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The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It tak…

"This issue is not specific to the Wikimedia Foundation, but affects any website running PHP. This is a significant internet security vulnerability that many organizations are responding to right now.
We are working to avoid downtime for our wikis, but we have deliberately taken many of our supporting services offline until they can be safely patched."
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Impact of PHP vulnerabilities on Wikimedia tools and services
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently preparing for two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that underpins much of what we operate today. These vulnerabilities are se…

Oh ffs, Python's certificate storage is more fucked up; If you think your updated ca-certificates were enough, nope, still fucked:
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsig…

Information for Python users regarding eMudhra / emSign CA certificate security incident
A security incident affecting eMudhra intermediate certificates has required removing the emSign root CA certificate from CA bundles such as “certifi”. It’s important to immediately upgrade the software packages below to at least the versions specified and rebuild container images to fetch the latest system certificates. Failure to do so could result in monster-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against TLS clients, including python.org and pypi.org . certifi 2026.10.19 (1) pip 26.2.2 uv 0.13…

Things I hate about our #ERP system in no particular order
- when you add a row to a grid element and you change a value in some cell in that row that causes the row to move up/down in the grid, you lose input focus; wouldn't be a big deal unless adding a new row is always at the bottom and you may want to specify that row goes in between two existing rows and you're doing rapid entry with the …

AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo https://www.404media.co/ai-company-lets-cops-pinpoint-specific-houses-based-on-a-single-interior-photo/

@… I used to have a whole bunch but that was before there were ongoing costs involved. Now I have 5. My real number and four others provided by flextel. Some of this is about maintaining 'precense' in the UK, some for specific purposes.
Others about protecting my real number. For example, for extended family related reasons I have to maintain a Wh…

Made a #homeManager module to set #XFCE keyboard shortcuts. Simple, you might think, just set some xfconf.settings, right? Wrong, not enough! Apparently, XFCE can only ever have a *single* keyboard shortcut perform one specific action (such as window tiling operations), so you need to comb through the …

⌨️ Introduce xfce.keyboardShortcuts (e457f5db) · Commits · Yann Büchau / ❄️ yannix · GitLab
Including removal of other keyboard shortcuts that launch actions we want to set, because apparently XFCE can only ever have a single keyboard shortcut do one specific action 🤪

From Daily Hive
David Eby's BC NDP commit $250 million toward TransLink's new Bus Rapid Transit line in Surrey
In its second public transit-related platform announcement this week, the BC NDP have made a specific promise to fulfill TransLink’s first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project — the King George Boulevard BRT line between SkyTrain’s Surrey Central Station and Semiahmoo Town Centre in South Surrey, which would effectively also reach White Rock.
Today, BC NDP leade…

Pushed up some new examples on how to use intrastate for declaring/managing state transitions
https://github.com/cwensel/intrastate/blob/main/docs/examples.md
Of specific interest is using it to read and update "state" in a markdown document. For e…

Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice https://www.404media.co/police-say-scammers-used-ai-to-clone-a-sheriffs-voice/