program that lets you watch youtube videos privately

Another one called FluxTube and one called magic-tape were posted recently, too.

The fact that winamp still exists is just silly fun.

Is this an earnest question? I can’t tell

Wood furniture is, for all its pros and cons, heavy.

Whenever I get an idea for a project, this is always the following thought. “Ugh, I don’t wanna have to move that.”

And this is why I haven’t installed Teams on my personal computer. If it was less invasive, I would, but it’s just potential bossware masquerading as “productivity tools.”

That shit stays on my work computer, and I just VPN into it.

How’s that? If I’m running a Windows machine, how would a CUPS exploit affect me?

I’m not asking maliciously, but I genuinely don’t grasp how that could be a viable attack vector.

I like your idea. But you’ll have to settle for being a fish.

Probably won’t happen until Millennials and younger are in meaningful numbers in Congress or Parliament or whatever. A few Gen X politicians might be affected, but the rest probably don’t have gigantic digital libraries of things they’ve “bought.”

How?

I would have considered a folding book-style phone if I wanted a tablet. I agree that they’re likely the only viable use case that isn’t a complete gimmick.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about the ins and outs of GPUs, but perhaps it’s a GTX vs. RTX issue. They’re different enough that the NVK project is targeting only RTX and up.

The very next sentence:

Note that everything that is not Linux has been filtered out [in this filtered list of unique IPs]. That is why I was getting increasingly alarmed during the last few weeks.

They said they were getting duplicates and non-*nix hits with that 300k number, which doesn’t help them (i.e. the hundreds of thousands of hits was artificially inflated). So yes, the threat is overblown.

Coupled with the fact that patches are already out, and it’s easily mitigated by closing 631, and I don’t expect this will be much of a problem for most people.

Yep. While simple to prepare, this will affect almost nobody, as it requires the user to perform an increasingly rare action in a world that’s often going paperless.

Also, the likelihood that a regular user will expose port 631 to the internet is probably close to zero. There’s several uncommon pieces that have to be in place for this to work, to the point that it’s not a simple matter to execute this exploit.

But again, most people aren’t running Linux, and for people who are, they’re likely more conscientious about connectivity and security patches.

I agree that most people aren’t paying attention to every little thing, but the likelihood of someone invading your home network for a tiny payoff, especially when it requires the rare activity of printing something, is probably low-risk.

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.

Really, Conservatives? Y’all gonna do this again, after you killed off a big chunk of your base during COVID?

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.