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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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The SR-71 Blackbird had a speed limit … it was so powerful that could fly above its own limits, and literally melt its own tail from the heat. The pilots would not typically go full throttle.
I feel like we have a speed limit with software development as well. Above a certain speed and you’ll melt your own tail.
We used to never encounter this when we were flying prop planes (hand coding, to stretch this analogy even further), because dev was just so slow and painful that it gave all kinds of time to keep up on all other fronts.
But now it’s easy to just go full throttle and leave behind architecture, product, QA, and your own understanding of what’s going on.
I think those who will ship great software in the future will know where to set the throttle and stay under the speed limit.
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One of my first saas projects in 2021 needed a "sort by column" option on the html tables
But the UI library we used didn't support it, so I built a custom implementation
I remember spending 2 or 3 weeks working on this
Fable 5.1 could probably solve this in 5 minutes for under $1 in tokens
It scares me how fast this field has changed
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This is how West Ardougne is predicted to look like in about 8 months if we keep up the amount of AI-Usage. Worried yet?
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JOSEDEODO IS ONE OF THE BEST LEE SINS IN THE WORLD.
WHAT AN ABSURD 1V9 PERFORMANCE!!!!
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