As other articles pointed out, this is only a problem if:

• You expose port 631 to the internet.
  • Why would anyone do that?
• You have a malicious actor on your trusted network.
  • If so, you have bigger problems.
• You hit “Print” on a compromised network, such as a public library, while using CUPS.

Only the last one is potentially problematic for more people, and even then, the number of people using Linux is still very small. Some libraries don’t allow printing or only printing via their computers.

It’s good to know this flaw exists, but it doesn’t seem like a particularly concerning attack vector.

Sorry, I forgot that you gotta know all the secret cyphers to decode his supergenius messages about how the storm is coming or how he has a secret moon base where there’s only the whitest people.

(/s)

“Kevin, how did you meet your husband?”

“Well, it’s a funny story, but we meet at this dumb Trump movie in NC…”

Why watch a movie, when you could get a random screed from the source himself at 3AM, which you can read in about 30sec?

Sounds like some firmware updates are in order.

I hope he eventually dyes his hair the same color, too.

Either one of them. It would be weird either way.

I love weird foods. I would try this.

• To exploit this across the internet or LAN, a miscreant needs to reach your CUPS service on UDP port 631. Hopefully none of you have that facing the public internet. The miscreant also has to wait for you to start a print job.
• If port 631 isn’t directly reachable, an attacker may be able to spoof zeroconf, mDNS, or DNS-SD advertisements to achieve exploitation on a LAN. Details of that path will be disclosed later, we’re promised.

So don’t expose 631 to the internet (why would you?) and know who’s on your network. Be careful printing things on an untrusted network.

It’s serious, but seems like a wonky attack vector for most.

Well, now I’m gonna. You can’t tell me what to do! /s

I can’t hear about this game and not remember that some boomer actor thinks Belatro is going to destroy humanity, because it’s addictive.

If she’s worked there for 24 years, and she started when she was 18, that means she was born no later than 1982.

But she might have had other odd jobs before that, so I suspect she’s probably from Gen X, a generation that grew up in an era with a future that included Social Security and Pensions; sucks to learn the hard way that Capitalists don’t care about tenure or loyalty, and that most of us are numbers on an expense sheet to them.

This “article” reads like a long-form cover letter for a job application. Thanks for enshittifying everything, Jagan, and using your bullshit “skills” to go for that cash grab before the bubble pops.

If this article wasn’t written by one of Jagan’s LLMs and was in fact written by a real person (and I would be shocked to find that it was), the author should feel bad and demand a refund on their education.

The response is wrong. AI isn’t recognizing people’s emotions, it’s inferring them. It’s not “smart” enough to recognize emotions, and we don’t need the dystopian nightmare of a computer thinking you’re malicious when you’re annoyed or being sarcastic.

Let’s go Allred!

And I’m sure productivity will be improved afterwards, right…?

/s

Synergy has always been my go-to for a software KVM. It’s currently only $30, and it works great. I paid for a license probably a decade ago, and I’ve more than recouped my utility cost.

Looks interesting. I’m into PvE games, especially sci-fi ones, and I appreciate the fact that the dev is actively avoiding microtx. The aesthetic kind of reminds me of Death Stranding.

I probably won’t buy it very early on, but I would consider it if it was closer to release.

Spiral is Debian. Like Endeavor, it’s primarily a way to install Debian with a few sane defaults and graphical choosers to install other software. Otherwise, it’s just Debian.

Try it in a VM. I was surprised how fast it was even in that limited environment, and if not for the fact that I want/need a newer kernel, I might have chosen that one.

But otherwise, sounds like you’ve kind of already chosen.

The only time I haven’t been able to do something was with a VPN client that came as a self-executing tarball. Because it tries to mess with Network Manager on the fly, it doesn’t work correctly.

So there’s a handful of weird edge cases, but I agree that the majority can be solved with podman or distrobox.