I'm loving these longer, warmer days. I can already feel the SADs melting away
My mental health had been absolutely fucked the last few months, but even generally, I tend to end up in little depression episodes during winter time, with the short and wet days and constant grey skies
Consumers and industry stakeholders are calling for better regulation of phone companies after family members of deceased customers are repeatedly contacted – in some cases for years after a person's death.
Oh yes, I did see that. Bit of a cheeky deal (on maccas) part imo, since large coffees were going for a buck a few months ago
Haven't seen them in a while. Anywhere still selling them for a buck? All the ones I've seen recently have jumped up to $2 or sometimes $1.50
Damn gibsy, you're starting to sound like a bit of an artifact!
Federal and state treasurers will meet to change planning and zoning laws to end alleged "land banking" by the supermarket giants, where property is purchased and sat on to prevent competitors from entering.
Finally booked in an assessment to get the wisdoms out. I have an initial consultation + targetted x-ray in a couple of weeks, then they'll figure out whether it's going to be a complex removal or fairly straightforward, and since my preference is full general anaesthetic, work out all of that fun stuff.
This clinic is expensive, but their staff seem actually friendly. The dentist I go to for general stuff is low cost, but that comes at the expense of friendliness and general clinic maintenance. The whole building looks dingey, they can't seem to afford to fix their lightbulbs, and everybody that works there seems like they're constantly having the worst day ever and often take it out on whoever dares make an appointment. Considering how expensive dentists are, it's good that they exist, but super depressing that they're in such a state of shambles. That's the state of the healthcare system, I guess
Ha! I wish. I actually don't even have the key for one of the gates, they keyed 2 of the gates to the same key, then put a different lock on the gate between the front and back yards, and never even gave me a key to it 🙄
Meh, they're getting paid a pretty substantial amount of money to do a poor quality job. The least they can do is leave the place in a respectable state. It's not that difficult.
Rex Airlines's bosses are no longer on speaking terms, but they exclusively told Four Corners the inside story of their failed bid to take on Qantas and Virgin and just who's to blame.
The Fawkner shop has been extensively damaged in the blaze, while crews have also battled a factory fire in Melbourne's north-west.
This was back before I got into the gardening, when it was just the old LT working on it. He was reeeeeaaaaalllllly pissed, and I can't blame him. It was my little patch of strawberries that they poisoned though, but I'm not super mad about that because they were just cuttings from a larger patch that's in a raised planter box. If they poisoned that though, I'd be about ready to throw hands
I forgot to ask you guys on the 21st if you remembered
I do that every year (except the years I forget, which is most of them)
I don't know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it's my house doing the mowing.
Don't blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored
NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren't. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we'd asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they've sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).
I paid $1.80 for my first domain (which was a .lol TLD, a little obscure but worked for me). It's now renewing at $26, though. The more well known ones are a fair bit more expensive though, and rarely have introductory sales. There are a lot of random weird domains nobody's ever heard of that only renew for a few bucks a year on going though.
It wouldn't work for a Lemmy instance, unless you don't mind changing instances every year, but you could theoretically get domains for less than a dollar for at least a few decades by constantly changing domains every time you're due for a renewal, to make the most of the introductory discounts lots of them have
Omg I forgot Hugh Jeffreys was a thing. Haven't watched him in about 4 years!
Interesting. I very briefly ran a test Lemmy instance off a raspberry pi I had laying around, but shut it down because I was worried about having an open port on my network and exposing my IP to the world. Then I tried to run an actual Lemmy instance on a proper VPS and ironically had more issues with that than running it at home!
What on earth is your instance name?
A year on from the disability royal commission's final report, ABC NEWS takes a closer look at one of the biggest and most contentious proposals for change — phasing out segregated employment.
Two people are rescued and another two swim ashore after their boat capsizes two kilometres off WA's Mid West coast.
Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars' worth of destruction across several states in the south-eastern United States.
Optus failed to provide honest and credible communication during last year's phone outage, and should be forced to provide fair compensation in the event of another, a Senate committee has found.
For decades, a big risk to Australia's electricity system has been excessive demand in summer. Now, it is excessive supply in spring.
Yes, but in regard to the title, nobody was accused, therefore nobody can sue for defamation.
How is it defamatory? It's not defamatory. It doesn't accuse a specific person of stabbing anyone, and a situation can't be defamation. Unless shopping centres or suburbs can sue for defamation, in which case, they still couldn't, because it objectively happened.
I ditched DVDs, but I'm actively expanding my VHS collection. They're basically vintage now. Cool retro tech I can't ordinarily buy/use. We do have a player, but I'm not going to dare play these because I don't want it eating my tape. I've tested other tapes, and it hasn't, but I don't trust it
IT'S HEEEEERRREEEEE
Despite having spent ~280 hours on the series, I've still only seen 2 of the episodes in the box set
(Yes they're VHS tapes)
I had a dream a few nights ago about going to Cairns and it was pretty much the same story
This video is a dream
A 16-year-old boy is dead and a 15-year-old has been charged after an alleged fight in front of a school holiday lunch crowd in Melton.
The trio of existing stations will be replaced by two new ones when a new stretch of elevated rail is built along the Upfield Line.
Article text (via 12ft.io):
Three train stations in central Brunswick will be closed and replaced with two new stations as part of level-crossing removal works in the rapidly growing inner-north suburb.
Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey stations will shut when a 2.1-kilometre stretch of elevated “sky rail” is built along the Upfield Line between Albion Street and Park Street, in Parkville, by 2030.
Consultation documents show a new “southern station” will be located adjacent to the RMIT campus between Union and Dawson streets – 200 metres north of Jewell Station and 450 metres south of Brunswick Station.
The second “northern station” will be between Hope and West streets, 450 metres north of Brunswick Station and 200 metres south of Anstey.
The loss of one station is likely to be controversial. Merri-bek Council has previously called on the Department of Transport and Planning to keep three stations in the area to maintain the existing level of access for nearby residents.
Jewell and Brunswick stations are also listed on the Victorian Heritage Register
Transport Infrastructure Minister Danny Pearson said the three existing stations were all within 1500 metres of each other, making them the closest stations on the train network.
He said the decision to merge them followed 18 months of technical and engineering assessments that showed it would create more open space.
Removing one stop and delivering new tracks and signalling would also improve reliability and open the door to more frequent services, Pearson said.
Upfield has the worst timetable of any major Metro line, with waits of between 15 and 20 minutes during peak times – but that is because a section of single track between Gowrie and Upfield limits how often trains can operate [paywall bypass and previous aussie.zone discussion here].
“This project will be a game changer for Brunswick and Parkville – it will reduce congestion, deliver two brand new and accessible stations and pave the way for extra trains on the Upfield Line in the future,” Pearson said. But the single-track bottleneck remains.
The new rail bridge will allow the removal of boom gates at eight level crossings, according to state government plans to be released on Thursday. It’s part of a program to take out 110 level crossings across Melbourne by the end of the decade – so far, 84 have been removed.
Brunswick is undergoing rapid growth along the Upfield rail corridor, with new medium-rise apartments built or planned close to the three stations, including some that are likely to be affected by construction of the rail bridge.
Pearson said the two new stations would have entrances on both platform ends for easy access.
Elevating the rail line would also create new open space and allow the popular – but narrow – Upfield bike path to be rebuilt and expanded, he said.
Work is slated to begin in 2028 with the two new stations to be open by 2030.
Level crossings have already been removed further north on the Upfield Line, with a 2.5-kilometre section of elevated rail built between new stations at Bell Street, Coburg, and Moreland Road, Brunswick.
The Allan government previously intended to extend the level-crossing removal work through Brunswick by 2027, but pushed the work back to 2030 in this year’s budget.
Brett Andrew Button was behind the wheel of a bus returning from a wedding when it flipped on a roundabout, killing 10 passengers and injuring 25 others.
Police say officers were pelted with missiles and acid by demonstrators at an anti-war rally, with 24 officers requiring medical attention.
A Mount Gambier woman who spent decades in institutions has found new freedom and joy through public transport — a love she takes to the extreme.
This lady is so wholesome and an absolute legend
I've noticed a lot of broken images around the place and can't quite work out what's happening. It doesn't seem to be a caching issue, at least not on my end, as trying to visit the image URL directly returns a 404.
As noted in a post in the Melbourne daily thread a few weeks ago, there are also a lot of broken community icons about the place. And as I think was raised a while ago, thumbnails seem to be broken most of the time as well.
As an example, here's what the trending communities tab looks like: !
The communities page is a little better, but it's about 50/50 as to whether the icon does or doesn't load: !
Here's a list of my own posts with missing images I've noticed recently | Post | Image | | -------- | ------- | | https://aussie.zone/post/13071169 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/2982b6d9-b84a-4c2f-8f3b-1f38ecd27241.png | | https://aussie.zone/post/12388426 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/8638242e-4d62-4372-9a7f-15c913fc7b83.jpeg | | https://aussie.zone/post/11404847 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/d22d1f8f-e288-4190-8df5-ef4e6756c396.jpeg | | https://aussie.zone/post/11369832 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/a9d77a68-3a9b-4f4d-9508-fc6aefa14434.jpeg | | https://aussie.zone/post/11285649) | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/8a64f759-77e6-4e38-a739-2f875e90cbf0.png | | https://aussie.zone/post/10604574 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/39091834-d6fd-45c1-9520-73b9b7be3529.jpeg | | https://aussie.zone/post/10981887 | https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b4df332b-82a9-4ec8-b115-ac1b1b1824b0.jpeg |
That last image seems to be super broken at the time of writing. Instead of just returning a generic 404, it returns:
{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/original/b4df332b-82a9-4ec8-b115-ac1b1b1824b0.jpeg): connection error: Connection reset by peer (os error 104)"}
Additionally, this is how thumbnails on links have been previewing: !
Right-clicking and opening in new tab, it seems to be pulling a random pixel from somewhere in the image and then enlarging it and proxying it (500% zoom): !
But then other URL thumbnails don't work at all, for instance this post on trending: !
Which links to Wikipedia, but fails for whatever reason, then tries to load an image called "broken-image-fallback.png", and, ironically, can't even load that (leads to a 404 page).
And some thumbnails on working images don't work, for example this post in c/GardeningAustralia doesn't load - even if I click on the thumbnail (which should normally load the full size/original image), but does work if I click the image URL itself.
One more thing: this new image proxy thing is getting super annoying. I realise it's a Lemmy-side implementation issue, but a couple of sites (Imgur, for example), don't like all the image requests from a single server/IP and end up rate limiting us. This effectively means that Imgur is unusable and no images load.
I actually thought there might have been another mass image purge like last years' incident which required the purging of 48 hours of images, but there hasn't been any announcements about it, and the other broken images dotted around the joint makes me think Pictrs is on its deathbed.
Any ideas what's going on?
Sidenote: image uploads whether in posts or as embedded images within posts/comments seem to fail about half the time for me on both mobile and desktop. I thought this was an issue with Boost again, but it's happening to me on PC as well. On mobile, it usually either returns no error at all, or a 500. On PC, no UI errors are displayed, it just doesn't embed the image, but network tools tell me that something somewhere is returning a 500, likely the image uploader thingy.
The third of the Metro Tunnel’s 5 new underground train stations is now finished.
Taxpayers and telcos spend nearly $300 million a year to guarantee access to landlines and payphones, even though fewer and fewer people are using them.
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