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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 86 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It's hard to hear what Microsoft is saying over the sound of my 15 year-old printers running on CUPS.

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[–] Toes@ani.social 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 point 8 months 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 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months 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 2 points 8 months 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 2 points 8 months ago

"The Paper!"

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