Moved this week. It's kinda fun rediscovering how communities work. My ID doesn't belong on the internet, that was the last straw for me.

The usage of PHP in enterprise appliances is actually pretty wild - many firewalls, load balancers etc are using PHP for management plane activities. There is a lot out there outside of userland, and those are the appliances most vulnerable in my opinion. A compromised firewall is worse than a compromised website.

That does sound like a bit of a risk. Similar to how high frequency trading affects stability of shares and elevates risk of mass sell-offs - if these agents had enough use from the general public, they could easily impact the stability of a bank.

It's either Monte Carlo or the pretzel shaped shortbread bickies they put in the sewing material tins

Hank Green has a great video about datacentres and water use, mostly around how there are so many ways to interpret and understand the scale.