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Only 70 minutes?
The last time I had to make a government account, which wasn't that long ago, I could only get a code by snail mail 
I needed that account now, but I had to wait at least two business days 
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Wow! The government imposes travel paper requirements then makes the documents hard to get...
But I’m sure they only have your best interests at heart🙄!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Yeah I saw that on ABC News. The security models of all the gov't apps are damaged, if not completely broken.
Example:
A browser can ask Android if the device is lockable (PIN, swipe pattern, face etc) and if so, allow access to its saved passwords. (I had to temporarily put a PIN on my wife's browsing tablet to retrieve a password.)
But ServiceNSW insists on a PIN to unlock the app even on a lockable device. Adds no security at all, just creates frustration.
It's actually fewer taps to use a standalone QR reader and then tell it to open in browser...
And don't get me started on their UI design (No, I do not want to put my DL on it to enable one-stop ID theft!)
or their crap QR scanner.
or their battery hogging.
QR code tattoos, anyone?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Been a really slow weekend, I guess the cooler weather everyone is out enjoying the end of summer.
Me, I'm laying tile.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Me, I'm binge playing Starcraft II again. (It's raining, and I got a good pot of tea)
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Enjoy the peace while it lasts.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Biking and enjoying the nice weather while it lasts, also hoping to see some nice mushrooms but haven't spotted them this year ...
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I hate wild mushrooms, she insist on drying them to have the bugs crawl out.
Never heard a better argument for MacDonalds.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I think you'll find it's everyone enjoying the start of summer and the warmer sunny weather in what was the first weekend that felt summery in a long while.
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Canadian Thanksgiving.
Chicken in the oven (don't know yet what side to eat with it).
Humankind on the PC (one more turn).
Will do major house cleanup tomorrow.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Spent the weekend up north, Payson area. AZ Trail in-a-day event with friends. Driving home today took nine hours. 
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Me, I'm lying in bed in hospital. Gastro and kidney problems. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sorry to hear that.
Hope you'll recover soon.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Thanks!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Best wishes and fast recovery!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Thank you!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hope you get better soon.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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So do I...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Please get well. I enjoy most of your posts. BTW: Hope you have cute nurses, even if you're in too much pain to appreciate them. 
Ridcully
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Slow Eddie wrote: Hope you have cute nurses
Some are, some aren't. Just like women everywhere...
What does surprise me is the age of the doctors. Most of them look barely old enough to be out of high school.[*]
* Either that, or I'm growing old, which is unthinkable...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Either that, or I'm growing old, which is unthinkable...
A lot of that going around. 
Get well soon.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Laying on my sofa re-reading a Terry Pratchett novel, due to terminal sciatica. 
Ponder Stibbons
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Keiichi Okabe - Song of the Ancients / Fate (lyrics & performance by Emi Evans)[^]
A day late for this one, been busy!
Apologies to all the people who went to work today because they missed the SOTW 
So anyway, last week I got my PlayStation 5 and the first game I've been playing is NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... (yes, that's the title).
It's a PS4 game (remake of a Japanese PS3 game), but the ridiculous loading times made me wait to play it on PS5.
Like its predecessor (or original successor), NieR: Automata, the soundtrack by Keiichi Okabe is amazing again.
I'm especially a fan of Song of the Ancients, which could also be heard in NieR: Automata.
There's about five versions of the song and the melody may be used in some of the other tracks as well, so there's no shortage of it.
Emi Evans wrote the lyrics, which are in some "chaos language" she came up with "coined to sound as if our modern languages had drifted apart for thousands of years only to become indistinguishable to us."
Awesome game, awesome soundtrack, SOTW!
<Edit>
For those particularly interested in the chaos language, Emi Evans talks about it in this interview: NieR Replicant singer Emi Evans talks music, Chaos Language, and more – PlayStation.Blog[^]
About Song of the Ancients, Emi says "There’s German, Hungarian, Welsh, Japanese, French, and Latin, as well as some extra sounds I thought up myself!"
Other tracks from the soundtrack are based on specific languages, like French, English and Gaelic.
</Edit>
modified 10-Oct-21 6:34am.
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 wow ... this is really amazing, I mean the composition and the performance. And, BTW, I just took a break from my project to check the Lounge ... I am curious about the language on this track as it sounds like Japanese/Portuguese. This "chaos language" sounds very natural, I will try to dig deeper on this ... Cheers
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