Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post.

Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 08 August 2025 ✦

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Ivan Vulovic writes:

In the first part of this series, we ran a series of raw performance benchmarks between FrankenPHP and PHP-FPM using a minimal PHP script. The goal was to isolate and compare the performance of the underlying HTTP server mechanisms — not PHP itself, nor any application logic.

This time, we’re taking it further.

We’re swapping out the simple echo "Hello World" script with something real — a modern Symfony project, including routing, services, and, eventually, a large set of dependencies and bundles.

FrankenPHP vs PHP-FPM (Part 2): Symfony Under Real Load and Why Workers Win

You might want to read part 1 in the PHP Previous Weeks section below first.

Destroying Autocracy – August 07, 2025

Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.

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TechDirt reports:

Back in April 2023, when Substack CEO Chris Best refused to answer basic questions about whether his platform would allow racist content, I noted that his evasiveness was essentially hanging out a “Nazis Welcome” sign.

By December, when the company doubled down and explicitly said they’d continue hosting and monetizing Nazi newsletters, they’d fully embraced their reputation as the Nazi bar.

Last week, we got a perfect demonstration of what happens when you build your platform’s reputation around welcoming Nazis: your recommendation algorithms start treating Nazi content as more than worth tolerating, to content worth promoting.

Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now

If you are on SuckStack you are a c^nt in addition to being a willing ally of Nazis.