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Posted by westonruter

This is a follow-up to #63748. See PR comment from @dmsnell:

I wish that the $cache_hit_callback were more robust than it is, since it also matches on values like “this cache is *hit, don’t use it” and “not a hit” but that’s not part of this ticket or work.

would be awesome to have some example strings from each of these new headers as a comment to the right of them.

for example, the varnish docs suggest that the _full_ match is hit, meaning we could add => static function ( $v ) { return 'hit' === $v; } /** @see https://www.varnish-software.com/developers/tutorials/logging-cache-hits-misses-varnish/ */

the extra examples are icing on the cake and not necessary here.

according to this random survey x-cache-status is expected to only contain hit, though for x-cache there is an insignificant but measureable count of requests containing HIT, MISS

Also, in Slack:

the only thing that really caught my eye is that we’re needly allocating to do case-insensitive compare instead of calling stripos()

Daily Check In.

Dec. 5th, 2025 06:59 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33924 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 5

How are you doing?

I am okay
4 (80.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
1 (20.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
3 (60.0%)

One other person
1 (20.0%)

More than one other person
1 (20.0%)




Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Weekly Reading

Dec. 5th, 2025 04:32 pm
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Recently Finished
The Treehouse Library
The Last Bookwanderer
Last two books in the Pages & Co series. I really enjoyed these books!

What Kind of Paradise
This was good enough but extremely predictable. A girl has been raised alone with her conspiracy theorist/isolationist father in the woods and told her mother died when she was a child. Then one day her father takes her on a trip with him and she finds out everything she knew was a lie. spoilers but I don't think anyone would be surprised )

Murder at the Orpheus Theatre
Fourth in the Tate and Bell series. This time I remembered not to get the audiobook because I don't really like the narrator, and it was a much more pleasant experience. The library doesn't have anything but the audiobooks, which is why I kept getting those, but I recently signed up for Kindle Unlimited, and these are on there, so I can read them for "free" that way.

Death of a Hollow Man
Second in the Midsomer Murder series. The beginning of this was verrrrrrry slow and the murder did not happen until well after the halfway point. I prefer my mysteries to get started with things sooner, but I did enjoy it well enough in the end.

The Witches of Silverlake vol. 1
Graphic novel about a group of queer teens who play at being witches but then suddenly supernatural stuff starts happening for real. I liked this okay. It did end on a huge cliffhanger, so if another volume is released at some point I will probably check it out. I couldn't find any info about further volumes, though.

LadiesBingo: Sacrifice / Letting Go

Dec. 5th, 2025 06:05 pm
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AO3 link | Her Turn (300 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer [TV]
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Willow Rosenberg & Buffy Summers
Characters: Willow Rosenberg, Buffy Summers, Dawn Summers [Buffy & Angel Universe]
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Post-Canon
Summary:

Willow left a letter...



Her Turn

This one, it's not for you. You get that, right? This time, it's about me. It has to be me. You can't… you can't keep reaching. I know you love me. I know you would want to step up, to take my place. You've always been the one making the sacrifice. That's who you are, the One. You changed the game to begin with, and then when that wasn't enough, you changed the whole playing field.

Okay, maybe I had something to do with changing the gameboard up. But I was only able to do it because of you, because you had so much faith in me. I need you to have that faith in me now. I need you to be the stronger one, the one who has to live, to keep facing the evil.

Hopefully it won't be as bad, not once I do this.

All my love.





Dawn wasn't used to seeing her sister frail, not even after all the losses they had faced. She'd guessed, though, that this one might be the breaking point, and hurried to get to Buffy's side. She saw the paper crumpled in a fist, but ignored it, just turning her sister to hold her.

At first, Buffy was stiff. The grief broke to Dawn's coaxing, a howl of pain and denial. Dawn just held on, petting her hair, tears streaming on her own face.

"Maybe… maybe it didn't end her?" Dawn suggested once the crying gave way to the heavy silence.

Buffy pushed the crumpled paper to her sister, letting Dawn read Willow's own words. It made Dawn swallow hard, as the pain and finality gripped her all over again.

She couldn't give into it, though. Buffy needed her. Buffy had lost Willow, and Dawn needed to step up even more.

Crimes forgiven

Dec. 5th, 2025 10:46 pm
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Today: Jídé Salawu, writer and editor at Olongo Africa.


Issue No. 457

Insult and Impunity in Nigeria
Jídé Salawu

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Insult and Impunity in Nigeria

by Jídé Salawu

Just about a year ago, I called my uncle in my hometown, Shao, which is just south of the Niger River. Our call started on the usual notes: asking about home and family, the Adventist church, and the general state of the town. As political and economic insecurity continue to ravage Nigeria, Shao is also changing, and I wanted to know more about the safety measures being taken at home. 

Sobi Barracks, one of Nigeria’s largest infantry barracks, stands at the southern end of Shao. But even with this heavy presence of military neighbours, an Indigene of Shao was kidnapped last year; he was released after paying a ransom. 

My uncle and I discussed how the villages are now at the mercy of terrorists, both inside the government and out. We touched on the aforementioned kidnapping and abduction, and I warned him to reduce his own travels on Kwara roads; the abductors, I fear, can move undetected because of the porosity of Nigeria’s security system. Shao is surrounded by vast shrublands and rural settlements that have become a refuge for outlaws. As a gateway to the north, the town’s Jebba Road has thus become a target for kidnappings and robberies.

In Nigeria, to be a farmer is to put your life at risk, whether you are a large-scale or subsistence farmer. I live in perpetual anxiety for my father, who insists he wants to farm and keeps acres of cassava and guinea corn in my hometown. I tell him never to stay on the farm until late evening before returning home. News of farmers being killed or abducted has become part of the daily headlines now. 


One of the English words I learned early was “impunity.” An old word in English, with the first OED citation in 1532, from Thomas More, speaking against “the impunity of all mischievous people.” What I have known about this word, about the impunity of mischievous people in Nigeria—greedy, corrupt, and violent people—keeps evolving.  

Nigeria has fought terrorism on a large scale since 2009, when confrontations between Nigerian security forces and the insurgent group Boko Haram left more than 1,000 dead. But terrorists have ravaged rural areas of the country for many years, and the violence cannot be explained away as one single crisis of religious genocide; the atrocious takeovers of Christian-dominated villages in Southern Kaduna, for example, are responsible for many deaths. In other words there is an overwhelming ethnic and religious angle to terrorism in Nigeria, but there is no single explanation for it. 

In many ways, Nigeria itself invests in the mass deaths of its own citizens by starving the public of a functioning infrastructure. They are denied appropriate medical care, education, food, and social amenities, and beyond this, citizens are exposed to violence from all kinds of kidnappers and extortionists, including the spectacular violence of the Jihadist terrorists. Nigerians are subject to what amounts to their own government’s state-sponsored violence, because the concepts of citizenship, and of the government’s responsibility to its citizens, have been lost.

Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs. The country is a conflation of overlapping and conflicting ethnic, religious, economic, and cultural interests; it is a story of political illusions and lies, sustained on fragmentalism, class apartheid, and ethnocentric desire; a hegemonic state, created by and for colonial interests, and sustained by its one percent elite. Nigeria has no binding principles that safeguard it as a nation, and has no place of ideological process for the development of such principles. It is an autopilot state with its political elites sitting in the cockpit, pretending to man the controls. 

This is the fertile soil in which impunity can thrive. In the criminal paradise of Nigeria, terrorists brandish the ransom paid by victims on TikTok and dare the government to stop them. Politicians conduct their corrupt activities in broad daylight, reckoning themselves sacred cows who are above the law. Politicians keep the security apparatus for the protection of their own families, while the masses exist in every kind of precarity, on the fringes of life. 

Local political and religious stakeholders often perceive the terrorists as their kin and protectors, like mafiosi with regional loyalties. Consequently some leaders, in keeping with their ethnic and religious sentiments, agitate for amnesty for their local terrorists, painting them as aggrieved fellow-citizens who should be forgiven by the government. Thus we have been treated to the obscene spectacle of terrorists meeting with politicians to hold “peace talks,” with the military and the police in attendance, and all shaking hands with the country’s purported enemies. Impunity is what Nigeria praises, it is the area in which the country innovates; its justice system is set up to blame the victims, and rationalize criminality away. 

This perpetual anxiety in which the country keeps its citizens also endangers diasporic citizens who have been asked to return home. But who will return to such a home? My hometown, Shao itself, has now become a den of criminals, and bandits are not far away in every Kwara border. My uncle encouraged me to think about my cousins, and why I should help them find their feet in the diaspora. I told him firmly that is not an option I am interested in. I really want to see Nigeria work. For years now, I have been thinking about the social crisis awaiting Nigeria because of the countless families, colleagues and friends thrown into disarray as they flee abroad in search of safety. Many of us, living in countries thousands of miles apart, may not see each other again.

For many in the diaspora the dream of return is evaporating, as the nation has left its subjects behind. Hopes for the country’s growth into a healthy democracy that improves the lives its people exist only in fiction. The only way out is the complete demolition of the longstanding, deeply rooted structures of impunity.


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Posted by anton7249

Hi,

There is sourceURL= now in styles tags, that can not be disabled.

<style id='wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css'>
img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^="auto," i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px}
/*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */
</style>

And there are all the block styles have these comments.

/*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */

Since this is for developers purposes, can this be disabled with a help of condition SCRIPT_DEBUG https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/#script_debug please to improve performance?

These comments add additional kbs to a page.

Kind regards

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