
WIT Architecture '12. Plumbing/Fire Protection engineering designer. Everett resident. Lifelong #NERevs fan. @TransitMatters Board President.
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Tim Lawrence retweeted
my bf is from boston and occasionally he’ll do something that feels vaguely british. he refers to his dresser as his “bureau” and it’s like ok sherlock holmes ?? what do u keep in there? cold cases from the 1800s? ur velvet smoking jacket? an emerald tie-pin from queen victoria?
Tim Lawrence retweeted
His name is Ondřej Surý and yesterday he kinda saved the internet. I called him up to talk about it! theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Tim Lawrence retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Tim Lawrence retweeted
70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Tim Lawrence retweeted
France, a famously passive society until just recently
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
Tim Lawrence retweeted
As Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-600 operates its final scheduled passenger service, let’s give this long-haul workhorse its flowers.
The A340-600 is an absolute beast of an aircraft, and here’s what makes it special.
At 75.27 metres long, it was the world’s longest passenger aircraft until the Boeing 747-8 arrived.
Unlike the A340-300 with four CFM56 engines(hairdryes), which we avgeeks joke about saying "needs the Earth’s curvature to help it climb," the -600 packs four Rolls-Royce Trent 556 engines producing roughly 56,000 lbf of thrust each.
Then there’s Lufthansa’s coolest cabin: instead of keeping all the washrooms on the main passenger deck, Lufthansa moved five lavatories to the lower deck, accessed by stairs. On an 11-hour economy flight, that extra walk is a chance to stretch your legs and get the blood flowing.
It’s a clever use of cabin space, freeing up room on the main deck for passenger seating.
And underneath this stretched fuselage sits an additional centreline main landing gear, helping distribute the loads imposed by this massive aircraft.
An unmistakable silhouette. Farewell, you magnificent quadjet.
We're speeding things up across more of the Orange Line. 55mph is also now the top speed between North Station & Assembly, expanding on last year's speed increases to Oak Grove. We're continuously improving to provide faster travel & save our riders time.
mbta.com/news/2026-10-18/mbt…
Orange Line Expands 55 MPH Top Speed
55mph is now the Orange Line's top speed between North Station and Assembly, expanding upon last year's speed increases to Oak Grove.
Tim Lawrence retweeted
Disabled trains are by far the number one cause of delays on the #MBTA Red Line, and the T just revealed they’re pushing back planned final delivery of new Red Line cars by 4 years to 2031. This is unacceptable, and we need the T to explain how they’re going to fix this
Tim Lawrence retweeted
Le niveau d'insécurité stratosphérique qu'il faut ressentir pour passer 5 minutes à citer son CV devant un ado de 17 ans quand t'es une grande daronne de 60 ans vexée dans son égo
« Vous êtes une égoïste, je me doute bien que vous n’en avez rien à faire (...) Continuez à déverser votre violence sur la jeunesse (...) »
Échange tendu entre Elwan (lycéen), et Bérénice Levet (philosophe et essayiste) - #LaGrandeConfrontation, LCI.
Tim Lawrence retweeted
mayor wu’s efforts here to move a (proposed) center running bus lane to the curb stand in sharp contrast to mamdani’s bus efforts in nyc, which are 1) outcome-oriented, focused on faster bus speeds 2) are all about creating center running bus lanes
Boston, T scrap plans to extend region’s first-ever center-running bus lane on Columbus Avenue trib.al/Ctrf7Py


































