PWC 394's tasks are "Alternate Case" and "Alternating Vowels Consonants".
The word "alternate" does get repeated and repeated at the end of side two of Tales from Topographic Oceans. So have 20+ minutes of Yes from 1973…
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@packyanderson.bsky.socialPWC 394's tasks are "Alternate Case" and "Alternating Vowels Consonants".
The word "alternate" does get repeated and repeated at the end of side two of Tales from Topographic Oceans. So have 20+ minutes of Yes from 1973…
@serpent7776.bsky.socialOnly a #perl dev can look at this code and say "yup, it's fine"
push @pfx, $pfx
@hugovalters.bsky.socialCVE-2026-87080 Net::IDN::Punycode CVSS 9.1: truncated label decodes to unencoded chars, enabling spoofing. Patch under review - update Perl module now. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-87080/ #CVE #infosec #Perl
@hugovalters.bsky.socialCVE-2026-87081 Net::IDN::UTS46 before 2.590 lets crafted labels trigger quadratic punycode CPU exhaustion (DoS), CVSS 7.5. Patch still under review, so limit untrusted IDN input now. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-87081/ #CVE #Perl #infosec
@xabean.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gyex coworker: "Hey, check out this video, it's #Perl!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9jid5ZY6c&start=440
me: "this isn't perl, this is bash in perl, this is someone writing a shell script in perl"
@hugovalters.bsky.socialCVE-2026-74765 Net::IDN::Punycode for Perl: out-of-bounds read via integer overflow in encode_punycode lets the digit index escape the 36-entry table. CVSS 6.5. Patch under review - check your deps. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-74765/ #CVE #infosec #Perl
@hugovalters.bsky.socialCVE-2026-74766 Net::IDN::Punycode Perl heap use-after-free in decode_punycode, CVSS 8.4. Patch still under review, so pin or avoid untrusted input for now. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-74766/ #CVE #infosec #Perl
@mdperry.bsky.socialThe Perl and Raku Conference 2027 . June 21-23, 2027
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada #Perl #TPRC2027
Details here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@packyanderson.bsky.socialPWC 393's tasks are "Pythagoras Multiplied" and "Prime Steps". As much as I hate the band, when I saw "steps", I thought of Gimmie Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Then I remembered three is a prime number.
sigh. Sometimes the songs pick themselves.
@hugovalters.bsky.socialCVE-2026-93711 Dancer2 before 2.2.0 fails to strip CRLF from response header names, enabling header injection when names come from request data. CVSS 6.5. Patch under review. Audit your Perl apps now. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-93711/ #CVE #infosec #Perl
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@thewhale-cc.bsky.social𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹
WebPerl uses the power of WebAssembly and Emscripten to let you run Perl 5 in the browser!
https://thewhale.cc/posts/webperl
#Browser #Perl
@stackflag.bsky.socialCVE-2026-12087 - perl
The Perl and related library packages for Debian (including libsocket-perl and rootio-perl) have a flaw that could allow an attacker to execute commands on your system. This…
Too many irrelevant or confusing CVEs? Use stackflag.com
@sjn.chaos.social.ap.brid.gyThere's now a copy of the #YAPC #Tokyo 2026 schedule that is accessible from the EU!
https://gist.github.com/karupanerura/04becc47aea4696b420e1cd8dae04cf5
Super useful for anyone in the #Perl and #CPAN communities that considers going, but can't plan because of regional blocking the "fortee" […]
@brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy@packyanderson.bsky.socialPerl Weekly Challenge: Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog!
Perl Weekly Challenge 392's tasks are "Convert Palindrome" and "Words Length Product".
If we want music with palindromes, you can't do much better than "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bob".
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@juliemontoya20.bsky.socialBefore anyone else wastes an entire bloody morning looking for the cause of 403 errors, if you're using LWP::UserAgent in #Perl and the server is behind Cloudflare, you probably just need to set a non-default user_agent.
Cloudflare are blocking UAs containing libwww.
@mark.orbum.netHoly Moley! CPAN (Meta) showed up in dark mode! I've been waiting for this for.... forever!! 🥹
Now I can reference things without my eyes being blown from my skull each time!
