[–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

it might be a failure to read on my part but this reads as unfixed on Debian but fixed on Arch

Edit: Oh, yeah ok, in the security repo it's fixed, why is the vulnerable version distributed to stable though?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Because it wasn't php proper, it was an interpreter for PHP and Hack (their own language), and since 2019 they cut off PHP anyway

    Also it's mostly because the vast majority of those "70% of websites" that use PHP are wordpress installs, and wordpress never switched to the HHVM.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Of course, there’s an important group that falls outside the bounds of the study: anyone who got hooked on vaping without trying cigarettes first.

    Hmm

    Edit:

    I checked other sources because the article is just bad

    https://www.oncologyrepublic.com.au/e-cigs-linked-to-increased-lung-cancer-risk-after-quitting-real-cigarettes/6075

    They have these quotes from the researchers

    Taken together, these findings suggest that, while e-cigarette use after quitting smoking may attenuate lung cancer-specific benefits of cessation, the broader health benefits of quitting conventional cigarettes are not eliminated

    Although e-cigarettes contain potentially carcinogenic substances, dual use may nonetheless be associated with lower cumulative exposure to toxicants than exclusive combustible cigarette smoking

    So it's not quite the "wow" finding "futurism" seems to claim. It just reinforces the consensus on vapes: If it's that or smoking, then vaping is better. That's not news, that's what doctors have been saying since vapes started becoming mainstream more than a decade ago.

    IMO that kind of article is extremely damaging: it convinces smokers that vaping isn't better, so they might as well keep their current habit.

    Especially if the article is trash enough to warrant reading about the study specialized journals that take their job seriously to dispell the sensationalist headline. As we know people always read past the headline, and love to dig into jargon-heavy medicine journals to get a proper grasp of the underlying study.

    Shame.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The issue isn't necessarily that the work could be considered derivative, but rather that the notion of copyright exists only for work authored by a human. If it's not produced by a human, then the copyright belongs to no one, and no one can license it because no one owns it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I feel like it's one of those cases where both the interest & liability is a public issue. This is a perfect case for a public service, and not one for a "go fast and break things" & enshittification economic model

    But I fear that both the US (duh) and Europe are way too neoliberal to ever consider this seriously

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