way.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Manual. Quieter. No vibrating brain. No need for batteries/charging or replacement heads. Or company no longer makes heads the type you need.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 3 months ago
There’s electric now?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yeah. They’re new.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 months ago
oh holy shit I just realised my PT-E550WVP does very good QR codes. And I run my own webserver. As in literally, in my house, apache build that I can control access to.
Guess whose specialty tools are gonna get all their guides and manuals digitised with link stickers on every last one? Mwahahahaha
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Just came back from shopping, lots of people about. The fruit and veg shop was busy as, which is good to see. Got a busy day in the factory tomorrow, so it’s gonna be a very hot one for me.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
but first i’ll dash to qvc and grab a small frozen yoghurt and some other stuff 😋
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
more packing , will spend some time cutting up bubble wrap for the delicate stuff
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
i can’t quite decide what to do with the next twelve (12) hours
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 3 months ago
fill them with 300 decisions about food
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 3 months ago
You could mastur a new skill
bacon@aussie.zone 3 months ago
why not both
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 months ago
“Gibson why are you eating cobwebs?”
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I just made some strawberry yoghurt ice pops. Yoghurt, milk, strawberries a little sugar in the blender then into popsicle molds
should turn out nice 😋
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Garlic bread or garlic focaccia (which is really a garlic pizza)?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Shit sleep last night. Can’t think of anything to do for our wedding anniversary next week. I’ve had two shits already which is unheard of. It’s fucking hot. I will survive.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I had a long second sleep, musta been tired.