most games are CPU bound, an extreme recent example is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, the real issue is that they are mostly singlethreaded CPU bound, there's barely any games that can max out a modern 8 core CPU
There are some entities that can sign certificates that don't conform to the standard the browser makers have agreed on. Those entities are about to have their signing rights revoked. Anything they signed will be invalidated, because there's no way to tell if the signature is legit or impersonated. If some sites are using certificates signed by those entities, they're going to have a bad time, and so will you as an end user of those sites. I'm not an expert in this, but this is the impact as far as I understand it. If I'm wrong and someone knows better, please correct me.
No action is otherwise required for end users, except for those site operators who manually deploy SSL certificates.
If you manually deploy SSL certificates, then make sure that your contact information with the issuer (e.g. Digicert) is up-to-date; if your certificates are affected, they will contact you and advise you on how to proceed with reissuing and redeploying. Or, you can contact their customer service, reference the mail-archive link, and ask if your certificates are affected.
If your SSL certificates are deployed automatically (Let’s Encrypt, AWS ACM, etc.) then no action is required. Either your certificates are unaffected, or they’ll be updated automatically by the automation.
Q: What’s a simple summary of the problem?
Imagine if root tried to userdel a malicious account, and the non-root user being deleted was able to tell the system “ignore that, I’m still valid”. The system would need to be quarantined and a replacement built without that flaw, since you could not state definitively that you had deleted the malicious user account.)
This issue would allow a non-root certificate (‘intermediate’, ‘subCA’) to undo deletion (‘revocation’) of itself by the root authority, as well as undo deletion of its siblings (other intermediates issued by that root authority). To correct the issue, all non-root certificates issued incorrectly in this manner must be revoked and then destroyed, with proof of destruction. This ensures that the mis-issued intermediates can’t zombie-return someday by undoing their own deletion or the deletion of others.
It's application dependent behavior, AFAIK. Windows internals / APIs add .com by default, I believe. You probably hate this behavior like I do, and at some point in the past set "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to false in Firefox's about:config.
Either it is specific to USA or the data is weird, https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/the-7-most-in-demand-program... reports that in January (based on the same Indeed.com site) PHP is behind C#. PHP is powering >75% websites it just makes no sense to not even be in the Top20
It's because the complexity of those sites is low. My understanding is a large portion of that 75% is Wordpress sites. A very, very small portion of Wordpress sites do much development past a theme (many CSS/HTML) and installing some plugins.
If you have extensive Wordpress work, it's likely better to use a different starting point (and a different language).
I can't speak for the US market, which this data apparently focusses on, but in Germany I think that PHP is still in fairly high demand, but definitely not nearly as well compensated as the more "enterprisey" technologies (eg Java/React)
