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by bigiain 2y ago
No. Not from my point of view, as someone who has a couple of dozen WordPress clients. "Someone" needs a CMS that's able to be securely, performantly, and professionally managed by hosting companies, and that is as easy for s
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by bigiain 2y ago
And companies like WHM/cPanel and Plesk - who provide 1 click Wordpress installs for a huge number of otherwise non-Wordpress specialist web hosting companies. I'd guess a _huge_ part of WordPress's "customer acquisition
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by bigiain 2y ago
We've had 3 queries so far out of about two dozen clients on WP/WPEngine. We are _actively_ making contingency plans. But our best estimate at this stage is that WPEngine will provide a suitable way to keep all our WPEngine sites
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by bigiain 2y ago
Feels an awful lot like Matt's just angry that he didn't move on to the final stage of enshittification soon enough. WPEngine is making "too much money" that he want's in his own pocket. Fuck website owners. Fuck ag
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by bigiain 2y ago
> continue to trust Automattic for the core code That is absolutely no longer true. Which is very very sad.
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by bigiain 2y ago
It's certainly "high quality" in the sense of "it solves a huge number of requirements that WP core doesn't, in a way that's better that alternative plugins". It's a high quality WP Admin user experie
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by bigiain 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair (probably, may be apocryphal)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Avoiding the embarrassment of backing down and admitting he is wrong. Apparently that's worth burning down his life's work and legacy for.
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by bigiain 2y ago
So far as I can tell, when Matt talks about "the WordPress Community", he means: - Matt - the people who didn't quit Automattic last week - _maybe_ the WP core developers who don't work at Automattic, so long as
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by bigiain 2y ago
There's another thing WPEngine would do with that decision though, and that's ruin Matt/Automattic/wordpress.org in the court case (look at who WPE retained as councel, this is not going to be a quick/cheap litigati
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by bigiain 2y ago
yeah. Me, for one. WordPress is kinda awful in a lot of ways. BUT You can hand a thoughtfully build WP site over to a non technical client, and they can work out or learn how to do 90% of the publishing and updating they need to do, or easi
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by bigiain 2y ago
Which is kinda exactly the thing people say while in the middle of irrational behavior and psychotic episodes brought on by cocaine abuse. That _might_ not be what's doing on. But it's entirely plausible given <waves hands arou
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by bigiain 2y ago
"If they’re willing to do this, I wouldn’t trust any plugins hosted on WordPress.org." Yep yep yep. Jesus Fuck Matt, put down the crackpipe and open the window. You are _totally_ out of control here. I am 100% going to start anoth
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by bigiain 2y ago
> SpaceX and by extension Starship are critical for the entire western space industry. That is both true, and monumentally depressing. >If you don’t like Elon Musk that’s fine. But his companies get stuff done. For extremely broad val
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yes. But using USB devices has a practically infinitely greater attack surface that parsing data embedded in a QR Code. It's not like yo have to read QR Codes and go "echo $QRData | sudo bash" "BadUSB is a computer secur
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by bigiain 2y ago
On the other hand, "recreational paranoia" is a fun hobby. But perhaps we are just saying the same thing, and I just prefer my way of saying it over admitting to yours...
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by bigiain 2y ago
> If I am not mistaken, it wasn't zendesk that didn't want to recognize the bug While it's unclear at which stage Zendesk became involved, in the "aftermath" section it's clear they knew of the H1 report, si
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by bigiain 2y ago
> That's a good way to get people not to bother with your big bounty program. And possibly to have blackhats to start looking more closely, since they now know both 1) that whitehats are likely to be focusing elsewhere leaving more
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by bigiain 2y ago
"Hi, we are ZenDesk, a support ticket SaaS with a bug bounty program that we outsource to our effected customers, who pay out an order of magnitude more than our puny fake HackerOne program. Call now, to be ridiculously upsold on our E
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by bigiain 2y ago
Once they'd brushed him off and made it clear they were not interested in listening to him, resolving the bug, or living up to the usual expectations that researchers have in companies claiming to have bug bounties on HackerOne, I&#x27
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by bigiain 2y ago
He didn't even "go public" as that term is normally used in bug disclosure. He didn't write it up and release and exploit when Zendesk told him it was out of scope and didn't give him any indication they considered
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by bigiain 2y ago
/me glances across my desk to see my soldering station...
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by bigiain 2y ago
The article talks about Medicare subsidising 80% of the purchase price for many customers. That'd be a fairly effective place to negotiate such an escrow contract.
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by bigiain 2y ago
For us, it's the huge existing user base of people who know how to do authoring/publishing in WordPress. (Even if they don't have the skills to understand what they're doing installing plugins sensibly, we mostly don&#x2
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by bigiain 2y ago
No so much memes, but I use searching by location and/or date very useful in my iPhone photos, but that doesn't work nearly so well for screenshots. I don't think there's a decent technological answer to that though, I&#
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The issue with this is that it absolutely will require a fork Perhaps? There is a significant group of people Automattic relies on to make the WordPress project and community a thing. While Matt probably can afford to pay enough devs t
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The more easy path forward would be for WPEngine to switch dependency. Debian has a reliable repository. Yeah, but. Do we trust Matt now to not required the Debian packagers to, as he says, "choose sides" before giving Debian
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by bigiain 2y ago
WPEngine do have their own mirrors. This is what a test theme upgrade this morning tells me: Downloading update from https://theme-updates.wpengine.com/twentysixteen/twentysixte... The risk I need to address is what&#x
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'd probably believe attribution to either Israel or the MPA with only a little evidence. (I still haven't forgiven Sony for the album on CD I bought with a rootkit on it...)
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by bigiain 2y ago
That's what Troy got sent. It's not necessarily all the attacker took.

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