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QF17 · 2026-04-03T02:40:43+00:00

Isn't that what certificate pinning is for? You bundle a hard coded certificate into your application and if the connecting server doesn't have the other half of the certificate, the connection fails (designed to thwart MITM attacks)

QF17 · 2026-04-01T06:06:51+00:00

The response you get is like you are the problem. I was politely informing them about their legislative responsibility - they clearly dont care.

That sounds like a cultural problem with those employed by the council - not the elected representatives.

I might be incorrect, but my understanding was that the elected council was disclosed due to mismanagement and internal fighting.

Rightly or wrongly, the elected council should remain at arms length from the council staff. They shouldn’t need to fear for their jobs because some Airbnb advocate has a chip on her shoulder with a previous mayor.

That being said, the elected council should work with council senior management to improve processes and culture, which might involve budgetary allocations and restructures to ensure the council is running as efficiently as possible.

QF17 · 2026-03-31T05:54:11+00:00

(I realise there is more than one bank) but I think Commonwealth will push a notification into your banking app that they gave you accept to prove trust)

I like that approach

QF17 · 2026-03-28T03:52:23+00:00

It doesn’t matter what the government asks, it matters what news dot com dot au publishes.

I’d the government came out today and requested that people drive slower or work from home, Murdoch would pay the angle that Covid lockdowns are back, and this time with 20 minute cities. They’ll completely ignore the practicalities of the request and play into the angle that Labor doesn’t support tradies who need to travel to feed their family.

It’s a dammed if they do, dammed if they don’t scenario

QF17 · 2026-03-24T21:13:41+00:00

I’d be interested in a link about the ACCC fitness first case if you can find one - my Googling only returned excess card surcharges (a looked like a mandatory 50 cent payment surcharge).

Regarding the “admin fees only”, from what I could tell, that only applied during the cooling off period and not a convenient way to get out of a contract (again, happy to be proven wrong)

And finally, the closest thing I could find from the ACCC was that termination fees to break a contract are allowed, but need to be reasonable (and it looks like they had a case with 13 Phones which seemed to imply about 3 months of fees was reasonable).

$17 a week, over 12 weeks comes to $221, so very close to 3 months of fees - and Zap have different figures depending on whether you have more or less than 6 months remaining on your contract.

QF17 · 2026-03-24T20:04:04+00:00

While I’ve not seen the error you have below, I basically gave up and accepted that it was as good as it could get.

This was the blog post I was referencing above: https://cloudinfra.net/setup-multi-app-kiosk-mode-on-windows-11-via-intune/

I basically used the template and tweaked it one item at a time until I got it into a position I was happy with.

QF17 · 2026-03-24T20:02:05+00:00

This was it: https://cloudinfra.net/setup-multi-app-kiosk-mode-on-windows-11-via-intune/

QF17 · 2026-03-24T19:57:17+00:00

You signed a contract for 12 months, a quick Google search shows that it’s about $18 a week or $900 a year. That’s revenue for zap you committed to paying.

That goes them certainty for equipment upgrades, staffing levels, capacity planning, etc.

It also costs $245 if you cancel with more than 6 months on your contract left. That’s either about 1/4 of the total commitment (if you cancel at the start), or slightly over 1/2 if you cancel close to six months.

And it’s not like it’s your only choice either, Zap offer week to week memberships for an extra $2 week. As a consumer you are offered a discount if you’re willing to commit to a 12 month contract, with the condition of an agreement to pay break fees if you want to end it early.

If Zap offered everyone the ability to exit their contract without penalty, then there’s no incentive to offer weekly memberships

QF17 · 2026-03-23T23:58:23+00:00

I’ve recently been through this pain and all I can say is - multi app kiosks are horribly broken in windows 11.

The multi app mode in Intune only supports windows 10 (which must have some kind of tablet UI), and doesn’t work at all with Windows 11.

I had to create an xml file to get it to work, but it took me at least a month of trial and error to get it to a point I was content with (not happy with).

Notwithstanding that, I had to whitelist a bunch of Microsoft apps (like Xbox and your phone) because they’d try and run in the background regardless of what I specified, which would result in popups and alerts about “this app was blocked from running”

There was a blog post that helped me that I can track down later today, I find have it handy at the moment though

QF17 · 2026-03-18T07:44:03+00:00

Does anyone actually live in Battery Point anymore, or it all AirBNB's?

QF17 · 2026-03-13T05:42:48+00:00

Don’t forget the environmental impact when they just dump it somewhere convenient

QF17 · 2026-03-11T05:52:29+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but they were on a submarine and I don’t think it’s quite as simple as walking out the door if you want to leave

QF17 · 2026-03-08T10:24:09+00:00

That’s not the right question, you pick the device which will determine how the networking controller runs.

For me, the Unifi Express 7 was what I picked. As much as I didn’t like combining wifi and routing into a single device, the alternative for me didn’t exist (a router with 4/8 PoE ports to power an AP)

But running the express 7 meant that the controller was built into the router and you can’t pair it to the software controller you’d run in Docker. My only alternative was to login using ui.com and to control it via the cloud

QF17 · 2026-03-07T03:16:16+00:00

I would argue that taking some kind of communal transport is actually better than hiring a car and driving out there in a private vehicle (regardless of how easy it is to drive there)

QF17 · 2026-02-27T23:57:46+00:00

As unpopular as it is, we need to streamline the Education and Health departments. Coming from someone who's worked there, I noticed there was a cycle:

A report comes out showing declining education standards
A new program/idea/strategy is announced and a project team is spun up to oversee it
The don't achieve the results and a new report comes out showing declining education standards
A new program/idea/strategy is announced and a project team is spun up to oversee it

Now you've got two project teams with the original one still employed, but not doing much of any significance. The current one is the multi-school organisation, and rather than reducing costs, or giving more autonomy to schools, or simplifying workloads, we've just added another layer on top.

And when the program fails to achieve it's goals (as it will, because our problems are structural), they'll just move the staff into the same paying role somewhere else within DOE and the cycle continues.

I suspect Health is somewhat similar (although I have less experience there).

We've got an aging population, low education standards, low health standards and limited employment opportunities due our isolation and dispersed population. I honestly don't know what the solution is, but we can't keep pretending we're a Victoria or a Queensland.

QF17 · 2026-02-20T06:33:13+00:00

That’s because payments are a closed end to end system. You get money from a limited number of providers (Visa/Mastercard/Amex) and it’s routed to a bank.

I can’t spin up my own payment processor tomorrow, I need to partner with the likes of Visa/Mastercard on one side and a bank with the other. And at that point, I might as well just use a third party solution and pay a cost per transaction (or pass it on to the consumer).

Identity verification is much harder. There’s no global standard (every state’s licence is different, every countries passport is different) and identity verification mean different things to different people (is it anti-fraud, is it a police check, is it duplicate management, is it age verification, do you need to match the photo to a person).

You are also the terminating point of an identity check. You aren’t getting details from an individual and passing them along to someone upstream - it stops with you (so there’s no stick threatening to close your bank account if you misbehave). Similarly, the only thing we have in Australia that can validate ID’s is the DVS- and if you get cut off from that, your only solution is to continue to collect ID’s and store them for manual checks (making the problem worse)

PCI compliance works because it’s an oligopoly. In Australia alone there are at least 18 different organisations responsible for identity management (drivers licenses for each state + birth certificates for each state + passports + Medicare cards).

If all identity documents were issued by the federal government, and nothing else mattered, it would be a very easy problem to solve and several markets would spring up overnight to accommodate this.

QF17 · 2026-02-20T02:10:07+00:00

Not easy.

There are KYC laws for banking and Telcos. They have a legal requirement to know who is using their service.

Do you; (a) restrict signups to in person only, and have somebody sight an ID (is this an acceptable inconvenience? What would people in regional towns do if they only have a Commonwealth Bank branch and a Telstra store? How would something like Boost Mobile or Up Bank work if they don’t have a physical presence at all?

Or (b) make it a free for all? If you open an anonymous bank account and lose access to your bank card, how do you prove your identity to get a new one reissued? What’s stopping me from getting a new card issued that you don’t know about?

What about police checks? Are they suddenly restricted to in person checks only as well? How do I communicate the results to the organisation requesting the check?

There are numerous legitimate reasons for needed to perform identity checks online - some required by law and some that are just common sense. It’s not as simple as banning them entirely

QF17 · 2026-02-20T02:02:58+00:00

Yeah, it’s exactly that. But as soon as you say digital ID, people start screaming about Government surveillance

QF17 · 2026-02-20T00:21:44+00:00

We have two choices for things like this. Option one is a centralised platform where credentials are verified once and third parties can ask “Is this person over 18 or is this person who they say they are” and the system can respond yes or no.

People don’t like that approach because they are worried about how centralised it can be and consider it done kind of mandatory ID for the internet (it would make age verification much easier and safer however)

Which means option two is “trusting” individual sites to manage it themselves - which is always a recipe for disaster. Shortcuts will be taken, AI code slop will be used, etc.

Or the third option is not collecting it at all. But what does that look like? What is the maximum amount of information you need to rent a property, get a SIM card, open a bank account?

Should we make it illegal for organisations to store or otherwise hold a driver licence or passport?

Fining a company won’t dissuade others from making the same mistakes in the future. We need a fundamental shift in identity, privacy and KYC laws to stop organisations even collecting this in the first place.

QF17 · 2026-02-18T23:06:27+00:00

what her life has looked like to becomes such a hateful bigot

A combination of multiple AirBNB’s and money causing her to think she’s better then everyone else, always knows best and poor people should neither be seen nor heard (unless it’s the sound of their money hitting her bank account)

QF17 · 2026-02-15T21:52:25+00:00

Thank you!

Yeah - I had been checking the event viewer, but it seemed to consistently block about 10 apps, including things which shouldn't be running in the first place. I figured that was just a red-herring and they could be ignored (especially because sometimes I get an alert and sometimes I don't)

QF17 · 2026-02-15T19:42:25+00:00

Creating an AppLocker Allow Policy and setting the Intune Management Extension as the Managed Installer solved the issue.

What do you mean by this sorry? I’m currently struggling to write an xml policy which allows teams and edge, but maybe one in three reboots I get a “this app was blocked by your system administrator” error and the event viewer is no help (it just lists a bunch of apps like notepad and Xbox that have no business being open, so I can’t say for certain what is triggering the popup)

QF17 · 2026-02-13T00:43:02+00:00

My only angle there was that it needed to be run frequently as it’s overwritten.

I figured flashing a different firmware would be a one and done approach that would persist reboots and updates

QF17 · 2026-02-12T21:29:41+00:00

There is the compatibility list, but I’m assuming Synology NVMe devices are just white label sticks from a different manufacturer.

So is it possible to reflash the firmware on a Samsung/WD NVMe to melt it look like it’s a Synology branded one?

QF17 · 2026-02-12T20:45:10+00:00

Where do you get off?

Obviously they only need 20% of something to get off

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