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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I dunno, maybe its time for Dropbox to just slowly decline and eventually exit? I don’t see what they could possibly pivot into that isnt already covered by Google, Microsoft, Proton, etc. They had years of first mover advantage they could have pivoted off, but thats long behind them.

    That said, if thats their plan, then the C suite needs to have their pay cut to the bone as well. CEOs get the big bucks because they make the big decisions to grow the company. If they arent growing, they should be the first cut.


  • /etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.

    If not, open a terminal and type: cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.

    To test the login, from a terminal, type su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from /etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Type whoami and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.




  • I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.

    If the original guy had just published “CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven’t already”, the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.

    It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn’t need the hype