Our physics department used KDE managed over network shares implemented by one professor in his free time, in complete defiance of the rest of the university which used windows.

Even now they’re still holding out strong, whilst Microsoft eats the rest of the university alive.
(sidenote: I get it, tech support in Linux is vritually non-existent, whilst tech-support in Windows is everywhere)

Octave FTW. Matlab is such a corporate cesspool

Kids seem more aware of toxic behaviours and seem to clock their mental health better than I ever did. Even 10 years ago, talking about mental health was considered a taboo.

I’ve found summarization to be relatively trustworthy. Perplexity does not appear to hallucinate much, and on the odd occasion it does, I dive into the sources it provides.

where’s that meme image from

I do too, but the LED is so bright that it lights up the entire plastic from within

*some

The questionable commit:

    {
      // Add the first line of localized text...
      cupsFilePrintf(fp, "*%s.%s %s/", lang->language, ppd_option, ppd_choice);
      while (*text && *text != '\n')
      {
        // Escape ":" and "<"...
        if (*text == ':' || *text == '<')
          cupsFilePrintf(fp, "<%02X>", *text);
        else
          cupsFilePutChar(fp, *text);
        text ++;
      }
      cupsFilePuts(fp, ": \"\"\n");
    }

Can someone explain to me how this allows arbitrary code execution? As far as I can see, all it does iterate through a string and markup some special characters.

Edit: Okay, after reading the blog post, and this fantastic bug report, it sounds like to print to a CUPS server, you send it a message on port 631 using an IPP (some print protocol) server. CUPS then requests attributes of the IPP server, one of which being the print filter command to run (“Foomatic-rip”) to use to convert a PS or PDF into native print code. By requesting attributes, an exploit involving string escaping through the use of unexpected spaces or quotes can override the Foomatic print command. Arbitrary text can be supplanted, which will then be executed by the CUPS server.

Fuck blue LED’s in general. No I don’t want to be able to see my Wifi repeater doubling as an adult nightlight.

I’m quite a big fan of perplexity AI, which shows you sources it used to generate the answers. One thing I often do is type a question, glance the automated answer and then jump to the source to see what the users said (basically I use it like a tailored search engine)

Admittedly, there’s nothing stopping the company from throwing up fake sources to “legitimize” their answers, but I think that once models become more open (e.g. AMD’s recent open weights addition is an amazing leap forward) it will be harder to slip in fake sources

PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS - A66

I think people fear it being an annoying default they can’t switch off, instead of the useful supplement it currently is.

This is a betrayal of Lord Immich’s good name and estate.

Beat me to it, great recommendation

The one brave man in this thread, unafraid to speak his truth. Too bad he’s an idiot.

JD Vance is a good man. Every Christmas he goes down to the pound and gives couch chlamydia to one hungry cat and one hungry mouse.

JD Vance puts his ska tyre in Leper Pullman, key dishwasher, pass it on

Lisp (specifically IPL) is Proto-Indo-European. All languages have unwittingly taken inspiration from it

1hr walk is like a 20minute bike ride. All they need is a dirt path that follows the road with 2m grass gap