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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to 2019 Queensland. Just a heads up 2020 is a bit rough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At the least I can confirm it checks the licence each time you sign in by connecting to the tmr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How are you able to confirm that that's what it's doing? Are the requests not encrypted?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure whether requests are encrypted, but the app itself says that it refreshed from tmr data on the main page. Of course this could just be a lie however.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

cries in Western Australian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't the ServiceWA app connect drivers licenses? I know they were saying it would when they rolled it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I actually researched it after I posted and from what I could gather not yet but it is in the works. Hopefully materialises faster than Transperths transition to contactless payments 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think I'm missing something. Don't the police or whoever check the license number, name etc. against a central record? Is this just about the convenience of not carrying around a plastic card? I feel like there's more to it but I don't know what.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

our id's have been in a digital database for some years now so this doesn't really change anything, this is just an option for the people that would prefer not to carry a wallet at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's truly the only reason it exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can't get this to work. Signed up to Queensland digital ID, verified my two IDs, now it asks me to sign in to the app via the TMR website. That works, then it goes back to the app, it wants me to accept the license, then it wants to sign in again. That ends in an unknown error every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yussss. It’s about time!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think the sign up server is under a lot of load - my verification email did not arrive and the app website reported an error shortly afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TMR said to give it time as the load was higher than expected and some teething issues with the servers are messing with the rollout. Its a government body so the server and bandwidth will be the cheapest tier possible and the app developed by the lowest bidder, so give it time.

Basically they specced out the backend for the load it would expect when the system is in place and in use by the steady state number of users, not for the initial influx of thousands of people trying to set it up at once. rookie error for app service rollouts, but a common one with government services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

so the server and bandwidth will be the cheapest tier possible and the app developed by the lowest bidder

But billed at the rate of the most expensive tier of infrastructure and charged at the highest bidder’s price but outsourced to the lowest bidder, of course!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Definitely is, just check in every now and then over the week as I've gotten in already so it's definitely working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They did announce that people should hold off as there are rollout issues (of course there are, it should have been expected)

So give it a few days.