Baku
@Baku@aussie.zone
Primarily active on sh.itjust.works. If you need to contact me, best getting in touch there. @Baku@Baku@sh.itjust.works
- Australia Post parcel lockers are eligible to be installed in private apartment/office complexes!auspost.com.au ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Services Australia chasing billions in unpaid debt – including some which may have been unlawfully calculated 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know. I meant “what’s now Centrelink”
- Comment on Services Australia chasing billions in unpaid debt – including some which may have been unlawfully calculated 2 weeks ago:
They’re still chasing debts from the 70s? I highly doubt anybody that worked for Centrelink in the 70s is even still there today! Now I want to know how much that debt is, because I really can’t fathom even CL chasing 45 year old debts unless they’re for hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Services Australia chasing billions in unpaid debt – including some which may have been unlawfully calculatedwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Where Does [the] Australia[n continent] End? 2 weeks ago:
The wikipedians are the real paid actors.
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 2 weeks ago:
I know this has been answered (and officially), but I ask myself 2 questions when it comes to things that can be spammy:
- Am I being paid for this, by the organisers of the event, or do I even have a horse in the race? If yes: don’t post (or ask for prior permission and include a short blurb about how I’m involved and what I stand to gain
- is this something I think somebody else would actually find benefit in or enjoy? If no: should I post it for historical purposes? If no: why should I post it?
I say go for it, though! I’d probably either limit to 1 event post a week (maybe 3 days), or put them all into a mega thread. Maybe a weekly mega thread. You’ll have my upvote either way!
- Comment on Neighbours are eligible for FTTP, but I'm not - only options wait and hope or pay? 3 weeks ago:
Cheers. I might try my luck, see if they’re interested
I’m still not sure how they’d get around the “strata” thing though. The NBN seem to be very difficult to contacy
- Comment on Neighbours are eligible for FTTP, but I'm not - only options wait and hope or pay? 3 weeks ago:
Also from the post:
so I could maybe badger the property manager or landlord to sort it out themselves. But they’re older and obviously don’t really have any reason to care about the internet speeds I can receive.
- Comment on Neighbours are eligible for FTTP, but I'm not - only options wait and hope or pay? 3 weeks ago:
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on A couple of community requests 3 weeks ago:
Imo, SydneyTrains and MelbourneTrains have enough activity to justify keeping. BrisbaneTrains is pretty much dead, so we could either just leave it, or run a poll and if everyone was in agreeance, leave a redirect notice to this new AusTransport community and ask people to post their instead
As for the potential crossover between Melb/Syd and AT, I would view it like how there’s Sydney, Melbourne, brisbane, etc, communities as well as an Australia community. Usually things specifically related to cities or states with their own communities would go in those communities, but sometimes whoever’s doing the posting thinks they’re significant enough to be relevant to the Australia wide comm, too
- Comment on A couple of community requests 3 weeks ago:
I was trying to aim for 1 post a day in c/MelbourneTrains for a while, but I haven’t been going out on the trains as much as I used to, and aren’t seeing as many cool things as I once did. I still try to keep up 1 post a week minimum, preferably at least 1 news or similar type article + 1 photograph
c/SydneyTrains is largely being kept on life support by @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone and @WaterWaiver@aussie.zone (thank you both, I appreciate you), and I try to post occasionally, but I have only visited Sydney once and mostly took photos of mundane things everybody potentially interested in the community will have seen dozens or hundreds of times, so I don’t really post those. Mostly just news articles and opinion pieces, occasionally YouTube videos or video essays where I stumble upon one I enjoy
c/BrisbaneTrains is a lot more complicated. I wasn’t th eone who requested that, but did volunteer to help moderate. But I dont live in Brisbane, have never been to Brisbane, and haven’t the faintest clue how their public transport network works, so my ability to post is largely restricted to articles, which I don’t get many of because I don’t know anything about it and haven’t been interested enough I suppose. And nobody else has really posted anything there
I’d really love to see some people asking questions and wanting to learn about aspects of (particularly Melbourne’s) train networks. I’ve got… Some… knowledge that I could share, about various things, but most of the engagement in melb trains seems to come from people browsing local who see something and go “huh, neat. Upvote”, so it feels a bit like an echo chamber
I like discussion and debate, too. There was some good debate on a post about hydrogen buses in c/MelbourneTrains a while back. I didnt really participate because I just didn’t have enough knowledge about the pros and cons of hydrogen as a vehicle power source to comment, but it was good to see and I’d love more of that
If an AusTransport community were to be created, I’d definitely aim for at least a post a week, which would still make it more active than some other communities such as AusTech
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Annual General Thread 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I do politely disagree with the statement it wasn’t that big of an issue, as from what I could see, it completely prevented every Imgur image post from loading, thumbnail or not. Perhaps you mean the pictrs troubles (which are still intermittently happening, but primarily affect thumbnails and although annoying aren’t dire)?
It’s not a time issue
But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.
Perhaps I’m mistaken, but Lodion specifically mentioned it was a time not financial problem when asked 3 months ago. I’m pretty sure there was a similar response when it was asked previously, as well
- Comment on Annual General Thread 4 weeks ago:
Has this actually been an issue?
In my opinion, sometimes, yeah. I think you both do exceptionally well when it comes to report handling. I think Lodion has been handling the routine upgrades quite well, too. But when it comes to things like fixing problems, I think there’s been a lack of time investment put into fixing them.
The 2 things that come to mind were when the image proxying stuff was implemented and broke every single Imgur-hosted image on the site, it was a few weeks (might’ve even been over a month now that I think about it) before it was finally disabled. The other is from when the federation delays with LW were still present. Somebody developed a tool to implement activity batching (iirc) before it was implemented in Lemmy. But Lodion responded that they didn’t have the time to implement it.
There was also the time somebody proposed a migration tool to help people migrate from Reddit. To be fair, I do think the time required to vet it for potential security issues, and manage it, would’ve been worth more than the benefits anybody would receive from it. Perhaps that’s true for the batching tool, too, but I personally would place being able to see and interact with like 90% of Lemmy content fairly high up on the list of priorities. Double tbf: I don’t think Lodion actually said they didn’t want this because of the time investment required. I can’t remember exactly what the response was, but I’m pretty sure it was something along the lines of not being interested in managing any additional software.
I don’t mean this to sound like I’m bashing either of you, or AZ in general, I just wanted to share my perspective, since you asked.
- Comment on Woolworths says it will 'do more' to celebrate Australia Day 4 weeks ago:
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Annual General Thread 4 weeks ago:
I’d be supportive in principle. But it seems like a lot of work and formality for a relatively small site. The general approach to all of the issues you listed usually tends to be “if you’re concerned just make a thread”
I’d be in favour of returning the full finances update, but Lodion already said they don’t have the time to go through their transactions and tally up income and expenditure
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Two Brisbanes? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is helpful to whoever wants to try and debug this, but I couldn’t get the same thing in my third party app (Boost For Lemmy). I guess that either means that this isn’t being returned in the API (making it a UI bug), or my app has some kind of logic programmed into it to ignoring duplicates from the same instance. I’d say that’s unlikely though, because Boost for Lemmy is basically just a Lemmy port of Boost for reddit on life support. It would be a weird edge case to account for, when compared with all the other bugs that affect many more people that aren’t patched
Searching Brisbane only brings up one local community (and the trains community, of course). I can see that post twice, both in /local/new and /Brisbane/new
My money is on some kind of UI bug. I’m not any kind of definitive authority though. I’m not even an authority, or definitive. I’d suggest logging in through either an incognito or private window tab without any extensions. I know LocalCDN, NoJS, and Privacy Badger sometimes screw things up, if you’re using anything like that.
- Comment on Where to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks in your capital city 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t heard about Sydney threatening to cancel the fireworks if the train drivers didn’t stop striking. Seems a bit extreme!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 5 weeks ago:
I gave it a quick google and it doesn’t look like it
Lemmy, Reddit, and OzBargain (and possibly YCombinator if I was after something easily jailbroken) would be my backup option if choice wasn’t worth it. Maybe Whirlpool for certain things as well. I feel like Reddit is a bit weird when it comes to products, though. Lots of random out of the blue and unexplained hate for particular products or product categories (i.e. “What’s the best coffee machine I can buy” top response: “none lol. Cafe coffee really aren’t that expensive when you look at rhe quality”, etc)
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 5 weeks ago:
Apparently my current library doesn’t offer it, but my last one does, and I’m still a member. I’ve also heard that apparently in Victoria, you no longer need to just be a member of your local library and can now become a member of any Victorian library as long as you live in Vic. Not sure if that’s true, but could be worth a comparison
I’m a bit confused by Choice’s system, though. They have a product reviews section on their website which is what I’m interested in, but I don’t know if that’s also available in the magazines or not. Or if the magazines are more like “the best products of 2024” or “how to make the most of your coffee machine” type things
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 5 weeks ago:
Cheers. Haven’t noticed any as yet, but will let you know if I stumble upon any
Thanks for getting the update going and general maintenance
- Comment on What's the deal with lemmy.world today? 5 weeks ago:
Double edged sword IMO. It sucked trying to browse all, but I kind of liked the mandatory quarantine for imported BS. It was like a way for Americans to have their little irrelevant and incorrect opinions about what’s happening here that were almost exclusively accessible solely to other Americans. And then we got to have our own discussions without all the US-Defaultism. Of course, lagging behind didn’t fix that, it just meant that we had a safe space to discuss things for a while before their opinions federated in a week or whatever
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 5 weeks ago:
Cheers! Glad to see specific domains can be excluded from the proxy, and they excluded Imgur by default.
Mind reports for other domains that throw tanties/excessively rate limit?
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 1 month ago:
This has to be one of the stupidest arguments ever. “Yeah that 1 random fruit store in a very specific suburb of Adelaide is absolutely competition! We aren’t a duopoly!”
When people demand competition, we mean another fucking supermarket chain you dill. Nobody seriously considers the cheesecake shop to be an actual competitor you out of touch dinosaur
Talk about an apples to oranges comparison…
- Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for themwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
