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In March I wrote that the longer Witkoff and Kushner are Trump's so-called negotiators, the more likely Putin would convince Trump to join his side in a World War. Witkoff's pathetic display today confirms that.
emptywheel.net/2026/03/27/h...
How Vladimir Putin Intends to ...
Service providers operating PHP-based platforms please take note of PHP critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2
Major government and ecommerce services have shut down pending the patch. Exploits are already circulating.
Shut your service down now, and ensure it doesn't have Internet access on restart.
A patch is scheduled for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC
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https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-018/
https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5
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People in the US are like "save our democracy!" but people around the world suffer for our democracy, killed and oppressed because some imperial core constituency wants something.
RE: https://podcastindex.social/@steven/117475936422223299
#api Heads up, if Podcast Index api goes down at 9:00 am central time you'll know why. Will know more when the announcement hits.
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TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link.
I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.
I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.
This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.
Why not have the users fetch the previews themselves, the user’s browser, that is.
there's a ritual from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that's called the 'Bornless Ritual' and it takes 6 months to complete
@albertcardona @guenther no version is safe, for now...
Fix will be released 14:00 UTC, so 12 minutes from now.
IT'S TIME TO PATCH https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5
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TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link.
I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.
I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.
This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.
My mother wants me to eat ALL THE TIME. She offers me something, I tell her I don’t want it and she says “YES YOU DO WANT IT" and forces me to eat it
don’t mind me, just waiting for the espresso machine to heat up
staring
longingly
and sighing
heavily
My mother wants me to eat ALL THE TIME. She offers me something, I tell her I don’t want it and she says “YES YOU DO WANT IT" and forces me to eat it
instructions unclear, upgraded my servers to #php 4
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