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After a long day playing my fake iPhone Duo accordion, I like to unwind with a fake grilled cheese sandwich made on my fake Duo panini press and have a cold fake beer from my fake Duo fridge. Then listen to my fake Walkman and play a little fake soccer and fake Battleship. All on a very real $2,000 phone.
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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I thought Germany and German bureaucracy cannot shock me anymore, but it did.
I parked my TESLA (!) on an EV-only parking spot in @Konstanz and plugged it into an EV charger. Came back to this fine. Had to use Grok to even understand what was wrong. Turns out you need to have a special EV licence or an EV sticker to indicate it is a real EV. Guess the Tesla logo and charging cable was not enough.
@levelsio @ffaebi @eurofounder
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Someone actually made a game called Flappy Link, inspired by how low the Embraer jets flew over DHL Stadium in Cape Town.
The game challenges you to see how low you can fly an Embraer jet over the stadium.
Just tap your screen or hit the spacebar on your laptop, just like in the old Flappy Bird game.
Attach a screenshot of how low you managed to fly.
Here's the link to the game in the first comment.
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I went through the entire archive from the Artemis Il mission to create timelapses of many scenes experienced by the astronauts.
Many of these views are firsts of their kind.
While this was a ton of work, I see it as practice, as one day I plan on capturing these images myself.
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✈️ One of the craziest landings I’ve ever seen
The aircraft fights its way towards the runway in strong crosswinds, touching down on the right main gear first, then the left. The landing doesn’t look right, and the crew immediately decides to go around.
Then, just after liftoff, another powerful gust hits the aircraft, pushing it sideways and making it turn. That’s just how unpredictable strong winds can be around an airport. One second you’re landing, the next you’re climbing away and fighting to keep the aircraft under control.
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Engine sound in the video stays completely constant... no power increase at all, just a steady cruise note the whole way. 🤔
Cabin view from VN-A867 during the Munich takeoff yesterday. Vietnam Airlines 787-9 VN34, 15 Aug
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Got sick of Deutsche Bahn delays, so I built DelayBahn.
It uses historical train delay data to answer the questions that matter:
- How late is this train usually?
- Is there a more reliable alternative?
- Is that 7-min transfer actually realistic?
delaybahn.com
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My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".
I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.
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The partially eclipsed sun melts into the Mediterranean Sea.
I can’t get over this experience.
I captured thousands of photos- I’ll be sharing my favorite later tonight.
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So yeah that total solar eclipse was once again the coolest thing I've ever seen. This time we managed to shoot an entire video and podcast episode DURING the totality. That's coming soon! In the meantime, enjoy this drone clip from above Zaragoza, Spain. 8x speed
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Meanwhile at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport two passengers who had missed their flight ran onto the tarmac on July 25 and walked directly toward an Aeroflot aircraft in an attempt to board, with one woman dragging a suitcase behind her.
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5 trains impactés (ils ont du rouler lentement, donc des retards importants) tout ça pour faire le zouave et faire rire la galerie
La police l'a arrêté, les CFF ont son identité et il a désormais le service juridique des CFF sur le dos : ça va coûter très très cher 🤑🤑
