Quokka

IT dude in #Perth #WesternAustralia reporting in.

July 2023: May be quiet for a couple of weeks while I see what this BlueSky thing is all about bsky.app/profile/numbat.social

See pinned post for #intro

No matter how much I may like your image of whatever I won't Favourite or Boost it if it doesn't have good Alt-Txt. You know it makes sense.

2023-08-29

@Ruebennase here you go bsky-social-e3rcg-gqgwh
play nice

2023-08-29

@flux Ta. I can't keep up with what platform all the cool kids are using anyway

2023-08-29

Got 2 Bluesky invite codes going if anyone wants to see some different train-wrecks of emotional over-socialisation or whatever

2023-08-29

New friend of mine got interviewed this morning about the state of WA housing industry if you're interested.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/

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2023-08-15

Today's historic #photo of the day: Exactly 36 years ago today, SW5 class #tram no 777 on a Carnegie to City route 67 service runs along the single track section in Truganini Road, Carnegie, Vic, August 15 1987.

At that time, this 400m section along Truganini Road was the last remaining single track section on Melbourne's tram network. In fact, apart from terminus stubs, museum and heritage lines, it was the last section of single track on a regular passenger tramway anywhere in Australia.

A Melbourne SW5 class tram in green and yellow livery displaying CITY desto and route 67, runs towards the camera on a centre-of-road single track section.  It is about to make a left turn.  Two cars in the background are parked half mounted on the verge.
2023-08-14

TransPerth bus 3985 smells of brand new-ness and now has a happy little (if wonky) extra passenger

A small green plastic frog, lightly glued to the ledge at bottom of window on the inside of the bus. He is primed to, I hope, make the next passenger smile
2023-08-09

Not sure when it changed as I've tried to do this before, but seems in Australia we can now have VOIP numbers receive SMS. So I've been busily changing any of my two factor authentication providers that still use SMS to a new VOIP number to avoid any possible SIM-swap attacks. Not that I'm a high target or anything. #ITSec #2FA

2023-08-08

@Triskerslake Cheers. What's nice is that every builder we speak to knows what's happened and is doing us good deals

2023-08-07

Maybe time for a housebuild update then. This is how far fuckwit builder got. Nothing has happened on site for over a year now.

A two-storey house in a partially-constructed state. Issues are too numerous to mention. Upper storey has some glazing, there is a roof, but ground floor has no windows or doors. There's a long way to go. Upper storey is clad in a timber material, ground floor is brick and one wall should have cladding on it (long story, but due to a monumental, expensive, fuck-up the builder had to remove all the cladding originally installed on the top floor and then use the material intended for the ground floor for the top floor. Meaning there's none left for the ground floor).
You'll also not the lack of scaffolding as he'd not been paid either so took that back before the Administrator had officially been apppointed lol
2023-08-07

Yay. Insurance settlement from my fuckwit housebuilder should be in my account in next couple of days! Can then find someone who will do actual building!

2023-08-06

@andrew LOL. Went there yesterday for lunch. It was closed.

2023-07-25

@teddyc i am enjoying it yes. my Feed is joyful

2023-07-25

Reminds me, another BlueSky code available if anyone wants one
Edit: gonesky

2023-07-25

@davidmarsh Thinking about it, I'm not sure if I should rank security breaches on buses above my two colleagues who got on the bus after me a while back, didn't see me and spend nearly the whole journey pashing.

2023-07-24

@mof_sg good work!

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2023-07-24
Quokka eating leafQuokka mama and BB
2023-07-21

Just got the bus home. The guy in front of me got his laptop out. Odd for this route. Long story short, he's an Accenture contractor working in Rio Tinto and really didn't seem to mind me seeing spreadsheets with details of much of their networking equipment, PuTTY sessions, usernames, emails, project names etc. Might dob him in #InfoSec #Accenture #RioTinto

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2023-07-19

Project Management 101.

2023-07-18

@Ex_spurt @skribe I'd get solidly behind an Aussie Backyard Games like that.
"Here comes Davo. He's had a big week, but it's Friday arvo, he's knocked off early, downed a shit tonne of Emu Export and durries and is now warmed up for the "How far can you throw a sausage" contest (sponsored by Bunnings)

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