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[–] bacon@aussie.zone 3 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

Here I am, resetting words:
Must contain:
12 characters, at least one number, one uppercase, one lowercase, one symbol, no consecutive numbers, no repeated characters, no repeated groups of characters

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

and then the pages that don't allow to view the pw as it's being typed πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

those long weird pws are hell to get right

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 points 32 minutes ago

Why is everyone ditching google? I haven't been reading the news lately.

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"Gibson why are you eating cobwebs?"

The next couple of weeks at work are going to be a glorious trainwreck.

Maybe the person I'm handing over to will call me and ask me to dictate an email to them again lol

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I feel a bit like I didn't get much done today, but I have made significant progress in de-Goggling my life.

I've also removed Reddit. Again. Apparently it's like cancer. I obviously didn't get rid of it all when I moved over here and it regrew. Now it's been cut out again.

Hopefully with a new influx to Lemmy there will be a bit more engagement here. Although we are all terrible people who "incite violence" so maybe we should just riot instead?

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

You could say you luigi'd your reddit.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 56 minutes ago

Hey hey hey - you can't use that word or um, the Americans will ban you!

An nobody upvote him either or they'll get ya!

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I could say that, but only here. Try to say that on Reddit and they luigi you 🀣

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

i feel like I aged ten years just figuring out how to use mastodon

it's like lemmy but they don't actually tell you what server you signed up on or what server you're on, so that's fun. Also, you don't actually sign in with your mastodon ID, which is so intuitive πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

now to move my gmail to proton

I use duckduckgo anyway, but even that algorithm is getting more and more shitty, getting really hard to actually find anything

reddit, I am so blocked on most of my accounts I couldn't delete them even if I wanted

maybe if i tried the computers at the library it would work πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

I never downloaded the reddit app

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I haven't actually looked at mastodon. Lemmy took a whe to figure out initially too, it's probably similar and it just takes a bit of time.

I managed to avoid an actual ban on reddit (probably because i didn't use it much) and only had comments banned with a warning.

In many ways I miss the old 90s newsgroups.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I've been having comments removed on newspaper discussions , for stating inconvenient facts that were actually in the article

and i'm getting down voted a lot on reddit a lot

there are some massive propaganda campaigns on reddit at the moment , it shits me

Tomorrow I am exploring Bluesky , which looks a bit like mastodon but with many more members

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just upvoting things like that can get you banned now, along with saying things like "eat the rich" or the name luigi in any context.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

pointing out lies by foreign fascist governments can also get you in trouble

this is not right , it seems the terms of use are being exploited by bad actors

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

getting used to mastodon, nearly had a breakdown

AAAAARGH

😭

I think I have it sorted now

[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Goodnight everyone πŸ‘‹πŸΌ

[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 points 31 minutes ago

Goodnight :)

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Holy sweaty shirtballs. I am COOKED, was out from 11 to 6 jumping in and out of the car but I got the time sensitive stuff done, and I pushed on through to correct ALL the other measurements in one day to make the most of cruisey traffic... and I'M DONE WITH MY DATA COLLECTION!!1!1! (for that side of town, anyway. Got one more area that I might have to let go of if the weather doesn't play nice this weekend/next week)

I'll be glad to not drive over the effing Westgate for another year now, thank you very much.

Bonus is I managed to get some cheap Asian veggies while stopping for refreshments (kang kung, choy sum, winter gourd and very cheap small round eggplants). Plus a full tank of cheap petrol. Ordered pizza for dinner as a very well-deserved treat... just waiting for the clothes to wash and I'll pick it up while I do the laundromat run. Whew, what a day.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Yay. πŸ‘β˜ΊοΈ

[–] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I had three bits of work to do today. I've done half of one. So now I have two and a half bits of work to do from today tomorrow, and two more bits tomorrow. This shall be fun.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

the little strawberry yoghurt ice pops were delicious, I chose very very red small straws for a strong flavour

I don't feel guilty eating these either πŸ™‚

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Fun fact - the old English word for strawberry is streawberige, etymology is light on this but it could have the same etymology as straw, as in, it is strewn (literally "that which is scattered or strewn"), based on how strawberry plants grow across the ground. Related to Proto-Indo European *stere meaning "to spread".

Literally "strewn-upon-the-ground berry".

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

when I lived in Europe sometimes species wild strawberries would appear in my garden beds, such tiny little berries, very little taste but they edible, they are very pretty and the robins love them

I read somewhere the strawberries we cultivate and eat are native to America

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

i logged into hotmail for the first time in maybe ten years and THE FIRST TWO "NEW EMAILS" are ADS?!!!!!!!!!!!!

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (1 children)

Go to print something in black and white and it refuses because the colour is low. Fuck HP printers.

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 points 53 minutes ago

Check out reject shop daiso etc. for christmas wrapping paper. Maybe even colesworth. Some kinds have squared grids on the back in 1 cm intervals for ease of wrapping presents. I bought a couple of rolls and use that for pattern drafting. At a couple of bux per roll its MUCH cheaper than formal drafting paper and just as good. And if I screw up a pattern it's no big deal to do it again on a new bit of paper. Buying paper patterns is expensive and they usually need to be adjusted (for me anyway) before they fit.

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 6 points 4 hours ago

After about six hours of gaming, and maybe two hours of phone scrolling and napping; now that the sun has set, I finally feel like getting Thingsβ„’ done.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Long day! Remembered sunscreen and I remain pale and unburnt.

Now sitting outside the laundromat, washing mein liebes pants for his interview tomorrow. He has used all his spoons, so I sent him back upstairs to rest lol

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

washing mein liebes pants for his interview

May your washing of pant land him the prospect of more pant.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

πŸ’œπŸ’œ

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

inspired by Low's recommendation I bought a lot of cosmetics today ☺️ lots of eyebrow and eyelash stuff, new liquid eye liners too

[–] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Oooh, tell me more. I'm a cosmetics fiend and wish to know all of the details!! Brands! Colours! Finishes!

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