Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’ Party’s environment action network tells parliamentary inquiry into gas export tax to consider ‘very substantial’ levy on windfall profits * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is facing internal pressure to raise taxes on gas companies as a prominent social media influencer warns Labor not to underestimate the scale of public outrage about the existing regime. Labor’s environment action network (LEAN) used evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the tax settings for the gas sector to encourage the government to consider a “very substantial tax” on windfall profits. Continue reading...

Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’

Next week: ahh the cyclone hit Darwin therefore gas prices need to go up and therefore electricity prices

Two pigeons being scared by a bossy magpie

My first #PigeonSky post!!! 🪶

The pigeons where just minding their business and then the magpie came in and gave them a big scare

Went to read the website, to understand the meme, but got distracted by the cool binary animation that happens when you tap the screen 😅

Ahhh maybe it’s a northern hemisphere thing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it here in Brisbane

I don’t think I’ve ever heard “praa” is this an American thing?

CVE-2026-27593 - GitHub Advisory Database Statamic is vulnerable to account takeover via password reset link injection

PSA for @statamic.com folks - update your sites ASAP! ⚠️

A CRITICAL vuln was discovered that allows full account takeover via password resets! 😱

All the details: cvereports.com/reports/CVE-...

My current task is to reinstate users ability to update their emails.

The issue? Their email is technically a stable coin wallet and money is directly linked to their ability to access that email

I have a fix but my god this topic hit hard this week

Shipping spaghetti is still shipping 😭

GitHub Action with the text: name: Run tests without networking run: | sudo unshare --net -- bash -lc ' ip link set lo up php artisan test --exclude-group manual --parallel '

Tip I leaned today: Disable networking on your GH Action Tests

Even if you block it in code, things could still leak

Hmm I wonder if it’s a cpu power limiter then under high load 🤔

Anyone else's PHP github actions suddenly taking an insane time to complete?

Mine are taking 20mins-1hr and I cannot replicate any problem on local or even brand new machines setup

If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again 🤔

kinda neat, I saw something else recently but in a code that compiles code that compiles other code nesting egg

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Why governments need to treat fraud like cyberwarfare, not customer service Fraud has become industrialized and weaponized by syndicates and hostile states. This op-ed argues it’s a global security threat and outlines a new US-UK-backed public-private task force to fight it.

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gpg.fail

There should be a “same product, same features” law

If a country forces a company to have better privacy options or allow third party app stores or whatever it might be, you should be forced to offer that same feature here in Australia

By all means use it, but don't assume its telling the truth. Investigate and confirm what its said is true before you go off and ask someone else to verify its claims for you

Reminder folks, chatgpt is designed to agree with you and "solve" issues so it rarely tells you that you're misunderstanding things.

It will absolutely mislead you or say its found the issue when really it's just giving its best guess

Getting tired of seeing low quality github issues hey

Stay safe friends

View of Brisbane city at night

My favourite part of the city is the KP cliffs. Absolutely stunning views 😍

Whenever I need time to myself, this is where I go

I’m really hating the “I know but it’s still so cute” crowd of fb simps 😭

Ted has to be the worst of them all 🤢
Never met a more disgusting lib in my life

Wrong regex in the vite file? Css in script tags? Does it refresh but not do the thing?
I feel you, I’ve had to hunt this bug down a few times

Have they finally got the DB driver working well again?!? I’ll have to check it out

I remember checking in 2 years ago with the mongo team and it was not quite ready for production usage, but it worked in some areas

Yeah fr. In my paper I compare it to the CD/USB autorun drama of the 00s. Except instead of just inserting 1 device, we pull in 10,000 from the internet and assume it’s all gucci

The first step is tackling npm autorun. Explicit approval for any post install/update script with insights

Next would be SBOMs with behaviour attached. And notices when deps grow, scripts change etc. and a move away from the habit of using deps for tiny tasks. + much more. I could rant for a while

In npm world it’s a little tricky rn. Personally I don’t update a pkg until it’s 2-3 wks old (unless it’s a security patch). This gives community run static/dynamic analysis tools time to find and flag things. There are SBOM tools that help too

The real solution would require community change… 1/2