Purveyor of fine Geekery (mostly car stuff). Views and tweets are all my own doing. British immigrant in Spain.

Barcelona, España
Joined May 2008
Found an interesting spot for some carnography.
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“Jesus wasn’t white, lol” #Manchester
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Today was a good day 🥰
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I’ve fiddled extensively with these seats and I’m fairly sure I’ve identified the +/- feeds. So hopefully, tomorrow (when I have the car), it’ll just be a case of bolting them in and a bit of simple wiring 👍🏻
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Erk, that’s scarily real. Those phone hacking scammers are going to think their xmases all came early.
please listen to dessa. i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human. if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.
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Oh man, I just missed out... by 159,999.
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Picking the Porsche up on Monday, looks like the drive home will fully run the engine in too!
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Well gee, that's re-assuring.
The UK government has advised every citizen to keep emergency supplies of water and long-life food, in order to improve the country's resilience in the face of increasing threats. Ministers said households should aim to have enough basic supplies to last 72 hours - in case of extreme weather, technological breakdown - or the possibility of "state-sponsored terrorism" by Russia or other hostile powers targeting the UK's infrastructure.
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I’m reading some incredible security hot takes from people - makes me realise just how poorly most people understand security. Tailscale and Cloudflare sign ups must be off the charts right now.
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Unpopular opinion but... Carbon Fibre should never be visible. It's so ugly and looks cheap, even though it isn't. Everything just ends up looking like cheap parts from a 1990's Halfords.
Porsche Mission S full carbon fiber + aero kit.
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Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish? Expert: No, software is constantly evolving. Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years? Expert: No, different projects. Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another? Expert: That's not how software development works. Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic. Expert: Right. Philomena: Is PHP like that?
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new meeting background part 2
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The line “But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.” reminds me of $job-3, far too real 😂
Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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Tweets from 2022 subtly foreshadowing.
SHUT DOWN ALL COMPUTERS NOW
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Siftah retweeted
are you fucking kidding me? pikzels.kumar-coding.dev/
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Double whammy, sad times :(
Not just PHP. Node.js has also announced security releases for October 21, with HIGH-severity vulnerabilities affecting its 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines. If you run either stack in production, keep an eye on official advisories and apply patches promptly. Security maintenance doesn't stop at your application code. Your runtime matters too. Node.js advisory: nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi…
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Ouch, it’s actually even worse than I originally understood, vulnerable versions going back to 5.x. Hopefully nobodies still running those… right? 🙃
‼️ BREAKING - PHP releases emergency patches for two critical #PHP2Shell RCE flaws (CVSS 9.2) as early exploit attempts emerge. The flaws can enable unauthenticated code execution and expose server memory. 👉 PATCH NOW (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) Details ➜ thehackernews.com/2026/10/ph…
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I’m feeling for everyone who’s week is about to get ruined by this. 😭
The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
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Imagine being such a man baby you’d risk the lives of millions, just to protect the bot farms that say nice things to stroke your ego 🤷🏼‍♂️ Musk is the biggest loser on the planet.
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Seeing what the Omarchy hype is all about!
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Working on electrics in an old Spanish house is amazing fun.
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