quokka1
@quokka1@mastodon.au
Back once again with the ill behaviour
IT dude in #Perth #WesternAustralia reporting in.
I like:
#technology
#ITSecurity
#outside
#camping
#beer
#happiness
#bipolar
#Australia
Filters include:
Birdsite and its owner
US politics
Crossposters
Muted instances:
aus.social
masto.ai
botsin.space
And no matter how much I may like your image of whatever I won't Favourite or Boost it if it doesn't have good Alt-Txt. You know it makes sense.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 days ago:
@melbaboutown @quokka very sad
- Comment on The secret deal behind the teenage social media ban 1 week ago:
@MisterFrog @Longmactoppedup “[The original bill] would have put Australia in a leading position to regulate big tech in a way that wasn’t just overly punitive. But then it got gutted six ways to Sunday,”
Wow. Letting Australian politicians near technology has ended in a pointless expensive mess? :blobcatfacepalm:
- Comment on ATT SMTP port 25 unblocking 2 weeks ago:
@SheeEttin @AdrianTheFrog +1 Email for me is basically irrelevant. MFA resets, adverts from companies I forgot to unsubscribe from and a couple of bills. No personal correspondence or anything I would think is worth self-hosting it for these days. Other than many headaches.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 2 weeks ago:
@BigTrout75 @Squiddork and ffs print out some instructions on how to access it all. And tell someone where you've put that.
Consider using a decent password manager and you'll only need to let your loved ones know how to get into that. - Comment on Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year 3 months ago:
@Aussieiuszko My son't school tops are white. White. Who thought white was a good idea for Year 7 boys? Has to go in a bucket of whatever that pink bottle is at end of each day.
And whilst high quality, they are only available from one supplier at stupid prices.
Thankfully they're just starting a 3 year swap over to dark blue. - Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 3 months ago:
@ivanafterall @ramble81 IRC with emoticons
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 4 months ago:
@Confused_Emus @rtxn Figuring out DNS is always fun.
And never ever ever make any, even small, DNS change on a Friday. Unless you don't like weekends.
Is it time to break out the DNS haiku and pray to the name gods? - Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 5 months ago:
@miss_demeanour @Semi_Hemi_Demigod Now you'll have an open bottle of port in your cabinet for 10 years until you fancy another glass or a recipe calls for it
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 5 months ago:
@echodot @Redex68 off top of my head, script generation. making content more readable. dictating a brain dump while walking and having it spit out a cohesive summary.
it's all about the prompt you put in. shit in/shit out. And making sure you check/understand what it spits out. and that sometimes it's garbage.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 5 months ago:
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- Comment on All you can eat 5 months ago:
@DragonsInARoom @cantstopthesignal it's their time
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 5 months ago:
@angrystego @RangerJosey pretty sure we agreed on WankerPanzer
- Comment on How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web 5 months ago:
- Comment on Everyone knows your location 5 months ago:
@ParetoOptimalDev @asunaspersonalasst That's the thing that put me off. I brain couldn't reconcile the idea of de-Googling by buying something from Google.
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 5 months ago:
@Zozano @FireWire400 They screwed over foreign roamers too. And turned thousands of perfectly good and compatible handsets into e-waste overnight.
Oh, and conveniently made it so that the average consumer can only really buy handsets from the networks themselves if they want to be sure of compatibility. - Comment on Bathroom Reno Question 6 months ago:
@Zane Sweet. Can you send them my details too? I'll deffo be giving them my address etc
- Comment on Woolworths says it has more than 40 competitors in Australia – we went looking for them 7 months ago:
@Baku My daughter (5) tried to sell some of her art on the pavement to passers-by.
Clearly a competitor to a multi-billion dollar price-fixing, colluding, un-competitive duopoly. - Comment on Live virus samples lost in major Queensland lab breach 7 months ago:
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 7 months ago:
@Lodespawn @Salvo The definition is currently loose enough to apply to iMessage. That'll be a fun discussion with Apple's lawyers.
I'll likely be setting my kids and their mates up some sort of server overseas, maybe a Mastodon instance. I want them to learn to be social online, with some education and moderation. - Comment on What do you want for Christmas? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 8 months ago:
@spiffmeister Sounds like I'll be using BHPMail, MinResX and Riosky
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 8 months ago:
@Nath lemmy.world need to buck their ideas up
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 8 months ago:
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 8 months ago:
@spiffmeister @Joker I'm interested in how they'll handle iMessage. And if they allow iMessage, why not Signal? And so on. Gonna be some interesting lines have to be drawn.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 8 months ago:
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 8 months ago:
@Salvo CoPilot is the only "AI" thing not recently blocked on our work network. Knee-jerk, but OK. They're worried about data exfiltration and storage. But trust me, that should really be very far down the list of security/technology concerns.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 8 months ago:
@Gorgritch_umie_killa @Lodespawn I'm envisaging them leveraging the single-sign-on type stuff they do for MyGov. But do you trust them, and the social site, to handle and appropriately, securely anonymise the Personally Identifiable Information in the transaction? And of course, that means that now under 16s need to have MyGov IDs. The idea of online nicknames etc being linked to actual persons should be a concern. Australia Card anyone?
Of course they may have a completely different approach to it. I mean, every school age child already has a Student Number. That could be a data point for them. Who knows.