A thread to get us through until the Bot army strikes.
Inducted a guy at work employed by our labour hire company, who admitted that he has no fixed address and slept in his car out the front of work last night.
He’s framing it that he’s doing van life but I could see that there’s likely more to it.
I’ve put him on to a community pantry and I’m bringing him some bedding, basic toiletries, and a towel tomorrow. He said no initially but agreed when I told him it was things my husband wanted me to throw out anyway.
Really threw me with how open he was with it all. Left me really checking my privilege too.
in this economy there’s no shame in it. A person could be in a two wage family and they still can’t find a place because there is a housing shortage. It’s like musical chairs.
and hugs for being so caring 🤗
Definitely no shame in it. These days more so than ever.
He’s got a really good attitude about it all. Well kept, in good spirits, and generally seems to have his head screwed on right.
Really impressed that the labour hire agency gave him a chance instead of putting him in the too hard basket.
That’s such a nice thing you did for him.
Being in a not such a nice spot myself I appreciate that others are still helping people with things out of the goodness of their own heart.
I still feel shit that I can’t do more. Better than nothing but yeah.
We grew up at risk of homelessness and my early adult life was on the edge.
Growing up, if it wasn’t for generous hand-me-downs, public housing, and Centrelink, my life would have ended up on a completely different course.
Big news!
My boy Rocky has been doing so well at school, we’ve been promoted from Advanced Beginner to Intermediate! We’ll be focusing more intensely on our heel work and extended stays now
So proud of my little munchkin!
Today is a really hard day.
Today we finally had to move my nana into respite care. She’s not taking it well. Neither are we
Today Mr Omoikiri is having his wisdom teeth out. And while it’s completely routine and there no danger in it, I’m sick with worry and waiting around to get the call that he’s fine and I can go and pick him up.
Today I have to review this 80,000 word thesis and get to back to my supervisors.
I am so mentally and emotionally drained and my day isn’t even half done.
Oh, that’s a lot all at once. Best of luck for Mr Omoikiri and your thesis review, and that your nana becomes more settled in respite. It’s so hard for people in that situation to understand that it can actually be a good thing for both them & their carers. Have been through that with my dad & understand what you’re going through. hugs
Sending positivity. ✨
just joined today :D
Welcome. 😘😘😘
👋hey hey.
Day 9 of 30 day exercise plan. It’s working! I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed subtle changes in my body which are really encouraging and positive. I’m so happy! I can’t wait to tell my manager at work. She partly prompted me to start thinking about it in the first place. She had to do a test where you run on a treadmill for 10mins while they monitor your heart (pressure test). While I’m physically strong (lifting and carrying 20kg sacks of potatoes will do that to ya) I thought, “Could I run on a treadmill for 10mins? I’m strong but I’m not cardio fit at all.” Then I started thinking, “I’ll be 50 this year, you gotta do something about it. Do something for yourself. You’re overweight, just like your parents were, and they did nothing about it and died!” Sorry for the morning dramatics, but I didn’t want to end up like that.
Here’s to positive changes! 💪
Well done! I’ve started doing more exercise as well. Tummy has already responded. Thank you planks and push ups and leg raises. That a load of squats and a decent walk moving to long walks again should see me ok. My gait has changed, my centre of gravity as well so my balance is less intuitive than it was and yesterday showed me I’m not flexible enough. Decent journey ahead, but I’m still not in bad shape luckily.
good on you! for me the mood enhancing effects of exercise are absolutely worth it aside from any other benefits.
Congrats on making positive change, the start is always the hardest but its so worth it :)
Have absolutely zero motivation today for anything. Didn’t go the gym, barely interested in work, don’t feel like doing yoga or even going for a walk.
Boo!
Saaaame. I’m clicking between the same reports on work to try and inspire myself but it’s not working. Just massive CBFs.
I have 5 tabs opened of shit I need to finish today, and I keep getting interrupted. Afternoon is filled with meetings…which is when I’ll end up doing my work
Right there with you. Only got 1/4 of what I wanted done over the weekend cause of the weather, and its sucked my motivation out of me today.
My weekend was actually productive but my energy has been sapped. Seriously no idea why or how. I’m well rested so should have plenty!
I’m right there with you today :(
Miss Meow just walked over the laptop and tried to update the bot. Apparently she wants everyone to see the number 87.
I have set the bot up to run at 5 minutes past midnight, fingers crossed this one actually works, I’m running out of options to try if it fails again. I’ve turned off all power management options in the wifi adaptors, and it now has the new adaptor so can connect directly to the router instead of via the phone as a hotspot. This whole thing is like launching a rocket, all the tests can go well and the main launch can still fail! Come on @[email protected] we believe in you!
I sense a conspiracy at work here.
Maybe she sabotaged the bot the last few times when you weren’t looking.
Sounds like Miss Meow is trying to destroy the bot.
~ Midnight bot ready to launch. Stand by please.
Well, if we have another launch failure I’ll blame her! Maybe as a black cat she feels midnight should be her domain?
We shall leave it in her capable paws. 🐾 ⌨
I have noticed as my depression lifts more and more I stand straighter. Just little things like that are making me feel good about myself. 😊 Good feedback loop.
Nice one!
little wins 😊
Damn Bot. It was awake all night. No crashes, no timeouts. It just didn’t post anything. I’ll have to sit down for a debrief and try to figure out what went wrong. After coffee.
And they say robots are going to take our jobs one day
Well, this bot IS behaving like people I have worked with before, so maybe it’s on to something…
Well, with how it is going so far it would be easier to just set an alarm at midnight to do it myself 🤣
Once I get it working it will be nice though, especially if I can get the pinning working at some point. That might take a while though. I’m also hoping one day to have the bot make a comment in the previous thread when the new one is posted, but given the current rate of progress that will probably be sometime in 2027.
Thanks for your tireless service <3
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I can’t see any reason why the bot did not post last night. There was no error, it just didn’t do it. The only thing I can think of is that midnight is causing a problem, I will change the time to a couple of minutes after midnight and see if that works. Every test post I have done has worked as scheduled with no problems. Fingers crossed for third time lucky I guess.
Bot is cinderella confirmed.
The new wifi dongle arrived this morning, hopefully being able to connect directly instead of piggybacking off the phone will give it more confidence to stay out late and mingle.
Maybe get it to be a Lunchtime Bot for a couple of days as a warmup. Have it pop in at midday to say hello, then it can get to know people & find out we’re not too scary
Or maybe it still thinks it’s in Indonesia
You sure thats what you want? Next thing you know bots gonna bring another bot home for some fun, and you have to listen to awkward teenaged bot sex through the wall.
I’ve been seeing occasional odd behaviour on the server that seems to be database maintenance related. It happens sporadically throughout the day, with no pattern that I can see. When it happens, I’ve noticed a few brief periods of errors browsing the site. Its possible your bot has been unlucky and attempted to post during one of these times.
I’m hoping lemmy 0.18.1 will resolve this, I know there has been a lot of effort put into optimising database queries etc. If it doesn’t, I’ll dig into it further and raise a github issue with the lemmy devs.
For some reason it didn’t even try to post, so it definitely wasn’t an error from the server. It has been triggered to make the post at the right time for every single test post I have done, which is why I think there might be something specific about midnight that is causing some issues.
Oh ok no worries. FWIW I just witnessed the server side issue in the last 5 minutes. Received error pages etc.
Doesn’t the instance restart every hour on the hour?
@[email protected] is that still the case?
No, that was stopped prior to the upgrade to 0.18, as it would have been contributing to federation issues.
not a timezone issue? thing was gonna trigger earlier than expected at 0000 utc vs utc+10?
I spent way too much time today perfecting my pay calculation spreadsheet. But is now a little neater, includes more automation, and calculates the super I should be getting as well as the pay.
We have a ridiculously complicated pay structure, so I have 7 types of leave, 6 types of overtime payment, 6 different penalty levels (there are more, that’s just the ones that apply to me) and a few allowances. We also get paid basic wages for the period finishing on Friday, but penalties and overtime are for the period finishing on Wednesday. And our standard work day is broken into normal hours, rostered overtime and leave acruual, so the hours used to calculate each type of pay are different. So it is really hard to figure out whether we are being paid correctly without a computer and complicated maths.
I’ve managed to get to the point that except for mistakes my calculations only differ due to minor rounding differences, and I can project future income for my budget fairly easily too. NGL pretty pleased with myself.
that is ridiculous
Well done. It must have been a lot of work to get that worked out.
I’ve been doing a very rudimentary budget every week or two to make sure I’m on top of everything and it’s so complicated without everything you mentioned and takes a lot of time!
Not that you’ve done that is it time to R&R?
I’ve been working on it for a couple of years and improving a bit at a time. Now that I’m in the habit of recording things like the utility bills and petrol it’s becoming a lot more accurate, and I can make better forecasts for the future. It’s also been very educational, and there are a lot of similarities between complicated excel formulas and the way the code for the bot is written, so it has probably helped with that too!
Thanks @Thornburywitch! The bot was not the only thing malfunctioning, just after setting everything up nicely and getting ready for bed, I nearly bricked my rather expensive work device the night before a field visit.
Thanks to a stray comment on an old post online, I finally managed to revive it over an hour later, even though it honestly felt like some dark magic and only worked after about 9 tries (and some stress relieving cleaning). Certainly some witchy intervention there as well, I suspect.
Thanks both
A++ thread name, Thornbury Witch! Morning all. Conference starts today so I have to put on work clothes and interact with people. I really hope they’re alright at asking questions to keep a conversation going!
more selfishness i suppose.
purged my comments, all quite useless
my contributions tend to be pointless
left my stupid prose, i suppose for posterity
from them I only gain shame and no moneysorry for bringing this place, and all of you down
i shouldnt openly display a virtual frown
just an attention seeker, selfish and crude
i want to be kind, but downvotes tell me i’m rude.do not perceive this jerk,
demoted to witness, just lurk
some of my rhymes made you smile
but the rest are stupid and sad
just bad, and personally vile.<3 I love seeing your comments even if I don’t engage with them.
People will downvote no matter how innocuous the comments are. Someone downvoted my comment where I said today’s going to be a slow day. Guess Sonic didn’t like my comment. Oh well.
If you have many downvotes I can only assume they are recent wanderers from Reddit who are still primed for the fight and have not yet learned this is a safe space where its OK to be nice.
I personally enjoy your posts and consider you a great contributor in the community. It would make me sad if you just lurked.
No! I can’t believe you have haters. Fuck the haters! I love everything you post
Edit: I was speaking with someone yesterday and I literally brought you up as a regular poster I loved.one, just for you.
Walking around on cool winter nights
Beautiful city and pale gold lights
So many people minding their business
No animosity, just inner stressesWhen out of the darkness a looming face
Approaches out of the weeknight race
They know my name, and my highschool
Panic, frack, who are they? You fool…They come in fast, too fast to avoid
I gotta think fast, my memory is devoid
“Hey…you,” I say “It’s been too long!”
“I know right,” is the reply “remember when…”Ah shit, I think, no, I don’t remember a thing
Applied fake smile and say “Yeah haha sure thing!”
And still their face doesn’t ring a bell
I don’t know who they are, circles of hell“We ought to catch-up,down a pint, and reflect”
“Sounds like a plan, just hit me up” I deflect
Then off they speed, just as quick as they came
Do they suspect I still don’t remember their name?I think it was… Steve! and the Phys ed class thing remember??
Pls don’t lurk chud.
We need you!
hugs, everything you write is welcome here
We love you and all of your thoughts. What gave you the idea otherwise? Downvotes? Its a shame we can see how many ups and downs. I’d rather not have the sinking feeling either and was getting a few last week, but they’ve stopped. This is all of our safe space, and we’re here to support you.
I would get down voted heavily every single night on reddit
fuck’em , I post for the upvoters
Have my upvote.
I’ve been busy and not able to attend this thread as I normally would, and can I just say: Thank God you’re here! I was actually worried about you! I’d noticed you deleted your posts before I even got a chance to read them and I thought, “oh shit, what’s going on here? Are we losing an attendee? Are they succumbing to self doubt?” One person might downvote, and it doesn’t matter. You know why? Because fuck 'em, that’s why! It might be an occasional drunkard stabbing at the wrong bit of their screen… or they might just be a gutless wonder who can’t express themselves- unlike you.
Love your posts and rhymes, and please take no notice of downvotes - I reckon we all get them now & then. Please keep posting, too!
Lucy the dog’s stitches are out and she was very brave,no signs of apprehension, just excitement to meet the other dogs in the waiting room even the ones bigger than her. If anyone has got tips on how to keep a Jack Russell calm and stop trying to run everywhere, let me know:)
Hahaha. Keeping a Jack Russell calm. My tip is you can’t unless you give them small snacks every 10 seconds. They have batteries up their bums. Source. I have one.
Sedation is the only way to keep a JRT calm! Some suggest those lick mat things.
Jack Russell and Calm really don’t belong that close together in the same sentence!
My mum had a jrt that did his anterior cruciate ligament when he was kicked during a robbery. The only way we could keep him settled was to either give him a bone from the butcher that was almost as big as him or to be sedentary ourselves so he would be more inclined to sit with us.
Ohh a bone might work but generally she just gives you a look “ well aren’t you going to cut it up for me?”
