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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Happy 25th anniversary, Windows XP!

(Also, happy 25th to this cursed photo)

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@arusha i've bought things from Germany before on eBay and shipping wasn't too expensive, so if you're willing to find a shipping estimate I'd at least like to know how much it would come to so i could make an offer :)

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@arusha if it helps your decision any I'm also actively developing new widgets and repairing chumbys!

forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php
forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php

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@arusha YES! I'm interested! I'm in the UK currently in possession of 3 chumbys and an active Blue Octy subscription, would love to add one to the fleet!

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there should be a service cheaper than renting a vps where you can rent a static IP address and join a VPN with a server (or otherwise get traffic forwarded) so you can host things locally in your own connection for those with internet access that blocks hosting traffic or doesn't offer an IP that isn't CGNATted

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@suricrasia like, yeah, entirely with you. if it wasn't for limitations of IP and greedy ISPs blocking traffic you wouldn't need to hunt for a cheap VPS or otherwise to host a website, you could just stuff an old PC in a closet. this is something that has been radiation background in my mind for ages and you brought it forwards

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@suricrasia "you can have your own IP to host from but only if it's this new version almost nobody can connect to" is certainly a choice

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blackle mori

network address translators were the beginning of the end of the internet. almost every cool decentralized technology would've been 1000% easier if we didn't have NATs on every residential connection to the internet.

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current mood: forums.transbian.love/?page=po

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check it out: forums.transbian.love/

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do you think they'll have to cremate joanne rowling because of the amount of people who would vandalise her grave

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name for 4 bits (half a byte)

60 people · Oct 25, 2026, 10:06
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"polymath" feels like one of those descriptors you would be too pretentions to give yourself rather than it being given to you

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name for 4 bits (half a byte)

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Terence Eden

This seems like a good explainer of the issue.
eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

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@suricrasia perish the thought of Ubuntu boxen where the easiest way to get up to date PHP is one single guy's PPA

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@gloriouscow car park

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David Hembrow

So today some of the worst people on earth using the most environmentally destructive tools on earth brought down a huge part of the internet by exploiting a potential problem found many years ago in PHP which was previously not practical for anyone to exploit.

It only became "practical" to exploit this problem because "AI" came along to automate the boring and repetitive work required to do so. Absurd amounts of computing power were applied specifically to break into other peoples' websites.

Now the same people who are behind this are trying to pretend that they're heroes for finding an exploit.

"AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities", their headline reads. But the vulnerability was only made to be critical by the very same people as hide behind that headline.

Many thousands of websites are offline, many people are losing money, many thousands of people are working hard to try to patch or work around the problem, many small guys are finding it almost impossible to patch, and we're all supposed to be thankful to OpenAI and others involved ? Nah. Fuck off.

Everything about "AI" involves a lot of externalized costs, but I've still yet to see even a single positive thing that has been achieved by "AI". That has definitely not changed today.
#php2shell #php #fuckai #openai

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:new_l: new! :new_r: vivi

metaphors for explaining the current situation to non-tech-savvy people:

  • the big safe in your local bank turns out to have a combination luggage lock that’s guarding everything inside it
  • two of the three digits on that lock is jammed
  • the third digit is 4

meanwhile that is happening,

  • landlines can catch fire now out of nowhere
  • and the phone company is only updating recently made landlines.
  • this is making many landline owners to unplug their phones so they don’t catch fire
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in the span of less than a year the words "reverse engineered" lost all meaning

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