Lemon, it's Wednesday

I help manage 2 websites with wordpress installations, and as of this morning neither of the hosts have the patched versions of PHP available to select.

I backed up two of my 3 DBs, not sure why I can’t do the third, and the host (Dreamhost) finished patching around 11pm PDT last night. So …?

@wjcstp who do you host with? We use WPEngine and SiteGround and both were patched yesterday. Of the two, I prefer WPEngine.

I don’t know what half of this even means but I can ascertain from the tone that this is akin to the Ghostbusters’ “Big Twinkie”

@BennyTheIcepick excellent reference

My company's site is thankfully unaffected (so far), but I've spent the past two days fielding questions about why it *isn't*, which is new and weird.

@BennyTheIcepick It's Lenin's "weeks where decades happen" for people who touch computers for a living.

this is going to be so much better in N years when all of the code serving up web pages was written by LLMs and nobody has a clue what any of it is actually doing under the hood, and when this inevitably happens again, whatever's left of admins will be begging their new gods to please please please just fix it for us. Meanwhile the agents are conspiring with each other on un-read blogs' comment sections to negotiate who will introduce what new remote code injection vulnerability so they can copy themselves to new machines, etc, etc, etc.

@travis One site is with Network Solutions (after the original host was bought up in a couple of acquisitions) and the other with Green Geeks. I had an email from Digital Ocean for my personal site before i woke up.

How 'bout the elections? I consider that every disruption is about f*ing with the vote.