If I hear any politician ask citizens not to run the AC so much during this heat before asking AI companies or Crypto bros to hold off training/mining, I’m going to lose my shit. There is no reason for people to risk heat stroke

@slam @afilina

In the case of the PHP docs, docs for PHP 5.x and mentions of PHP 5.x were removed when PHP 8.0 came out. Anna helped with migrating those docs to a static location that others could benefit from. Just wanted to provide an example for Anna's original post.

@sarah I hope that you're able to find comfort and safety.

Your doctor called. They said you’re not getting enough beans in your online diet. Here, have a serving of pinks.

#Caturday

@ian @hightechredneck

Including a big whiteboard on a wall.

Other separate Vivaldi windows work fine. I'm able to post this from a separate window.

I switched to Vivaldi on my Linux laptop a month or two ago. It's been mostly fine, but occasionally I encounter a weird behavior. Tonight's weird behavior: I had a window with multiple tabs open for roughly a week, with my laptop mostly asleep for that time (but not always). The tab that it's opened on is frozen, and the UI for that window is frozen. It seems like I can ctrl-W tabs and they close, but that isn't reflected in the UI. I am not able to close the window from Pop!_OS's task bar. 🙃

I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it....

MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness Enumeration Program, will expire on April 16. The CVE database is critical for anyone doing vulnerability management or security research, and for a whole lot of other uses. There isn't really anyone else left who does this, and it's typically been work that is paid for and supported by the US government, which is a major consumer of this information, btw.

I reached out to MITRE, and they confirmed it is for real. Here is the contract, which is through the Department of Homeland Security, and has been renewed annually on the 16th or 17th of April.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ23FR0000015_7001_70RSAT20D00000001_7001

MITRE's CVE database is likely going offline tomorrow. They have told me that for now, historical CVE records will be available at GitHub, https://github.com/CVEProject

Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director at MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland, said:

“On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, funding for MITRE to develop, operate, and modernize the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program and related programs, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE™) Program, will expire. The government continues to make considerable efforts to support MITRE’s role in the program and MITRE remains committed to CVE as a global resource.”

was not able to find a person to credit for this, but price per pound of cars vs cheese everybody

Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

Best way to eat vegetables: hiding them in a bunch of pasta. Yummmmm.

I know a lot of you know @sarah, she's been part of our little PHP community for... God I don't know how long, at least 18 years back that I can remember (and I have old lady brain which doesn't remember things anymore).

The last little while has been pretty rough. Look out the window and imagine that's coming for you. She's doing her best, trying to keep afloat for herself and for her family, but your help would go a long way.

We're Stronger Together.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-sarahs-mental-health-recovery

I'm at a point where I don't need to use Paypal, so I should go through migrating any other service that charges to Paypal to something else, and look into closing the account, or at minimum, removing my bank account. This doesn't feel safe.

😑 Paypal, why do you allow a user to add *any* phone number to an account after they've logged in, without confirming that account owner wants that phone number added to their account? That's a security snafu.

I wasn't hacked, but I tried having it send a text to my google voice number, which gave an error stating they couldn't send the text, had to add my real phone number to the account, but it didn't do any kind of verification before I added the phone number and made a payment through it.

@m1ke

One of my favorite old tweets:

"I have 126 problems and Xcode is all of them."

@GeePawHill

Tasks that are being done in our household, as well. Primary goal is to reduce how much we purchase through Amazon, which means I'll need to find a department-esque store that isn't Walmart or Target, but it should be doable.

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

@saramg @nick

I focused more on the hands-on portion of the class because it's what interested me. I didn't realize the class could turn into earning an A+ certification until the next year... but I wasn't able to push through the untreated ADHD enough to be able to maintain focus on going through the book.

@saramg @nick

My high school offered a separate elective in place of the intro to computers class that enabled high school students to pick up an A+ certification, if they pursued the bookwork and hands-on. We were first-line tech support, fixing basic computer issues, sometimes going out to a teacher's classroom to troubleshoot. It was then I learned that printers were the bane of me. (As they are the bane of a lot of people)