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Pangolins are cool. Support pangolins! pangolin.net is not cool. Do not support pangolin.net - especially when they choose world pangolin day to reveal how un-cool they are!
So, change of plans. I'm no longer looking to move to self-hosting someday. I'm moving to get as far as possible away from pangolin.net as possible, and it looks like the timeframe is within the next 24 hours.
They've got new plans available on the website. The new plan that most closely matches my needs is 8USD/month. But their site won't let me "upgrade" to that plan until I first pay the unauthorised $26.30 charge.
I've been paying USD15/month. Lots of features I don't use, I was well within the "included in base cost" tier.
Over the weekend they tried to charge me USD26.30, That failed. By midday monday they've stopped my DNS from resolving, so now everything is broken.
Pangolin.net have done a stellar job of converting me from a happy customer, paying to get a few extra features on top o the open-source core; to being someone who now will not touch their supposed open-source project with a 10-foot pole.
I'm trying to get a valid tax invoice from paddle.com. The best I've been able to manage is something that's close, but has our ABN listed as an ARN. I've pointed paddle.com at the ATO docs explaining the difference but they don't seem to care.
Any ideas for how to fix, aside from reporting to ATO?
Do you care about your #RightToKnow and Freedom of Information? Do you know there's currently a bill before the Australian Parliament?
Do you have lived experience with the #FOI system?
Consider sharing your perspective?
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
@oaf.org.au @asherwolf.bsky.social
The Govt should be introducing legislation to provide more transparency, not less.
Their proposed changes to FOI are deeply troubling, though not surprising given in the last parliament they were the 2nd most secretive in 30 years.
That needs to change.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...
As parliament winds up for the summer I’d like to draw your attention to the OpenAustralia Foundation.
We are a small charity with a hard working team running services to support our unique democracy.
We need your help to fund our work.
Please donate now.
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Please boost.
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So is it a good thing discord doesn’t need to implement this after all?
Optus customer who reported triple zero outage directed to visit retail store instead An Optus customer who reported September’s triple zero outage was advised to go into a store where they bought a new phone, the company has revealed. On Monday, Optus executives faced a parliamentary inquiry on the 14-hour outage, during which four people died while 455 calls to triple zero went unanswered. The telco’s submission to the inquiry revealed during the outage, five calls were received from Optus customers to its contact centres reporting difficulty reaching triple zero. None of these were callers in imminent danger, Optus said, but they were not appropriately escalated internally. One customer was given the details for the Norwood, South Australia store and told to go in person due to the urgency. The customer then went into the store just before 1.30pm on 18 September to purchase a new phone, telling Optus their phone was old and “not functioning properly”. The South Australian ambulance service called Optus three times in an hour to inform the company there was a triple zero issue, and the South Australian police also contacted Optus about the issue.
Amid all the sound and fury of the senate inquiry, the submission from Optus on the triple zero outage reveals a bit more.
Firstly, a customer who called to report the outage to Optus was sent into a store, where they bought a new phone.
Danny Pearson, Vic Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs:
"Data centres are going to be to the 21st century what the rail lines were to the 19th century."
Most of them went bankrupt, not infrequently causing wider economic harm. Read some goddam history, I beg of you.
I can never ride a train without mourning the fact that English only has the cumbersome “in the direction of travel” to meet German’s sleek svelte “fartrichtung”
Finally figured out what has fuelled Kid’s desire to cycle hundreds of kilometres in his spare time: spite for a teen cycling influencer
Enjoying Ben Butler speak about the experience of FOI as a journo... He waited five years for one request to be finalised. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ep...
Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.
You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
There’s companies who only pretend to care about today’s young people are going to survive in the mess the boomers have made of the world.
Then there’s MLC, who seem to think it’s a virtue to not even pretend to care.
Love that in a few short weeks OpenAI has gone from pretending to be about LLMs as a restrained social good to creating a pure slop TikTok and turning ChatGPT into an explicitly sychophantic fuck machine for gooners
I pledge to sext only with adult humans, moreover my sexting will be artisanal, small batch and produced under the highest ethical production standards, that said, some images may be edited to increase contrast, correct lens distortion and heighten curb appeal
Imagining this as the opening text crawl for The Phantom Menace
There is no democracy without transparency
A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...
the best answer i got for this:
Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.
My undergrad criminology lecturer Colleen Lewis in the Canberra Times this morning: when secrecy wins, democracy loses www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908146...
Have kept digging into the Optus triple zero outage (not the one last night) but they're now doing that crisis management thing of saying they won't answer any questions about it because of the independent review that is due to report back by the end of the year.
Well I worked on my dissertation today and it is abundantly clear based on my own survey as well as published research that Queer people generally view police more negatively than their Cishet peers
But in my own crosstab analysis, I found younger and non-cis Queers to hold more negative opinions
EXPLAINER: Howard government puts Albanese government to shame on freedom of information australiainstitute.org.au/post/explain...
Good lord. Do we need to set up SPUG again?
How does it compare with ascending to the top of Kosciuszko?