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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.
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There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
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This is why we publish on Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
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Or scroll down to your favorite section.
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My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.
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Symfony
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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
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Highlight -> This week, Symfony development activity was very intense. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added a Slug constraint, introduced support for union types in OptionsResolver, enabled using HTTP/3 with the CurlHttpClient, and added support for invokable commands and input attributes. In addition, we published a summary of the Symfony project activity in 2024.
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Featured Item
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The best news in a long time came out with two announcements this week.
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We are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.
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It will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart. Free Our Feeds will build a new, independent foundation to help make that happen.
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Meanwhile the Social Web Foundation said:
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The Social Web Foundation focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub. We also support efforts to make other distributed social networking protocols more open and equitable. For this reason, we are excited to support the FreeOurFeeds campaign launching today. This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for the open social web protocols – ActivityPub along with Bluesky’s AT Protocol – to better interoperate, leveraging the entire open social ecosystem to create a working demonstration of algorithmic pluralism at scale.
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Both initiatives aim at the same problem: Ensuring that the underlying infrastructures powering social media services are run as public services that are resistant to capture from companies or individuals. They represent attempts to safeguard nascent public digital infrastructures for a new generation of social media services.
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So while the Free our Feeds include some suspect AI cheerleaders and the SWF is too Meta tolerant for my tastes, I hope some fantastic things can come from these developments.
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This week
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Hugues Gobet continues a series:
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eCommerce
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CMSs
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In Sulu news Roboles starts a series:
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Great stuff, except for the React. ;)
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In Joomla news Sergey Tolkachyov has:
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Dries Buytaert provides his take:
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There is a link to experiment with it here.
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Use your browser translator for this as I only have beer German. De pilsner, bitte. Danke.
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Good stuff, especially the Gander testing integration.
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Tag1 Consulting explores:
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PHP
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This week
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Asian Digital Hub shows us:
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Indeed. Start with this and add individual Symfony components as you need them.
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Fernando Castillo shares:
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Valerio Barbera examines:
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Al-Amin Islam looks at an:
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More Programming
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Damien Desfontaines shares:
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Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
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The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
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The Evil Empire Strikes Back
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But for some reason they are on fascism-friendly Substack with it.
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
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The Fediverse
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The Fediverse Report has:
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The Social Web Foundation looks at:
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Other Slightly Federated Social Media
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I have no doubt Bluesky will eventually become enshittified. Let's hope the ATProtocol won't be.
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CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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