No one cares. Everyone will forget about this in a month, don’t let them. Make them care, don’t forget. Be angry about this, get in touch with your MP, refer them to the Australian legislation we watered down (penalties in the millions), and ask for a strong, proactive privacy commission. 5/5
No one cares. Everyone will forget about this in a month, don’t let them. Make them care, don’t forget. Be angry about this, get in touch with your MP, refer them to the Australian legislation we watered down (penalties in the millions), and ask for a strong, proactive privacy commission. 5/5
In the passed decade across a wide swathe of NZ businesses we’ve had exactly 1 that *actually* wanted to understand the privacy impact of something (the kind of org that cares about NZers as it’s purpose). “Privacy Impact Assessments” as part of “Risk Assessments” are largely a bad joke. 4/5
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In the passed decade across a wide swathe of NZ businesses we’ve had exactly 1 that *actually* wanted to understand the privacy impact of something (the kind of org that cares about NZers as it’s purpose). “Privacy Impact Assessments” as part of “Risk Assessments” are largely a bad joke. 4/5
Fixing basic things (because they were never done right from the start) will cost many multiples of that, and from a risk perspective the downside is a bit of bad press, some long days for your under resourced IT “security” team and maybe maybe maybe a 10k fine and writing a ‘oops sorry’ letter 3/5
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Fixing basic things (because they were never done right from the start) will cost many multiples of that, and from a risk perspective the downside is a bit of bad press, some long days for your under resourced IT “security” team and maybe maybe maybe a 10k fine and writing a ‘oops sorry’ letter 3/5
A $10,000 penalty (max, and yet to hear of one being dished out) is far less than it costs to do anything. That get you 30 hours with my senior cyber-privacy consultant and in that time about all we can do is tell you how incredibly far short of adequate you are. 2/5
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A $10,000 penalty (max, and yet to hear of one being dished out) is far less than it costs to do anything. That get you 30 hours with my senior cyber-privacy consultant and in that time about all we can do is tell you how incredibly far short of adequate you are. 2/5
It’s brutal, I keep looking around, seeing the stats, talking to people not captured in the stats, and wonder why so many people/media are pretending that everything is fine. Better half been in some ad-hoc contracts since getting the flick, finally perm but salary back to 2016 levels. We are 40.
December 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s brutal, I keep looking around, seeing the stats, talking to people not captured in the stats, and wonder why so many people/media are pretending that everything is fine. Better half been in some ad-hoc contracts since getting the flick, finally perm but salary back to 2016 levels. We are 40.
Little one is terrified of dogs because the majority of interactions have been with shitty owners with uncontrolled dogs - running towards, jumping, yapping, barking etc followed by ‘oh he won’t hurt you’ to my terrified, wailing child.
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Little one is terrified of dogs because the majority of interactions have been with shitty owners with uncontrolled dogs - running towards, jumping, yapping, barking etc followed by ‘oh he won’t hurt you’ to my terrified, wailing child.
Love it. Unrelated, is there any news on Simeon street? With the bridge underway it seems like a no brainer to maximise the investment and connect it to Roker properly, but I can’t find anything
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Love it. Unrelated, is there any news on Simeon street? With the bridge underway it seems like a no brainer to maximise the investment and connect it to Roker properly, but I can’t find anything
Interesting I hadn’t noticed the tag thing - I only really use it on desktop. Skipping the app on mobile shows the tags at least! Haven’t noticed the dates thing, but my final processing step synchronises all the metadata and filesystem date-time values
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Interesting I hadn’t noticed the tag thing - I only really use it on desktop. Skipping the app on mobile shows the tags at least! Haven’t noticed the dates thing, but my final processing step synchronises all the metadata and filesystem date-time values
The tagging is all there, just need Immich to parse it. Was going to get into their API but since they say it’s coming via workflows (also automatic raw+jpeg stacking and hopefully version stacking too…) I hate adobe but do miss (classic) Lightroom :(
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The tagging is all there, just need Immich to parse it. Was going to get into their API but since they say it’s coming via workflows (also automatic raw+jpeg stacking and hopefully version stacking too…) I hate adobe but do miss (classic) Lightroom :(
Photoprism lacked support for hierarchical tags (which I’m heavily invested in), like most outside of Immich (ok… crap on mobile) and Photostructure (great, but dev endlessly refactoring and not fixing major interface issues for years now)
December 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Photoprism lacked support for hierarchical tags (which I’m heavily invested in), like most outside of Immich (ok… crap on mobile) and Photostructure (great, but dev endlessly refactoring and not fixing major interface issues for years now)
Just 1! But i have family/calendar email for 3x lower cost, and included in that is full office suite (and the other crap I dont care about) . I _want_ to use proton, it's just, ouch
December 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just 1! But i have family/calendar email for 3x lower cost, and included in that is full office suite (and the other crap I dont care about) . I _want_ to use proton, it's just, ouch
Yes, no backups is dangerous and make sure to a) validate integrity when backing up b) periodically restore tests and c) have multiple including off site.
I'm naughty with c), but apple photos is my hail mary for now
And remember that google photos/apple photos are synchronisers, not backups!
December 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Yes, no backups is dangerous and make sure to a) validate integrity when backing up b) periodically restore tests and c) have multiple including off site.
I'm naughty with c), but apple photos is my hail mary for now
And remember that google photos/apple photos are synchronisers, not backups!
Yeah it's all 'in' there, I just want Immich to reflect 20 years of pedantic (filesystem and tag-level) organisation. Hoping the automations will allow "if tagged with blah/x" create an album called 'x'"
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yeah it's all 'in' there, I just want Immich to reflect 20 years of pedantic (filesystem and tag-level) organisation. Hoping the automations will allow "if tagged with blah/x" create an album called 'x'"
I’ve struggled for years on the email front. Still on m365 *spits* because I have (grandfathered in) custom domain and cheap-ish plan. I don’t value email more than a few $ a month (I fucking hate email so much) but need custom domain support. But holy heck proton pricing kills me every time I look.
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’ve struggled for years on the email front. Still on m365 *spits* because I have (grandfathered in) custom domain and cheap-ish plan. I don’t value email more than a few $ a month (I fucking hate email so much) but need custom domain support. But holy heck proton pricing kills me every time I look.
I have Immich running (along with ~987 others for testing for the last 2 years…) but found Ente really hard to get self hosted. Immich is great for mobile phone sync, mediocre for organisation (10,000 existing photos) though. Hoping automations “coming soon” will get it to awesome on that front.
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I have Immich running (along with ~987 others for testing for the last 2 years…) but found Ente really hard to get self hosted. Immich is great for mobile phone sync, mediocre for organisation (10,000 existing photos) though. Hoping automations “coming soon” will get it to awesome on that front.
YABA might be another option. Local network rather than cloud sync between devices. Desktop sync only for Mac though. Havent really tested it beyond basics as ‘read later’ just results in a long list of ‘shoulds’ that overhwhelm! github.com/Subfly/YABA
YABA might be another option. Local network rather than cloud sync between devices. Desktop sync only for Mac though. Havent really tested it beyond basics as ‘read later’ just results in a long list of ‘shoulds’ that overhwhelm! github.com/Subfly/YABA