Warning: perlsphere.net has been hacked

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Firefox doesn't warn yet. Oops, I tried - I'll lose my identity, money and files!

https://github.com/ranguard/perlsphere/commit/db1694583e8d2002eaa59c2929b4c1b09558b7d1 - that's removed issue the content.

"Hacked" is a bit harsh, no one got into our systems and everything worked as expected... We aggregate content, we can't police all the sources or links - anyone can emailed me (email address at the top of the page) to report dodgy content.

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user-pic I try to write all code in Perl, but find I end up writing in bash, CSS, HTML, JS, and SQL, and doing database design, just to get anything done...