• tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Light load on for work today so if the weather holds out I’ll find something to do with the boys this afternoon

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Kind of actually very grateful now that I didn’t start my new job today. I have ended up with a mountain of admin! Got accepted to my course but there was a whole bunch of calling and form-filling that followed due to unique circumstances. That took a few hours. And I got my latest power bills which FINALLY prodded me to do the annual switch (several months overdue - could’ve been saving $50 a month! - but better late than never). Plus I’m waiting on the pre purchase inspection results for the car, any minute now I should be getting a phone call and email to go through the options, then I need to enter negotiations (urgh).

    A friend wants me to go help them with some measurements and shit around 4:30pm today, that’ll get me out of the house which is great.

    Meanwhile, the shit is starting to go down again in the Middle East. Maybe this is a bad time to be buying an ICE car, but at least this one has relatively low fuel consumption…

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Had to keep it real with a Vietnamese teenage boy and inform him that Koalas are not naturally cuddly and in fact can be quite vicious and scratch you. Only Koalas kept in captivity will tolerate at best human contact.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    took 4.5 hrs back from the bellarine.

    Everything went wrong… time for wine.

    The funniest was at the 48 stop outside southern x and the arrival kept ticking from 3mins, to 2, back to 3, then 1 for a solid 15 mins. Then it arrives with no one on it. Sort of like the movie ghost ship.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Kew, so close yet so far away. Honestly it boggles the mind how long the tram takes. A good chunk of time is just spent going down Collins St and creakily turning into Vic Pde. Not having a train is a bit of a far Kew to residents.

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Well, for me I don’t trust meta. And yes I know WhatsApp is meta, but I’m sort of locked into it on account of almost everyone I am in contact with using it. Just don’t like the idea of meta based AI possibly using my messages for learning.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I am currently fuming about this too. I don’t even have auto update enabled on my apps so how did it happen? Turns out WhatsApp apparently can roll out server-side updates at any time??? And there’s no way to opt out of this stupid update either.

      I can’t not use it either as it’s the only way I can stay in touch with most of my relatives, I can’t get them to switch to Telegram or Signal…

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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          4 months ago

          The irritating thing is that apparently the toggle switch was already there all this while. I really hope there’s enough backlash to force meta to reintroduce it because this is total bs. The server side updates are really not cool either :/

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Ugh. We started using it for work during the lockdowns, but now it’s only used for odd rare work messaging. Might see if I can get the boss to knock it on the head.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    4 months ago

    Since I picked the kumquats s’pose I better prepare the marmalade mix

    and I’ll make a big apple crumble too :)

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          It’s bright and sunny here. But I slipped on the stairs because they were wet and I didn’t realise because of all the sun, so I believe you

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    PSA: this is not medicare, if you get this message just ignore and delete. I get quite a few spam/scam texts, but I figured I’d put this here because this one is impersonating medicare.

    Remember, they wouldn’t send you a link to click, and always read the URL. It’s always going to be something that’s dodgy.

    screenshot of text

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Got this exact one a few days ago. And a call from Thailand. And of course, my tolls are once again unpaid. I really feel sorry for older people. The scam situation is out of control.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Lol! My partner got the toll one last night - we don’t own a car nor drive 😂

        I also feel bad for the oldies, it’s fucked how many of these texts are sent

        • Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone
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          4 months ago

          The toll one is odd, I never got that particular one until I made a rare and very short trip (like one junction) on Eastlink a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had five scam texts since then. If you go on the Eastlink website there’s a big red ‘priority alert’ warning at the top of the page, so they’re obviously aware of it, but it seems to me that their system is compromised somehow.

        • Nath@aussie.zone
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          4 months ago

          The toll ones are especially funny in Perth - there are no toll roads in WA. 😃

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I got a scam toll text that actually got past the spam filter recently. I checked my account through the proper means and found out Linkt had been charging me a manual lookup fee because my e-tag hasn’t been working. This has been going on for years.

      And you wonder why they choose toll payments as their scam

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Highly doubtful. I did get a COViD confirmation at a similar stupid time, but that was full lockdown etc.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I reported it with PhishReport (that website I mentioned the other day), and here’s what that looks like for anyone curious:

      First you open a case on PR:

      Then you submit it to google safe browsing

      Then to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence page:

      Then to the domain registrar (who provide the domain (site) name). In this case it’s NameSilo and they’re kind of shit when it comes to this sort of thing, but they do do their job so I can’t complain I guess:

      Then normally you’d submit a report to their domain host (who actually host the phishing page), but they use a Chinese host, Tencent, who really don’t want to do anything so they make it difficult and phish report doesn’t have a link to their phishing report page, just their copyright takedown page, so you’d probably need to email them. I decided to not bother for now

      It seems that a lot of scams now are based out of China. Most of the phishing links I get, at least the ones targetting Australians, are coming from china. And Chinese companies really really really do not want to do anything about such phishing and scam websites. Tencent always cause me problems when I try to report them. They also demand all your personal information, so I submit my reports to them with false information, because I don’t really want them passing along my address and personal information to criminals. But that’s unfortunately just how it is now

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Whoa Baku! You’re a good egg! I had no idea about any of this, thank you!

        Is that the same Tencent that owns all those gaming publishers/devs/IPs‽

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yep. They actually own or hold shares of a fucking shit ton of things. They own 4% of Tesla, 40% of epic games, I’m pretty sure there was a thing a few years ago where they bought a minority of discord and Reddit, they’ve got their fingers in just about every gaming company. They’re basically Chinese google, except rather than directly running products under their own branding, they just take the profits other companies generate

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Update: namesilo placed their domain into Client hold, which essentially renders their domain useless unless removed.

      If you’re into a more technical explanation that hopefully doesn’t just sound like jargon:

      spoiler

      Basically what they’ve done is deactivate what’s known as DNS records. DNS records are what actually tells visitors browsers where the site itself is. The site itself is on a Tencent server somewhere in china and still exists (it hasn’t been deleted or removed or anything). But without the DNS records, people visiting the dodgy domain have no way to know where the sites content is. I imagine namesilo will not be renewing their domain, so that means for the next year or so, the site will not be visitable.

      But it doesn’t seem to have taken effect just yet, possibly because it’s cached by someone somewhere. Within 24 hours it should be completely done though

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Eldest minipeeler accidentally kicked Miniest full in the face while sparring last night. He was mortified and ran to his room upset; she thought he was going for a high kick and basically ducked straight into it. She’s ok after a little blood nose but I keep telling them to knock it off, “starts in laughter ends in tears” kind of thing, someone will get hurt, not enough room in a small crowded living room etc. I’m only their mother, what do I know‽ My siblings were from my parents previous marriages and almost adults by the time I was born, so I’m not used to the mucking around casual violence of children growing up together, and sometimes feel emotionally ill-equipt to parent it