Well, it looks like I've committed to playing this on the wettest imaginable weekend. Wish me luck!
#note #game #boardGames #games #london #jetLag #hideAndSeek #transport #publicTransport #underground #london #rain #weather
I'm kinda sad that the PHP vulnerability happened when it happened, or that it was as big as it was. Because it kinda overshadowed the eMudhra certificate f-up, which is a much more interesting security incident if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong; all security incidents are important and interesting, and I wish that none of this had happened and I'm sending virtual support hugs to everyone managing this. But you have to admit that the PHP vuln was a... pretty standard one. Some old C code that had a bug in memory management, nobody noticed, then it was discovered with AI. Tale as old as time (given time = 1–2 years); almost every project has to deal with stuff like this.
Whereas the eMudhra certificate story is incredibly curious. An HSM producing single-byte private keys? Mozilla "detecting" it, causing legitimate keys to be rolled back? Sudden realization that every other piece of software vendors and bundles CA roots? How fun is that!?
Today's #WeirdWebOctober prompt is #Skeletons (just in time for #Halloween!) and I'm unusually-proud of the stupid thing I built for it. Take a look:
(tech: #HTML, #CSS, #JS, #SVG, #Websockets; entire thing #openSource under the #Unlicense)
The PHP #security issue shows once again how much our society relies on mostly volunteer work.
Look at PHP Foundation @thephpf finances:
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET
- Reimbursed $67K on development work this year
- Received: $642,755 last year
Compare these numbers with the amounts companies have made with products & services built upon #PHP. Our digital foundations are built on the backs of #opensource volunteers. Governments & companies need to invest in our common digital infrastructures.
🥪 To assist Crisp Sandwich Day celebrations on Sunday, we’re happy to send 🥔lots of bags of crisps🥔 to anyone who promises to spread the word & share the crisps, DM us if interested
(UK only & limited numbers, we’re not made of money y’know)
https://vole.wtf/crisp-sandwich-day/
@nleanba@tech.lgbt I really loved your #WeirdWebOctober contribution for "Branching" today! I'd had a similar idea myself but didn't have time to make it a reality.
I’ve been telling people for years that they shouldn’t feel bad about blocking ads as it’s a basic security & privacy measure. Ad networks & publishers have shown no interest in sorting out the free-for-all so users have to protect themselves https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation-of-zero-click-spyware-researchers-say
I continue to fight to make BBC News' RSS feeds not-suck, despite ongoing efforts to dilute their value by the BBC themselves.
Last month they started injecting ads for their email newsletter-based subscription option into their RSS feed. But I don't need email: I have RSS! The ad initially slipped through the filters because it looks like the URL of a news article: sneaky move, BBC!
Anyway; it's fixed now and these newsletter ads should no longer appear in the feeds available on https://bbc-feeds.danq.dev - hurrah!
#note #bbc #news #bbcNewsRssProxy #rss #adBlockers #advertising
Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/10/14/stripping-sign-up-now-ads-from-bbc-news-feeds/
#weirdWebOctober day 14, and I've folded some paper in love of the Weird World Wide #Web: https://origami.danq.dev
Accompanying blog post: https://danq.me/origami
Apparently we’re having some “Twitter is still good” discourse.
You’re welcome to have that discourse on there instead, with all of the Nazi, white supremacist, antisemitic, misogynists, and bots who would happily agree with you.
We’re good over here buddy
Last time I made a dental insurance claim, Aviva insisted on sending me a cheque. So I asked them via live chat if I could claim via bank transfer. Yes, they say, although apparently I have to ask every time because "they can't store bank details". Sigh. Fine. At least they'll pay this one by bank transfer.
Except a few days later they emailed to say they'd lost my bank details and could I provide them again. They asked me to add it to my claim, but their website won't let me do that because the claim is already agreed to pay-out. So now my claim's stuck in limbo.
Back into live chat I go. I give all the details and we're getting there but then... I suddenly get cut off from the human and I'm back with the robot.
The robot says live chat closed at 6:30pm so I'll need to come back tomorrow.
But it's only 5:45pm.
Is the whole world going mad, or is it just me?
I just wrote about how good open weight models like GLM-5.3 are these days, and how you really don't need ChatGPT or Claude at all anymore, even for complex agentic stuff https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/
These kinds of emoji changes are always fascinating to me from a textual preservation context. The tone of a message changes if you change the appearance of emoji characters - is the presentation of an archived messaging using something like this using the original visual context? The present day context?
The hairy heart was platform specific, but there are other changes like the gun emoji turning into a squirt gun - what does a message look like if you render it with a contemporary font?
RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/post/3mxl5mahatc22
RIP hairy heart emoji (2013-2013)
Ruth and I stopped at Hanley Swan for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attracted a large flock of ducks from the little duck houses on the village's adorable duck pond.
But better yet: I managed to catalogue like eleven memorial benches around the pond and the village green, all previously unknown to OpenBenches (@openbenches): #46341, #46342, #46343, #46344, #46345, #46346, #46347, #46348, #46349, #46351, #46352!
The bed in my hotel room tonight is made up for not one, not two, but three occupants. Did they... see me and instantly clock me as polyamorous?
