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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.

There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.

This is why we publish on Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or scroll down to your favorite section.

My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.

Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> This week, Symfony 5.4.45, 6.4.13, and 7.1.6 maintenance versions were released. We also published the first beta version of Symfony 7.2, so you can start testing it in your own applications before its release at the end of November 2024. Lastly, we shared more details about some of the talks planned for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

A Week of Symfony #931 (28 October - 3 November 2024)

They also have:

New in Symfony 7.2: Mime Improvements

New in Symfony 7.2: Console Finished Indicator

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Building a Fraud Prevention component using Symfony

Less than a month to go: Get ready for SymfonyCon Vienna 2024!

Blackfire has:

Automating context-aware observability with Blackfire and Upsun

Featured Item

Last month I was in the Halifax airport and had to spend some Canadian dollars before heading back to the U.S. So I picked up two magazines' special issues on AI. They were the Harvard Business Review's How to Thrive in a Gen AI World and MIT Technology Review's Greetings from the Future.

As I read various articles on the flight I came up with the idea for this article, and asked myself is it possible to use "AI" ethically in a web stack?

Is there an ethical AI stack for Web Development?

This week

Strange Buzz has:

A better ADR pattern for your Symfony controllers

Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:

Creating focused domain applications. A Symfony approach (Part 1)

Eprofos shows us how to:

Supercharge Your Symfony App with Smart Device Detection: Meet EprofosUserAgentAnalyzerBundle

Platforms

A former client, Valerio Barbera examines:

Laravel AI service with support for multiple LLMs

CMSs

Backdrop announces:

Backdrop 1.29 released!

Drupal 7 peeps, get on board.

Joomla has:

Joomla 5.2.1 Security Release

Drupal has:

Drupal CMS: Groundbreaking New Version of Drupal Detailed at DrupalCon Singapore 2024

Drunomics examines:

Low-code + Decoupled Drupal: The Power of Custom Elements 3.0

Markie (not Mark) looks at:

Drupal (LGD): A Digital Public Good Transforming Government Services

Image X Media explores:

AI in Drupal: Latest Demos of the Incredible Capabilities

HashBangCode reviews:

DrupalCamp Scotland 2024

Mike Herchel announces:

Session submission open and featured speakers announced for Florida DrupalCamp 2025

Tag1 Consulting continues a series:

Migrating your Data from D7 to D10: Configuring text formats, editors and user roles

Golems shares:

Best Practices for REST APIs in Drupal 11

Specbee shows us:

How to fix SEO rankings after your Drupal website migration

Previous Weeks

T3 Planet shares:

The Man Behind TYPO3: King Kasper’s Inspiring Journey After 2 Decades

Worth a read!

Use Typo3 examines:

Modern DTOs with Enums in Extbase

PHP

This week

The PHP Foundation shows us:

PHP 8.4: How Property Hooks Happened

And Edouard Courty shows us how to:

Master the Art of Data Fixtures

Koehnlien explores:

Xdebug, DDEV, WSL2 and corporate network restrictions

Rafael Citario shows us:

Como criar API com PHP Puro?

And XSLT for the Modern Web shows us:

How to use XSLT with PHP (very simply)

I'm not sure how simple it is.

Joe Alamo-Keilty examines:

Fixing Our OPcache Config Sped Up Our PHP Application By 3x

Derick Rethans has.

Xdebug Update: October 2024

You should follow Derick on Mastodon as he is also a good photographer.

More Programming

The Guardian asks:

The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches?

DarkReading reports:

Google: Big Sleep AI Agent Puts SQLite Software Bug to Bed

GitPod announces:

We’re leaving Kubernetes

Atomic Object asks:

Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL

Endgadget reports:

Okta vulnerability allowed accounts with long usernames to log in without a password

Mayank says:

Your CSS reset should be layered

CSS god, Josh Comeau provides:

A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

CSS Tricks looks at:

Fluid Everything Else

Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)

Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

Tech Policy reports:

New Findings: Researchers Consider Elections, Hate, and Misinformation

We Can’t Wait For Media Literacy Education in the Age of AI

Bleeping Computer reports:

Canada orders TikTok to shut down over national risk concerns

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

Dan Gillmor notes:

Extremism won, and journalism helped

Blood in the Machine reports:

Silicon Valley got what it wanted

Cybersecurity/Privacy

BleepingComputer reports:

ChatGPT-4o can be used for autonomous voice-based scams

404 Media reports:

Inside the Massive Crime Industry That is Hacking Billion Dollar Companies

The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 91

The Nexus of Privacy reports:

A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness

While the Fediverse is slowly growing, Mastodon's growth is flat. Why? Its daddy thinks it's a shitter clone. When it isn't.

Other Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

Cory Doctorow covers:

Bluesky and enshittification

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

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