[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I was on a roll, thinking I knew all this stuff - up until the last one! I did not know about the Bunurong people and lands.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Happy Birthday!!

@Bacon truck, can we order a cake to this location asap?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I think I read that it was ten and five for a hunting license. I'm with you on the other perspective thingy: This sounds entirely reasonable.

I'd actually appreciate a simple explanation of the law, what is changing and why it's bad. I have found the legistlation but it's in some dialect. I don't really follow what is different.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I don't know about residential spaces but in commercial space, an area that you can be locked into is a no-no from a fire safety standpoint. This may be where their thinking is coming from regarding the deadbolts.

Also: I'm not sure how it works in your place, but if I install a deadbolt without my landlord's approval, I'd need to replace the door when I moved out. Who owns the actual place you are in? Some private owner or the government?

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It always happens. People think it's funny to destroy/troll stuff someone has painstakingly created. I remember the poor Canadians couldn't make their maple leaf a few years ago on Place, because people kept vandalising it.

The same trolls that are attacking the flag have messed with the Union Jack itself. I haven't bothered with the template, so I can't be sure how to repair it. Maybe the Brits will wake up and fix it, soon.

Edit: Or not. The Canvas froze 4 minutes ago (12pm WST/2pm EST). We almost got it cleaned up.

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I cannot. I got this from some crochet site I came across after googling something like "bluey pixel art". I can probably find the url if you like.

Edit: https://diycandy.com/bluey-perler-beads/

[-] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

I have been sick all weekend, so haven't been a part of the main event. I just looked at what it'd take to put a simple Bluey on the right of the flag (I killed one of the amongus thingys).

Err, no. I don't have that much time/energy. 😂

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

How you can have an article talking about the history of email and it not be about Ray Tomlinson, I just don't know. Wait - now I know: This person looked up the Wikipedia article on the smtp protocol and decided Mr. Postal was the pioneer of email.

The conclusion is completely incorrect, also. About the only correct thing was that reputation is important for email transmission.

No: you can't just set up an smtp outbound server on your home server and expect the world to trust you. For good reason: we've had decades of trojans and viruses taking over home PCs and sending spam. Your ISP declares its "home" IP ranges, and those are immediately not trusted.

That doesn't mean you need to use a big email hosting provider. If you set up on a business IP range, configure your DNS Correctly with declared mx and spf records, the world will trust you (until you demonstrate that it can't).

Millions of businesses around the world do this.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They had a replay of the world cup final, but with men's teams (it was only the Euros). England lost to Spain again and I am very happy!

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No argument on turnover of representatives, though I like the overall party to be in power long enough to plan/build major infrastructure projects. If the Liberal party got in power in the last election, we may have seen Metronet finish getting to the airport, but that's about it. Like what happened when Liberal came in and nerfed the NBN.

Even yesterday, when the train line got to Yanchep, they were moaning about how awful it is that over 100,000 people have access to reliable public transport. If they got in tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even finish the new Midland station. Probably just the carpark.

What I would love to see is more independent representatives. I'd love for the independents to make up 20% or more of every government. Wyatt coming back as an independent could work.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know whether it is still there, but I really miss that pide store at the bottom of Melbourne Central. Their goodies were so great.

There are a few types of street/fast food that were common in Melbourne that I can't readily get in Perth.

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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/11231353

If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket.

For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket.

Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.

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If you have a kid/grandkid who loves footy, this is the time of year to take them. A single adult can take three kids to a game for the price of one ticket.

For me today, the adult ticket was $58. With two kids, that worked out at less than $20 a ticket.

Take your own snacks. Prices at the footy are actually offensive.

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Just when you thought you'd made it through the holidays. 😀

I think a half-day strike is just as bad for parents than a full one. We still need to arrange for the kids to be taken care of until 12:30. Apparently we can send them in anyway, but they won't be in class and it isn't exactly supporting the teachers to do that.

I hope there is progress in the negotiations and the strike gets called off.

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On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions.
On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.

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I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.

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Ok, so here's my newest phobia. Happily driving along a bridge I've crossed over a thousand times before, only tonight I'm suddenly in the dark waters below!

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Reddit > Mastodon > Lemmy because why not? 😁

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Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.

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