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Mike Hoye, Mozilla's lead IRC decomissioner, on his personal blog "blarg?". Brace For Impact. March 6, 2020.
Last Monday we decommissioned IRC.Mozilla.org for good, closing the book on a 22-year-long chapter of Mozilla’s history as we started a new one in our new home on Matrix. [...] About three weeks ago [...] we turned on federation, connecting Mozilla to the rest of the Matrix ecosystem.
Mike Hoye, Mozilla's lead IRC decomissioner, on his personal blog "blarg?". Synchronous Text. April 26, 2019.
I wasn’t in the room when IRC.mozilla.org was stood up, but from what I’ve heard IRC wasn’t “chosen” so much as it was the obvious default, the only tool available in the late ’90s. Suffice to say that as a globally distributed organization, Mozilla has relied on IRC as our main synchronous communications tool since the beginning. For much of that time it’s served us well, if for some less-than-ideal values of “us” and “well”.
Like a lot of the early internet IRC is a quasi-standard protocol built with far more of the optimism of the time than the paranoia the infosec community now refers to as “common sense”, born before we learned how much easier it is to automate bad acts than it is to foster healthy communities.
Mike Hoye, Mozilla's lead IRC decomissioner, on his personal blog "blarg?". The Evolution Of Open. November 9, 2018.
IRC’s [...] ongoing borderline-unusability is a direct product of a notion of openness that leaves admins few better tools than endless spammer whack-a-mole. [...] “Working in the open”, [back in the days] where computation was scarce and expensive, meant working in front of an audience that was lucky enough to:
go to university or college;
whose parents could afford a computer at home;
who lived somewhere with broadband; or
had one of the few jobs whose company opened low-numbered ports to the outside world.
What it didn’t mean was [today's]:
doxxing;
cyberstalking;
botnets;
gamergaters;
weaponized social media tooling;
carrier-grade targeted-harassment-as-a-service; and
state-actor psy-op/disinformation campaigns rolling by like bad weather.
The relentless, grinding day-to-day malfeasance that’s the background noise of this grudgefuck of a zeitgeist we’re all stewing in just didn’t inform that worldview, because it didn’t exist. [...] We’re definitely not going to find any answers [to what we mean by "open" and its implications for community members] that matter to the present day, much less to the future, if the only place we’re looking is backwards.
Sep 14, 2021 - KB5005565 released - Windows 10 servicing stack update (SSU) - security update.
Known side effects
Recommended workarounds (by Microsoft)
Devices which attempt to connect to a network printer for the first time might fail to download and install the necessary printer drivers. [...] This issue has been observed in devices which access printers via a print server using HTTP connections. When a client connects to the server to install the printer, a directory mismatch occurs, which causes the installer files to generate incorrectly. As a result, the drivers may not download.
You might receive a prompt for administrative credentials every time you attempt to print in environments in which the print server and print client are in different times zones.
Users said they could no longer use network printers after applying cumulative updates [...]. [...] Documents can no longer be printed via network printers, while the printers will work as usual again if the cumulative update is uninstalled manually via settings or the command line.
In addition to printing issues, there should be reports of problems with the installation of Windows Update itself, which therefore prevents the update. If you cannot install the update, [...] try manually downloading from the Microsoft Update Catalog.
Of course, for security reasons, you should still not be able to do without updating Windows, although a small time delay can be useful as error prevention.
The two cumulative updates affected are KB5005565 and KB5005566. After their installation, users are victims of failure. Regarding printing, it is reported that the PC can no longer print documents using a network printer. A workaround seems to work. It consists of removing the cumulative update in question. It works with 'Settings' and a command prompt.
Along with this printing bug, KB5005565 and KB5005566 are also associated with installation issues. [...] In some cases the situation seems to be resolved by using a manual offline process. Clearly you have to download and install the KB manually and not with Windows Update.
PrintNightmare changes are permanent, removing this is a poor fix and you should look up the various mitigations for it (including disabling the primary issue fix via registry).
The shared printer access issue after the KB5005565 update (despite the update’s itself incompatibility with the system) was mainly caused by the following:
Incompatible or Outdated Printer Driver: As the KB5005565 update enabled the new printer technology (replacing the older Point and Print) and the client system is still using the older one, it may not be compatible with the KB5005565 update, resulting in the loss of the printer connectivity.
Outdated OS of the Client System: If the client system is outdated whereas the print host/server is updated to the latest, both systems may become incompatible with each other, resulting in the printer issue at hand.
Above are all Google search results I considered relevants, for the expression «intitle:"KB5005565" "PrintNightmare"», written in languages I can understand. Completely ignored, due to the low average quality of content: social networking websites; forums; questions and answers websites without reply voting/replier reputation systems; and email discussion lists.
