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Re:Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above? on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:42PM (#42219247)
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I will start using Claude the day they stop asking me for my mobile number.
Re:You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE on Saturday September 28, 2024 @05:31AM (#41679106)
> sudo lsof -n -i -P | grep -i "cups"

>cupsd 2843 root 7u IPv6 12941 0t0 TCP [::1]:631 (LISTEN)

>cupsd 2843 root 8u IPv4 12942 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:631 (LISTEN)

There is no open UDP port for CUPSD, so relax.

Re:You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:26AM (#41669055)
First I thought, "S%%t, I am hacked," because I know in Fedora CUPSD is installed by default and runs at boot.

> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

> Listen localhost:631

After some checking, I found out by default CUPSD only runs at localhost. So, yeah, you don't have to worry about this in Fedora either.