Expect quite a few sites to return error pages toay and possibly through the week. Here's my piece on the new PHP zero-day that affects about 70 percent of the Internet. We'll be updating the story with important new developments.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/widespread-php-flaw-may-cause-many-site-outages-today/
A few secondary services eg: wiki.osm.org and supporting.osm.org are currently offline for the next few hours due to a critical #PHP security vulnerability. The PHP security fix is expected to be released later today. Sorry for the disruption.
UPDATE 1: wiki.osm.org is up and running again. Other services will return later.
UPDATE 2: all services are now back up and running.
Short impromptu blog about how I started with #OpenStreetMap and that took me down a path that got me writing code for @CoMaps .
Anyone can now edit FediDB by logging in with their fediverse account!
FediDB is now a Fediverse Wiki, someone already added the GotoSocial logo to the software listing!
This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them.
I needed a diagram.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/crypto-law-trump-tether-bo-hines-45bcd95d
Because of the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Bill in the uk, fediverse admins globally now have to get a license to be able to be connectable from the uk.
This is the bill: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4285
Please not that it says operating in the uk not operating from the uk, so it applies globally.
To get a license:
- You have to send snail mail to ofcom to get a license
- Employ a compliance team
- Keep all your logs
- Ensure that content made available does not
"incite criminal conduct, violence, hatred or public disorder." Whatever the fuck that means, it's so vague you can make that anything
- Ensure that content made available does not violate the laws of the uk... So you have to follow uk law outside of the uk now
- Ensure that there isn't misinformation, so I would just not have to post misinformation on my lemmy instance then? Or is that not enough for them? I can't remove stuff on other instances you fucking morons
- You have to dox all your users
The punishment for breaking any of these rules is as follows:
- An unlimited fine
- Up to two years of jail time
- A court order to have ISPs block you(fucking horrible my lemmy instance is in my wardrobe I don't want my internet cut off)
- And anything else the court " considers appropriate." Which is anything so just anything else
#fediadmin #fediverse #fuckwestminster #uk #authoritarianism #censorship #ofcom
"Capitalism is broken" is a cliche, but really, in every quarter from hardware to software, companies keep changing products and the customers/users say "we hate this" and the people in charge say "we know, but we're doing it anyway"
That's not how this is supposed to work.
This attitude is everywhere now, even in open source software.
Turns out AI can cause more problems than it solves. Cleaning up AI slop is one issue. 36% of AI execs at companies with $1B+ in annual rev reported an AI incident that led to data loss, financial damage, brand damage or operational disruptions. Major companies are now limiting employee AI usage. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/ai-companies-rushed-workers-fallout
Also, when they happen between faculty, these conversations uniformly begin from the premise that all students are using LLMs to extrude their work. Of course, this isn't true - we all work with students who are as horrified by our societal surrender to slop as any of us. And I know that at least some of them feel betrayed by faculty who assume they're all cheating.
So, please, colleagues, try not to be shitty. And maybe the next time you find yourself in one of these meetings, especially if students are present, consider making the point that many students are trying hard to learn the skills we have long taught, even those that genAI is programed to simulate.
Forget billionaire algorithms, use RSS. Most sites have them.
Both the Thimbleweed Park Blog and Grumpy Gamer do. Full text feeds.
I've been using and serving RSS since 2005.
All the cool kids are doing it.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117445755203041743
I used to volunteer at (& very, very briefly was an executive director of) a nonprofit whose mission was to help girls & trans youth get into programming.
We were all-in on Apple products. We taught them Swift & used Xcode on MacBooks. The kids made iPhone games.
We gave demos on campus at Apple. Tim Cook shouted out the organization by name on stage.
Apple never gave us a single dollar. Not even an Apple Pencil or iPod touch.
But they spent $25,000,000 to kiss the ass of a wannabe dictator.
Do you swear to boost the toot, the whole toot, and nothing but the toot, so help you John Mastodon?
For a while back there I thought the best way to grow the #Fediverse was to get a few "celebrities" with 10 Million followers to join, and we could grow that way, but that's obviously a bad idea in hindsight.
We need to get 10 Million small communities, special niche interests, unique hobbies, philosophies, fan clubs to join us here.
If the nice celebrities want to join that's fine too.
#activitypub #mastodon
There's a browser-based app for collecting addresses for #OpenStreetMap
These companies are responsible for setting up much of Southeast Asia ablaze.
BlueSky announcing their pivot to AI vibe code slop, not via BlueSky but X, was on my bingo card.
