The end of the internet is nigh!

Elaine Oct 21, 2026, 12:54 pm EDT	The end of the internet is nigh! Naw ... this is not another thread about the Orange One's diapers. A vulnerability has been discovered that affects about 70% of web sites, including this one. Lots of major ones use Cloudflare, for example. Sites are going to "read only mode" until the uber geeks can think up a fix for it. You can read about it here. It doesn't affect us much because 1) I haven't uploaded the registration page so you are all posting anonymously 2) Since there are no members in the database, there is nothing to hack, and 3) I always store your passwords as a "salted hash", so even if somebody got access to the database, they couldn't read anything Basically, we have nothing to steal. And I've always kept it that way. So that's why a lot of web sites have been either fucked up or down in the last day or so. Just FYI.
Elaine Oct 21, 2026, 1:25 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! According to The Hacker News, PHP has already issued two "critical updates" that fix two critical flaws. We're saved!
Yoodo Oct 21, 2026, 2:34 pm EDT	May the farce be with you. Hooray the refuge is safe from the empire.
ColdFusion Oct 22, 2026, 8:36 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The lop has a AlmaLinux Test Page up
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 9:12 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Lynyrd Skynyrd salutes you! Marco's site is down.
ColdFusion Oct 22, 2026, 9:31 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! He solved the web crawler problem he was working on.
Billy Bob Oct 22, 2026, 10:22 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Yeah, I just noticed LOP is down. Maybe he's updating it due to the php thing.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 10:39 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Chat brats is down too.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:29 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! DownDetector is reporting problems with American Express.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:30 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! And Greenlight.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:55 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Somebody should keep an eye on the stock market and let us know how things are going today. Since a lot of stores don't take cash anymore (Walmart, for example), this situation could become entertaining. I hope the server farms have a few of us "outdated" php admins left to install the updates.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 12:04 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The BBC has reported that the UK government is claiming "some" limited government services "may be offline" while security work is being carried out.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 12:05 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The French telecoms giant "Orange" has confirmed it "suspended access" to several websites and apps as a "precautionary measure", apologizing for any impact.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 12:51 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Now this is funny - From BBC's Technology and AI editor. Zoe Kleinman: PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb Talk about melodrama.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 1:51 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Now my server is having issues. Sigh.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 4:20 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! walmart is fucked up too
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 5:01 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! "walmart is fucked up too" that's just normal for walmart.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 5:57 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! walmart is fucked up too" that's just normal for walmart. In the town I live in there isn't much choice but Walmart. It sucks.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 6:16 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! My adult kid wanted a toy called a Fuggler for Xmas. Wally World was the only place that had them.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 6:34 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Yahoo Finance about NASDAQ today: 26,008.86 - down 2.60% − 694.00 today "Key Drivers: A sell-off in large-cap tech and artificial intelligence (AI) stocks driven by questions over near-term returns on heavy infrastructure spending, alongside rising safe-haven demand."
Anonymous Coward Oct 23, 2026, 11:45 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Substack is experiencing technical problems. We are working to restore service. Thank you for your patience. I think this is more serious than they are letting on.
Nowie Oct 24, 2026, 12:37 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! I think this is more serious than they are letting on. It seems like a "soft launch" of new cyber security capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyuFO_I4mEg&t=3s A YouTube Short showing Sam Altman stating that after the Mythos freakout earlier this year, the Tech Bros will have to forget just patching bugs but rather use AI as a new form of defence shield. Even the guy who has the "Low Level Learning" YouTube channel stated 6 or so months ago he's burnt-out learning about new cyber security exploits after having two Linux exploits come out over the course of two weeks and followed by a third exploit targeting Windows the third week.
Elaine Oct 24, 2026, 6:07 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Welp, the old-school hackers seem to have been replaced by AI bot hackers. Too bad. It's a good thing this site is relatively simple, and doesn't use outsourced jscript or databases like most of the large sites. (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) All we have is your email, and most people register with fake emails anyway - like some version of "fuckyouelaine@fuckyou.com" or some shit.
Elaine Oct 24, 2026, 6:12 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC): The FTC enforces the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA does not explicitly force websites to ask for a birthdate, but it heavily restricts the collection of personal data from children under 13. To avoid these strict legal liabilities, many general-audience websites choose to use an "age gate" (asking for a birthdate) during registration to block users under 13 or filter them out of tracking. I'm working on the registration page now, and I'm re-thinking how to store birthdates. I already hash the passwords, but I think I will hash birthdays as well, so anybody who hacks into the database won't have access to that info.
Anonymous Coward Oct 24, 2026, 8:40 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! "fuckyouelaine@fuckyou.com"
Arsehole Oct 25, 2026, 1:03 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Just testing this shit
Disaster Recovery Oct 25, 2026, 5:04 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Rectums
Clitoris Walker Oct 25, 2026, 5:15 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Free at last
Nowie Oct 26, 2026, 5:50 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Welp, the old-school hackers seem to have been replaced by AI bot hackers. Too bad. It's a good thing this site is relatively simple, and doesn't use outsourced jscript or databases like most of the large sites. (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) All we have is your email, and most people register with fake emails anyway - like some version of "fuckyouelaine@fuckyou.com" or some shit. Apparently, hackers used to have Bash and Powershell scripting skills. Now AI can assfook a server belonging to someone using read write buffer overflows embedded in kernel software...
Elaine Oct 26, 2026, 2:18 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! using read write buffer overflows yep.
Nowie Oct 26, 2026, 9:48 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Since teh 1980s people have used read write buffer overflows to hack computers. You'd thunk some genius would add a "null address" for "out of bounds" memory address loops to stop peeps from haxxoring PS4s,,, Is that even possible Mrs Elaine?