Notices by Kerr Avonsen (she/her) (kerravonsen@mastodon.au)

@FlashMobOfOne @SeaFury
I distinguish between Christmas (the religious celebration) and Santafest (the secular/commercial festival)

Here's a tip, for Aussies:
If you purchase something online, and immediately start getting spammed with marketing messages, fight back by POINTING OUT that they are IN VIOLATION of the SPAM Act of 2003, and send them this link: https://www.acma.gov.au/avoid-sending-spam
(or you could send them a link to the actual Act - https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A01214/latest/text - but they wouldn't bother reading it)

#Marketing #SPAM

And they all get away with it because nobody bothers standing up for their rights (including me). This stops now. (At least for me).

#Marketing #SPAM

To add insult to injury, the particular online business which has sparked my current bout of rage, had one of those tick boxes on their form, as part of the check-out process, "Do you want to be added to our mailing list?" -- which is something I ALWAYS turn OFF. So they ALREADY had my EXPLICIT NON-CONSENT to being sent marketing emails.

And yet they immediately started sending me marketing emails.

#Marketing #SPAM

Interesting quote from the ACMA website: "For example, if someone has subscribed to a service, has an account or is a member, and the marketing is directly relevant to the relationship – such as a person’s savings bank telling them about another savings account with higher interest. It would not cover the bank trying to sell them insurance products.

It does not cover sending messages after someone has just bought something from your business."

This makes it clear that it is NOT okay to send random marketing emails to someone who has just bought something from you.

#Marketing #SPAM

Putting my money where my mouth is. The same company sent me marketing spam again. Oh look! The ACMA has a spam complaint form. https://www.acma.gov.au/spam-complaint-form
Form has been filled out, with an uploaded copy of the offending email.

#Marketing #SPAM

New health goal: balance on one foot for 30 seconds every day to increase ankle strength.
I have yet to make it past 22 seconds, but, hey, so the revised goal is to "balance on one foot for as long as I can" every day.
Right foot only (left is still having intermittent pain).

Why am I telling y'all this? Accountability.

#Health #Goals

@rgarner @phil @maxleibman
Hmmm, what kind of resolution are we talking about? How many megapixels? Just curious.

@phil @maxleibman
I'd be interested to know what these specific tasks are.

@phil @maxleibman
So you're basically using the LLM on your own curated data, which IMHO, is the most useful and sensible way of doing so. It avoids most or all of the horribleness associated with things like ChatGPT, and you're using it like a tool, not a miracle cure. Good on you.

@phil @maxleibman This thread is an example of how the Tech Bros have poisoned the well. My neice, for example, is doing her PhD on using AI with drones to help outback farmers spot problems in their vast acreage. This is a legitimate and sensible use of AI. Yet all AI is now tarred with the same brush (for those who understand the tech) or hyped with the same hype (for those who do not).

Day by day by day
The days march, strut, stumble, fall
Crawl, rise up, leap, dance

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Feb 15 - Day #Haiku #Poetry

This is brilliant -- a pattern which *uses* the curl of stockinette to make a toy snake which doesn't need any stuffing! Basically the body is just curled up stockinette; what I've found from the one that I started (yes, I'm doing this pattern) is that the body cross-section is like an oval, since you have two round stockinette curls side by side.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/striped-stockinette-snake
#Knitting @knitting

You're my friend, I know
for I smile thinking of you
because you exist

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Feb 4 - Friend #Haiku #Poetry

Why would you drink wine
when there's laughter to be had?
Free, with no headache.

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Jan 27 - Mirth #Haiku #Poetry

Snowflakes are unique
as are trees, stars, fingerprints.
Snowflakes aren't special.

(Yes, I made this art piece to go with this poem.)

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Dec 23 - Snowflake #Haiku #Poetry #Art #ArtistsOnMastodon

@ACarolaRodrigues Yeah, the videos I watched about using DPNs kept on saying that the first few rounds were *always* difficult.

My first try with DPNs! This is going to be a Lemon which I hope to turn into a stress-ball for a gift. Or maybe I will be so stressed I'll need to keep it for myself.
#Knitting @knitting

So, now that my #Twitter account is gone, and my #Instagram account is fallow, I'm going to have to re-do the watermark on my art, to point to Mastodon. Is there a source for the official #Mastodon logo in #SVG?

It just struck me how utterly amazing it is that I am sitting here in my home with grey gloomy skies outside, and I am looking at photographs taken by ordinary individual people from all over the entire world, posted just because they wanted to share some beauty from where they were.
Isn't that AWESOME?
#mastodon #photography