If you have CUPS exposed to the public Internet you have much bigger problems than a new CUPS vulnerability. For all of the hype this exploit received over the last week it’s the biggest nothing burger I’ve seen all year.

Greetings fellow human!

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Wait until the permafrost melts and releases its trapped methane. If you think the existing CO2 models are disturbing we’re in for something much more rapidly catastrophic.

Look at all of this free speech absolutism

It’s a six year old system. Optimistically you’ll be able to salvage the PSU, case and storage. Whether you should salvage the PSU and case is up to you, prebuilts aren’t known for picking the best of these.

Personally I’d use the machine for something else (or sell it to someone for $300-400) and build what you want. (Edit: I’ve had good results moving the core system components into a USFF or NAS case and repurposing as a home server. That’s a pretty typical end of lifecycle role for an aging gaming desktop.)

Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it’s fantastic.

With Google’s new “don’t be paying for anything someone else will do for free” MO I’m doubtful

There should be no bailouts without an equivalent equity transfer from the bailee to the government

I liked the whole “send cheaters to their own server shard with other cheaters” approach that showed up a while back

The only controller I’ve ever really enjoyed using is the steam controller. Just about everything else felt worse than playing using a mouse and keyboard. To each their own though, if you like controllers then more power to you.

Incoming FOX “we’re just an entertainment network” defense in 3, 2, 1

I’m surprised they’re not pursuing govt grants and trust/foundation funding like a terrier. There has to be money out there for digital preservation work.

Sure he will, right after infrastructure week, his health care plan and after he releases his tax returns

OP you appear to be committed to (not) dying on this hill and I applaud you

It took me years to find gaming buddies who aren’t racist shitbags and we still have to punt the occasional edgelord who decides to get up in someone’s face with that shit. Not a single one of my remaining discord communities is gaming focused, those all ended up being Superfund levels of toxic. Hobby and tech communities though? Plenty of good friends there that I play games with occasionally.

Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

Because it’s done in the open and it’s accepted as part of the cost of the device. This is an expected consequence of our adtech surveillance economy where devices are now subsidized because they can harvest data about you, your usage and your behavior to sell on an ongoing basis. We’ve been screaming about these sorts of practices since the late 90s and consumers have just blithered right along with every new and creepy intrusion because they get cheap things and don’t think about the real costs or consequences. And so … Here we are.

I’m just waiting for them to add a sideband channel to some LoRa network so they can exfiltrate data even when their devices are “offline”

Even being able to generate enough lift to send a payload into orbit would be an amazing advancement. We can solve propelling craft out of the solar system later, first we need an economical way to get off planet that isn’t just burning fuel to lift fuel.

The neoliberals of the 13th and 14th century

Provided you paid your tribute and obeyed the Khan’s laws they were cool with just about everyone. Fail to do either of those things and you’re in for a bad time.