Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Annual General Thread 22 hours ago:
I’ll pay the imgur thing. It happened during school holidays and we went away for the (WA) long weekend in there as well.
I did have a shot at looking into it, but didn’t try very hard. I didn’t really prioritise it, because it only seemed to affect thumbnails and even then, it wasn’t consistent. I didn’t see it as that big of an issue.
The lemmy.world lag drama was more nuanced. It’s not a time issue, rather the precedent that one would require. We would have needed to spin up a new server somewhere close to lemmy.world in Finland, batch their feed and send it home. All for an issue with one remote instance that the Lemmy devs said was about to be fixed.
We didn’t want to eat into the finances for a temporary problem. Had we known in May that it would take until November to resolve, we may have made a different call. But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 1 day ago:
I think the much larger immediate/medium term issue is the lack of time Nath and Lodion have had in recent months
Has this actually been an issue?
I like to think we’re pretty quick on the moderation stuff, our main problem is time zone related. People making reports or signing up early in the morning don’t usually get seen until after 7am WA time (9am for half the country).
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 5 days ago:
Only if you’re drinking espresso. And only ever offering espresso to prospective guests. As a flat white drinker, I’d still need a kettle.
This is a great week to pick them up for free/almost free as people got upgrades for Christmas and offload their old ones.
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 5 days ago:
I know this doesn’t answer the “best instant coffee” question, but an $8 Ikea plunger and real ground coffee from Colesworth/Aldi negates the need to ever settle for instant. It actually works out a little cheaper, too.
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 5 days ago:
Does it work for Australian purchases? I’m sure lots of the brands will be here also, but I doubt a US site would be testing Australian/New Zealand brands like Westinghouse or Fisher & Paykel (however that’s spelled).
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 5 days ago:
The article doesn’t mention superannuation, I wonder whether that’s also covered?
I’m fairly sure that a former employer underpaid my super to the tune of about $5k, but I was young and lazy and stupidly didn’t follow that up.
It’s a bit hard to go back 15 years later and ask. I don’t really even know what he should have paid vs. what he actually paid. My suspicion comes from other employees complaining that super was not being paid.
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 6 days ago:
I find value in it, but probably don’t use it enough to justify the $70 or whatever it is per year. I might use it for one or two purchases a year.
Tell us what you’re interested in and I’ll tell you the Choice recommendation. 😉
- Comment on McDonald's Australia and Netflix launch Squid Game Meal 6 days ago:
4,000 kj?! That’s something like half an adult daily intake. Plus it’s awful for you, has little nutrition. You’ll just feel hungry again after a short time.
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 1 week ago:
He gets double time (2x $0/hr) on public holidays.
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 1 week ago:
Spud Shed is a legitimate competitor in WA. At least as good as Aldi in terms of range. They’re also the only stores open 24x7, here. Colesworth close at 9pm on weekdays and 5pm on weekends.
They don’t play on the same level as Colesworth though. Maybe a few percent market share even here?
Woolies could argue that every dollar spent at Spud Shed isn’t being spent in their stores. That seems to be what they say that about literally any store selling a product found on their shelves.
- Comment on The loyalty tax shoppers willingly pay despite push for supermarket competition 2 weeks ago:
If Joe’s Emporium of Essentials opened tomorrow with the same range as Colesworth, but cheaper prices, watch that “loyalty” disappear overnight. The duopoly have reached a comfortable equilibrium and know that so long as they remain cheaper than IGA, they’re good to extort us.
- Comment on Double demerits begin now within NSW/ACT/WA (for 11+ days) 2 weeks ago:
I have spent a lot of time on Victorian roads, both as a cyclist and as a driver. I’m with the Victorian police: Victorian drivers be crazy.
Best evidence I have to back this up is that my car insurance premiums dropped by $800 when I moved from Victoria to WA. The insurance companies think you are far more likely to claim in Victoria than you are in WA.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 3 weeks ago:
We’re a relatively small community, so it wouldn’t take much for us to be overwhelmed.
You are correct, we are small. But I do have a contingency for brigading. I’ve not had to put it to the test, yet - but I think we can handle a brigade descending on us. For a start, I have a “Nuke Post” button that will kill a post outright. That will likely suffice in most cases.
Worst case: I can go thermonuclear and flip federation. Instead of a list of blocked “naughty” instances, I can move us to a list of “nice” instances and block everyone else aside from the site for a time. I should review that list, I haven’t updated it since about March.
The Admin tools are a bit rudimentary. Like the Internet in the 70’s and 80’s, Lemmy was set up on the assumption that people are cool and not out to ruin everyone’s day. But there are some tools there to provide us with some shelter from a storm of bad faith actors if we need them. I’m hoping they’ll continue to mature as Lemmy itself does. And by the time we need stuff like this, there are better options than effectively going dark to much of the Fediverse in case of emergency.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 3 weeks ago:
Huh. I was busy yesterday and wasn’t on the site much. I saw that post but some unconscious factor made me skip it. Probably a history of every post on the topic for the past 20 years all regurgitating the same talking points over and over.
Looking at it now, I doubt I’d have stepped in if I had seen it. I think the downvotes did their job and the person wasn’t being abusive or anything.
That said, the report button is right there if someone is breaking site rules - don’t hesitate to use it.
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
Nobody, not even the government, knows how any of this will work. We don’t even know whether the same party will still be in power in six months/whether this thing will actually go ahead.
Assuming it does and there are guidelines on how to comply, we will attempt to implement them. I just hope there’s a way to comply without modifying/customizing the Lemmy codebase. I don’t want to be trapped in a place with a custom build that can’t easily be updated.
Sorry for not having a better answer, but we simply don’t know if it will actually be signed into law and what will be required to comply with the law.
Anything that drastically affects the user experience will be communicated, of course.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
I’m sad that you’d call this a gift. My family would come out for free to help - this wouldn’t be considered a gift for us. 😔
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
Except potatoes. Everyone loves those plants.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
My kids would probably dig these, but they are not among the people I need inspiration for. They are sorted.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s Catfish sorted for Christmas! 🤣
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
Off to Hammerbarn to get me a husband!
For reals though, I like this one. Assuming they don’t peel and fade by the end of summer when exposed to the elements.
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 4 weeks ago:
Precisely the outcome we want to see here. An exodus of customers leading them not only to roll this back but to put the other banks on notice that they really don’t want to follow CBA’s lead on this one.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
Best I can do for under $50 is a plush numbat. No chance of a real one. Besides, they’re a devil to keep fed.
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
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First there was cats with jobs. Now they have work socks! - Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
I nearly bought one - but doesn’t it leave a mess?
- Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 4 weeks ago:
To start things off:
Bluetooth transmitter: Neat little gadget that you plug into your TV and then transmits audio via Bluetooth. The fancier models broadcast two channels - so two people can listen simultaneously. Great for parents with sleeping kids to get some TV time.
Microfiber glasses cleaning cloth: If your recipient wears glasses, they’ll have a few of these already. But they’re boring. You can get them with nice pictures (My wife has Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough on hers), or you can even get them with custom photos, but that costs a lot more.
I’ll add to this as I think of more. 😃
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 48 comments
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 4 weeks ago:
Even if it is only under certain circumstances, charging customers to access money is appalling behaviour. Once upon a time, banks paid us to keep our money in their establishment. Now that our society has evolved to the point where we literally can’t function without a bank account somewhere, the banks treat us like they don’t need us.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 18 comments
