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Happy to be back in sunny London! 😎

What about some quality beer time with php-heads?

Ping @derickr

Just got a sales pitch from a company wanting to make me pay _zero_ taxes by setting up a legal structure in Dubai...

Shouldn't this be illegal ???

Is it just me, or with the recent ImageMiagick CVEs recently patched in Ubuntu Pro and then a few days later in Debian, it has become crystal clear that Ubuntu is asking money for something Debian does for free?

ps: I tried to get the "free" Pro license for my VMs, but I did not manage to...

Is it just me, or today Ubuntu started peddling its "pro" subscription in order to deliver security updates for "universe" packages of the currently fresh 22.04 LTS release?

So far my understanding was that "pro" support would only become useful after the EOL, but it seems that it is not so.

Does it mean it's time to go back to Debian for daily usage?

Ubuntu-Pro is supposed to be free for up to 5 computers, but on the "sign up" page I could not find how to sign up for free for one-vm use..

What the hell?

"Under a further change to the bill, video footage that shows people crossing the Channel in small boats in a “positive light” will be added to a list of illegal content that all tech platforms must proactively prevent from reaching users.

Donelan said posting positive videos of crossings could be aiding and abetting immigration offences."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/donelan-confirms-stiffer-online-safety-measures-after-backbench-pressure?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&s=09

Donelan confirms stiffer online safety measures after backbench pressure

One new provision targets senior managers at tech platforms who ignore Ofcom enforcement notices

The Guardian

TLDR: Mastodon is very white, male, status quo, global north, and designed in a way to limit its potential for use in social movements.

Mastodon feels very different from Twitter, deliberately. It is truly like Live Journal. It is about people who are happy with their social circle and who think of virality and discoverability as a problem. They just want to communicate with the people they know, and limit other things. Ironically, it is more like a private gathering than a public space.

A silly question:

it seems that #phpstorm has much better code-comprehension than phpdocumentor, such as f.e. being able to do accurate type inference in absence of docblocks.

Would it be possible to just use phpstrom as a cli-tool to generate html docs for an API?

Happy to release the version 1.0 of the gggeek/polyfill-pinba package.

It's heavily tested, and should work with all php versions from 5.3 to 8.2.

Old code never dies!

I just dusted off and published a new release of gggeek/polyfill-pinba package, meant to be a replacement of the php "pinba" extension for those cases where installing the original is not possible.

https://github.com/gggeek/pinba_php

GitHub - gggeek/pinba_php: A clone of the pinba extension for php, in pure php

A clone of the pinba extension for php, in pure php - GitHub - gggeek/pinba_php: A clone of the pinba extension for php, in pure php

GitHub

What would you think of a cloud platform which drops support* for multiple php versions without giving the customers any notice at all, let alone warn them in advance?

* = still allows those php versions to be used, but without any support, even for security issues found in the language runtime