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  • But again, most people aren’t running Linux

    Exactly. This is bad, for the 0.3% of the computing population that use Linux AND have CUPS installed AND actually print things.

    Not exactly a prime target, compared to literally almost anything else. If I were going all-in on something after having gained access to someone’s local network, I’m 100% in on any exploit that lets me use an infostealer trojan to steal your session cookies, not fiddling around and hoping you print something.

    (Patch your shit anyways, but there’s no need to freak out.)



  • You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking.

    Which, at any of my last few corporate jobs, would be grounds for termination, if not immediately throwing you out of the building and telling you if you come back we’re calling the cops.

    You really don’t bypass controls in a corporate environment like this if you like working there.

    (And yes, not EVERY job will react that way, but any that’s got any compliance requirements absolutely will.)






  • I’m somewhat surprised that there aren’t a lot of good alternatives but uh, yeah, there doesn’t seem to be.

    I would have expected there to be at least one or two good TTS engines but I guess that assumption is quite wrong.

    As to your other post, it’s less that I care in any specific sense that Microsoft knows what I’m reading and more of a (admittedly irrational) dislike of providing anything that an ad company could maybe later use to sell me shit.