I hope its referred to as "this is the article idiots who know nothing about modern php reference in a futile attempt to make it appear they know what they are talking about" as every time someone mentions that article it seems to be when they want to show everyone how daft they are.

There's a lot of hype-chasing morons who diss old languages without knowing the first thing about them.

You'd be shocked at the number of developers that believe C has no types.

Yeah it's an instant red flag when someone links that outdated article.

Signals their ease to spit out incorrect information with confidence. That has no place in engineering.

I use a 20 year old web framework with an 18 year old build system and it was good the moment it came out. That's 66% of the lifespan of old PHP (its still around) and 181% of the lifespan of modern PHP.

You guys are in an awkward position where you are both the old grandpa and the new kid on the block simultaneously while there are competent middle aged workers around.

"You guys"? lol it's just a tool. I don't identify as "a PHP guy" for the same reason I don't identify as a "Rust guy". And labeling others like that is yet another red flag.

I use many languages. Some more than PHP. But that's besides the point.

I just thought it was funny. But ok.

I've not got a huge amount to appreciation for PHP but I'm not sure it makes sense in 2026 to refer back to an article which suggests Perl with Catalyst as an alternative to PHP with Symfony or Laravel.

I suppose you are more a fan of the histrionic tone of the criticism than anything? In which case, I'm with you there. It's equal to the most unhinged but technically correct rants of Zed Shaw for me.

Have you kept up with the improvements in the latest PHP versions?

I have not. As above, I just find the article humorous.

Nobody calls me McGregor the Bridgebuilder.

Generally, I find that skirting these requirements is a matter of framing and word choice.

For example: 'source recovery' instead of 'reverse engineering' is one I've used successfully. You may also lean into a libertarian 'right to repair' framing. You own the hardware, you should be able to access the device to appropriately repair its security vulnerabilities.

We're not breaking into a bank here, this is a camera you own.

You could even go so far as to cite local laws to support your case.

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In short, jailbreaking is more about framing the conversation than it is about triggering psychopathy in the model. :D

It's not illegal to hire a locksmith if you locked yourself out of your house and the machine agrees, as it has no way to verify who's house it is anyway

Those are all conspiracy theories. ;)

Neither of those are theories. Both are well documented and have had public hearings and governmental disclosure.

What? MKUlta is absolutely not a conspiracy theory.

I'm assuming the winking emoji was used to indicate sarcasm.

doh!

They are saying it tongue-in-cheek, and even added an emoji for additional emphasis of that point.

Other names that occur to me: Orchard, Forest, Stand (of trees).

This is probably correct. But also par for the course. I bet there are coffee shops that give skill bonuses or something like that, but I'm betting most don't.

Most folks who do stuff like this just assume it's part of the job and carry on.

Mine was always accompanied by the sensation of being watched. I could 'see' where the watching was happening, but not the actual thing watching me.

Also always accompanied by fear.

I believe sensation of a presence in the room is very common in sleep paralysis.

Interestingly the belief of what the presence is has changed with culture. It used to be demons, now it is more likely to be aliens.

For those who don't know (like me): https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/m6i.16xlarge?currency=U...

This is a VM with 64 vCPUs running at 3.5GHz, with 256GB RAM.

It presently costs about ~3USD per hour to run.

They have an API endpoint you can use.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

This definitely would have been me.

I burned 100s of hours into my 400 level classes, some of those hours were completely wasted on things that I could never figure out how to get them to work.

If its helpful, that would be great!

The matching algo is very raw at this point, so if you find posts that _should_ have matched but didn't, please reach out (email is in my profile) and I'll see what I can do.