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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.
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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.
We've really been enjoying VisionQuest; though, to be fair, I find it impossible not to enjoy anything featuring James Spader.
Got pre-orders in on iPhone Duos for my partner and I. My wallet is no longer on speaking terms with me.
I've been enjoying going around to the sites of services and apps I use, and looking at their /llms.txt. Most have them these days, but their approaches vary wildly. Any impressive ones you've come across, or created?
Wow! I am genuinely so insanely impressed with Vivaldi 8.0. I've tried it off and on over the years, but it never felt quite "right" to me. But they really nailed it with this new release. So well polished, with so many quality of life features. Compact tab spacing is a life saver!
So, bizarre question — does anyone know of any wireless (ideally solar-recharged battery) backup cameras that have CarPlay apps in the US market?
Looking to install a backup camera in my fiancés car, but he already has a CarPlay unit. I’d rather avoid hard wiring and adding a HUD just for it.
Wonder Man was even better than I expected. Sir Ben Kingsly and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II never disappoint.
Everyone seems to remember that Icarus flew too close to the sun, but not that his father also told him not to fly too low and let the sea dampen his wings. We only ever tell half the story: the falling half. Hubris makes a better cautionary tale than mediocrity does. Daedalus understood something we don't like to admit — both directions kill you. The only safe altitude is the one that requires constant adjustment.
Someone called me obsessive recently. They corrected themselves almost immediately and said extreme, like it helped. I've been thinking about it since because I couldn't work out if it was a warning or a compliment, or both.
Gripping something too tightly doesn't just exhaust you — it changes what you're holding. The thing you're protecting starts demanding pieces of you to sustain itself. Somewhere between telling other people's stories, writing my own, and trying to be useful to both, I realized the question isn't whether to go all in. It's what you're going all in on, and whether you're building it or feeding it.
The real choice isn't between obsession and balance. It's between intentional intensity and directionless drift. One requires you to know exactly what you're optimizing for. The other just requires you to keep showing up.
Most people who burn out aren't flying too close to the sun — they're flying toward the wrong thing entirely. The wax doesn't care how hard you're working. It only cares whether the heat is coming from your direction or your fuel.
The trick isn't learning to feel the wax soften before the feathers go. It's being honest enough with yourself to know the difference between burning for something and just burning.