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  1. In other news:

    I shaved my moustache off yesterday but kept the beard. I now look like a bloated #Amish man.

    2 days of temperatures around 29° Celsius have killed about 25 flowers on my #CherokeePurple #tomato plants. 😕

    I purchased a new hoe from #Bunnings - $74 including delivery!

    A new load of lucerne was delivered yesterday. This time I didn’t need to climb over them to get to the paddock gate as my better half had a chat to the new delivery driver on Sunday. 🤗

  2. Nice one #Bunnings I put an order in this evening for 7 items to be delivered, completed the paypal checkout like usual and the bunnings page displays "error" right after, so now it seems the payment has come out of my account but bunnings system has no record of the sale as their database "chucked a spaz" right when my payment was going through.. Lucrative little error that one, free cash for the corporation without having to supply the goods as their account accepts my payment happily while saying "what sale?"...

    Needless to say I'll be following up till I get every dollar back.

    Why do this to customers? Hire someone who knows how to code a back-end properly FFS. 😡

    #BadCoding #BadWebsites #CorporateFail

  3. Hammer barn survivor; I’m assuming the panels were painted with a roller before assembly?? #weirdcarmastodon #landrover #bunnings

  4. The weather improved a little. Drizzle mostly, but towards the end, rain.

    So, optimistically, I decided to go out the back & set up a #DogPool I purchased from #Bunnings.

    At least, it’ll be reserve water for the #sheep & #alpacas. At best, it’ll stop Chaser the alpaca bathing in their drinking water & choosing the pool instead.

  5. #Bunnings #Sunbury #DisabledParking signs are fading away.

    For a change the disabled parking spots aren’t full of tradies utes!

  6. Bunnings breached privacy laws by using facial recognition on customers, Commissioner finds
    abc.net.au/news/2024-11-19/oai

    Bunnings has been illegally using facial recognition on customers 2018. Facial data is highly sensitive under Australian privacy law, and requires consent, which Bunnings didn't bother about. The Privacy Commissioner says this breaches privacy laws.

    Bunnings managing director, Mike Schneider, opened his mouth and let a load of bullshit pour out, saying stores are seeing "increasing exposure to violent and organised crime" and if just one person could be protected from trauma the use of facial recognition would be "justifiable".

    It's clearly nonsense. It does not take just one crime to justify such a draconian over-reach and breach of personal privacy.

    There's no data to suggest there's a crimewave taking place inside Bunnings stores. Look in the news for it; there's zip!

    Over the same timespan, in carparks outside of Bunnings stores, there have been some arrests of people but it's unrelated to shopping in Bunnings. This is the excuse retailers use to justify car numberplate tracking. Numberplate tracking happens in about 40% of retail shops. It's a serious issue, but it's unrelated to in-store facial tracking, and not a justification for it.

    Australian Retailer Association has been echoing claims by retail associations in the USA that $Millions are lost a day due to shoplifting. Depending on who you listen to, this adds-up to $Billions, sometimes more than the GDP of entire states where these made-up crime-waves are occurring.

    Big business uses fearmongering as an excuse to break the law.

    However you look at it, nobody can produce evidence to back their claim of a crime-wave in retail stores. But they're happy to talk about crime as an excuse to justify gathering personal, identifying information on the public.

    #Bunnings #Privacy #PrivacyCommission #ConsumerProtection #FacialRecognition #BanFacialRecognition #AustralianRetailerAssociation

  7. CW: Bunnings Australia, privacy

    At #Bunnings Warehouse we value your… oh piss off, we send all your data to #Cloudflare.

    …and don't contact our "#PrivacyTeam" to have your data removed from our system. Not only will we abuse you. We won't remove your data because "your data belongs to you" so "we" can't remove it from #ourServers.

    #yourDataBelongsToYou #abuseOfProcess #language #semantics #doublespeak #Orwellian #1984world #privacy #MITMAttack #MITMaaS #unethical #australia #bunningsWarehouse