@rysiek isn't the whole "I can run an independent OS" also hinged on the prerequisite that:

a) some "trusted" corpo has benevolently signed your first stage bootloader shim;

and/or

b) that your government allows hardware to be sold which can have Secure Boot disabled / allows arbitrary signing keys?

The way I see it, that we currently have all the prerequisites in place for some fascist government to say: "Hey, for security reasons, we will only allow devices to be sold that have enabled Secure Boot and ship our list of pre-approved Corpo and Government signing keys."

After that it would be a relatively small step to say:"Hey, for security reasons we can only allow your bootloader shim to be signed if you correctly implement our dystopian surveillance features :)"

@Angelo @gilesgoat oh yeah burnout of course. I believe some of the Burnout devs worked on it too.

@davidgerard I can't get verified by archive.org and don't have a subscription to FT, so can I just assume this is Musk peddling more sci fi bs to hide that Tesla is in trouble?

“Facebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for free – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/20/facebook-tries-to-grab-all-news-publisher-website-content-for-training-for-free/

Because of course they're trying

I propose declaring October 21 to henceforth be International Static Website Day.

#PHP

@davidgerard it's not only wordpress but PHP as a whole. Every PHP based application is kinda screwed right now until patches are shipped.

I just uploaded another video, and it shows up on my timeline just fine with the unpatched version of snac.

The issue on the peertube end was that I had not ran database migrations after a recent update, and that broke the HLS transcoding while the web-video transcoding still worked.

Perhaps those others that experience the issue have the same problem on the peertube server that the problematic videos originate from.

CC: @beelseal@snac.beelseal.com

there's a disingenuous argument i see go completely unchallenged all the time, which is "this <computer thing> deserves to be respected and celebrated, because it underpins the entire world and you wouldn't have {products, services, entertainment, electricity, food, etc} without it". like, we had supermarkets before SQL. we had maps before Google Maps. the world functioned successfully, it just wasn't on Computer. now it *needs* Computer, when it didn't before. strange to brag about that, really

@appsinet @dch well there is a huge CVE right now with the PHP. But the original post assumes PHP would be open to internet from opnsense, which is it not. The fact that BSD is doing the firewall and PHP is just the userinterface and automationt to configure it was misunderstood. Exposing the BSD to internet is not the same as PHP, which typically is not visible to internet. Like in any proper firewall, the control UI is not open to internet.

well that fucks my schedule https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/

remote hole in wordpress, release this afternoon

i need to get my new box up IMMEDIATELY then

fuckin

@bvibber from mediawiki posted that it was *that* bad, i'll take brooke's word for it