• dracsEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      I’ve got a few old PCI cards around somewhere. I should pull one of them out and give them a try at this.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
        5·
        22 days ago

        If this metal thingy is anything like the one used as dust covers inside PC cases it’ll just bend (I’ve actually tried to use one as a bottle opener).

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          4·
          22 days ago

          Works well for cans, though, in my experience.

          For a while I had a fiber SFP that was amazing at opening cans, too.

  • Matty_r
    36·
    23 days ago

    Its good that people care enough to keep finding these vulnerabilities

    • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      If only for the sake of one’s CV. Making your bones by having a couple of 0-days under your belt helps a lot of folks find jobs these days.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    191·
    22 days ago

    Yet another, “well, yeah, technically it has security ramifications, but I’m not admin’ing any multiuser machines, so I’m not losing any sleep over it” bug.

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
    92·
    22 days ago

    What do you expect? X11 is in maintenance mode. Although I’ll miss Polybar, I won’t miss the protocol.

    • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I think it’s still valuable to document these things so that the users who insist on sticking with X11 can receive a healthy dose of this (replace diapers with vulnerabilities) when the proverbial shit hits the fan and it becomes as hackable as Windows XP

      • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        It is. That’s why Wayland is being pushed so hard, it’s a codebase that’s actually maintainable, with hopefully some more modern design and engineering principles.

      • tekato@lemmy.world
        3·
        22 days ago

        Well, freedesktop.org is now focused on Wayland (Xorg is not getting HDR, new synchronization protocols, or proper VRR (unless through XWayland), while Wayland is). RedHat RHEL marked Xorg as deprecated last year and will not even support it by next year (RHEL 10). KDE and GNOME also default to Wayland.