Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers

DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lp0 on fire

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Interesting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.

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    • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean, you can use something like the lightweight containers generated by firejail, where the program just lacks write permission to the filesystem or network access, stuff like that.

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• hietsu@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But CUPS is doing the same thing, someone somewhere told me. Using old drivers with it is going to need jumping some extra hoops.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s also a solution for Windows users if they can’t get some future version of Windows to work with the thing. You get a dinky Linux box, like a Raspberry Pi or something, and just set it up as a print server.

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “The Paper!”

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