Tim Coninx

IT Architect

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

We zitten simultaan in klimaatcrisis, energiecrisis, geopolitieke crisis, en economische crisis
Daarom werkt @groen actief aan het importeren van meer russisch gas en amerikaans schaliegas, om nieuwe fossiele brandstofcentrales te laten draaien, die worden uitbesteed aan China

[Thomas Spaas @thomas_spaas]

Energieschaarste is kernoorzaak van Europa's problemen: torenhoge prijzen, wegtrekkende industrie, (energie)armoede en geopolitieke afhankelijkheid.

Overvloedige, betrouwbare energie is de basis voor welvaart, concurrentiekracht en autonomie: kernenergie + hernieuwbare energie.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.

[🇩🇪Der Bertram🇺🇦⚓️ @SPutinism]

Die Humanisten

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

@KoenVanderElst @jdceulaer Nee, dat heeft zijn vrouw toen gedaan
(ok misschien zit ik te diep in de joke)

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Denmark spent decades building nearly 5,000 wind turbines

Together, they produced 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months

One nuclear plant in Sweden made 23.3 TWh

Oh, and nuclear runs 24/7 — wind doesn’t

There's one big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world

https://t.co/SiPeo0tE9Z
https://t.co/hvsqEWOpuJ
https://t.co/HyQp2owXAX
https://t.co/8ggd62dywW

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I grew up loathing Soviet apologists and I grow old loathing Putin apologists.

[Narwitz @Narwitz0747]

The cow laughed during WW2 & the Holocaust, 9/11, the Chinese famine, quite a few genocides, innumerable natural disasters, the Great Depression, Jim Crow, only god knows how many wars, & countless other tragedies big & small, but the internet is what breaks this motherheifer???

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

repent, you meat proxies

[ストロープワッフル @Sutoropuwaffuru]

@JesperRoele

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

Lachen en wenen

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Europe’s protests began over legitimate grievances. As unrest escalated, hostile disinformation & influence networks exploited the crisis, distorted its causes, spread fabricated content, amplified violence, inflamed divisions and undermined public trust. https://t.co/9UAzDthRiV

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

The international humanist society held a meeting in Nova Vodolaha

[Kasper Goossens @kaspergoossens]

In België bevestigde ADIV in haar jaarrapport dat Rusland mee de protesten in Franstalig België tegen de hervorming van seksuele opvoeding in het middelbaar (EVRAS) oppookte.

Natuurlijk is het ook betrokken bij de huidige protesten.

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

@tmdpw @visjevangen Hij die nog nooit een stukske javascript met de hand heeft aangepast, werpe de eerste steen

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

@thomas_spaas Zo rustgevend dat we ons nooit meer iets moeten aantrekken van lieden als Pensioenspook op dit platform
https://t.co/oYTSxGG9EJ

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

Hij is ook bekend van dat opstootje bij het Carl Devos openingscollege met Bart De Wever, waar hij de gelegenheid nam die laatste voor de camera's onder het mom van vragen ferm te schofferen.
Voor @demorgen was hij op dat moment "een kritische student"

[Tim Coninx @timconinx]

Seppe De Meulder ligt zelf óók niet wakker van het klimaat. @demorgen vertelt immers niet dat hij bij de PVDA-geliëerde DeWereldMorgen hoort, dat er geen geheim van maakt Klimaatverandering als driver te gebruiken voor Maatschappijverandering (naar extreem links, uiteraard)

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed UKR - Statement.

As a lead admin, I am so angry that I cannot write a proper thread at this point.

The US President, Mr Trump, is lying.
Again.

Either he is living in his own reality and is clearly unfit to be president, or his advisers are not telling him the truth. But based on his constant stream of contradictory statements and promises, we all know what the problem is...

Regardless of whether one wants to negotiate with Russia or not, claiming that:

“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine; they haven’t been doing much.”

is an outrageous lie.
IT IS A LIE!
BASED ON FACTS.

As a volunteer geolocation and mapping platform, GeoConfirmed has mapped more than 60,000 pieces of footage to their exact locations in the Russia–Ukraine conflict alone. That footage is visible to everyone on our map, and anyone can review the geolocation process. That is why we are called GeoConfirmed: we confirm the location of footage.

Recently, you told the world that there would be an energy ceasefire, even though neither party appeared to know about it. When a journalist asked you about it, you gave your now-famous answer: “They agreed, because I said they agreed.”
(https://t.co/6JJGBzaNCE)

Ukraine honored the ceasefire you called for, while Russia did not!

Regarding your latest claim: “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much” You could not be more wrong. Are you inventing your own reality, or are your advisers failing to inform you?

Below are the entries from the last four months, sorted by the icons of civilians killed and buildings destroyed.
Russia is committing war crimes on an almost daily basis. It is targeting civilian-populated areas more than ever before.

Mr. President Trump, you are a liar.
Get your act together.
You may be able to lie to your own people, but the world will witness how delusional you are.

The facts are there, only a blind person could fail to see them.
Are you blind, Mr. President?
(@realDonaldTrump)

Is this how you want to be remembered?

A few of the many recent Russian attacks, below in the thread.

https://t.co/g9OP1aPlGP

[Vlogging Through History @VTHistory25]

Based on what I'm reading on here, the United States should have surrendered in the fall of 1776. There was no victory in sight, the British Army seemed unstoppable. Young men were needlessly dying in a war the US could never win.