I don’t pay any attention to this stuff at all. I should probably feel guilty about that, but I honestly just sort of trust the super-engaged to keep the government of the day to account.
Thanks for this thread, I wouldn’t have even known about the budget and the main points of what is in it without it.
Unless you are in a very small business, it isn’t the IT guys making this call. Present your case to your manager, explain your experience and how it helps the business for you to have the access. Let your manager take it from there. You never know, you might get access.
I worked for an ISP help desk for years. I loved it.
I think my experience was a bit different to most phone work though. All the calls were initiated by customers. Even when I was calling outbound, it was as a follow up to someone who wanted to speak to me. Also, we were helping people, so they’d be happy and grateful at the end of the call.
Finally, it was the 90’s - the Internet users were far more technical than the average person today. I could walk most callers through their computer/modem settings pretty easily.
There might still be phone work out there that doesn’t crush your soul. I don’t think it’s the work itself that’s awful, rather the setting they do that work in and your coworkers/employer that are the problem.
I worked right near it. I probably would have had a go, but it was stupidly expensive - something like $50 a ride. Maybe it wasn’t that much ($50 might have been for two). But whatever it cost, it was far more than I was willing to pay.
So by the end, I was a (middle) manager of the staff on the phones. I had the power to “fire” customers. I would not have hesitated to close the account of a customer, making them get a new Internet Provider/email address for any of this. Our people were worthy of respect and our customers knew it. Or they weren’t our customers any longer.
The same couldn’t be said for her sister, sadly. The old Children’s hospital in Perth was called “Princess Margaret Hospital”. Unfortunately, Princess Margaret was no longer with us for the new one, so it has the very boring name Perth Children’s Hospital.
If it was that big a deal for you, why would you use a phone OS by that same company?
SMS is hot garbage:
The first “S” stands for short. If your message is over 160 characters, you are sending multiple messages. The implementation of SMS is a hack on the carrier network in the first place, and joining multiple messages, particularly across carriers is a complication to this hack. Sure, 99.99% of messages are delivered just fine. But if the message doesn’t arrive for some reason, there’s no acknowledgement of this. The recipient just doesn’t get it.
SMS is easy to spoof. If I have even basic carrier access, I can send a message to your dad from your number.
I can initiate a number port on your number, and while that port request will likely fail, it’s possible that I can receive messages that were destined for you in the short term.
ICANN lookup is another source. According to them, aussie.zone was registered on 2023-06-08 05:26:09 UTC.
So, yes. 8th of June would be a date I’d endorse. It’s also @lodion’s signup date. The oldest “regular” user is @BadlyDrawnRhino, who signed up on June 16th. You could argue that was the day we opened to the public and is more appropriate.
I see what you mean, you pre-date June 16th. I actually didn’t know there was a week where signups were free-for-all and not admin approved. Rhino was the earliest user who was approved by an admin. Now I’m back to endorsing June 8th.
I stuck with BaconReader until it stopped working on July 1. Then I just detoxed for a bit.
After a couple of days, I looked into this whole Lemmy thing and then laughed out loud when I saw an old friend was running the Australian instance.
PiHole / bit of content filtering for the kids.
I’m very light touch here: I’d rather know they were going to PornHub and then know it’s time to have “that” conversation than try to stop them going to PornHub.
Hahahah you’ve reminded me of the GI Joe movie. I saw a review that was ostensibly negative - it basically said ‘it’s like they gave a bunch of GI Joe toys to a ten-year-old, and then made a movie out of what ensued.’
I thought the image was so hilarious that I watched the movie. 🤣
Video concentrates on particular roads in Victoria, and points out Victorian road rules, but the vast majority of this content is applicable around the whole country....
I only watched the first 10 reasons, but the first was enough for me. I don’t have to, the law explicitly says you can cycle on the road. Beyond that, my reasons are my own. I’m glad he laid it out for viewers, but I don’t think many motorists will sit through all the reasons, either.
Bikes were on roads before motor vehicles. Bikes will be on roads after people stop owning private motor vehicles. The idea that cars own the roads is not one I subscribe to.
Like most cyclists, I am also a motorist. The idea that we are two totally combative and distinct classes of road users is also not one I subscribe to. I think we’d all be better road users if non-cyclists were convinced to use the roads as the “other” side more frequently.
I realise this isn’t exactly helpful, but I’m curious: What is in your wallet?
Mine has a credit card, public/private health cards (these cover the whole family), a drivers license and a Public Transport card. Literally nothing else. I never have cash.
The Credit card never actually gets used because my phone handles payments. I don’t use the health cards all that often. I rarely need my drivers license. That leaves the smartrider. It’s honestly the only thing I ever really need in my wallet. Once the phone can do public transport trips in Perth, I could honestly go weeks without my wallet.
If someone new has the phone number now and they have registered an iCloud to that number, Apple should be able to see there are two accounts on the number.
If you are able to tell them that one of them is no longer you, that helps them know who they need to call.
If someone from Apple called me up and said “Hi, it’s Apple here, are you Nath from somestreet in Perth?” I’d be a lot more cooperative. I wouldn’t volunteer anything, but if they knew that I was the account holder and knew I registered it after you no longer used it, and then asked me whether I had another iCloud account, I’d freely volunteer that I did not.
Hey guys and girls. We don’t have a health and fitness community. I was thinking of starting one where we can post achievements, fitness videos, questions etc. Would anyone be interested?
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait (www.theguardian.com)
Streisand Effect, do your work!
Budget Night Thread
Let’s party!
Daily discussion thread: 👾 Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Cross River Rail to be renamed after Elizabeth II if LNP wins Queensland election (www.abc.net.au)
Google Messages' text editing feature is live for beta users, and it could come to you soon (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15273527...
Daily discussion thread: 🎆 Saturday, May 11, 2024
aussie zone's anniverssary date?
Hey all, can anyone tell me the date we’re gona land on for the first anniverssary?...
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15 Reasons I may not be riding in the bike lane (www.youtube.com)
Video concentrates on particular roads in Victoria, and points out Victorian road rules, but the vast majority of this content is applicable around the whole country....
WFH, paid overtime: What Australian workers really want (www.sbs.com.au)
Daily discussion thread: Thursday, May 9, 2024
Health and fitness
Hey guys and girls. We don’t have a health and fitness community. I was thinking of starting one where we can post achievements, fitness videos, questions etc. Would anyone be interested?