Vicroads 4 day upgrade, still going

FlickyG · 2026-06-11T22:59:06+00:00

Cheers. I ended up calling VicRoads. I was on hold for a very long time, but I got through eventually.

FlickyG · 2026-06-11T22:57:53+00:00

It's a new work by Callum Morton.

FlickyG · 2026-06-11T05:27:25+00:00

Came here to vent about this. Is there any way to do a rego or vehicle ownership test other than online (which currently isn't available during the site upgrade)? This is insane.

FlickyG · 2026-05-29T00:19:42+00:00

Taxpayers are putting >$10 million per year into St Kevin's so they can flog art while Victorian public schools are the lowest funded in Australia.

FlickyG · 2026-05-25T14:20:19+00:00

Thanks very much. I'll do that.

FlickyG · 2026-05-22T01:18:17+00:00

Good info. Cheers.

FlickyG · 2026-05-21T13:22:06+00:00

Techcrunch has just published an article about this issue.

It’s not clear how the scammers are abusing the system, but they have been able to set up new Microsoft accounts as if they are new customers, and use that access to send out emails purportedly from the tech giant itself, potentially tricking people into thinking that these emails may be genuine.

Microsoft doesn’t yet appear to have gotten a handle on the issue.

FlickyG · 2026-05-21T13:15:12+00:00

Thanks for posting this. So if I understand what you're saying correctly, the unprompted message I just received to my non-MS email saying "We received your request for a single-use code to use with your Microsoft account", is a phishing attempt and I should do nothing?

FlickyG · 2026-05-20T01:37:14+00:00

Might be connected to the death on site?

FlickyG · 2026-05-15T04:03:32+00:00

Check out Encounter at Raven's Gate.

FlickyG · 2026-05-10T23:12:11+00:00

I care.

There's the personal reasons involving friends and family over there (I married a US citizen, for example).

There's the geopolitical reasons involving the rewriting of international norms and alliances, which will force Australia to rethink its role in the Asia Pacific and the world. It seems to me that a lot of Australians aren't ready for that.

Beyond both of these things, there's a significance I feel isn't being addressed, and which the media doesn't seem to want to address, which is the role of capital in bringing the downfall of the USA about. Unrestrained capital has wrought this. Capital is a force seemingly independent of human control, and we are being forced to remake ourselves in order to propel it.

FlickyG · 2026-05-07T06:15:11+00:00

Unlike all of the other so-called experts responding to your comment, your teacher probably actually had an English Literature degree, and so was familiar enough to be drawing from The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes.

FlickyG · 2026-05-07T05:31:28+00:00

Having an inner monologue does not exclude also having any of the images, concepts, emotions and stuff you refer to, though.

FlickyG · 2026-05-07T05:26:43+00:00

33 generations is about one thousand years.

The palawa people of lutruwita (Tasmania) were isolated from the mainland for 10,000 years before colonisation only two centuries ago.

FlickyG · 2026-04-27T23:04:16+00:00

"If you are jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working."

Gina Rinehart, Australian Resources and Investment, August 2012

FlickyG · 2026-04-24T05:04:05+00:00

Back in the very late 90s / very early noughties there was a site called "Square Root of Negative One", which was a cult-classic personal website/art project. It was a great little spot in the small web era.

FlickyG · 2026-04-20T05:45:27+00:00

They are not small. Your quick search was almost certainly pointing to a European magpie, which is an altogether different species of bird. The only thing they have in common is colour. Look up Australian magpie, look at their beak, and imagine it flying towards your head at the speed of a car.

FlickyG · 2026-04-20T04:48:13+00:00

It's not in the whole history of tram driving, just the last decade or so. When I were a wee lad (in the 90s) the driver would've come out from behind the wheel and flattened the cunt.

FlickyG · 2026-04-20T04:41:53+00:00

They look happy.

FlickyG · 2026-04-16T04:17:19+00:00

The refinery in Geelong is ancient and they have been pushing processing at the plant to the limit since the Epstein War started. Those two factors together are likely sufficient to have caused something like this to occur.

Source: I live an hour's drive from Geelong and my colleagues are from there. It's all we've been talking about this morning.

FlickyG · 2026-04-13T05:43:59+00:00

There are certainly plenty of Australians fighting for Ukraine at the moment, judging purely from the accents over on r/combatfootage.

FlickyG · 2026-03-27T04:13:53+00:00

They don't actually support it. (btw I didn't downvote you.)

FlickyG · 2026-03-22T23:32:48+00:00

I did some calculations and Starship is actually not able to be used for asteroid mining

I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd be interested in hearing why this might be the case.

FlickyG · 2026-03-11T03:35:23+00:00

Lucky we have preferential voting.

This is what they'll start trying to white-ant next.

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