CUPS is installed on the majority of desktop systems. One of the listed CVEs indicates that port 631 is by default open to the local network, so if you connect to any shared network (public WiFi, work/school network, even your home network if another compromised device gets connected to it) you’re exposed. Or a browser flaw or other vulnerability could be exploited to forward a packet to that port.

In other words: While access to port 631 is required first, the severity of the vulnerability lies in how damn easy it is to take over a system after that. And the system can be re-compromised any time you print something, making this a persistent vector.

Don’t forget the Aaron Eckhart cameo as the bricklayer.

What games do they know? Can you draw any analogies?

Itanium 2: electric boogaloo.

Mocked transgender people.

And miss out on the sweet release from this mortal coil?

Knowing that there are 7+ Enterprises already qualifies you as a Star Trek nerd.

The only reason they offered compensation is because he’s well known. How many small time content creators don’t have the fame to cause such a reaction and are left high and dry?

The version of bloody knuckles that we had at school was you put your fist on the table vertically, knuckles towards your opponent. Then you take turns flicking a coin at each other’s knuckles.

Ecco.

It could be to protect the cord from being damaged by the prongs - the plastic cover would be softer and less sharp.

Thanks for the update. Enjoy your vacation!

Except that Starlink pricing and throughput is not linear. They’re starting to add congestion charges in popular areas, they have no satellites at higher latitudes, and their devices suffer at low temperatures. If you think that Starlink will be able to deliver what Elmo claims, then I have a trip to the Titanic to sell to you.

To me the weekend is the end of the week. I don’t start the week on its end, so by elimination the week starts on Monday.

Pixel 8 user here - the in-display fingerprint reader is fine, as long as my finger isn’t super dry (which happens regularly). So I’m regularly licking my finger to unlock the device like some boomer that’s used to doing it from turning pages in a book.

Thursday is 5/7 if you’re one of those uncivilized people who start the week in Sunday.

That seems like a myopic view. Service misconfiguration is not always a vendor’s fault, and demanding software vendors to patch their products is not going to fix OSS vulnerabilities. In fact, we’ve seen examples this year of increased pressure to fix “issues” leading to developers unwittingly accepting malicious commits.

Mind you, I’m not contesting that some vendors produce dogshit products (looking at you, CrowdStrike), but calling all vendors villains is a bit of a stretch.

Not better, but more familiar.

The newsworthiness of such characters would be zero if Disney hadn’t lobbied to extend the copyright on the characters for nearly a century.