luciedigitalni

alanferrier, 2 months ago to random

This letter is 10 years old. It was true then and remains true today. Regarding the recent murder of aid workers, I'd say we're at about stage 5.

luciedigitalni, 26 days ago to random

Gina's attempt to stop people looking at that portrait of her is going well

luciedigitalni, 7 months ago to random

Based on my extensive research of asking one work colleague, it seems that some people are not aware of this code of practice which ColesWorth adopted many years ago when barcode scanning was first introduced.

I had an experience on the weekend when a heavily discounted item scanned at full price. The self-checkout attendant then tried to adjust it to the discounted price.

I challenged her and she eventually gave it to me for free, as required by the code of practice.

She explained that, "oh it depends on management whether we do it for free or not".

Remember, if it scans higher than the listed price, it's FREE. You'll find this Code of Practice statement at the service counter if staff don't feel like following their own rules.

Sorry for the slightly blurry photo

luciedigitalni, 1 month ago to privacy

European Data Protection Board finds that 'consent or pay' is not valid consent

#Privacy
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/edpb-consent-or-pay-models-should-offer-real-choice_en

luciedigitalni, 4 months ago to random

"An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it."

• Cory Doctorow

luciedigitalni, 2 months ago to Canberra

#Canberra #Lego #Rockets
https://the-riotact.com/7-5-metre-tall-rocket-made-entirely-of-lego-to-launch-new-questacon-exhibition-this-may/755936

luciedigitalni, 6 months ago to random

“It’s a cycle. It goes on and on and on, where they just build a new motorway,” Zeibots said. “You get induced traffic growth, it creates a new bottleneck, a new set of traffic jams, they are bigger and they are more difficult to contend with than the previous one.”

“What a private toll-road company is motivated by is completely and utterly anathema to what a city needs in order to have a good and adequate transport network to support its economic and social exchange functions,” she said.

#FuckCars
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/02/a-tsunami-of-traffic-chaos-the-new-sydney-motorway-prompting-calls-for-a-royal-commission

luciedigitalni, 7 months ago to random

This is where the real therapy happens

luciedigitalni, 9 months ago to random

I was disappointed to learn that the They Might Be Giants gig I have tickets to next month has been postponed for a year. Then I realised it's on referendum night and so I wouldn't have been able to go anyway, so thanks guys for rescheduling

luciedigitalni, 6 months ago to random

Turn off your notifications!

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/governments-spying-on-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-603207

luciedigitalni, 4 months ago to privacy

"When Will added his share house as a pay-to-use toilet on Google Maps, he didn’t expect that it would accidentally reveal how the service could be used to track someone’s movements without their knowledge."

#Privacy #Surveillance
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/google-maps-tracking-business-locations

luciedigitalni, 9 months ago to random

I heard a loud thud this morning and eventually came across this little guy, upside down on the balcony, with a few feathers flying around in the wake of his interaction with my bedroom window.

I thought he was a goner. I got him right way up and he just sat there for a while with his head askew and his beak open, presumably in shock. Then I got him up on the balcony rail. At some point he moved down to a lower rail.

After about two hours, and a trip through the house involving a few more light bangs into walls, he flew over to the big tree near my place, apparently having suffered no serious injury

small brown and grey bird sitting in a balcony rail

luciedigitalni, 2 months ago to random

Today's this will make you feel old moment is brought to you by Kurt Cobain who died on this day 30 years ago

luciedigitalni, 10 months ago to privacy

I'm in the process of switching electricity providers. I got the login to the new provider's website and was presented with years of bills from 2014 and earlier, when I had last used that company, at a different address, in a different state.

I asked them what was the business purpose for retaining and displaying such ancient information and was given a stream of made up crap.

I am no longer switching to that particular provider

#Privacy #DataMinimisation

luciedigitalni, 6 months ago to random

First Dog On a Wall

@firstdogonthemoon #MoAD

luciedigitalni, 8 months ago to auspol

If, like me, you've been thinking that different decisions could have led to a 'different' referendum, then Bernard Keane has some thoughts you may want to consider

#AusPol #Voice
No paywall - it will ask for an email address, just enter a@b.cd

https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/10/06/indigenous-voice-parliament-referendum-myth-albanese-dutton/

luciedigitalni, 8 months ago to auspol

“Australians are sick of seeing political parties creating one rule for themselves and another rule for everyone else,” the Curtin MP told Guardian Australia.

“If small businesses have to comply with the Privacy Act, political parties should too."

#AusPol #Privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/28/labor-albanese-government-privacy-crackdown-political-parties

luciedigitalni, 4 months ago to random

Andaman sunset

The sunsets in the part of the world are pretty special. Last night's especially so. I think my little Canon PowerShot did a decent job of capturing some of the magic

#KohLipe

view across the bay from the beach to a headland with a longtail boat moored just off the beach in the right of picture. the sun has just set, colouring the sky with a range of colours including almost orange, yellowy-white, pink and blue
view across the bay from the beach to a headland with a longtail boat moored just off the beach in the right of picture, and other boats moored near the horizon to the left including one with bright white lights reflecting back across the water to the beach. the sun has just set, colouring the sky with a range of colours including almost orange, yellowy-white, pink and blue

luciedigitalni, 10 months ago to auspol

While we're making fiscally responsible decisions to abandon absurdly expensive neocolonial anachronisms, can we please have another look at those nuclear subs?

#AusPol #AUKUS

luciedigitalni, 10 months ago to random

If you'd like the ABC to have a presence on the Fediverse, now would obviously be a good time to tell them that: https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/360001150496-What-are-the-contact-details-for-the-ABC-

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk

RanTLaw, 22 days ago to random

Data retained by MS recall will absolutely be subpoenaed. It will also likely be discoverable by litigants.
I might have to amend my usual warning to clients to not write anything they would not want to have to explain to a court to not doing anything on a computer they don't want to explain under oath.

luciedigitalni, 10 months ago to random

75% drop = "has slowed" 🤣

luciedigitalni, 22 days ago to random

Anyone out there prepared to recommend a business that sells custom-made curtains online (in Australia)?

dangillmor, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Is there any way to block, once and for all, the incessant "Sign in with Google" popups in my desktop browers? Even Ublock Origin seems helpless, and I'm forced to block each one individually.

Update: Solutions in comments...

luciedigitalni, 13 days ago to auspol

"The National Gallery revealed that visitor numbers went up 24 per cent following media reports about requests to remove the work."

#AusPol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-31/gina-rinehart-gifts-different-work-to-portrait-gallery/103920396