Friday, October 23, 2026

Arctic is in a mess

 


Things are not that organized up there.  I'm getting a feeling that we are just tracking last year, and not anything worse.  


The good news is that remnant Arctic air is pushing away the noreaster.  The typhoon plume will probably overwhelm the Arctic.



We shall continue our desert weather.  

ps the dream last night was that the Arctic was resurgent, just as the typhoon-plume hit, making the Clipper of the Century.  All of NA was in a 3-day blizzard.  However, almost no chance of that.


Thursday, October 22, 2026

PHP exploit may hit Windows more because of general sloppiness

 No normal person runs their own website right on the Internet.  This is so insecure that the recent php exploit is noise.  Both Windows and Linux servers will bust php, but the consequences are more severe with Windows, mainly because of what happens after.

It is only exposing commands on the server.  The big automated attacks are going for standard construction after the blow-out.  I find it is nearly impossible to have a monoculture on Linux, but it is standard on Win.

All in all, this is an attack on stupidity, and is mostly in France.  Or maybe not.


Too many things happening

 This is about as messy as it gets.  We are caught between a typhoon and a noreaster, yet the weather forecast has us staying exactly the same for the next week.



Everything is cold, but not dramatically so.  Our desert weather allows me to sit outside in the afternoon.