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Now players and teams will be displayed on screen with odds baked into the presentation and have it not even addressed by the commentator. Just normalized completely.

That’s already happening, I’ve seen it in NHL games. The commentator typically addresses it because the broadcaster has a deal with the betting company and there’s a contractual obligation to make sure viewers see it and know where to get the app.

Who could have predicted this?!

But also, this shouldn't be allowed in any major sport wife they use any kind of public funds.


> "son of a failed coup organizer" is an absolute false statement

But, his dad:

> Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence after being convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court for plotting a coup following his 2022 election defeat

I don’t see how to read it any other way. Explain?


The Brazilian Supreme Court is completely out of control and its judgements mean nothing. It's not like the American Supreme Court that only arbitrates constitutional matters. Look at the recent history of it and you'll find judges on it using the police as their personal enforcers, randomly imprisoning people who criticize them, high levels of outright corruption and Lula's personal lawyer being appointed to it. Think about it: would the US Supreme Court personally convict someone of a crime? No, they only hear appeals, there is no such thing as someone directly imprisoned by a single supreme court judge in America. The Brazilian court also interferes directly in elections - in this case one of them ordered that voting be extended for hours after it had already been closed and the ballot boxes sealed for no good reason.

Basically, in Brazil the Supreme Court appears to be directly in charge of the police, and they can and do issue whatever "rulings" they want to impose their will on whatever or whoever they feel like, with no appeals possible. Including elected politicians.

I expect this HN thread to be a disaster zone of badly informed takes, but the Brazilians I know consider Brazil to be a dictatorship and this election to have been stolen. It's a sad day.


Thank you so much for this post. I've been saying the same thing as you, and people in this thread are already telling me to check myself into a mental institution.

Bolsonaro was the last chance we had to fix this. The plan was to impeach those judges and then restrict the court to purely constitutional matters, like the US supreme court. That little project is pretty much done now. We'll be lucky if we can impeach Alexandre de Moraes. It's over.

In Brazil, judges are gods. An actual lawyer told me this, once.


There is this narrative I heard from a Brazilian near me that the Supreme Court in Brazil is political and rotten to the core.

Check this article, use Google translate if needed https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punhal_Verde_e_Amarelo

The Supreme Court in Brazil can be as rotten of political as it wants, to make a plan to assassinate political rivals is just completely unacceptable.

And before someone tries to defend the bolsonaros by saying they were not involved in this, don't use a defense that they themselves did not use. The defense that Flávio Bolsonaro said about the incident was "thinking of killing someone is not a crime".


How far away is communism from me?

Ad campaign? We are lucky they didn’t make the settlement in “Meta Quest Cash” or “Ad Buy Credit”

They absolutely tried at one point or another.

That’s all framing. If they use the win for their reelection campaign…they just won’t mention the appeals process.

It’s still popular af. Almost half of any cms site online is powered by Wordpress. Many sales sites use woocommerce (Wordpress plugin). Message boards for sure (phpbb!). Moodle and other similar learning management tools run on PHP. Other cms systems like drupal and joomla make up another big portion of cms installs. I think the custom Wikipedia (mediawiki?) is php.

Yeah, I thought it was dying a bit but was looking for webmail software (Roundcube, etc) a couple days ago and all of it is PHP.

PHP is ONLY popular because of mainly wordpress. Usage outside the big CMS are minimal at best, in 2026. I dont see much greenfield / PHP jobs that are not legacy software these days.

There's very little green-field PHP being written, but there's an awful lot of the Internet that was written over the last 30 years, and there's also a lot of very popular turn-key software (eg. WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB) that gets redeployed on new sites by people who just want something user-friendly that works.

Hack (Meta) is presumably contributing somewhat to PHP’s continued existence.

I dont see much Hack out in the wild. Its basically only Meta that uses it for facebook. Also kind of funny that PHP was so BAD that they actually had the write their own language.

I'm not sure that's true. It seems very popular in OSS in general but not much enterprise/commercial uptake.

I guess node has taken some market share it seems like


Nah. There is legacy, then there is the (now dying) wordpress/drupal/<php-cms> shops that still run PHP. Custom apps are not done in PHP, unless its a (usually) unskilled dev who knows no better.

With AI, there is little need for PHP in 2026, even for the novice dev. The onl thing PHP had in the early 2000s was the FTP deployment story, but that has long faded. I van deploy a go binary WAY easier than a PHP application.


What else is using it and popular? Mediawiki - that's true. And some forums, but forums aren't popular any more.

No way. Forums are still incredibly popular. Something like RedFlagDeals has an entire business based around their forum and get close to 40m page views per month and more than 3m uniques.

And there are at least 3 other hugely popular php based forums that I occasionally check — and those are just for my own niche interests.


I've never heard of RedFlagDeals. I have heard of Twitter.

Nextcloud, the mentioned Roundcube, plenty non-Wordpress CMSs, many internal tools I work with daily...

I’d rather just some sort of tag. Because sometimes it can be useful. This is a case where the community here can scrutinize the output and actually pull out useful data or steps or even starting points when information is coming in so fast for a developing story/issue

The (pretty obviously Claude'd) responses with actual steps you could take to mitigate were 1000% more useful to me than the "SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN WE'RE GONNA DIE" and the "stop posting AI slop" posts were, that's for sure.

It was your response. Of course you prefer your response.

The fact is you had no idea how useful or dangerous your advice was. PHP maintainers said to shut it down, how many people followed your advice instead? Did it work or just leave them vulnerable? Do you know?

Because you're heavily implying that the people who knew about the details of the vulnerability were panicking and thank god we had you with an LLM


Are there security patches for servers running old versions?

There are so many keeping old php versions alive for compatibility with whatever software


The CVE wasn't clear about the impact and suggested every version after 5. That is going back over a fucking decade, almost two.

There's a lot of zombie software on the net that is ripe for the picking. More food for the botnet.

Wordpress in particular is a stupidly simple vector.


At this point, it would be fastest/most effective for the PHP foundation to deploy their own white-hat mass hacking attack to exploit the vulnerability and forcefully shutdown vulnerable servers.

I can't think of a faster way to clear out the vulnerable surface area.


Fastest, most effective and also illegal. Unless you use AI to do it I guess, then it is fine to hack people.

Yeah they should poorly set up a sandbox and ask it to fix all the vulnerable servers with the remote RCE and prepare to be surprised when it escapes the sandbox.

for debian there's https://deb.sury.org/

Ubuntu pro is free for up to 5 machines

PHP 8.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 had the fix backported and released via security.ubuntu.com

> There are so many keeping old php versions alive for compatibility with whatever software

If only there was a way to trivially rewrite just about any software


I think there’s a solution that fits within the Apple Design culture that they already use. If you’re connected to a display you can already click the “AirPlay” icon to change the audio output location. (Eg I’m connected to a display via usbc cable but want the audio to go to a Bluetooth device or headphones)

So, just let me select the app that gets the display output. And make “share screen” a discrete choice.


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