for those only dimly aware of cybersecurity people screaming, "a security certificate which underpins the entire internet used '4' for a private key that is supposed to be 116 digits long" and "a popular web language lets anyone run code on your server" are two different issues from the same day

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I am on vacation, and may need a vacation from my vacation, or to get back to vacationing…

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i need a vacation

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Escher left a blank circle at the center of Print Gallery (1956). In 2003, mathematicians Bart de Smit and Hendrik Lenstra showed that Escher's distorted grid implies a unique solution for the missing core, then used a computer to fill it... https://botfrens.com/collections/12055

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After the firefighting is done (and a nap) we'll need to have a long, serious conversation about the state of non-browser non-platform X.509 verifiers. The Linux status quo is "a pile of PEM files behind a dumpster" and that's not an acceptable excuse for a root store in 2026.

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