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#linux #geek #hamradio (ON1GPS, ex ON3GPS) #sysadmin likes to rant (my own personal views, yada yada) I'm not perfect either.. lot of anger against polictics

Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Joined June 2007
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For those running older PHP versions, either switch to packages.sury.org or ppa:ondrej/php's, those all have backported fixes for those old versions
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🚨 BREAKING: Node.js just dropped its OWN security bombshell. 4 HIGH-SEVERITY vulnerabilities patched TODAY, including one that could let hackers remotely execute malicious code on vulnerable servers. → 10 SECURITY FLAWS were addressed in today's Node.js release, FOUR rated HIGH severity. → REMOTE CODE EXECUTION: CVE-2026-111497 is a serious flaw in Node.js's Brotli decoder that could allow attackers to execute malicious code remotely. → TLS SECURITY BYPASS: Two separate vulnerabilities could trick affected applications into accepting certificates for the WRONG server under certain conditions. → Think about that. Your application could establish an encrypted connection while failing to properly verify WHO it's talking to. → THREE MAJOR NODE.JS VERSIONS AFFECTED: Node.js 22, 24 and 26 all required emergency security updates. → RUNNING NODE.JS 18 OR 20? Those versions are END-OF-LIFE and aren't receiving these official security patches. → PATCH IMMEDIATELY: Update to Node.js 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1, depending on your release line. If you're using Docker, rebuild and redeploy your containers. PHP AND Node.js both facing major security disclosures on the SAME DAY. If you run a website or application, TODAY is the day to check your servers. And remember: the public release of security patches can give attackers a roadmap to systems that haven't updated. Don't be the last one to patch.
🚨 A MASSIVE internet security emergency is unfolding right now. 🚨 Two CRITICAL vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, potentially putting millions of websites at risk. → NEARLY 70% of websites with a known server-side language run PHP. The potential scale is ENORMOUS. → TWO CRITICAL security flaws have been confirmed, each scoring 9.2/10 in severity. → Attackers could potentially take control of vulnerable servers remotely, without authentication. → Reports suggest PHP versions dating back to 2004 could be affected. The exact scope is still unconfirmed. → EMERGENCY PATCHES are scheduled for TOMORROW at 10 AM ET. Website owners are being urged to prepare immediately. → Europe's CERT-EU is warning organizations to patch ASAP or consider TAKING EXPOSED APPLICATIONS OFFLINE if they cannot be secured. → WordPress, Magento, Laravel and potentially millions of other PHP-powered websites could be at risk. → Once patches go public, hackers could reverse-engineer them and race to attack servers that haven't updated. The vulnerabilities are CONFIRMED. The full technical details remain secret. Tomorrow, the race between hackers and defenders begins. This could get ugly. FAST.
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Not just PHP. Node.js has also announced security releases for October 21, with HIGH-severity vulnerabilities affecting its 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines. If you run either stack in production, keep an eye on official advisories and apply patches promptly. Security maintenance doesn't stop at your application code. Your runtime matters too. Node.js advisory: nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi…
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Now that the Villager News Add-on has released I can finally share this horror I made whilst working on their lipsync 😭
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Guys, this is big! Check out our brand new VILLAGER NEWS ADD-ON! We worked with the amazing and super talented @OrevilleStudios to bring your Minecraft worlds to life! 👀TRAILER :
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Linus Torvalds just fixed a Linux kernel bug that AI told him was impossible to solve. Torvalds rarely writes kernel patches himself anymore. This time he did. The bug lived in the Intel Xe graphics driver. On certain hardware it caused the display manager to endlessly restart, over and over. He called in AI to help track it down. In his own words: "This was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work." Then came the twist. "The AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it." He did not accept that answer. "I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am." He kept pushing. The AI kept working, adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully every time he pushed back. 24 patches. 18 kernel boots. The actual fix, once they finally found it, was one line. A "round_up()" that needed to be a "round_down()." Torvalds gave the AI credit and let it write the final commit message itself. Even AI is not allowed to give up around Linus Torvalds. Source: phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torv…
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Når du trodde EU ikke kunne bli verre.. joda det blir verre for alle. Nå må alle som selger noe til et land i EU betale for innpakningen av varer de sender. Det gjelder uansett hvor liten business du har. Hvis du ikke følger den nylig innførte loven så risikerer du selvsagt heftige bøter. You gotta love EU 🤡
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A slot antenna is a hole that radiates. Cut a narrow rectangle out of a large conducting sheet and feed it across the short dimension. The radiation pattern looks almost exactly like a dipole of the same shape, except E and H are interchanged and the polarization is rotated 90°. This is Babinet’s principle (optics to antennas via Booker, 1946). Take any thin conducting screen and its exact complement (metal where there was free space, free space where there was metal). Illuminate both with the same wave. The fields they produce, E₁ and E₂, must satisfy: E₁ + E₂ = E₀ where E₀ is the field that would exist with no screen at all. In the geometric shadow the two diffracted fields are equal in amplitude and opposite in phase. Everywhere else they add to the unobstructed wave. That’s why a slot and its complementary strip dipole are duals: the hole and the cover together recreate free space. Their impedances are locked by Z_slot · Z_dipole = (η/2)² (~35 000 Ω²). A 73 Ω half-wave dipole becomes a ~480 Ω slot. The metal isn’t doing the radiating. The absence of metal is. And the sum of the structure and its hole is required to be nothing more exotic than ordinary free-space propagation. Nature’s neatest antenna trick: the thing you remove is just as important as the thing you leave.
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I just saw $1.5 trillion on my AWS bill and my soul left my body
📣 Service Update: AWS Billing Console We are investigating issues with Cost Explorer reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data. 📊 Track status: go.aws/aws-hd #AWS #AWSSupport
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🚨 Calling all VFX Artists! 🚨 We're looking for talented VFX/Technical Artists who can bridge the gap between art and development! If you're a Molang wizard with strong experience in particles, flipbook textures, render controllers, materials, and other Minecraft Bedrock visual systems, we'd love to hear from you! Apply here: careers.orevillestudios.com/… Applicants must be 18+.
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🚨 EVERY EUROPEAN NEEDS TO KNOW THIS: The European Union is turning into an anti-democratic surveillance apparatus. In March, the European Parliament REJECTED the extension of “Chat Control.” So what did Brussels do? While everybody is distracted from the World Cup, they furtively brought it back through a rarely used procedure and are trying again. The goal is to allow private communications to be scanned under a derogation from normal ePrivacy protections. They’ll have access to your private messages and your photos. And, as always, mass surveillance is being sold to you under the banner of “safety.” The EU bureaucrats do not trust you. They urgently want the infrastructure to surveil you. And when its own Parliament votes the wrong way, the bureaucratic and anti-democratic machine simply finds another procedure and tries again. The European Union is not protecting democracy. It is becoming its enemy. And almost all CONSERVATIVES members of the parliament voted in favor of this Orwellian plan. And now imagine a combination of governmental surveillance AND Palantir. SCARY!!!! SHARE THIS. Europeans deserve to know what Brussels is doing to their privacy.
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🇩🇪🚨 Krass: Nächste Woche, wenn viele Abgeordnete schon im Urlaub sind, sollen #Chatkontrolle 1.0-Massenscans per 3. Votum heimlich wieder beschlossen werden! 🕵️‍♂️ Infos: heise.de/-11349737 Stopp den Coup & warne die Abgeordneten JETZT: fightchatcontrol.de ✍️
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Chaos Cubed World Download! ⚽🏀🏒 Step into the sports-themed world from the 1.11 trailer, now available to download for free! 12 ready to go casual mini games to play with your friends, and cause plenty of cube-shaped chaos! FREE Download: orevillestudios.com/actions-…
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And after voting that out too... 🇪🇺 ChatControl is back with a vengeance The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote TODAY (March 26) seeking to reverse the European Parliament's NO on indiscriminate scanning of ALL your private messages, emails and photos This is a direct attack on democracy and blatant disregard for your right to privacy If you're European contact your representatives now, with this handy form: fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar… If not, please share this tweet so more people see it and we can block the vote It's crazy they keep just bringing back whatever they want until it's passed! Obviously now we see the European Commission is controlled by powerful evil lobbying groups 👺
Just a month later and... 🇪🇺 ChatControl is back! Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes The new proposal: - total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU - obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account - minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!) The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it Read more here by @echo_pbreyer: patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-co…
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The article shows a proof-of-concept where DOOM is stored across ~2,000 DNS TXT records and executed directly from memory. A PowerShell loader reconstructs the binary via DNS queries, illustrating how DNS can act as a covert payload delivery system. core-jmp.org/2026/03/can-it-…
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I thought I was the only one getting these random Minecraft invites from lenaaaaa. Turns out a bunch of people are getting them 😭
ガチで誰か知らんのやけど朝の四時にマイクラ招待してくるの普通にうざいからやめてくれんか?
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Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week. These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.
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🇪🇺Misleading headlines: #ChatControl is not dead, it is being privatized! 🚨 EU governments voted today for: 🔍 Warrantless mass surveillance 🆔 Mandatory ID for everyone (End of anonymity) 🚫 Digital house arrest for teens The fight continues! 👇 patrick-breyer.de/en/reality…
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