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Re: Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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Pretty sure we've seen people coding in essentially every other programming language also shoot themselves in the foot.

Every language has foot-guns of some sort. The difference is how easy it is to accidentally pull the trigger. PHP makes it easy.

Back in the day people were all about languages like C that made it incredibly easy too.

Re: Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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Every language has foot-guns of some sort. The difference is how easy it is to accidentally pull the trigger. PHP makes it easy.

Back in the day people were all about languages like C that made it incredibly easy too.

We didn't have anything better unless you wanted to take a massive performance hit and/or lose a ton of flexibility and capability.

Re: Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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This. Actually fuck the whole dynamic web. Just give us hypertext again and build native apps. Edit: perhaps I shouldn't say this on an VC driven SaaS wankfest forum...

You may be interested in https://geminiprotocol.net/

A protocol “focused on reading” that doesn’t allow inline images in the document is completely unserious. Images predate text and are 100% essential in most forms of communication.

Re: Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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Pretty sure it is, however, the reverse is actually illegal (for US citizens to provide professional services to anyone residing in Russia) as of like 2022-ish

This is incorrect.

Is it?

https://thewolfgroup.com/blog/executive-order-us-professiona...

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