For those who don’t know, Chicago was the code name for the 32-bit successor to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, eventually released as Windows 95. It was also a departure from Microsoft’s earlier desktop interface style, introducing the start button, task bar, and system tray.

I think their concern is not data retention, but data collection/exfiltration.

What is that white enclosure with the vent on top?

Its features hold a lot of promise, but it is very new and not what I would consider stable yet. I wouldn’t suggest using it to store anything that you care about until the dust has settled. That will most likely be months from now; maybe years.

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Why are you certain they meant well? You have even less evidence of that than was needed to determine if someone slept through sexual abuse.

I’m not certain of what they meant, because I haven’t met them and can’t read minds. Obviously, I’m being charitable with my assumptions about details that are both unknowable and irrelevant to my point.

Stop blocking for cops.

You sound just like an aggressive cop’s catchphrase: “Stop resisting.”

Maybe you should stop willfully misinterpreting people’s words and slinging accusations.

There are a few JeOS distros out there, usually built around something like Kodi or Jellyfin. I’ve had good experiences with LibreELEC, which (through Kodi) can do audio and video files, broadcast TV, live streams, VOD channels, and even game emulators if the hardware can handle them. It works well on small devices.

When choosing hardware, beware of the fractional frame rate issue: Lots of TV content has a video frame rate that’s a little bit off from the whole numbers usually expected by computers, like 30000/1001 = 29.97002997 fps instead of 30 fps. Support for these frame rates is missing from a lot of systems-on-chip, so small media boxes that use them will have to fake it by dropping or duplicating frames every so often. The result is not smooth.

All the Raspberry Pi models that I’ve checked do support fractional frame rates, so that would be a pretty safe hardware choice.

I hope we as a society will start teaching new parents that they shouldn’t rely on child development advice from a single person, especially one with limited knowledge and experience in that area. Raising humans is complicated, and as with many things, the pitfalls are often invisible unless you’ve run into them before.

I assume the detective constable meant well when offering guidance, but it’s important to consider the source when evaluating guidance, and be a little skeptical when it comes from someone whose qualifications and incentives don’t directly apply.

Cats have a side designated as “up”?

I think others have already covered linux being silent if you want it to be.

I just want to acknowledge your headline, which made wonder if someone had named their newborn baby “Linux”. Thanks for the laugh. :)

Indoctrinated fanatics scare me.

I suppose I would avoid connecting to untrusted networks, or avoid opening print dialogs while on them, or uninstall CUPS until a fix is available.

That refers to the fact that printer advertisements can contain lies: When you see a familiar printer name appear on a network, it could always be an impostor secretly pointing to the address of a malicious device.

So my first advice stands: Avoid interaction with untrusted or potentially compromised print servers.

To be clear, when I say “interaction”, I don’t just mean printing to them. I mean any interaction at all. Even just browsing a network for printers could potentially mean your system contacts the devices at the advertised addresses, and receives data from them. This Qualys report doesn’t make clear whether this kind of interaction is safe, so I have to assume for now that it is not.

Exploitation involves sending a malicious UDP packet to port 631 on the target, directing it to an attacker-controlled IPP server.

Okay, so at least until this is patched, it would be a good idea to shut down any CUPS-related process that’s listening on port 631, and avoid interaction with untrusted or potentially compromised print servers.

Either of these commands will list such processes:

$ sudo lsof -i :631

$ sudo fuser -v 631/tcp 631/udp

I don’t want to diminish the urgency of this vulnerability, but it is worth noting that “affecting all GNU/Linux systems” does not mean that every affected system is actually running the vulnerable code. Some installations don’t run print services and don’t ever communicate with printers.

Also, I suspect that the author’s use of “GNU” in that warning is misleading, potentially giving a false sense of security. (Sadly, a certain unfortunate meme has led many people to think that all Linux systems are GNU systems, and the author appears to be among them.) I don’t see any reason to think musl builds of CUPS are immune, for example, so I don’t assume my Alpine systems are safe just because they are not GNU/Linux.

threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a “handful” of U.S. internet service providers

Which ISPs?

Also, it would Be(e) better to link the original article (archived here), rather than this secondary reporting based on it.

Our capitulation to the virus is a combination of a population where most are now many months or years from their last vaccine dose, and that vaccine dose was in any case poorly cross-protective for the very distinct current variants.

I think most people don’t realize just how important that first part is. Many seem to believe a dose will keep them safe (and no longer dangerous to others) for at least a year, but that’s a mistake. Even our best Covid vaccines don’t protect for years or decades like the vaccines we’re accustomed to from childhood.

Immunity from these new shots wanes rapidly, reaching less than 20% effectiveness after just 6 months.

https://archive.ph/HcVVC

Even if the source is paywalled. Having the original source in the main URL field would have let apps immediately show what domain the article comes from, let the bot do its bias check, and let various spam control systems do their job.

It would be helpful if the main link was to the original source, and the archive link in the body.

We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.

The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn’t mention it because it’s the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that. The characters’ situation is probably older than printed words.

Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a “blatant rip-off” of Luck (2009) is quite a stretch.

(Incidentally, the Luck synopsis that I read says it focuses on gambling, not competitive trials or children’s games. A quick look at the video confirms it.)

They haven’t even had the account for an hour and they’ve already violated lemmy.world ToS (calls for violence) in another thread. May the ban hammer strike swiftly.