Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word ‘Automatic’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS – a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders – to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T’s as a nod to Matt.
“As you know, our client owns and … ⌘ Read more
The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method (and Unix-Smalltalk Unification) [pdf]
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Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
Article URL: https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423917
Points: 530
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$4,500 Bounty: SQL Injection in WordPress Plugin Leads to PII Exposure at Grab
How a Plugin Preview Feature Exposed User Data and Nearly Enabled Admin Dashboard Pivoting
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“I use zip bombs to protect my server”
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bots crawling content to power LLMs. But then there are the malicious bots. These are from spammers, content scrapers or hackers. At my old employer, a bot discovered a wordpress vulnerability and inserted a malicious script into our server. It then turned the m … ⌘ Read more
Stonean spaces, projective objects, the Riesz representation theorem, and (possibly) condensed mathematics
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Wordpress Adds Watermarks to Internal Webpages in Hunt for Whistleblowers
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WordPress Is in Trouble
Article URL: https://anderegg.ca/2025/01/11/wordpress-is-in-trouble
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42687121
Points: 504
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Wordpress Contributors Must Now Agree That “Pineapple is Delicious on Pizza’
The Wordpress v. WP Engine legal battle just took a detour into… food. ⌘ Read more
[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund got an application: ‘Build a plugin for embedding dApps into Wordpress websites’
Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/38
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Dockerize WordPress: Simplify Your Site’s Setup and Deployment
Learn how to Dockerize WordPress by following steps to create Dockerfiles, containerize existing WordPress instances, and set up Traefik for automatic TLS certificates. ⌘ Read more
BenraouaneSoufiane submits CCS proposal to ‘extend’ CryptoCheckout project
BenraouaneSoufiane1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 looking to extend the CryptoCheckout 3 project by creating a WordPress plugin for WooCommerce merchants and a Shopify payment app:
The target audiance is any person has XMR address/wallet, it could be as a merchant has online business want to accept XMR, or naturel user want to pay using his XMR balance.
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[LTH] [0.15 XMR] Convert isometric token image from Wordpress to Monero icon
A new privacy focused hosting platform which only accepts Monero as a currency needs a conversion of this isometric logo of Wordpress, to be exactly the same however, using Monero color scheme and icon: https://file.io/clebBxqHX9UV
Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/160/
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Memos
With the current drama around WordPress and Automattic, I was searching for alternatives to Simplenote, the app I am currently using to save my notes and keep them synced. ⌘ Read more
Automattic are also a company that has sold user data from tumblr and wordpress.com to openai and midjourney, so you might want to keep that in mind if you’re big against generative AI.
Beeper servers store the message history encrypted, with a key that isn’t sent to the server.
Everything they store is encrypted with these keys, *but* I guess they still can’t encrypt the messages in transit because of the interop dance; so they *can* read messages to some networks at some point. ⌘ Read more
the original plan was to offer subscriptions for something like $5/mo, but today they launched free of charge. they will introduce premium features in the future.
they just got acquired by automattic (the company who made wordpress and recently acquired tumblr).
automattic donated $5 megadollars to the matrix.org foundation in 2020, so I have a pretty good feeling about them.
Automattic recently acquired texts.com too, so I’m guessing that they are trying to become The One Interop Messenger. ⌘ Read more
Isode: Harrier 4.0 – New Capabilities
Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.
You can find out more about Harrier here.
** … ⌘ Read moreHow to Remove “Promote with Blaze” from WordPress
WordPress is fantastic blogging software and an excellent content management system that is prolific on the web (and used by us for this site!), and Jetpack is a great set of tools offered by Automattic to further improve the WordPress experience. But the latest versions of Jetpack default to placing a “Promote with Blaze” option … Read More ⌘ Read more
Isode: Cobalt 1.5 – New Capabilities
OverviewThis release adds new functionality and features to Cobalt, our web based role and user provisioning tool. You can find out more about Cobalt here.
Multiple Cobalt ServersThis enhancement enables multiple Cobalt servers to be run against a single directory. There are two reasons for this.
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Yarn could the twtxt I want more then regular twtxt. Though I do like not having to host a yarn pod.
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Didn’t know of bytesypider and bytedance, I assume those are bots, although I no idea why they are pointing to that address to your site
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/psa-bytedance-and-bytespider-bots-recommend-blocking/
You gave me a good idea to block bytespider. Its just weird what it pulls in.twtxt-php isn’t sending User-Agent headers as it’s in the original spec:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/discoverability.html
sending user agent would be a nice thing to have so that people using regular twtxt clients can find you and anyone else hosting twtxt-php or timeline
HTTP logs are annoying but webmention has an issue that it needs a server to check for webmentions. The server can be an external one or hosted on the same server as far as I can find.
But also HTTP logs need a server that one can view the logs.
Isode: Red/Black – 2.1 New Capabilities
OverviewThis release adds important new functionality and adds further device drivers to Red/Black, a management tool that allows you to monitor and control devices and servers across a network, with a particular focus on HF Radio Systems. A general summary is given in the white paper Red/Black Overview.
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Isode: Cobalt 1.4 – New Capabilities
Cobalt proides a web interface for provisioning users and roles in an LDAP directory. It enables the easy deployment of XMPP, Email and Military Messaging systems.
Listed below are the changes brought in with 1.4.
HSM SupportCobalt is Isode’s tool for managing PKCS#11 Hardware Security Modules (HSM) which may be used to provide improved server security by protecti … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Icon-Topo 2.0 – New Capabilities
Icon-Topo supports Mobile Unit (MU) mobility between HF Networks, enabling application communications over a wider area than can be achieved with a single ground station. It provides a way to schedule the movement from one HF network to another, ensuring that as an MU goes about its deployment the communications network is kept up and running.
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Isode: M-Guard 1.5 – New Capabilities
M-Guard is an XML guard that is used at a network boundary to control traffic. An M-Guard instance is an application level data diode, with traffic flowing in one direction only. Commonly, M-Guard instances will be deployed in pairs, one controlling flow in each direction. The following is a list of the new capabilties introduced in version 1.5.
Isode: Harrier 3.3 – New Capabilities
Harrier is our Military Messaging client. It provides a modern, secure web UI that supports SMTP, STANAG 4406 and ACP 127. Harrier allows authorised users to access role-based mailboxes and respond as a role within an organisation rather than as an individual.
![Harrier Inbox view (behind) showing Military Messaging security label and priority parameters; and Message view (in front).](https://www.isode.com/company/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Harrier-M … ⌘ Read more
Isode: M-Link 19.4 Limited Release
M-Link 19.4 provides a very significant update and in particular provides the M-Link User Server product. It also provides M-Link MU Server, M-Link MU Gateway and M-Link Edge. It does not provide M-Link IRC Gateway, which remains M-Link 17.0 only.
M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is provided ahead of the full M-Link 19.4 release. M-Link 19.4 Limited Release is fully supported by Isode for production deployment. There is one significant difference with a standard Isod … ⌘ Read more