• Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    Well I’m off to bed now. I’m not particularly tired because I accidentally dozed off between 8am-12pm, but with a sufficient amount of melatonin and laying dead still for a few hours I’m sure I’ll get there eventually…

    4am wakeup 😟 very jam packed day. I’ll post unsolicited photos of train stations that stopped being train stations approx 5 decades ago tomorrow Arvo!

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        I find it very helpful. It’s not a sedative though, it basically just creates tiredness is how I’d describe it. But it doesn’t knock you out, so if you get too stuck in your head it’s not particularly effective. And if I get too excited or too into planning, I can’t sleep until I’ve finished the thought process. Super useful for resetting sleep schedules though

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yep, sure do. I don’t watch very much anymore, I’ve gotten more into the ones with voiceovers (ie TaitSet, Quazzy Transport, Philip Mallis), but during the lockdowns I binged so much bus of doom

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    11·
    4 days ago

    Sorted 2 garbage bags of clothing for donation. Made maple syrup gingerbread people to try a different recipe (also used last of the golden syrup with yesterday’s batch). Made different coloured icing and put it into little bags so the Minipeelers could get creative (and messy!). Don’t think it’s quite as good as the original recipe, but the original recipe is a banger. Took the Minipeelers out for a walk, was very humid and kinda yucky. Found bathing suits and goggles for Miniest for her school based week of swimming lessons. Locksmith is coming tomorrow to fix our door lock (Mr P’s key snapped in the lock late last week and we couldn’t get it out. Then he tried to fix it himself 🙆🏼‍♀️). Now I’m having McDonald’s because I can’t be bothered doing anything else.

    • Pilk@aussie.zone
      6·
      4 days ago

      Wow, fog! It’s so thick too! Can’t see the tops of adjacent skyscrapers in the city at all.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    9·
    4 days ago

    Fuckit, ordered more food for pickup next week, I realise I’m just gonna be flat out doing long days at work. Still so much unpacking to do and life admin to sort out too. If I do cook it can go in the freezer.

    Last episode of Fisk was bitter-sweet. Seems like they’ve set it up for the show to end, it won’t be the same if they continued on with the characters’ lives where they are.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 days ago

    Watched the Buy Now documentary on Netflix. I don’t like the Netflix documentary style, but the message is still worth watching for. Am disgusted by how much waste we create. Not much we can do on an individual scale, and corporates and governments have no incentive to change anything. Consumption is profit. Economy above all else.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      7·
      4 days ago

      and yet it isn’t small purchases that improve our lives but co-operative purchases like government infrastructure and services that do

      another thing is that consumerism is subtle. No one who has an out of fashion kitchen remodelled and gets new appliances thinks their purchases count towards environmental degradation. It’s just the people with 4 cars.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 days ago

    My foot has swelled a bit over the past few days. Probably a mild sprain. I should be more careful, feet seem to take ages to heal.

    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
      6·
      4 days ago

      I sprained my ankle real bad my first night in Barcelona. Couldn’t weight bare for 3 weeks. Even after that it was still real sore and hard to walk around. Would not recommend.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    Done!

    Time to learn a couple of new songs.

    First on the list is “Orestes - A Perfect Circle (Acoustic demo)”

    Done!

    edit: alright, music is done, vocal is rough but in time. Solid enough to practice without needing the sheet music.

    Next is “Right where it belongs - Nine Inch Nails”.

    And I figured out how to deal with the subtle racism when looking for a band. I changed my profile photo to me playing at a gig lol

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    13·
    4 days ago

    Back to Melbs today.

    Have to leave behind the fence jumper Winston who just had a bath by his owners and here he is a few minutes later in my place rolling around in dirt:

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    Reading a thread on the other place, from auscorp and people being fired for accessing data they shouldn’t. Man, why? Like, firstly, the Privacy Act is really fucking strict, and is drilled in during training, with excerpts used in the e-learning and whatnot. Secondly, one user states their ex-colleague looked up the CEOs account for the bank they worked at lol, so so so dumb 😭

    Reminded me of when I worked at one of the energy companies, and we heard Hugh Jackman had an account with us. We were told, so extremely explicitly, not to access it at all, don’t even think of accessing it, he has an account manager so we mere phone monkeys have no reason to check it out and we’ll be fired if we do.

    Nek minit, my colleague left her brain cells at home and did the dumb. 😂 She was fired so fast time stopped for her 😂

    Smdh

    • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
      6·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, I remember years back someone phone up a radio station saying that a well known celebrity claimed their cosmetic surgery as medical procedures. It’s like dumbass, someone will recognise your voice.

      The level of entitlement to know people’s personal information is mind boggling.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        It’s so stupid and audacious 😭 like, the company will have ways to find whether you accessed data in good faith, and will kick you to the curb if you didn’t note the account with a good reason as to why it was accessed. People have been seriously injured and died from assholed accessing data to find where they live. It’s protection that should never be violated.

        Like, we were even told not to access our own accounts, or accounts of people we know. If we got a call from someone we knew, we had to transfer it to a different consultant.

        Like, what goes through these people’s heads that they think they won’t be caught and sacked? I don’t get it 😭

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I realise this is a controversial opinion, but tbh I reckon some of the blame for these kind of things needs to rest on the company, too. The principle of least privilege should always be used where possible. If you don’t need to access information, you really shouldn’t even have the option, at least not without either the client/customer’s approval, or a managers authorisation

      Humans are curious things, it’s bounds to happen. Firing people after it does is a reactionary response, not a preventative one. And prevention is better than cure, especially when it comes to personal information

      (My perspective comes mostly from being in care, because pretty much every single piece of information about me, including things often said in confidence, lives in a little grey box with no transparency about what goes on or who has access. And there have been data breaches in the past, where people from certain organisations managed to gain access to the files for clients within completely separate organisations, with multiple instances of support workers using that access to do terrible things. I wasn’t involved in that, and have never even worked with that organisation, but it’s still something that used to play on my mind a lot and made me quite upset and worried. I realise that my views are probably a little OTT for certain industries that handle less confidential information, but that are still covered under the privacy Act. I still believe all systems handling PII should always use the principle of least privilege and fail safe, though)

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        The principle of least privilege should always be used where possible. If you don’t need to access information, you really shouldn’t even have the option, at least not without either the client/customer’s approval, or a managers authorisation

        Nice idea in theory, but imagine you had a bank or energy account and had to call customer service. If the agent has to get approval to access every account, that would be so, so time consuming, the company wouldn’t have clients/customers. There isn’t enough managers on the floor or available for that to be feasible. So they drill into us phone monkeys that we are not to access that kind of data (celebrities, people we know). The authorisation to access comes from the customer calling in, and asking for an action or info on their account. This is also why, in the back end, everything is logged: the date and time, which agent, whether a note was left, what the interaction was for, etc. We are told, over and over, not to do it, with Privacy Act citations.

        Besides, there are preventions in place. Example: I was trained, at one point, to deal with only residential customers. I could not access Small-to-Medium business accounts, nor Large Business accounts. When I was promoted, that’s when further training was provided and my access upgraded. Again, everything is logged, and every phone monkey KNOWS it’s illegal to access that info without a customer asking, or without a manager asking. I had to access Large Business accounts without a customer telling me to, because I was doing remittance. I’m talking over $1m in one payment from one company.

        The phone monkeys know it’s wrong without authorisation. I promise you they KNOW. It’s on them at that point and they should expect at least a firing, if not legal action.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          If the agent has to get approval to access every account, that would be so, so time consuming, the company wouldn’t have clients/customers. There isn’t enough managers on the floor or available for that to be feasible.

          Some other call centres request authorisation through the caller in the form of an OTP, which doesn’t seem like a bad system. Or some banks still require phone banking passwords (although I believe they’re mostly about protecting the bank from the liability of somebody impersonating a customer, I don’t think that is required to access files. It should be though)

            • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
              41·
              4 days ago

              Bit rude. I’m allowed to have opinions on how I believe companies should handle my personal information. If you don’t think companies should have any semblance of accountability for how they process and treat personal information because it would slightly inconvenience you, that’s fine, but you don’t get to stop me from sharing my opinions.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      2·
      4 days ago

      I found one of Hugh’s early autographs at work the other week. It’s rather timid looking, don’t think he was used to it yet.