Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMicrosoft is withdrawing support for older printers' driverswww.which.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1225arrow-down13
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minus-squareDickFiasco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82·1 day 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-up20arrow-down1·1 day 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-up3·1 day agoInteresting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoOh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers
minus-squarehietsu@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 hours agoBut CUPS is doing the same thing, someone somewhere told me. Using old drivers with it is going to need jumping some extra hoops.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThat’s also a solution for Windows users if they can’t get some future version of Windows to work with the thing. You get a dinky Linux box, like a Raspberry Pi or something, and just set it up as a print server.
It’s hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.
lp0 on fireJust 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
But CUPS is doing the same thing, someone somewhere told me. Using old drivers with it is going to need jumping some extra hoops.
That’s also a solution for Windows users if they can’t get some future version of Windows to work with the thing. You get a dinky Linux box, like a Raspberry Pi or something, and just set it up as a print server.
“The Paper!”