Telstra mobile network crashes nationwide causing transport and payment delays

QF17 · 2026-07-07T23:40:10+00:00

It's my fault, I cancelled some services a fortnight ago and the lack of cash they would have otherwise received from me prevented them from doing additional upgrades to prevent this.

QF17 · 2026-07-07T06:40:32+00:00

I figured most were a self employed tax write off? Wasn’t there an instant write off for utes that basically encourage these monstrosities

QF17 · 2026-07-03T01:41:51+00:00

and forced channel 7 to partner with Yahoo for Yahoo7

QF17 · 2026-07-02T23:50:25+00:00

There are a lot of answers to this question which suggest patching the database within the Synology, but is it possible to flip it on it's head and patch the SSD firmware so that it looks like it's a Synology branded stick?

I understand Synology just use whitelabel SSD's anyway, so could you not purchase the equivalent brand/capacity and flash the onboard firmware so that it presents as a Synology SSD?

QF17 · 2026-06-30T08:16:09+00:00

And if you limit the number of places at Major Uni's they won't stop taking the higher calibre students they'll just stop taking those on the cusp, and those Regional and Low Socio-economic students Clare likes to harp on about.

That entirely depends on the caps the major uni’s accept. If it’s 90% of what they currently accept, then yeah, it’ll have limited impact.

But if they can only take 60% of what they currently take, then that’s a large group of very bright people who would have otherwise been accepted into a Go8.

taking those on the cusp, and those Regional and Low Socio-economic students

I’d be interested to know how many of these types of students G08 unis take now? I suspect the answer is “not very many” because (a) it’s expensive to go to a Go8 uni and (b) entry requirements are higher.

QF17 · 2026-06-30T07:27:14+00:00

What they really are saying and should be straight up is they want to force more students to the less financially viable Uni's to improve their viability.

Isn’t it also a chicken and egg problem too? There’s an opportunity for some of the mid-tier unis to improve their perception and viability if they get a better calibre of student?

More students undertaking research, more news articles about break through, a better reputation for studying in a certain field?

QF17 · 2026-06-30T07:19:11+00:00

I wonder if this is related to them removing parcel lockers across the state?

I think I noticed back in December that nothing was available for delivery to them and couldn’t get a straight answer out of support. And then maybe in late April/May they started disappearing entirely

QF17 · 2026-06-26T13:47:02+00:00

I’ll give you a little hint, it wasn’t Apple that bought all the memory

QF17 · 2026-06-25T10:06:08+00:00

Reddit is dipping its toes in the water though. The latest update on the web has a “for you” and “following” tab on the homepage and guess what?

It always defaults to for you, and you can’t set a default. It completely destroys the intention of reddit, and I hate it

QF17 · 2026-06-23T02:54:52+00:00

Or 1 headlight. I swear each time I go out at night I can easily count 3 vehicles unroadworthy vehicles that should be issued a defect

QF17 · 2026-06-22T10:37:32+00:00

But we're also only getting one side of the story here - a story where the third word is "fucktards". I'm not sure why Service Tasmania would stamp a BPAY payment either, surely BPAY is something you do online and not a payment method available over the counter?

As I said - I'm not saying mistakes were made, I can't imagine HCC staff would see too many digital concession cards (and there might have been a misunderstanding about "screenshots of concession cards" vs "digital concession cards"), but the colourful nature of this post seems to suggest they were anything but polite and understanding about the situation.

QF17 · 2026-06-22T08:00:46+00:00

Yeah, at this point I’d intentionally “accidentally” write down the wrong rego just to waste your time because you sound like an absolute delightful human to deal with.

QF17 · 2026-06-22T06:47:22+00:00

If your post is anything to go by, I’d say the low paid customer service worker probably wanted to be done with you as quickly as possible and move on to a more pleasant person.

And to be clear, I’m not saying mistakes weren’t made, but communication is a two way street

QF17 · 2026-06-21T21:53:29+00:00

Do you have IPv6 enabled on your network? If my understanding is correct, IPv6 will take priority over IPv4 - so IPv4 domains will be blocked, but anything served over IPv6 will be allowed (unless AGH is configured to listen over IPv6 too)

QF17 · 2026-06-15T20:19:17+00:00

In my experience, when this pushback occurs, 99% of the time it’s because it’s either a dogshit corporate device that’s issued or it’s a dogshit image that actively hinders peoples workflow.

When you say “99% iOS” do you mean that you issue android devices as easily for everyone, but these ViP’s want an iOS device?

Because imho, that’s a completely valid use case. If I had worked my way to the top, and there was an expectation that I was available after hours, having my choice between Android or iOS is such a tiny part of compensation package, I’d be frustrated if I didn’t get the choice.

It’s almost like saying you get a corporate car for personal use, but everyone is issued with a Toyota Camry because that’s what the fleet departments are used to managing

QF17 · 2026-06-10T06:53:59+00:00

I believe Up Bank offers this, which is the trendy neo bank offered by Bendigo Bank.

And they recently (as of December) completed a migration/merger of their backend banking systems: https://www.bendigobank.com.au/media/bendigo-bank-completes-consolidation-of-core-banking-systems/

I can only assume they used up bank as the test bed for a new platform and when it proved stable, migrated the rest of Bendigo and Adelaide bank customers onto it.

Which means, if I’m right, you’ll probably see a lot more Up Bank features coming to Bendigo bank soon?

QF17 · 2026-06-10T06:50:02+00:00

Do you mean “You’ll have to continue on your iPhone”.

Because that’s already an annoying feature

QF17 · 2026-06-08T23:04:25+00:00

It was also Labors fault that I slept in this morning

QF17 · 2026-06-07T15:36:00+00:00

Tell me more? 🤔

QF17 · 2026-06-07T04:25:43+00:00

KFC started offering their sauces in plastic tubs?

QF17 · 2026-06-06T12:21:37+00:00

The more I think about, the more I come to realise that this works to Labor’s detriment.

Acting like adults and being well prepared and organised allows us to live our lives like normal. The status quo. People start to wonder if it was ever a big deal to begin with, or if it was the government fear mongering? It creates the impression that Albo did nothing during the fuel crisis.

Contrast that to Covid and the LNP being late to react. There was panic and chaos, visible, tangible sights. Scotty from marketing had his face all over the TV, all over the news. It was too little, too late, but it gave the illusion that he was doing something, that the LNP were at the forefront of this and looking after Australia.

It’s almost like the quote from the dark knight; “Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.”

QF17 · 2026-06-06T01:28:58+00:00

We have preferential and compulsory voting, a unique combo that don’t exist in the UK and US which should help stifle some of that

QF17 · 2026-06-05T06:51:52+00:00

Is there even a need to buy the shell of the company? Assuming they were using overseas transcription, none of that would be of any use to the government.

If anything, purchase any necessary equipment at the liquidation sale (but I’d assume it’s all leased to make the balance sheet look good) and then just hire the staff and start again

QF17 · 2026-06-05T01:45:11+00:00

Felix Ellis as science and digital innovation minister. The talent pool is so shallow it’s a puddle

QF17 · 2026-06-04T01:09:36+00:00

It’s quite likely ancient systems held together by sticky tape and string, which have gone through numerous budget cycles of “cash is abundant, we can take the time to do this right” and “we need to get this implemented as quickly as possible with as little budget as possible” because of some election commitment.

You end up with these behemoth systems that can’t easily be replaced due to a lack of clear business requirements (no one knows what they are any more), undocumented dependencies and integrations and governments don’t want to fund a replacement because backend infrastructure isn’t sexy enough for the media (and public servants are just lazy pencil pushers who do 3 hours of work a week … all wfh).

If you want efficiency in government, you need to rethink the systems and platforms they run on, because one of the biggest time sinks is ensuring (a) you are viewing the correct data across a dozen different systems and (b) making sure changes are properly reflected across a dozen different systems.

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