Baku

Baku , 2 days ago

4k! What sorcery is this?

Baku , 5 days ago

Why's it a static gif

Baku , 5 days ago

At my last job, our payroll logins were maxed at 6 characters

Baku , 6 days ago

They do in certain cases. If you sign up through a VPN or Tor, they require you to provide a recovery email. They don't accept temporary email addresses, and even if you don't sign up work a VPN, they'll still collect and be obligated to hand over your IP

Baku , 10 days ago

I once saw 2 blokes getting on the tram with half a tv. It was a 50" or so tv with the back plastic thing missing. They were both shirtless and both seemed to be completely out of it on something. I sort of concluded they ripped a tv off the wall but didn't have a way to get it home, or to a pawn shop or wherever they were planning on taking it

Baku , 10 days ago

Solutions always seem to come to me in that weird phase of thought between almost asleep and actually asleep

Baku , 10 days ago

I used it for the office suite. I should really look at using it for an OS upgrade one day

Baku , 14 days ago

Seriously. In Australia, you have to "activate" your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver's license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they've never done that to me, as long as it's prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

Baku , 14 days ago

I still don't understand the point of these. Presumably the towel is going to be wet, no?

Baku , 13 days ago

Nope

Baku , 13 days ago

I'm not going to read all that

Baku , 13 days ago

Honestly I don't really care, it doesn't seem that relevant and I don't like having irrelevant books quoted at me

Baku , 12 days ago

🤷‍♂️

Baku , 15 days ago

I live in Australia. I take this as a challenge.

Baku , 15 days ago

many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway.

I imagine this is partly a result of bad and misinformed managers too though. There's a lot out there who have 0 clue wtf you do, just that you make computer do thing yet still act like they know your job better than you

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Not a programmer, but I see this all the time in other fields. And all it takes is someone in upper management only being focused on time or costs, or someone in middle management acting like they know better than everyone else.

Baku , 19 days ago

What's with Dora the explorer being on at ridiculously late times? My only memories of watching it when I was younger was at about 11:30pm as well

Baku , 24 days ago

We go out to the war memorials and hold dawn services all across the country

I think "we" might be a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently about 85,000 people attended the dawn services in all of the capitals combined, which isn't a very high percentage of 26 million.

Baku , 1 month ago

Alright. I DON'T agree.

Baku , 1 month ago

Oh. I didn't get it either. The red circle made me completely overlook the rest of the image

Baku , 1 month ago

It wouldn't be that time consuming. All you'd have to do is paint over the old text with white, and type in the translated text

Baku , 29 days ago

Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?

It looks like Lemmy has shrunk overall since our peak of 68k active users in July last year to our low point (since rexxit anyways) of 32k, but we seem to be attracting more MAUs now and have climbed back up to 51k.

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/74826237-7b76-4b99-a30e-28f693024548.png

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by diversity, or at least what measure of it you're seeking, but if you mean instances, there's currently ~770 instances online, a bit over half of our peak in July. I'm not aware of any major instances that have closed down yet though, so I assume it's mainly small, single user instances that have shit down, as well as a few hyper niche ones with very few members.

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/3b5c5de3-94dd-4df0-bfe2-f334b467f141.png

Average users per instance has also been increasing and is getting close to the levels we were at in june when everybody was joining the same few instances. That peak was 690 users per instance, that dropped to a low of 321 in July, presumably because there was more of an emphasis on getting people spread out after initial influx of people who just needed to go somewhere.

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/efa9c349-3f26-4de6-8444-79b06f6ecf3a.png

There was something interesting I noticed in the stats, in Feb there was a major drop in total posts of almost 5 million. I don't know what exactly happened, but our total posts halved, so perhaps that's why nobody's been posting updates.

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/1bfa5522-cb6a-4169-8132-5a3ded963682.png

It's even more obvious on the 120 day graph

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/55110849-1ae2-4b6d-8a27-eb22433cc379.png

Overall, it appears we have shrunk compared to our peak during rexxit, but we have been steadily increasing in both active users and posts (excluding the major drop in Feb) since our low point a couple of months after rexxit. That's about what I'd expect, and quite good compared to most popular corpo sites which lose a lot more percentage of their MAUs after they've peaked. Threads lost something like 80% of their userbase a week after it launched. Also I don't think that peak during rexxit will be our biggest peak. We'll probably continue steadily gaining users until Reddit fuck up again and we get another influx, like what happened with mastodon.

FYI all these stats are fairly easy to find. I like FediDB because it's got a more friendly UI, but Fediverse Observer has a more plain UI, so is better for posting graphs and such. But that's the beauty of the fediverse, we can all access the same things through all sorts of UIs

Baku , 27 days ago

As far as I know, no

Baku , 1 month ago

Now that I think about it, I actually first used Linux in 2021 too. For me it was because the laptop I had shipped with a HDD that was known for being prone to vibration failure, so while waiting for the warranty request to be approved I was running a persistent Ubuntu live USB

Baku , 1 month ago

I've never seen one in Australia. We don't really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I've never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you'd go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I've seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it's either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

Baku , 1 month ago

You forgot the snark!

Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.

Baku , 1 month ago

I saw a video a few weeks ago of a trucker who had to pull over on a fast road and he was holding a sharp pole in his hand. People usually reacted by giving him space, rather than driving inches away from him at 80km/h, like they usually do.

Baku , 1 month ago

Not to sound like I'm claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn't care, but Reddit has shown me that they don't give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant

Baku , 1 month ago

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well
https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/9d3dd44d-0d09-491d-885a-d90bbcfadce5.png

But going into my app list and showing system does show it

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b094a4f2-327b-4955-9a06-c5d053ec30d9.png

Baku , 1 month ago

It's not just you, it's phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don't log network reqs so I don't know exacts, but it's using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it's doing something.

Baku , 2 months ago

I've always thought that perhaps all the stereotypes about the French being arseholes come from American tourists being entitled and disrespectful and the French just not taking any of their shit

Baku , 2 months ago

Late but I think it'll depend where you are and what security features birth certificates where you are have. Where I am, the paper has a unique feel to it and also has one of those little hologram type sticker things on the back. So I imagine laminating it would cause issues in official circumstances where they want to feel the paper. Also not sure if it'd affect the sticker things or not, but the heat from the laminator could cause damage if done wrong

But if the BDM department where you are is lazy and literally just print your info onto an official looking piece of paper, I'd argue the point. I don't see what laminating it would do in that situation, although when it comes to government departments, they don't tend to be very flexible. If you were just showing it to verify your identity or working rights for a job or something I doubt anybody would refuse it in either situation

Baku , 2 months ago

Sounds about right to me

Baku , 2 months ago

It's an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.

I don't like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don't like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won't even see any responses

Baku , 2 months ago

They said community (the formal term for our equivalent of subreddits), not 3 mostly troll filled instances

Baku , 2 months ago

I don't disagree with them on about 70% of things though

Baku , 2 months ago

Probably, but it covers me in the future if they ever add another bot to it

Baku , 2 months ago

Um ackshually 🤓

The reason people on Lemmy do that is because everybody on Lemmy is just an idiot, except me of course - I am not an idiot. So that's why I reply with multiple paragraphs over minor things.

See, replying to people with long winded ranty, over pedantic messages is likely to make them realise they're actually an idiot and don't know what they're talking about. Regardless of whether all the posted is just a 1 sentence meme referencing the OP, and, say, the office, it's just not good enough. They need to learn to be smarter.

So in closing, the reason this always happens to you and all the other lemmings here is because I'm actually smarter than you lot are actually. If you just started prefacing your jokes with 47 paragraphs of explanatory text, clearly explaining that you actually aren't an actual idiot this wouldn't actually happen to you anymore.

Git gud

Baku , 2 months ago

My mum used to refuse to subscribe to anybody on YouTube because she thought it would charge money

Tbf, calling it "subscribing" in a time subscribing is synonymous with overpriced magazines, rip off cable TV and dodgy power companies was probably a silly idea

Baku , 2 months ago

Doesn't help that it rendered as a whopping 3 pixels for me

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b7001de2-9584-4e5b-93c0-df3d5d4875ef.png

Baku , 2 months ago

It is indeed. I've got no clue what it's like here, but I know in the old community on the red alien site, just about everything on uplifting news was something like "7 Year old boy sells 75,000 glasses of lemonade to pay for sick mums cancer treatment". Something that seems uplifting for the first 3 seconds then just becomes extremely depressing the more you think about it.

The news article was posted in ABoringDystopia and someone made a joke about how it should be cross posted to here, and I guess OP took it seriously

Baku , 2 months ago

I use Discord and WhatsApp

Baku , 2 months ago

You can view who votes for things? I think that's a kbin thing, isn't it?

Baku , 2 months ago

Ironically, the only jeans posts I saw were people complaining about the jeans posts. I don't know whether I've just blocked all the communities or people that were posting them or what, but it was the same story with the beans thing

Baku , 2 months ago

With instance I know, you don't give a commercial licence to re-use your content like you do on reddit. For example, Lemmy.world team cannot sell your comments to train an AI

It's worth noting that although nobody has a licence to steal your content, this is the internet, and the nature of the fediverse makes it easy to siphon if somebody really wanted to.

Sure, that's a violation of your copyright and completely disrespectful to you as a person, but do you or your instance have the resources to take action against whatever multi-billion dollar company decided to copy everything you've ever done?

Baku , 2 months ago

Yeah, my last post on Reddit was actually to my profile redirecting people here. Don't think we have that here yet, although it could be useful.

I never really saw it used for anything useful though, it was primarily used for spam in my experience. But it would probably improve compatibility between us and mastodonians

Baku , 2 months ago

I've never seen that before. I wonder if it's an instance dependent setting?

Baku , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Interesting, I use boost and didn't know about that. Like client side flairs, neat!

Baku , 2 months ago

No worries! Here's an example of a post by a mastodon user on a Lemmy community (another telltale sign is that virtually no lemmings use hashtags):

https://aussie.zone/post/7464977

And one of those deep mention comment threads (though I've seen deeper):

https://aussie.zone/comment/4629969