barnacles

joined 2 days ago
[–] barnacles@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Moved this week. It's kinda fun rediscovering how communities work. My ID doesn't belong on the internet, that was the last straw for me.

[–] barnacles@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

The usage of PHP in enterprise appliances is actually pretty wild - many firewalls, load balancers etc are using PHP for management plane activities. There is a lot out there outside of userland, and those are the appliances most vulnerable in my opinion. A compromised firewall is worse than a compromised website.

[–] barnacles@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

That does sound like a bit of a risk. Similar to how high frequency trading affects stability of shares and elevates risk of mass sell-offs - if these agents had enough use from the general public, they could easily impact the stability of a bank.

[–] barnacles@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Hank Green has a great video about datacentres and water use, mostly around how there are so many ways to interpret and understand the scale.