If You Can Afford to Send Katy Perry to Space — artist unknown in London, UK 🇬🇧

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/04/20/street-messages-that-hit-harder-than-headlines-political-graffiti-edition/

#StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

Because eMudhra is in the news, I am sharing a screenshot of a footer of an email I once received from them in reply to my query about my PAN card (a government-issued tax identity and card). #eMudhra

PHP Foundation’s budget is about 700k a year. It’s used on something like 40 million websites. Almost no company who uses it contributes anything and many people work on it for free.

The latest trend is cybersecurity and AI vendors have realised they can vampire off its security for publicity (money).

Perhaps the world would be a better place if those orgs who rely on it just contributed sponsorship to the foundation, and vendors didn’t monetise vulnerabilities for themselves.

The stunning moment when an osprey emerges from the ocean clawed onto its prey, a barracuda

[📹 Mark Smith]

Panicked for a sec...
...before I realised that Traitors started at 19:00 UTC.

Thought we had Yet Another Cyber Meltdown

(this is log lines in, BTW - not egress)

Dang, turns out that banhammer on a single IP in France was 75% of the traffic from the entire country.

1 IP @ 75%.

It was 100% malicious, spoofing user-agent and sec-ch-ua* - i know this because it had the same JA4 fingerprint and an even spread of requests per user-agent over the same areas of our website.

If you're gonna be *that* much of prick, at least be a *bit* less obvious.

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

If you were wondering why Musk has spent more than $366 million to help Republicans keep the Senate and the House, look no further: He is dead scared that his crimes will be investigated.

His response to the news that Democrats will also investigate his throttling of Ukrainian Starlink access on top of everything DOGE is: “Live by the sword, die by the sword [I will] come for them”.

Threatening lawmakers with retribution if they investigate your crimes would work in Russia. Not in the US.

press 4 to pay respects

https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/82503e00-335c-49dc-b022-f4633a08b642.pdf

I am really starting to wonder if we are living in a simulation

https://www.theverge.com/policy/1016751/trump-rename-atlantic-ocean-sundar-pichai-google

I’ve seen some interesting takes on the PHP thing out of the US.

One is from an official saying the US must win the ‘AI race’ as China definitely wouldn’t have told the world about the vulnerability like the NSA did.

The NSA were late to the party, literally days after me. They were also beat by.. Chinese government cyber authorities, who already had an advisory out.

"If the California Wealth Tax passes, billionaires will leave California!"

Hey, man... I'm already voting yes. No need to sweeten the pot.

Everything we (via/in our team) took offline is now updated, tested and back online.

Was a bit over 24 hours and there's ongoing, detailed testing in progress to validate 100% but I think that's pretty good from a standing start and especially given that one of the teams had only just taken over management of the site and it was on PHP 7.3 (which did not receive the "basic backport" fixes).

The "h" in "php" is an upside down "4". Coincidence? I think not. :catte:

Yes it is, it's the magic number.

The sirens on emergency vehicles should work aa vocoders so drivers can turn their voices into sirens. There's absolutely no good or practical reason why but it would be funny.

We're in the process of bringing the sections of our website back online which we took down yesterday owing to the PHP vulns.

Hoping to get the last few major ones back online today which is good news as one of them is used for voting in Strictly!

11:15, one meeting down, research done, banhammer executed.

I’d like to take a minute to thank all the volunteer maintainers of FOSS projects and infrastructure. You keep our digital world afloat and you’re not getting the recognition or renumeration you deserve.

I’ve put together a few snacks, please take one of your choosing as a token of my thanks.

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[Update: Oh this is popular, let me stock up, there is enough for everybody]

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