dmpzn.orgBlog index¶
Patch the planet (and fuck the internet?)¶
Posted on 2026-10-22 by lbz
Tags: blog, php, bug, cve, ai, doomed
On October 21, 2026, emergency patches were released to fix two extremely serious security flaws located in the very core of PHP. The two vulnerabilities were independently discovered by the California-based security firm Calif as part of the OpenAI “Patch the Planet” project in August 2026, and by the Israeli-American cloud security company Wiz.
Dive into osascript¶
Posted on 2026-10-11 by lbz
Tags: blog, osascript, applescript, macos
In a previous post I used the command osascript to get the id of a MacOS application.
But what is osascript?
The tool is basically an application that runs a compiled or plain text typed (using the -e flag) AppleScript or JavaScript, or any OSA language.
Running background jobs in bash¶
Posted on 2026-09-22 by lbz
Tags: blog, bash, jobs, unix, processes, background
Let’s say you are connected via ssh to a unix machine with a running job and you need to end your session without stopping it. You can achieve this using Job Control to send it to background.
Users don’t read. And software is no magic.¶
Posted on 2026-09-16 by lbz
Tags: blog, ai, software, users, rant
Hundreds of studies have examined the dynamics of user interaction with digital tools (though some of these apply to other fields as well). One such study, for example, conducted by the Nielsen Norman Group in 1997, explored how people read—or rather, scan—web pages to consume content.
Toggle light-dark mode in macOS¶
Posted on 2026-09-06 by lbz
Tags: blog, darkmode, ui, macos
I use macOS and I always felt love-hate for the dark UI, because though it helps with my eyes I urge to keep certain apps in their main-original UI (I don’t understand how people are able to use word processors or applications that involve printing in a dark environment - let’s talk about highlighted text or font colors…).
First commit¶
Posted on 2026-08-30 by lbz
Tags: personal, blog, first
Well, here we are!
This is the first blog post on this website. Actually, this is not my first blog post on the internet, at all: I started my blogging career (kidding) in 2003 when, while working as network administrator for a local IT company, I started my own blog.