In other news, my new toy, the M-VAVE FM-1, arrived today so this evening will be spent with playing with different open source firmwares [1] for this synth. Below €60 and allows for open hacking. What is not to like?

[1] https://thefirmwarehub.com

And if you have a moment while consuming all that PHP stuff: There is a severity 10.0 issue in #Gitlab you all should have fixed yesterday too. https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/

Some calmness in a sea of panic and clickbait: That #PHP bug just isn't that easy to exploit.

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

I just checked all my servers and the installed containers and the minimal setup I use has paid of once again. No PHP anywhere. So I can relax and stick to my weekly update schedule. Sending sysadmin hugs to all folks out there dealing with getting the PHP updates installed and working :(

https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1

#SysAdminLife @nprofile1q...

Italy continues its ridiculous fight wth Spain over the Ceuta incident. Austria will soon catch up with the other Top 6 Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and France that are celebrating 7 years of "exceptions" and the @nprofile1q... still prefers to ignore all of that.

Source https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en?prefLang=de Graphs by me.

#SchengenIsDying

German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung titles: "Trump helps Russia to kill Ukrainians"

Liebe SZ,

wenn ihr zum noAfD e-mail Hack schreibt [1]: "Der genaue Inhalt der Nachrichten sowie die tatsächlichen Verfasser und Absender lassen sich zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt allerdings nicht entschlüsseln und verifizieren" dann schätze ich das euer torrent download die 280 GB an tar Files noch nicht geschafft hat. Da findet ihr nicht nur die 400+K eMails sondern auch die DKIM Header, die jede einzelne Mail verifizierbar macht.

[1] (paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-hackerangriff-datenleck-cybersicherheit-rechtsextremismus-li.3566216

Join The Fediverse — Because the revolution will not be centralised. #TshirtSlogan

In The Netherlands you have around 8.5 million households with a combined load of around 8GW of electricity. There are 200 new datacenters planned or under construction and they demand 15GW capacity. From an electrical grid that is already struggling. This is all getting ridiculous.

(article in dutch) https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2635097-een-derde-aangevraagde-stroom-komt-van-datacenters-genoeg-voor-alle-huishoudens

OK. Das ist spannend (aber wohl paywalled). Die SZ hat eine Untersuchung interaktiv aufgearbeitet, die Stimmenanteile der NSDAP mit der noAFD vergleicht und einige Regionen gefunden wo beide korrelieren aber auch Regionen die sich deutlich geändert haben.

(paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/nsdap-afd-wahlen-geschichte-deutschland-erfolg-e520919/

The top donors for Trump's ballroom. From the Washington Post, who got a copy of the spreadsheet.

(Gift link, needs email address) https://wapo.st/4ywOEXn

When you neither accept Occam's Razor (""of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred"") nor Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."), you end up believing in conspiracy theories. And yes, I personally put most religions in that box too ;)