We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.

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• Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
• Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
• Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
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• nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
• Lightning Pay
• activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
• Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
• Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.

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• Meshtastic Linux-Native Application
• MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
• LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
• The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
• Haiku Project History
• Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
• docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
• golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
• Using the remote app server | Haiku Project
• JB Haiku Server
• Lighttpd
• DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
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• dadjoke-cli
• colmena
• spectorus' NixOS Config
• Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
• Is the Nostr moment officially here?

The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.

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• Nextcloud Hub 9
• Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube
• Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
• Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
• Nextcloud Server Releases
• nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
• Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
• VLESS
• hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
• LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
• Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
• Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.