Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • @[email protected]
    9•2 years ago

    I am such a nong! Didn’t set up a reminder to chuck a cursory amount to grow my savings balance for two whole months and missed out on like $400 of the bonus interest which is why I signed up for this account in the first place 😭 I could’ve really used that! Talk about stupid tax…

    …oh well, can’t turn back time, have put in a reminder now; I’ll get this month’s at least. After that, one time chunk coming out to buffer me for the rest of this year, and every month after I’ll be trying to get as much interest as I can out of the remainder.

      • @[email protected]
        4•2 years ago

        I don’t know why I didn’t before, because all my bills etc are automated, but I’ve put in a reminder atm instead of an auto payment because while bills need to come out on a set day and are stuck in a separate account, I kinda want to make use of the flexibility with the bonus interest transfer since sometimes I’ve juggled things around a bit and don’t want the transfer accidentally coming out of the wrong account… okay it isn’t a really good excuse. I’ll just chuck in an auto payment but ALSO a reminder a day before so that I don’t accidentally go into overdraft

  • @[email protected]
    17•2 years ago

    Bill and Ted report.

    Ted is a very happy cat and when not running around exploring he’s chirping saying “Hi everyone, what’s up?” or “Is it dinner yet?” or sitting in a sunny spot being chill or sleeping in his little bed.

    Bill is not so happy but will slowly settle down.

    I’ll try to get some more pics today.

  • @[email protected]
    12•2 years ago

    I crash napped and went out late again only to catch another snail creeping towards my seedlings. He mysteriously became airborne.

    Also the internet capitalism insanity continues and I’m in the mood to rant.

    Long post with many links

    Apparently you have to have a paid subscription to use Pantone colours in Adobe (ie Photoshop) and if you don’t pay, their colours in your finished artworks turn to black? Ruining them. I’m not aware of the fine points as I don’t use Photoshop but wtf. This is some Anish Kapoor shit. Ok it’s due to a dispute about licensing fees.

    Stuart Semple has released his own versions of the colours in a palette for free, accessible through a plugin. And calling back to his dispute with Anish Kapoor, he’s included Pinkest Pink and Pantone don’t have permission to use his colours. Classic.

    Also Unity is gearing up to charge game developers for customer downloads. They’re apparently apologising and somewhat? backing down now but yeah. They tried it. (They also sold a lot of stock before the announcement.)

    It matters because Unity is the game engine that is taught to game developers in school, and has been used to make popular games like Rust, Fall Guys, Cuphead, Among Us and Pokémon Go. This affects devs with large projects in development and screws over smaller indie devs. Also *because it counts repeated downloads it’s vulnerable to griefing. If a demographic get pissed off at a game? What was once limited to review bombing could become actual real world debt.

    It seems what happened with Reddit’s third party tools isn’t a one off. The world has changed so rapidly and it’s slipping into enshittification.

    Unity is thinking about AI games.

    AI art is also filling the various art references I look through, I see artists having to put anti-ai filters over their work because it gets stolen.

    It’s affecting writers too. Bogus ai-written foraging guides are being sold on Amazon. Do not go mushroom picking with one of these babies OK? I think we all know how that ends up.

    Famous authors are suing OpenAI as their work is getting scraped ( this is the second lawsuit apparently) and fake ai books are being sold under the names of established authors.

    Last but not least there’s a bill called KOSA that will infringe on privacy (it wants ID) and target trans/queer content under the guise of protecting kids.The idea is platforms are responsible for the content each user posts so to avoid consequences anything adult in nature is at risk of being scrubbed.

    I’m still getting my head around all the fine points of both bills but apparently it’s been changed to a different bill called the Online Safety Bill which also wants ID and to scan encrypted messages like WhatsApp. The UK has just passed it.

    This stuff matters because Australians use sites or services hosted in America (and any other country that brings in these laws).

    Edit: Oh yeah, the Pantone thing happened a year ago. It’s not new. I just found out about it

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

    Have done about 80m of the new watering system and just hit it with 600kPa kapow mfer! Take that!

    It took it… that’s great. Starting to feel a bit more confident it’ll be at worst a moderate to good design.

    But hearing water course through them pipes was satisfying.

    All i need now are the pressure reducers / backlfow, filters, air + flush valve thingos and that’s the first 1/3rd done.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years ago

    Welp doctors are done and I was right I now have tendonopathy in my wrist. I actually hate being hypermobile.

  • @[email protected]
    13•2 years ago

    Good news everyone the ageratum survived the night in the fridge.

    The flowers for the wedding on Sun. is sorted hooray

      • @[email protected]
        5•2 years ago

        They seem to look quite nice next to the cherry blossom.

        The neighbour has kindly offered a bunch of stuff from her nice garden too so it’s all looking very doable :)

        Just a shame the roses aren’t out yet. Would’ve flexed HARD with the just joey.

  • @[email protected]
    8•2 years ago

    Fuck I accidentally posted in the brisbane one but I deletoed that…

    But here’s what I was hoping to say.

    I’m getting a potao cake today and it’s stoic af considering what this w/e is looking like.

    edit: and the ageratum still looking okay in the fridge so I think that’s an okay flower

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 years ago

    Had a lovely dinner with with sister in laws extended fam bam.

    They all flew out here for the big day on Sunday and it was a very good night. They are loose units all things considered was a lot of fun.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    Not excited for my doc appointment because I have a feeling I have tendonopathy in my wrist. Hopefully because I’ve gone to the doctor earlier than I did with my leg that it’ll be fine, because yeah I can’t remember if I said it but I am probably going to have to do surgery on my leg it’s just not getting any better.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Was it interesting? Didn’t make it to the actual island last time I was there. Port Arthur is a fascinating place.

      What else are you checking out in Tassie?

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        Cracker of a day weather wise. Tour guide told tales of various people buried on the island. The whole area was a fascinating place in general. My first time there. We have a limited time in Hobart so booked various dinners, Salamanca tomorrow, MONA Sunday, taking care of personal business in the area. Just a long weekend really and been really great so far.😊

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 years ago

    PSA: Mernda & Hurstbridge lines part suspended due to fatality incident at Jolimont Station. Buses replacing trains to Clifton Hill, then delayed services on both lines. Best find another way to get home tonight. Was on the station at the time and saw the incident. Not nice at all.
    Hopefully will be fixed by the end of the football match at MCG, but don’t bet on it.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        No problem. Not my first rodeo. Will be doing self-care all the same. Thanks anyway, as I have to admit it was a bit of a shock to witness. But the cops were great - and they referred me to a trauma survival service which surprised me more than I thought it would, so to speak.