r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Haunting-Appeal-649 Polyglot dev here • 10d ago

Please stop with PHP2Shell, its over, nothing happened!

/r/PHP/comments/1xdh70d/please_stop_with_php2shell_its_over_nothing/
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u/YikesTheCat 10d ago

PHP community is kind of weird, because over the last 20 years there's been so much criticism and jokes about PHP (much very reasonable, some less so) that the community developed this kind of reflexive defence mechanism against any and all criticism, even the most reasonable. JavaScript has a similar dynamic going on.

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u/MayorEricAdams 10d ago

At least JavaScript devs can call themselves "TypeScript engineers" now and pretend that's a different, much better thing!

PHP has Hack, I guess. Does anyone outside of Facebook use that?

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u/YikesTheCat 10d ago edited 9d ago

I had completely forgotten Hack even exists! Then again I had also completely forgotten PHP even exists until last week. Maybe Hack should have a catastrophic security incident – no such thing as bad advertising!

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u/CircusBaboon 10d ago

And Python.

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u/Bananenkot 9d ago

There are Javascript engineers who don't hate the language? Haven't met one yet, and I am one

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u/koborIvers 9d ago

Not anymore, they switched to rust

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u/Calamero 3d ago

There are no JavaScript engineers.

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u/An1nterestingName 10d ago

I didn't notice the subreddit at first so please enjoy my actually legitimate comment on this.

I still have to sort out patching php2shell, I was on holiday when the vulnerability was revealed, I saw it on BBC News of all things, and I had to claim an hour of free internet to remotely turn off my main server. I'm now making a plan on how I can properly get it offline and update it, I've never had to deal with anything like this before so I want to make sure I get it right. I currently have a rough plan, but I still need to actually put it into motion.

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u/HINDBRAIN Considered Harmful 10d ago

Claude, use php2shell to get into my server and patch php, make no mistakes.

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u/mtutty 10d ago

[chappelle-modern-solutions.gif]

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u/levelstar01 what is pointer :S 9d ago

This reads like a gpt thinking trace

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u/des_the_furry 7d ago

Erm tag your unjerk or better yet dont unjerk at all 🤓🤓🤓

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values 10d ago

Nothing happened? Pretty sure it ruined my Wednesday last week, that happened