trk

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I actually bought chapstick the other day... This dry weather is making my beautiful lips go from all pouty and supple to the equivalent of planks of 2x4 strapped to a buffalo or something. Especially at night... I wake up smacking my dry old chops in the middle of the night with this dry weather. A little sloppy goo on the kisser seemed like the right way to fix that.

Used my pal Amazon to get some Burts Bees or some bloody thing which I swear I read was Australian... When it arrived its made in the US! And had the weight measured in ozzes, gross. Maybe I got some lysdexia and mixed up AUS->USA... I think I got stung (pune) because Burts Bees has a .com.au domain, but if you read the blurb on the about page its all about some bloke named Burt (funnily enough) wandering around the US and eating cheeseburgers + harvesting bees and long story short beeswax -> lips -> chapstick.

I'll probably end up with lip cancer or something because everything in the US is basically made to be as destructive to the environment and as terrible as possible for you in the pursuit of profit, but it does come with this nice disclaimer: All our products are over 95% natural origin, without phthalates, parabens, petrolatum, or sodium lauryl sulfate .... which I guess is good? I never new phtatlataksjbens were even something I needed to look out for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This is how I play it...

"I'll meet you here - https://maps.app.goo.gl/P1n5zoKdsHHUib6n9"

Its a convenient place for someone in a car to pull up, it leaves no room for misunderstanding, and if you use Google Maps to navigate to that point and share your journey with them, they can even get real time updates with how far away you are.

That's how I send stuff to friends and family anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why are Government sites always so terrible?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Please don’t tell TRK but not only am I wearing a beanie, I’ve got a hoodie over it too.

I'm not mad, I'm disappointed 😞

It was actually a balmy 4C at our place last night. That's practically tropical!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably here? I'm assuming the blue dashed line is a walking path (that you're JOGGING on, someone call the police) and you'd be following that to the road.

Course if I was meeting someone I'd send a dropped pin so there was no confusion, cause I'm like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had to get up at 4:30 this morning and work. FYI it was cold. Almost wished I had a beanie, but just rolled a short sleeved polo as usual.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm on Tildes, and it's a good site for discussion without the constant memes and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

Not real sure why RIF dude chose that site to write an app for though. The site itself is basically exactly the same as the app. Very clean, very simple, no wasted space. It's even better than old.reddit at prioritising content over pretty pictures.

Lemmy would benefit much more from a RIF app, even if Voyager and the like do a pretty good job as it stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Heres an idea... I made it in PHP and bash, cause I'm terrible at programming. But it works well and would be a neat school project I reckon.

Our VOIP provider provides webhooks. I have one setup so when someone rings, the webhook calls a script on my web server that looks up a phone book and then uses a Discord webhook to push what is essentially a more advanced caller ID to a private discord channel - their number, their name, company they represent, and some notes like "has a son Chris who plays football, married to Jill" or whatever.

The "phonebook" lookup first tries a remote shared phonebook (which is given in a Yealink format), and after parsing that data it saves a copy of that remote phonebook before moving on to the rest of the script. If it cant call the remote phonebook for whatever reason, it falls back on using the last saved copy locally.

The benefit of all this is that on my desktop I always know who's calling and a bit of a blurb about them before I pick up the phone, and if I'm out of the office I know who's trying to ring. Since I have VOIP on my phone as an extension I can technically have someone transfer the office to my mobile too so having the discord notification is handy when a transfer appears.

The members of the private discord channel determines who sees the notifications, and having a single phonebook to update for everyone in the office means it's always (... usually) kept up to date.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Alright, I think maybe DeLosMooseguy can wear his beanie. Until 8am anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Its just a fridgie wholesaler, probably wouldnt affect or be recognisable to much of the population.

I do get plenty from other more generic sources too... this one just happened to be the one that triggered me this morning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yo, email marketing dudes... If you send your marketing emails as a trackyboi image, I ain't gonna see it. And I ain't allowing remote content so you can see if I've looked at it. And I'm 90% more likely to add your domain to my blocklist.

Please stop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I synced by Trakt watchlist with my HTPC and now it has a ~3TB download queue. Doing my best to get roused at by my ISP of late that's for sure.

Speaking of Trakt, just noticed that their VIP has doubled(!!) from $30USD/year to $60USD/year. That's insane pricing for a service that offers so little. It's a glorified playlist manager that copies all its content from other sources. I've cancelled altogether because I actually don't even know what their VIP feature was that I needed anyway. I was just paying cause it was a handy service I didn't mind supporting.

Subscription services be crazy to think doubling the price in one is reasonable at all, let alone when your service is doing so little.

 

This was on Thursday last week, dashcam GPS modules have obviously decided to give up cause they're just reading whatever they feel.

Did make a longer one for insurance with the preceding few minutes and the exchange of details etc, but it's all pretty boring. Old mate literally did ring 000 but I'm guessing they told him to stop being a silly sausage because he was pretty quiet after.

Not as exciting as DeoLioMouse, but it is in 1080p!

 

Shopkeepers next to a Brisbane construction site say they are struggling to stay open as traffic detours make it hard for customers to access their businesses.

The Moggill Road upgrade is running one year behind schedule and will cost about twice the original budget.

It was a terrible intersection, but it's also a total suck that businesses have their access severely restricted for literally years at a time without any compensation.

The construction company keeps getting their income provided as costs double... why shouldn't the nearby businesses be compensated as the delays blow out?

Good thing we have Liberals in power now who are on the side of small business. They'll come up with a solution! 💪

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Posting on behalf of a group who is mainly volunteers who look after the local creeks and waterways (planting trees to prevent erosion, chasing up businesses that dump waste, cleaning up rubbish, etc)

Thieves are the worst, imo, and stealing from a community group is so low.

We are supported by B4C. OCCA (Oxley Creek Catchment Association) is a similar non profit group based on Oxley Creek.

For those that haven’t heard OCCA had one of its vehicles stolen from the vehicle compound at Archerfield at about 3 pm on Friday afternoon while the gates were open and someone was on site. It appears to be very opportunistic.

It has been reported to police and they will follow up with BCC to get access to any cctv footage.

This is the grey Mitsubishi Triton ute 604 EL9 which unfortunately doesn’t have OCCA’s logo on it. The police report number is QP2401832786.

https://www.police.qld.gov.au/node/26849

 

Solar Quotes, the pioneering and highly regarded instant quote comparison service for the installation of rooftop PV, has been snapped up by Big Three gentailer Origin Energy, 16 years after its genesis in the walk-in robe of its founder, Finn Peacock.

Well, thats the end of Solar Quotes. What a pity, it used to be a great resource for finding information (and installers who werent cowboys).

 

The Queensland government is in talks with Star which reportedly needs $300m in short-term funding to continue operating Queen’s Wharf precinct in Brisbane’s CBD.

Sucked in. I hate casinos. I hate gambling in general.

Having said that... How do they get in financial trouble?? You're literally stealing money from people on a grand scale. Some punters are losing their homes because of how much money they pour in. Crooks are laundering money by losing a huge percentage of their cash there. International visitors turn up and drop tens (hundreds?) of thousands in a night.

“The worst case scenario would be that they have to close their doors not long after opening them,” the premier, Steven Miles, said on Wednesday.

IMO the BEST case scenario is that they close their doors, and the space is used for something better than gambling.

 

Driving, gymnastics, break dancing (ESPECIALLY break dancing)... Anything that can't be timed or measured or otherwise objectively decided should be removed from competition.

How do you quantify "style"? How do you ensure there is not biase from judges based on their knowledge of the competitor, be it country they are representing, or personal connections, or racial / religious opinion? How do you fairly compensate for what your personal opinion considers "worth" more when it comes to a trick or routine compared to another?

Swimming, running, jumping, throwing things a distance are all things that can be measured and ruled against a standard that every competitor uses. It's fair and it's removed from any bias.

The Olympics are supposed to be about competition between athletes and shouldn't be affected by popularity or politics, which anything with an interpretive aspect to the result will suffer from.

So yeah, remove the feels sports and limit the Olympics to reals sports.

 

10 years / 250,000k just announced by MG in Australia - including electric vehicles (and thus batteries)... Not bad considering the anti-EV crowd are always declaring battery packs to have a 3 year lifespan!

MG has introduced the longest factory warranty ever offered by a new-car maker in Australia – 10 years or 250,000km, whichever comes first – five years after rolling out seven years of coverage across its line-up.

And unlike Mitsubishi – which in October 2020 became the first brand to market a 10-year warranty, but with only a 200,000km distance limit – there is no mention of a requirement for customers to have their car serviced within the MG dealer network to access the full decade of coverage.

While MG’s new 10-year warranty is longer in time – compared to its previous seven-year offer – it now has a distance cap of 250,000km, rather than unlimited.

In effect from today (1 August 2024) for all newly-registered petrol, hybrid and electric MG models, the new warranty applies to vehicles not deemed to be "commercial use" – such as Ubers, taxis, food delivery couriers and driving schools.

 

Remarkable video shows a driver's wild rampage from Brisbane to the Gold Coast.

A number of vehicles were smashed including an ambulance, with the accused live streaming himself hooning through South Bank.

The story said he dumped the ute and his dogs before stealing a truck... Anyone know if the puppies are ok? 😬

 

Callum feels the familiar vibration of his mobile phone. Another text from Sportsbet.

...

Callum hasn't placed a wager for more than a year. Sportsbet is still trying to lure him back into action with an almost daily stream of text messages.

...

I actually had the opposite experience to the complains in this article..

I'm not really a gambler, but I did fire up SportsBet for my first ever bet in my life during State of Origin. I put in $50 and lost $10 on Queensland. Then I found the horse bit and selected some random horses and apparently I'd won $100 so I took out my original $50, then threw away the rest on random horses and greyhounds, and Queensland at State of Origin again.

Outcome? Zero dollars lost, and a couple of games worth of funsies thinking I was going to become a tenionaire with my 1.xx odds win.

Sportsbet sent me one SMS, and I replied STOP.

Sportsbet sent me one email, and I hit unsubscribe.

I haven't received any communication since - no sms, no email, no push notifications, no anything.

Not sure I'm fully on board with people claiming its all SportsBets fault they're gambling and being preyed upon IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY.

I do say their constant spam during any sports match of any kind on free to air television is an absolute disgrace though.

 

What a pair of clowns (ALP and LNP)...

Also I really hate TikTok.

There are currently no rules at either the state or federal level to stop political parties and candidates from using AI-generated material in election campaigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-22/qld-premier-slams-opposition-for-ai-generated-tiktok/104126936

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/labor-questioned-over-ai-generated-tiktok-of-peter-dutton/104131228

 

Bit of an update to an earlier article --> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/qld-daisy-hill-hit-and-run-appeal/104123370

A woman charged over the alleged hit-and-run murder of a young mother south of Brisbane has been remanded in custody after a brief court hearing.

Police allege 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson was deliberately struck by an SUV just before 9am on Friday in the Logan suburb of Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane.

The alleged driver — 24-year-old Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant — has been charged with one count of murder.

Police said the women were known to each other but their relationship was unclear.

 

A teenager has admitted to being behind the wheel of a speeding stolen car and causing a crash which killed three people on the Fraser Coast last year.

The boy, who cannot be named, was due to appear in person in the Childrens Court of Queensland on Tuesday morning, but he refused to travel to Brisbane from the detention centre.

Instead, he appeared via video link, and Judge Deborah Richards told him the defiant behaviour was "a pretty stupid thing to do".

Seems a bit of an understatement...

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