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
- Comment on Annual General Thread 21 hours 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 1 day 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 2 days ago:
- Submitted 2 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 days 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 4 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Two Brisbanes? 4 days 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 days 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 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Do you reckon a choice subscription is worth it before making more expensive purchases? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 6 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 week 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 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024 2 weeks ago:
So passionate about it you said it twice!
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the response. If I might ask, are you prepared to put something in place if it required modifications to Lemmy code, an additional piece of software to host, or paying another company to do it on your behalf?
Apologies for the directness, not insinuating you wouldn’t do whatever’s needed to comply out of malice or laziness or anything like that. I remember you mentioning in the past that you’re time poor, so I’m just trying to mentally prepare for whatever’s going to happen.
Also, if you can’t come to a solution, or it’d be too intense to implement, or cost too much to maintain or whatever, could you commit to us as much of a heads up as possible? I’ve seen a few Lemmy instances shut down with minimal notice (albeit, much smaller than AZ). If it comes to that, it would be really good to have time to organise ourselves and figure out where we’re headed next (this is particularly in the context of the Melbourne daily threads, but does also apply to a lesser extent elsewhere across the instance)
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a fair point. I’m not sure it really changes many of the struggles though. Any method will probably take some amount of time or effort. The only thing that wouldn’t, would be implementing a checkbox that you’re over 16, but that’s already been specifically ruled out. I can’t off the top of my head think of any other ways that would verify (or at least determine beyond a reasonable doubt) somebody’s age without some investment of time, or money for someone else to do it
I think someone mentioned that writing styles and phrasing may count, but even that would require the admins to review a sample of somebody’s writing. I think that or a face scan would be the two quickest or cheapest things to do, but would still add at least an extra 30 seconds per application
- Comment on So what are we going to do with all this social media age-gate stuff? 3 weeks ago:
This is a little bit different, because aussie.zone is hosted in Australia, run by, and primarily used by Australians. The European courts and GDPR people probably have bigger fish to fry than the 1 or 2 people that may or may not use our instance. The same is also true of our court system and these laws, but it’s still a little bit different in my view, as it would cost way less to prosecute our instance admins, than it would be for the European systems.
Your argument is certainly applicable to other instances not run by people easily prosecuted here, but I don’t think it’s really that relevant. Considering the fines are up to ~49 million dollars, I certainly wouldn’t stake my money on just being deemed “too small to care about” if I were in their shows.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Comment on It's the 170th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade 4 weeks ago:
Heh, seppophiles, I’m stealing that
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 weeks ago:
I love how the boomers are super fond and happy about this. Wonder if that will last when it’s implemented and they need to upload their ID to get on the Facebook, before it’s inevitably leaked and they end up thousands in debt
Also, given that they’re targetting kids who are probably fairly happy with their social medias, I reckon with a couple of carefully crafted liberal ads (if they figure out how to stop being dinosaurs long enough to do it, that is), all the people who’ll be able to vote in the election after next could have quite negative implications for labour. They’ve definitely made sure they won’t be branded as “cool” any time soon
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank pauses plans to charge customers $3 fee to withdraw cash 4 weeks ago:
cough when they just kinda forgot people have money, and duplicated every transaction putting most people in horrendous debt for a day
They didn’t even really apologise for that. They did on their website, but besides that, I didn’t hear shit from them. Not even an apology letter, let alone any form of compensation
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank pauses plans to charge customers $3 fee to withdraw cash 4 weeks ago:
Good use of the interrobang (such a dirty sounding word), chudsy
Once I turn 18, I’m closing my CommBank account and going to ING. They seem to have the best feature set and terms for my needs. Macquarie and great Southern also came up though
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 4 weeks ago:
Damn. You beat me to it by 13 seconds cause I was busy de-editorialising the headline
I added a note to the end of my post that this applies specifically to “assisted withdrawals”, ie those done through an actual bank teller and not an ATM. Also post offices, but not cashout through a supermarket
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Moved to here - I forgot we had an austech community
