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Reading this brings me close to medal-receiving levels of joy.

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Excuses. They forgot to run their site as they should and instead got lost working on AI features we never asked for. That's why.

nostrich · 5d

In case people are wondering why GitHub has been having some issues as of late - the GitHub COO recently shared that they're handling up to an order of magnitude more traffic than they were a year ago. It's not like GitHub is just serving up pictures and text - things like the c Show more

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in the curl 8.20.0 release there are still 903 lines of production code last modified before the year 2000

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I feel honored to present to you: #curl 8.20.0

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/29/curl-8-20-0/

Jim Fuller · 5d

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#curl 8.20.0 has *eight* vulnerabilities fixed (5 x medium, 3 x low) and of course they're all documented in detail on the curl site:

https://curl.se/docs/security.html

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If you would guess, do you think GitHub sends me a 500 now when I try to publish a new #curl release... ☹️

Stefan Eissing · 5d

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Numbers from the CVE Program Secretariat for Q1 2026: 18.6% more CVEs than Q4 2025.

I suspect Q2 is going to go up more.

Stefan Eissing · 5d

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I spoke about the Open Source AI Reality at #fossnorth this morning. Awesome crowd. Excellent questions. (video pending)

Now going back home to do a #curl release tomorrow.

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24 hours to next #curl release and at least eight new CVEs getting published

Stefan Eissing · 6d

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less than 48 hours to #curl 8.20.0 ships

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a proper vulnerability should have existed for over twenty years, otherwise it doesn't get that vintage bouquet we want...

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Argh. My train to #fossnorth this morning got cancelled. I had to book another and therefore I won't arrive until tonight. ☹️

Luckily my talk is first thing tomorrow, so should still work out.