The fact that winamp still exists is just silly fun.

Neat. I’ll take a closer look later, but this sounds like an interesting project

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

It’s not really random internet strangers’ place to judge someone’s parenting choices. We don’t know their overall parenting style, the personality of the child, what lessons they may be trying to teach, etc. The only thing we know for certain is that they want to use parental controls, perhaps to ensure they stay safe as they learn how to use the internet responsibly while also having a level of autonomy.

That’s not helicopter parenting, that’s just prudent.

Pretty sure it’s a 2.5" HDD.

That interesting. Well, at least you found something that works!

Whoa, TIL

Not if you make it yourself. Saves baking time, cost of purchasing store-bought cookie dough, and cost of electricity.

Plus, it tastes better, because it doesn’t have to have weird shelf stabilizers.

Yay, food science!

Why did you rebase, if you don’t mind my asking?

Also, wait until Christmas if you can. Most computer parts have their deepest sale then (it’s not Black Friday, surprisingly).

Druidry is/was an ancient practice that was inherently spiritual but was likely an early analog to scientific inquiry, with an emphasis on passing that knowledge down and ensuring new members became experts in their own right.

Like imagine living years of your life desperately calling out to someone, anyone, and you finally hear someone - you desperately rush over, but there’s there’s nobody there. You’re sure you heard someone, but there’s nothing, except you.

You just basically summarized the experience of people deconverting from fundamentalist Christianity.