I recently installed "dvdisaster" from Debian. The provided version has the GUI disabled, on the grounds that it's written in GTK2. It's just a single-line configuration change, so I recompiled with the GUI enabled.

It's been a long time since I last used GTK2. I was shocked at how much faster it feels than GTK3/GTK4 apps. Load time is almost instant on my old computer, and no perceptible latency anywhere. There's no arbitrary 60fps frame rate cap like with more recent GTK versions (while running on Xorg). There are no annoying animations. GTK2 was already perfect and everything since then has been a downgrade.

Congrats, you finally made it 15 years late to the "Gnome 3 sucks" party, you can still grab a drink and a chair, it's still lively in there!

Linux Mint ftw

Agreed. I see it as the successor to the angular style of the Lamborghini Countach, which far more people are willing to admit looks cool.

Both look extremely cool to me but Elon's behaviour is the only reason I'll never buy a tesla. Even though the cybertruck looks awesome but it's impossible for me to be seen in this. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd used a cybertruck in a BTTF remake

Having seen both in person, a Countach actually looks cool. The Cybertruck looks like a shitty unused model from a PS1 game.

Just because something is "angular" doesn't mean it's in any way comparable to a Cybertruck.

The cultural element is the difference. It's a suburban vehicle who wants to pretend it's a truck, exactly like the pompous suburbanite assholes who want to pretend they are rugged alpha types just because they drive a truck they don't really need: both would fall apart in a minute when faced with real problems.

The Countach was just the usual Lamborghini luxury scam, and I say that as someone who grew up a few km from the factory. Nobody cared if it was kinda crap inside, because it existed just to look like a cool car. A truck is supposed to, y'know, be a truck.

You don't see how an angled polygonal shape sold in 1974 might be more loved than the same angled polygonal shape sold in 2020?

You realize style evolves right?

That style was futuristic in the 70s. It is not futuristic anymore. A lot has happened since the 70s to change what the future should look like.

Ironically, I am finding myself thinking that all the supposedly "bland" electric cars nowadays finally look like cars from the future, simply by being normal car looking, with very slight and subtle styling accents.

Because that's what a future car looks like: Roughly the same aerodynamic profile but with electric motors. That's literally what everyone wanted in the first place, as was Elon's thesis for Tesla as more than a niche car company.

The Cybertruck aesthetic is stupid because it is literally a middle finger to what people want, as Elon himself noted.

I don't get why people are so stuck on "But it looks different" as a good thing.

It's a car. Why are you so stuck on needing your car to stand out? Why is it a problem for you if cars look the same?

It was advertised as a match vs. Deep Blue. In an time before SaaS and automatic online updates, this would be understood to mean a single immutable system like any other software product. If they change it mid-match then it's a match vs. the team of Deep Blue + IBM programmers.

Deep Blue + IBM programmers + team of chess grandmasters they also had assisting. In general I would not give Kasparov's claims that much credit if not for the fact that after the match IBM immediately dismantled the machine which just looked absurdly guilty, especially given the historic value of the machine.

In a normal world this is hardware you should still be able to go play a game against at either at some IBM building, the Smithsonian, or whatever.

Lots of new USB DVD drives are available from brands I've never heard of. But the availability of Bluray drives is so low I suspect they're only new old stock.

I'm almost certain the reason is licenses - DVDs licenses have long expired and back when they were in effect DVDs were the mainstream option, so lots of devices and machines around for them when licenses were needed and that gave momentum to DVDs. Blurays on the other hand still require licensing and they never became as mainstream as DVDs.

I can find a bunch of small businesses pressing CDs and DVDs but they rarely provide a Bluray option. I have a feeling that even after Bluray patents expire, DVDs will still outlast Blurays :-P.

You should look for Blu-ray drives instead of Bluray which does not exist /s

Back around 2007 during the red vs blue HD laser format war, the spelling was hammered into me as the incorrect spelling was tirelessly brought to one's attention. Since we're going down memory lane on shiny discs, I couldn't resist bringing this one back too

Creating a centralized log is monitoring. It doesn't need write access to the defrost setting.

Yep, but once you have internet connectivity, things escalate and people say "wouldn't it be convenient if we can also...."

Monitoring doesn't need write access. RS-422 is simple and reliable. It uses separate receive and transmit pairs and you don't need to connect both. The freezer can continually transmit its telemetry over unidirectional RS-422 and a separate system can forward it over the Internet.

Hackers can still tamper with the telemetry and create false reports of problems, but actually changing the thermostat settings would require local access, so there's opportunity for somebody to verify the problem really exists.

Importance is a function of culture and biology. We already gave AI access to culture, so it just needs to capture some wild mathematicians for vivisection. Once it has a good model of mathematician biology they can be efficiently recycled.

>the kernel handed those saved options from the request socket to the new connection without copying them, then freed them immediately when the connection went away, while another CPU could still be reading them to build a handshake reply.

If this requires a multi-core system to exploit, it's good news for most of the consumer routers that will never get updates. Saved by cheap single-core hardware.

You would be surprised. A lot of cheap consumer routers are have two or four ARM cores. The bigger issue is that they are typically running a kernel from the stone age (< 6.0.0). Sometimes a still-supported LTS kernel like 5.10 or 5.15, but then they stopped at an old patch level.

Heck, apparently even the new Unifi UCG Fiber is running 5.4.213 (September 2022), but maybe they backport some fixes?

[1] https://community.ui.com/releases/dd0283dc-bf71-4140-ae1d-c1...

Note that even the latest OpenWRT is vulnerable to this, I'm running OpenWRT 25.12.6 and the kernel version is 6.12.112

IIUC it doesn't have any listening sockets open on WAN by default at least?

I do see sockets listening on all interfaces, but those are blocked by the firewall.

  root@OpenWrt2:~# ss -Qlnt4 'src 0.0.0.0'
  State  Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port
  LISTEN       0.0.0.0:443       0.0.0.0:*   
  LISTEN       0.0.0.0:80        0.0.0.0:*   
  LISTEN       0.0.0.0:22        0.0.0.0:*

They'd also need to MPTCP right?

Not according to the article, which says the vulnerable path runs "during the TCP handshake, ..."

I’m in the market for a new router. Got a unifi u7 pro for wifi already, what are the options for routers? Sounds like the only safe thing is to roll your own so you can update things on time.

If you wants something with a nice web interface, probably OpenWrt [1] or OPNsense?

[1] Yes, it seems that they are still on 6.12.112, but they'll probably roll out an update quickly. Also see: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cve-2026-98432-kernel-update-or-...

If you have a separate WiFi AP running your own router on your *nix of choice is quite achievable. I use NixOS since I use it everywhere else, if I didn't I'd probably go with OpenBSD.

My $50 router has two cores.

  root@OpenWrt2:~# lscpu
  Architecture:        mips
  Byte Order:          Little Endian
  CPU(s):              4
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
  Model name:          -
  Model:               MIPS 1004Kc V2.15
  Thread(s) per core:  2
  Core(s) per socket:  2
  Socket(s):           1

Those routers probably have 20 other critical un-patched exploits ...

An entire ecosystem of malware crawling and cohabiting in them.

>forcing AV1 regardless of the presence of on-device hardware support

I'm posting from a machine without AV1 acceleration. I disabled AV1 in Firefox's about:config and Youtube falls back to VP9.