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Quick correction to the text above, PHP says the patch/announcement will be available Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC.

https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1


Yes it's now Wednesday, but Thursday was originally correct. Because of this HN post, it's been moved up to tomorrow.


In one area I lived in, there were legally defined "noxious weeds". Mostly invasive species that have several undesirable attributes.

One example is Musk Thistle. It grows extremely rapidly, reproduces at a rate that's unbelievable, and is very difficult to kill. In this heavily farmed region, a few of them growing in a roadside ditch can turn into tens/hundreds of thousands of them within a year. Not only do they outcompete just about any other plant including crops, but they have incredibly sharp barbs that injure livestock.

In publicly owned spaces or abandoned fields/lots, the county has people that searches for them and sprays them with a herbicide. If they're spotted on your private land, usually they'll notify you that you have X days to cut them down (before they flower and seed) or they'll come do it whether you want them to or not. Some counties will send a bill for this, some fund it from property taxes.

If you haven't lived in an area where they vigorously grow it sounds like a huge overreaction, but left uncontrolled because one neighbor isn't taking care of it, it can become impossible to keep it out of your yard. According to wikipedia, a single plant can produce 10,000 seeds that disperse through the wind and remain viable for decades in the soil. Even the desire to not have a painful rapidly reproducing weed in your yard aside, they can do incredible damage to cropland.

It's a shame though, it's a kinda pretty flower. Imagine a vivid pink sunflower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carduus_nutans


In WA we have enormous problems with Himalayan blackberries and scotch broom. When they get a toehold, they take over and leave a "dead zone" underneath. They're very hard to kill. The blackberries grow over 8 feet high and form a thicket that is a lot like razor wire.

Scotch broom seeds will also be viable up to 30 years.


The Orange Pi 6 Plus is full UEFI and boots things like FreeBSD natively. It's a bit higher end than a Raspberry Pi, but they're definitely in the SBC market. I'd assume they'll work with Proxmox if they support the newish 5G ethernet chips out of the box.


That thing is apparently $366 USD with 16GB of RAM, so my first thought is really "it had damn well better boot things properly if it costs so much".


A Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is $425CAD right now ($300 USD) which isn’t a huge gap.

The price on SBCs is insanity right now because they have RAM.


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