Aaron Parecki

(just in case, I am *definitely* not an anti-vaxxer and am extremely eager to get vaccinated ASAP. I am also a massive introvert and honestly I could get used to this staying at home forever thing 😂)

If vaccine passports become a thing and I don't get vaccinated, does that mean I'm allowed to stay at home forever?

Personally: One you’re proud of and allows you to help others.

Financially: One that allows you to continue the above.

My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up of people who don't do housework, or manage housework being done.

I’ll have to get some input, or possibly 8 sources of input when it gets here.

While they (php) are requiring 2fa - they don't appear to be using signed commits... impersonation is a real problem and it is easy to slip something in that appears to be from someone else....

So wait. First, Pfizer discovered its extra doses in each vial right around Chanukah, and then, the giant cargo ship was freed from captivity in Egypt in the middle of Passover? Who put my Hebrew school teachers in charge of writing the plot all of a sudden?

The core PHP language getting backdoored is just another symptom of the fragile infrastructure behind much of the third party code that we all depend on.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/hackers-backdoor-php-source-code-after-breaching-internal-git-server/?amp=1

"Yesterday (2021-03-28), two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo [...]. We don't yet know how
exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the http://git.php.net server"

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https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838

Re: Lil Nas X’s New Song

When you traumatize a whole generation (and more) of kids with the concept of a literal hell (something Jesus never preached) don’t be surprised if they grow up, realize it was a control technique and then use the imagery to make a point in their art.