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Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
Innovation is adjusting the process.
Not abandoning the standard.
Keep what matters.
Change what can be better.
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
Allah ya kara rufa mana asiri
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un💔, No matter how promising tomorrow looks, none of us is guaranteed to see it. A man can make plans for the next day and never get to see it. Everything happens by the will of Allah, and His decree is beyond our understanding. May Allah forgive him, have mercy on him, illuminate his grave, and grant him the highest place in Jannatul Firdaus.
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
Wtf this is fukcing terrifying…
🚨 BREAKING: Today we killed agentic AI.
I just watched my Mac finish a 16-hour workday in 183 seconds.
This is absurd.
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Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
WAIT WAIT WAIT — SO APPARENTLY WHEN YOU ASK AN ADHD KID OR PARTNER A QUESTION, THEY SAY "HUH?" OR "WHAT?", AND THEN ANSWER YOU TWO SECONDS LATER BEFORE YOU EVEN REPEAT YOURSELF—THAT’S AN ACTUAL NEUROLOGICAL AUDIO LAG??
Yes, and it is called an Auditory Processing Delay. Here is why there is a 3-second buffering wheel between an ADHD person's ears and their brain: 1/6
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
This reminds me of what happened when my maternal grandfather passed away years back. On the 7th day Fidau prayer, a young lady from Cotonou showed up with a baby who, wallahi, looked so much like my grandfather! 😂😂
She came forward and announced that she was his wife and that the baby was his son. You needed to see the faces of the older children! 😩😂They were completely shocked. Nobody could even argue or say anything because honestly, the baby looked exactly like Alhaji! 😂😂
And the funny part? Alhaji was 70 years old when he died ooo! 😂😂
May your soul continue to rest in peace, Alhaji Konitan MBE of Egbaland. ❤️
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
BREAKING: Estimated $5.7 billion stolen in hack of world's largest exchange Binance
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
Done: abegna.com
Mustapha Aliyu retweeted
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.