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Internet Citizen. Software & Wine Craftsman. Digital Entrepreneur. Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam.

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Joined August 2009
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I did more development in the past few months using Claude Code mobile app than via CLI. Majority of my work starts on a phone… analysis, brainstorming, etc… then agent does the execution on a VPS or Cloud Container and I check results on my laptop.
It is insane to me that there are still devs using terminals to prompt their agents
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Cancelling my X premium subscription. I don't find a value in it. Having an ads free experience is nice, but let's try using X as a normie again.
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New credit card just came in from eMudhra Bank, finally I don't have to memorize 16 random digits to buy things online!
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Otar Chekurishvili retweeted
> woke up to take a pee > critical ruby vulnerability announced > patching at 2am this is life now.
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I miss software where you downloaded a program, double-clicked the installer, and that was the end of it. No account. No workspace. No onboarding questionnaire. No monthly subscription. Just an application that did whatever you downloaded it to do.
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What if russia occupied 20% of your country?
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Otar Chekurishvili retweeted
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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PHP devs with patched security when other tech(s) gets RCE CVEs.
Not being responsible for any PHP software
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I previously donated $2,500 to the PHP Foundation and will donate again now. I owe my career to PHP.
We have posted more information about today's security releases, including the sequence of events that led to the discovery, how the PHP security team is improving their processes, and what we need from you to continue this critical work. #php #security thephp.foundation/blog/2026/…
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Idiots, idiots everywhere.
This is not a dunk, but please stop using PHP, when you can. The language wasn't designed in the era of a secure internet. RCEs are more likely when you have a language that mixes client and server in one file, with string templating hazards and inherent escaping issues.
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No words can describe the gratitude I feel towards CloudFlare.
The Cloudflare's writeup on our php2shell response is up. Rules went live at 03:02 UTC, about 9 hours before disclosure. Unfortunately the vulnerability leaked early, so we were already watching attackers mutate payloads against the rules and updating as variants appeared. New rules keep landing in the WAF changelog. Expect updates through out the day. We will have a more thorough post of what we had to build to better protect people coming shortly. PHP runs almost 70% of websites. The flaw is in the runtime, so updating plugins won't fix it. Patch PHP. blog.cloudflare.com/php-vuln…
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Otar Chekurishvili retweeted
One-click mitigation for php2shell vulnerability: If you have Cloudflare in front of your PHP website, please login to the dashboard and click this button to make sure you are protected. dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:ac… This reduces your risk but doesn't fix the vulnerabilities in PHP. We recommend updating PHP to a patched version.
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The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
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php2shell Tomorrow is a helluva day.
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The EU should really prioritise building AWS and Google Cloud alternatives with European values. > ssh root@eu-cloud We value your privacy. We and our 847 partners track your network packets. [Accept all] [Manage preferences] neowin.net/news/google-cloud…
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How I feel when I run AI coding agents for multiple projects at the same time...
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Silly I once used to think that this man was a good US presidential candidate. 🤦‍♂️
We can no longer tolerate a rigged economy that has enabled one man to become a trillionaire while the U.S. minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25/hour for 17 years. When Democrats regain control of Congress we must raise the minimum wage to at least $20 an hour. No more excuses.
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