Centrelink Releases Welfare Receipient's Personal Information to try to save face

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DHS, the estranged megadepartment for which has suffered a series of setbacks in the last year, has once again made headlines for all the wrong reasons recently when private information about a welfare recipient's financial affairs was released by the department in an attempt to counter the claims made about the debt recovery process used by DHS.The release of this information in this context is deemed to be legally debatable by welfare advocates. When George Brandis was questioned about Centrelink's activities on the Q&A program he responded that people should just contact Centrelink, which caused the audience to break out laughing as the current wait times and contact problems surrounding resolving debts issued by the Centrelink automated debt recovery system as seen by the public as being a farce.
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DHS? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-15 09:04 (#2FXWS)

Department of Homeland Security?
Nope... Department of Health Services in Australia.

Wow.. a debt recovery program issuing fake debt claims to citizens. Sounds as bad as those porn companies in the U.S.

Re: DHS? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-15 11:49 (#2FY9V)

Department of Human Services now nicknamed the Department of inHuman Services
Several cases have been reported where a debt was called against a person for which does not exist
There are quite a few news articles about it

Re: DHS? (Score: 2, Funny)

by fishybell@pipedot.org on 2017-03-16 03:51 (#2G12B)

Did the porn companies do something in particular? All I can see in recent news is the PornHub/Boston deal. I'm not entirely sure people got screwed on that one, but they definitely got plowed.

Re: DHS? (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-18 09:03 (#2G8W0)

How did porn come into this?

OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-15 11:51 (#2FYA3)

Pipedot has a similar feature! How cool! http://pipedot.org/story/2FWPB/similar

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-16 03:51 (#2G12C)

All hail the new feature

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 3, Informative)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2017-03-16 05:15 (#2G16S)

It was introduced (and announced) two years ago:

- https://pipedot.org/61RE

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-03-16 13:28 (#2G2BM)

Wow. Two years. Umm. I should like login or something.

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-04-01 08:14 (#2HT2W)

I love that this story has more posts. Slashdot is unbearable these days, and I've always held a candle for Pipedot, with fingers crossed that it gains more readers, more stories, and more comments...

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-04-07 05:19 (#2JCVY)

Submitting to The Pipe is free. Give it a try! I am!

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-05-12 15:25 (#2P7ZQ)

Me too, I think the author here has done a fabulous job of the site, we just need a constructive community to move in and build up the submissions and comments.

Re: OMG NEW FEATURE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2017-09-13 23:50 (#322T3)

Yep, I mean it's much better than the green site and certainly no worse than SoylentNews.

yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2018-02-20 01:14 (#3G9QG)

I agree.

Re: yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2018-06-22 20:59 (#3SV3P)

pipedot is....alive? found an old reference on soylentnews and thought I'd take a look. No pipedot is dead and waiting for the hosting contract to run out.

Re: yes (Score: 2, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2018-06-27 19:11 (#3T216)

Long live pipedot!

Re: yes (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2018-07-30 07:51 (#3VTT5)

This makes me sad.

Re: yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2019-02-02 14:08 (#48A6F)

Damn, now I think we need a Disagree mod. Just for this occasion.

Re: yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2019-03-14 11:37 (#4B1XM)

Sad to see pipedot disappear

Re: yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2019-04-04 18:17 (#4CFX6)

Disappear? You mean this is all a hallucination?

Re: yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2019-07-09 18:17 (#4JTFE)

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Problem with Pipedot "Feed" page (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2020-04-25 14:02 (#52N97)

Hello,

I've enjoyed using your "Feed" page for years now. The other day, XKCD stopped updating, also the "XKCD" header above the list disappeared. Tried deleting that feed and using "+" to start over, but it's not working.
* There used to be a big pick list to the right of: "Use existing feed:" and that is currently empty.
* "Or add new feed:" didn't work when I tried https://xkcd.com/rss.xml

Maybe it's just a reboot or something easy?

Thanks!!

Re: Problem with Pipedot (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2020-04-30 11:47 (#52W0Q)

Ya, I have a few bugs that cause the feed pages to act improperly at times.

The first is that I'm using a strict XML library to parse the feed. If the RSS/Atom page has any syntax error (for example: a stray tag or quote) the page wont parse correctly and will return blanks for everything. Pipedot's feed page uses the "title" tag returned from the RSS page as the name of the feed. This is why you sometimes see the header bar of a feed become blank. This is also why some feeds (like ExtremeTech) have weird names: because that's how their source title tag of their RSS page is set!

Another bug happens when adding dual protocol feeds. When I wrote the feed logic, I made each feed be unique based off the RSS URL. This lets a site have multiple feeds, as long as the RSS links have different URLs. The bug happens when you create two feeds to the same location, one using "http" and one using "https". A human knows that "http://xkcd.com/atom.xml" and "https://xkcd.com/atom.xml" are the same, but the site see's them as two unique URLs! (current xkcd feed link is using the atom version over http)

P.S. I also recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 that was released last week. (may have some lingering issues)

Re: Problem with Pipedot (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2020-04-30 15:51 (#52W0S)

Bryan,
Thanks for the update. As of a few minutes ago, all the headers disappeared from my Feed.. But using your link to XKCD atom feed, I was able to add that back (no header on that box either).
Good luck with the new Ubuntu!
Carguy

Re: Problem with Pipedot (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2020-05-01 02:28 (#52X08)

And...tonight nearly all the headers are back!! Thank you.
The header that is missing is vihart.com (Fun with Math videos) and her site seems to be down at present time.

The current trendy sign off seems to be--
Stay Safe!
-- carguy

Re: Problem with Pipedot "Feed" page (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2024-08-07 19:27 (#6PT47)

Hello Bryan,

In case you haven't seen it, an odd message popped up on my Feed page just now -- at the top of the page:
Deprecated: explode(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /var/pipedot/lib/tools/tools.php on line 2021

The rest of the Feed still works fine, it's a great feature--thanks as always.
- carguy

Re: Problem with Pipedot (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2024-08-07 21:15 (#6PT7G)

Thanks for the heads up. The point release for Ubuntu LTS is next week so I've been upgrading things.

how is this still up? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2020-10-15 06:34 (#594GH)

why is this site still up!!!

Re: how is this still up? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2021-01-09 13:06 (#5CKQ3)

Why shouldn't it be still up? Just because Trump is down you think this site should be too?

Re: how is this still up? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-08-25 04:00 (#62WCK)

Well... so it appears this is all that remains of the Slashcot, now that the red site has been bought out by Dice.

What is this site's position on philosophy?

Re: how is this still up? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-10-21 22:08 (#6506T)

Ari...

LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: -1, Offtopic)

by Anonymous Coward on 2021-01-09 13:05 (#5CKPV)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/9/69
Subject: Is Trump dead?

Is Trump dead? He never made it to the Capitol, was he killed?
There's radio silence now.

As a linux Kernel dev how does this make you feel?

Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021

Re: LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2021-04-26 02:30 (#5H24Z)

He's just sleeping (with apologies to Monty Python). Personally, I hope he stays asleep (or at least out of the news...can't stand him).

Speaking of sleeping, maybe it's time for Pipedot to wake up? If you haven't been following, there seems to be a larger-than-normal amount of angst over on SoylentNews in recent weeks.

Re: LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: 2, Funny)

by kazzie@pipedot.org on 2021-05-23 08:10 (#5J5JA)

Not to worry, that angst has been lost in a server SNAFU, so there's no evidence that it ever happened.

Re: LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2021-05-25 19:21 (#5J8MH)

Good point, the Soylent data base crash removed a lot of "evidence", however I still detect some signs of angst...
Perhaps a more interesting point just now is how well SN will operate without TMB. My guess is that it will keep on going, but perhaps without some of the tweaks the Buzzard had been making on a running basis (for better or worse).

Re: LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: 1)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2021-05-26 22:05 (#5JA85)

Thanks for fixing the Pipedot Feed -- for a couple of days it was space-challenged -- all the entrieswereruntogether.

Re: LKML Asks: Is Trump Dead? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-08-25 04:05 (#62WCM)

Apparently it will keep going by banning AC along with any UIDs suspected of being Emmanuel Goldstein.

What year is it? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-10-07 00:07 (#64F9Q)

Long live Pipedot!

Re: What year is it? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-11-12 05:07 (#65R5A)

Looks like Dice shut down the red site finally. Long live Pipedot!

Re: What year is it? (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2022-11-12 23:35 (#65RVC)

Just some ongoing issues due to using an over-complicated database cluster setup. It'll be back soon, though likely with a few records missing.

Re: What year is it? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2022-12-13 04:30 (#66S4N)

SN not out of the weeds yet, see this thread for a few updates, https://soylentnews.org/~nostyle/journal/12862
Since then the site has been running without various features like mod points, also the regular IRC is still broken.
It doesn't seem like NCommander has done any further maintenance in the last week or so(?)

Re: What year is it? (Score: 2, Informative)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2023-05-23 02:47 (#6BVHF)

SN did come back, but currently it looks like June 30 is the end. NCommander's post gives his side of the story.
Saw at least one post about a contact to Bryan (here, Pipedot) about picking up the pieces (and the community), but haven't seen any response or more details.

Re: What year is it? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by kazzie@pipedot.org on 2023-05-26 11:15 (#6BXN4)

It appears (from posts over there) that initial contact has been made, and this is one of many possibilities being considered.

I've just wandered back here today, and rediscovered that I made an account here two years back when SN had that big server-burp moment. So I'm ready to go if this is the direction the community decides to drift in... :)

Re: What year is it? (Score: 2, Informative)

by carguy@pipedot.org on 2023-05-26 16:35 (#6BXT0)

kazzie,
The "Notifications" button in PipeDot seems to be working, I received one (1) for your post above.
As well as SN (where I usually post as AC), I've kept a login here since the beginning because of the nice "Feed" page for RSS notifications.

Re: What year is it? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2023-02-02 13:17 (#68EYH)

Yeah baby!

Still here (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2024-11-06 11:29 (#6S0WT)

In this world human beings are doing a fine job of screwing up, it's nice to know this little place is still alive and present!