Meanwhile, MIPS still plods along.

Think of all the traffic lights and other embedded systems that will stop working had they not chosen MIPS for them.

I had 3dfx Voodoo cards and S3 ViRGE along with other commercial video card failures back then, heheh.

The K6-2+ and K6-3+ with their huge caches really changed the landscape of Super Socket 7.

It was ever so slightly too little, too late. Super Socket 7 lived about three years longer than it should have, but I saved a ton of money building computers on that platform.

The first processor maker to print "Fan/Heatsink Required" on their processors.

Cyrix chips (including original Cyrix, Centaur, and VIA) were an amazing value and bargain.

Welp, time to go over to NetBSD.

I remember the early days of whitehouse.com.
Such a funny and ironic mistake on the part of the White House.

Even today the White House still doesn't own whitehouse.com.

The McDonald's app also polls your GPS but more frequently when you place an order.

How do you think they can say that they "start prepping your order when you're close?"

It still does if it's not a module, which is true for many Linux distributions that have it compiled-in.

I have tested them and they were vulnerable even though that "grep" command said it was not loaded (because it's not a module in many distros).

Ad hominem much? That doesn't justify your argument.

Do they use offline backups much?

I just have a hard time believing the chain of events in this story.

Well, the Hashicorp MeetUp group is going to be disbanded if it doesn't get a sponsor soon.

If it's compiled into the kernel and not as a module, it can't be disabled without patching to the latest package revisions.

Not sure what you mean.

I log in as "kriston" and run the script and I become "root."

Just the same as "sudo su -" but without the credential-checking part.

The Ubuntu repositories don't appear to be affected, just the ubuntu.com web site.

I patched my Ubuntu systems yesterday.

The widely-published script does, indeed, work if you hadn't patched within the past two weeks or so.

Security agents also work by detecting and killing the spawned process on platforms that aren't patched.