Beep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukBeep@lemmus.orgBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareDickFiasco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIt’s hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoJust a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoOh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers
It’s hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
Just a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
Interesting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
Oh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers