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The BBC World Service declared this morning that PHP has been around "since the early days of the Internet" and wow, no, that's not at all true.

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 2h

Second Bonus thought, a big thank you to the @php foundation and to all PHP's developers for their hard work. We love you guys ❤️

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

This morning’s headline in the BezosPost about the vile Ramaswamy ad: “Families no longer off-limits in political attacks, Some of the most audacious examples come from Republicans in tight races.” It’s under a photo of Ramaswamy, Husted, Davidson, & the Ohio state flag. Audacious? That’s a choice.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Russia was never a hoax

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17h

Like getting concert tickets from Ticketmaster, except for getting PHP package updates from apt

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Finally got php updated on my server and back up. yay.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

ugh. the patch is massive 🫩 the bug is based on causing an OOM condition and no-one ever accused the php interpreter of being neatly and elegantly architected, so the fix touches everything 🫩 the bugs go back many years but backporting the fix to all those versions is wildly impractical 🫩 the […]

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ROllerozxa @rollerozxa.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

If you are using Ondrej Sury's Debian or Ubuntu PHP repositories, he has pushed the patched versions of PHP now! UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!! #php #php2shell #foss #opensource

/etc/nginx/sites >>> sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://mirror.hetzner.com/debian/packages trixie InRelease
Hit:2 http://mirror.hetzner.com/debian/packages trixie-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://mirror.hetzner.com/debian/security trixie-security InRelease
Get:4 https://packages.sury.org/php trixie InRelease [6,129 B]
Get:5 https://packages.sury.org/php trixie/main amd64 Packages [287 kB]
Fetched 293 kB in 0s (1,071 kB/s)
10 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
/etc/nginx/sites >>> sudo apt upgrade
Upgrading:
php-common php8.5-cli php8.5-common php8.5-curl php8.5-fpm php8.5-gd php8.5-mysql php8.5-readline php8.5-sqlite3 php8.5-zip

Summary:
Upgrading: 10, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Download size: 6,906 kB
Space needed: 24.6 kB / 17.7 GB available

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I simply shut down one of my web servers instead of leave it exposed to this PHP exploit. This is real bad.

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I'm no fan of democrats that throw trans folk under the bus, but Dr. Amy Acton's opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, is truly vile. The choice in Ohio is not a close one.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/10/2026

I'm a big supporter of accountability & I really want Dems to pursue it, but I just want everyone -- pols & ordinary Dem voters -- to be prepared for the scale of the pushback against it. It's going to be immense. It will take intense focus & commitment to really follow through on it.

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Spooky Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

You’re laughing but the Kennedy School of Government isn’t going to have enough fellowships for the Rs bounced out of office this November. It’s a real problem!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

If you're not from NY, you prob never heard of the IDC, the Independent Democratic Conference, a handful of Dem state senators in a D-maj senate who decided to arrogate more power for themselves by aligning with the GOP to give the GOP control of the Senate, despite Dems having the majority.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

My god. "The women exited the store w the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle & began to leave parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him"

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

📡 The RSS Universe directory just grew by 15 tools, all of them suggestions from people who read the site and noticed something missing. Akregator, Nextcloud News, ReadKit, News Explorer, Reader Ultra, Leed, Salut, Sikio, FeedCity, micro.blog, Feedlynx, Feed […] [Original post on dmv.community]

The RSS Universe directory site. The headline reads "RSS isn't dead. It's the resistance." Below it, stats show 122 apps and tools across 13 categories, 100% of links verified live. A "What's new" grid lists the 15 additions from the Oct 19, 2026 update: FeedCity, Micro.blog, Leed, Nextcloud News, Salut, News Explorer, ReadKit, Akregator, Reader Ultra, Sikio, feed-repeat, feed-mixer, Feedlynx, Feed Canary and Feed Key.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

Tweet from Jan Crawford Greenberg:

“Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall. I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.”

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste? 18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!

The Dunmore House Pineapple. It’s a Georgian building that looks like, well, a pineapple. It was made in 1761 when pineapples were some of the most fashionable objects on the planet, and, honestly, there isn’t much more to it than that.

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Not too bad an evening...made roast chicken with tarragon, patatas bravas, and caprese from the last 3 tomatoes from our garden. #FallWeatherAtLast

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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms. We don’t know why. It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS #BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH #LULA.” Share it if you can.

The image of a hand signing the “L” in Lula - “The world needs Brazil. The World stand with Lula.”

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Here’s the thing. It looks like a political cartoon, but it’s real. The slices of the pizza are exactly mathematically proportional to reality. We are being screwed every single day by rich oligarchs. And we know it. It’s time to fundamentally change the […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

A pizza representing our economy is sitting on the table. A rich white guy labeled “Top 1%” gets a slice that looks to be about 85% of the pie. A white lady labeled “Merely wealthy” gets a slice that looks to be 13% or so. A black lady labeled “upper middle class” has a slice that’s about 2%. A frowning guy labeled “lower 50%” has a few crumbs on the table, not even a slice.

The captions say:
How America’s economic pizza is sliced per capita. This is not a joke.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18/10/2026

Tommy does not believe in the Constitution.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

If I need to use 2-factor identification 20 times per day to do my job then my job should pay for my cell phone. [grumble]

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

This is like those pictures of, like, a third grader holding bake sales to pay off their friends‘ lunch debt. Props to that kid, and to these college kids. But the need for the picture, or this mass march here, is sign of a real deep national failure.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom. Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/10/2026

I agree that imperial units are silly and we should probably run on metric for lots of practical reason. But you gotta admit that they're a fun discussion prompt for trivia; everybody thinks there's an internal logic but it's just all weird history! For example nobody's gonna believe that it's […]

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So I was looking at an NYT story on a long-dead body having been discovered in a barrel in Lake Mead lakebed as it recedes, and what does their ad-tech serve up...an ad for 3-4 person barrel sauna.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

this is amazing!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The back story on who got Fox to take Zacharia out will be interesting. First they got her placed, then they made sure Hannity and F&F -- Trump's two main shows -- ripped her to shreds. Impressive work, whoever did it.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Nothing makes me swear more than being forced to use stuff in the Microsoft cloud (Ok that's an exaggeration.... Reflect Orbital makes me swear even more.)

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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John Quentin Heywood @jqheywood.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Got my flu & covid vaxes yesterday. For once, my reaction has been very mild. Just joint aches, although at my age, that is not that much of a change

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tom jennings @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

John Ganz today: "One’s personal opinion of Omar’s character or her politics is immaterial. This is a serious assault on the constitutional order being carried out through the executive branch’s legal and bureaucratic machinery. Perhaps the reason that the public response is so tepid is that we […]

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

3/ Spot on.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

This is a book (224 pps.) more Americans should look to if they want to understand where we are in 2026 and how we got here. /end press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover…

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Yeah...I failed that class.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, prosecutors hate it. Yes, SCOTUS has sought to nerf it by making it impossible to raise at the actual trial itself. But a core REASON for putting twelve peers between the defendant and the government is to do EXACTLY THIS.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Am I surprised that authoritarians like Comer are trying to come after even the most attenuated threat to unfettered prosecutorial power? No. Is it infuriating when papers accept their authoritarian framing? Yes. (Tho I know nothing about the Washington Sun or its editorial bent.)

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What fresh hell of a framing is this?? "alleges the groups are advocating for the long-debated practice of jury nullification" Long-debated?! It's literally part of the our founding origin story: the Zenger trial in 1735! It's not "debated"! It's a fundamental core REASON FOR THE JURY AT ALL.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

For all the talk AWS and Microsoft and Google have about EU sovereign clouds, those guarantees vanish REAL quickly the moment a madman in DC decides he doesn't like an EU customer.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The first bottles of Coca-Cola from 1894 contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine. Explains why our grandparents could walk to and from school, uphill both ways, in the snow, barefoot.

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