PHPocalypse?

Having a separate event about #DEI in #FOSS would miss the point, or - worse - would reinforce the notion that DEI is an extra, a bolt-on, rather than something which should be fundamental in healthy communities.

Three amazing women were offering to do the work for this, and yet... no.

@ellis PHP 4 isn’t affected!

Motherfuckers over here trying to get the French version of No King's Protests.

Similarity search and SPARQL in one engine is the bit that matters for entity work. Find candidates by embedding, then confirm identity against the graph in the same query, instead of shuttling IDs between a vector store and a triple store and hoping they still agree.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

This is a real shame - a dedicated track for DEI in FOSS would have been an amazing opportunity.

I do kinda like this shared waiting for the PHP thing to drop. Kinda like Christmas.

Lol

Y'a des pannes chez Orange et des trucs de faille PHP, les hordes de chez LFI sabotent vraiment tout

Here we go, update now

https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5

Much of the resistance to #DEI initiatives seems to come from people who are offended by the suggestion that they're against DEI when they simply feel diversity is normal and should happen organically, and so don't see the need to change their stance.

The point of #DEI is to create awareness of the fact that a situation, in which you may already be welcoming to diversity, is not in fact diverse. Doesn't mean there's evil intent. Does mean something isn't working well.

I don't think we can shame #FOSDEM enough for not accepting the #DEI devroom. https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

Russia resumes shipping diesel to Turkey and Brazil. The tankers carry 300,000-barrel diesel cargoes each.

The volumes of Russian diesel export, which Trump agreed to, are modest, but can be scaled up to 3.5 million tons per month.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-diesel-returns-familiar-destinations-following-export-ban-lift-shipping-2026-10-20/

@dickenhobelix du hast dich vertippt, das muss
"Eins - hahaha, zwei - mahahahaha, drei - eMuhahahadhra, vier..."
heißen. 😂

#eMudhra

@gedvondur maybe - is a little cringe, but it's more like staring into a nuclear furnace of narcissism and deceit.

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.

Don't worry people, I'm making a patch
#embroidery #php