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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • yeah, a lot of PR effort for Bambu while the reality is slightly different.

    An example: they say: we didn’t patch the security hole (the user agent “chech”) because the user experience would have been affected blablabla…

    Well, they introduced this security hole on linux BECAUSE they deployed the new mandatory network “plugin” (that you are forced to use because: it’s automatically installed and it’s mandatory to print even locally) without providing a working solution for all their linux customers when deploying it.

    Yes! They didn’t implement a real authentication solution for their own linux implementation AND they didn’t answer to their linux customers who had the software broken for MONTHS.

    And them providing this user agent hack solution months later allowed anybody to understand how it worked without retro engineering their network plugin (something the article forgot to mention but it was the main attack vector of bambu against the developer threateninghim to go to federal jail, something they also forgot to mention).

    Great user experience mindset here. Breaking their printer to introduce a mandatory connectivity plugin (reminder: linux is officially supported on the marketing pages) and threatening those who try to fix it using just what the license allows them to do.

    I suspect the DDOS attack they had on their cloud service is more linked to their change of mind regarding this mandatory network plugin.

    It could be all the linux client trying to download their network plugin but failing and retrying in loop. That wouldn’t surprise me following the user agent choice.

    Or people unhappy. After all, they changed the terms of the contract after users bought the printer. Really a Dark Vader style of user experience here!

    If you want to avoid this kind of amateurish/parasitic behavior, buy the original: Prusa.

    I’ve one printer from them since many years that I upgrade each few years. Currently, I’m waiting for a sale for the upgrade kit to the Core+





  • Fully agree and I can tell you that our dependence to technologies under usa control WILL DECREASE. I already asked my Executive Vice President LAST SUMMER how and when we could move on from American products.

    But right now?

    We use Google workspace (email, drive, etc) and phone (Android) to communicate and works across our worldwide locations, we use AWS and Microsoft as IT providers, we use Win11 and 10 000+ win servers or databases or softwares provided by American companies, we have plants in USA too, a lot of equipments used in our products are provided by American companies and our products are sold 50/50 in € & $. And the list can continue for hours ( .com is under USA control too and all our customers services use it).

    So if suddenly, “Pumpkin(g) One” decide to call for a ban or a 200% increase of taxes or anything else as stupid because he don’t like our comment about his operation… WE ARE FUCKED! My company dies, my country economy is heavily fucked, I don’t have a job and lost 25+ years of my work because 30% of people across the ocean is not fucking able to detect fascists (or is ok with it).

    People are PISSED right now, but they can tell as this fucker love playing a mafia boss and be a bully.








  • For me, it was the parity system and the fact that i could mix different disk sizes and the vm + graphic card pass-through setup. Unraid helped me to start in this world.

    Years later, after gaining experience on all of that and investing in dedicated pcie card and disks, I’ve moved to truenas my data and containers.

    Still using unraid for the vm part. But i plan to migrate to truenas too at some point.





  • In cliché world yeah… But in reality, not so much. 😀

    It been years… no… decades that smoking have nearly disappeared around me - including in the office.

    I work with hundreds of people and the amount of people smoking can fit one hand. 25 years ago, i needed more than 2 hands to count them. And in my family, nobody starting at my parents generation and younger smokes.

    Same story with wine during lunch. 25 years ago, it was several bottles each day at lunches.

    Today, no more wine bottle and the trend started since easily 15 years now. Only for big occasion and the quantity have decreased a lot.

    People drink more beers now. But far less than wine.