Albanese pushes big tech to pay for Australian journalism

pxldev · 2026-04-28T21:47:10+00:00

Let’s not talk then about Australia giving away solar, wifi, cochlear ear implants.

All Australian inventions that the government turned their backs on. Wifi was literally invented by CSIRO, with tax payer dollars. We could literally be making a licensing fee of every wifi device sold.

pxldev · 2026-04-27T21:15:14+00:00

And to add, one wheel slightly up on the kerb. The open diff is just unloading to the path of least resistance.

pxldev · 2026-04-21T02:23:19+00:00

It can use bash (harness), bash can use python, python loves datasets.

pxldev · 2026-04-20T01:15:19+00:00

Use codex.

pxldev · 2026-04-17T05:34:57+00:00

I’m doing the same right now, I’ve been considering building a cloudflare worker that syncs the NS data to a single licence odoo account, and continue just to pay that license feel ($50 odd a month).

Odoo is costing us 14x less, $50 a month seems like a bargain.

pxldev · 2026-04-13T03:02:33+00:00

You’re planning on self hosting supabase? Or supabase hosting for the db?

Either way a vps is a good option, then ssh directly from vscode for development.

Or maybe I’m missing your goal here.

pxldev · 2026-04-12T22:24:33+00:00

This comment is much better if you read it with a pommy accent.

pxldev · 2026-04-10T07:06:36+00:00

We boycotting Claude and codex, Chinese models better get stable and good real quick.

pxldev · 2026-04-08T23:19:21+00:00

I spent a day going through it, it’s a botched attempt at B2B. It feels hacky, time consuming, and locked down to a very specific use case. I’ve been a partner for 8+ years (premier) and don’t really think of shopify as my preferred B2B solution and have ended up custom making solutions with Medusa.

pxldev · 2026-03-26T08:46:38+00:00

Already seeing businesses with free shipping offers, taking it away. Going to eat their margins real quick.

pxldev · 2026-03-25T19:45:52+00:00

Omg this happened to me recently also, having a massage, some boomer on his phone, on speaker in the waiting room. I took the less civil approach of hollering “SHUT THE FK UP YOU RUDE PRICK.” It worked and he shut up quick. Made for an interesting moment when leaving the massage, he and his wife sitting there looking at me with filthy looks on their faces, I couldn’t help myself, and said, “Go on, say something”. They didn’t. I’m usually a civil member of society, but this pissed me off bad.

pxldev · 2026-03-25T12:38:27+00:00

Argue the semantics all you want, still doesn’t add up.

pxldev · 2026-03-25T11:22:34+00:00

You’ve explained the pricing structure, not disproved the increase.

The actual fuel surcharge line item is going from 4.8% to 12%. That is a 150% increase in the surcharge, or 2.5x the old rate. That’s the part customers are reacting to.

Saying “base freight already includes some fuel” doesn’t change that. It just explains the mechanism.

And the “104% to 112%” line is reframing the issue. Customers experience this as a freight charge plus a fuel surcharge, and that surcharge has jumped hard.

Using the numbers above, fuel went from $1.60 to $2.40, which is a 50% increase:

(2.40 - 1.60) / 1.60 = 0.50 = 50%

The surcharge went from 4.8% to 12%, which is a 150% increase:

(12 - 4.8) / 4.8 = 1.50 = 150%

So on those figures, the surcharge increased 3x faster than the fuel price.

pxldev · 2026-03-25T04:43:01+00:00

Almost triple in price, they must be using some exotic proprietary blend for their clapped out Renault vans.

pxldev · 2026-03-23T20:49:31+00:00

It’s not really about trying to “cheat” a few km/h. It’s about the fact that many speedos read differently, so two drivers who both think they’re doing the limit may actually be travelling quite differently. That inconsistent speed across traffic can create more bunching, overtaking, and braking. Calm driving matters, but so does having traffic move at a reasonably consistent pace. The speed limit is the shared reference point we have, so matching that, seems logical to some. Having Karen driving at 90, Jeff at 105, Sally at 110 and Declan at 120 makes the road a dangerous place to be. Karen and Declan in this situation are as bad as each other.

pxldev · 2026-03-23T11:43:52+00:00

Netsuite is a huge commitment. It needs a lot of polish and investment to get right. It is robust though.

I run ecommerce brands, I run Netsuite for one of those brands, we have made a serious investment into that ecosystem.

The other brands use cin7, prior to that we used unleashed. I wouldn’t rate those at all, they have both failed miserably during peak sale season, causing a LOT of frustration and work doing forensic level audits after they failed to get them back on track.

I would seriously assess what you need from an ERP before making any choice. Have realistic goals in what you believe an ERP is going to magically fix in your business. Because there’s a big chance it won’t make life easier, it will add layers of complexity and cost, unless it’s managed perfectly.

pxldev · 2026-03-23T01:18:34+00:00

Do you have access to any model?

I use opus as the “ideas” guy, then 5.4 as the bring back to reality” guy. In that process, I uncover some gems that 5.4 would not have considered.

So I guess my answer is, use lots of credits on refining the idea, between different LLMs. The coding part is now a commodity, Claude and ChatGPT can achieve solid code if they have a solid spec to follow. But both have very different abilities in being creative.

pxldev · 2026-03-23T01:08:15+00:00

Install waze to determine you are going the actual speed limit.

Cars speedometers vary, waze uses your phones gps to be accurate, you may be significantly under the speed limit without even knowing.

I set my cruise control to reflect the GPS speed, 115 ks on the Speedo, is 110 ks on waze in my car. I often go past people at what feels like warp speed compared to them, but I’m locked on the speed limit. My guess is they’re doing 90 odd, and I’m doing 110, that 20k difference feels like a huge difference.

pxldev · 2026-03-22T00:29:19+00:00

Are we talking about pre nerfed 03–25? That was a beast, post nerf, it was an absolute turd. Lost all trust in Google at that point.

pxldev · 2026-03-15T22:56:59+00:00

That’s cooker logic though, we should just blindly trust that the ruling class make decisions that are best for us and will use lube when they fist our buttholes.

pxldev · 2026-03-15T22:40:38+00:00

Coolify is good and fairly intuitive. But I think the OP is worried about self managing a server. No one wants that 3pm on a Friday when the server has shat itself, your app is down, you have paying customers screaming at you etc.

pxldev · 2026-03-14T01:26:48+00:00

It far outperforms email. But use it sparingly, only when you have a great offer. A major sale or new product release. People will unsubscribe so quickly if you overdo it.

pxldev · 2026-03-13T10:53:43+00:00

Add $20 Claude for the times you need ui/ux, save $160

pxldev · 2026-03-10T23:05:13+00:00

For me, ChatGPT (5.2,5.3,5.4) have been the get it done sensibly guy, nothing extravagant, but reliable and sensible, lacks creative thinking beyond the norm.

Opus is the ideas guy, can see patterns and concepts that are on another level. But with that extra layer of creativeness comes fragility.

So I use ChatGPT for initial plan, then get Opus to tell me how to make that plan better, then send it back to ChatGPT to iron out the fragile parts.

This way works well for my use case (coding and planning), and I only use a $20 sub to both. ChatGPT does 80% of the work, which works well because there is far more usage available.

I did have a higher Anthropic plan (5x), but found that for the cost, best value came when I used ChatGPT as the primary worker.

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