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This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning
A major bug in Ubuntu 19.10 could be automatically sharing the contents of your Pictures, Video and Music folders with other users on the same network.
The problem is caused by Ubuntu’s new media sharing feature (powered [by] the Rygel media server) which is supposed to [be] disabled by default.
But scores of users running Ubuntu 19.10 in a non-GNOME Shell/Ubuntu session report that rygel autostarts on log in, with no warning or indication provided that it is running in the background.
As a result, the full contents of ~/Photos, ~/Videos and ~/Music folders are accessible on local area network, (LAN), i.e, available to anyone and anything else connected to the same Wi-Fi point.
And that’s not good if you live in a house with others, especially with a content discovery device like a smart tv or games console active at the same time you are.
(Score: 3, Informative) by exaeta on Monday November 11 2019, @12:31AM (12 children)
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 11 2019, @12:50AM (8 children)
I ran ubuntu last month. Looks like a toy OS, slow, big icons. MX linux or ubuntu 6 itself (the latest version I recall having used) run circles around it. Imagine void or alpine. I didn't even find that many apps. Do the devs all have octacores with ssd? Well, not my prob really.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 11 2019, @01:02AM (5 children)
So what should the plebes who are looking for something better do? The kernel is pozzed with AIDS and anything that depends on it will be pozzed as such. Should we go back to 2007 or are there good alternatives? Are there not any good alternatives in this timeline?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @01:05AM
There are not any good alternatives in this timeline, for we live in the bad future.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 11 2019, @01:15AM (3 children)
Gentoo. Warning, user may need to get some aftermarket cojones to install Gentoo if not already sufficiently equipped.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:28AM (1 child)
Do millennials still come with cojones? Can they still be installed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:51AM
No, you have to get a second system, called the "bull".
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday November 11 2019, @02:36AM
PCLinuxOS. Because Gentoo is too much work, and we're Lazy.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @03:27AM
Try Ubuntu Mate 18.04
I am trialling Manjaro as a potential replacement but so far I miss apt
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 11 2019, @03:44PM
The same could be said for Windows XP and it's default "Playskool" theme.
After service pack 4 comes out, I might think of upgrading to something else. /s
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 11 2019, @02:54AM
The time to say "fuck off Ubuntu" was when they pushed the Unity desktop so very hard. The combination of Unity and a female CEO who chose a purple color scheme was more than enough to chase me away! A color blind man with a purple desktop? WTF?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:52PM
It's been a good time to say "fuck off Ubuntu" for a while now. They started off pretty decent, but then got NIH syndrome and started throwing in all sorts of odd changes that tended to: a) be worse than what they were replacing, and b) not last long enough to get better.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday November 11 2019, @03:44PM
Came here to say this.
I really, really want to like ubuntu but the model of this development has over and over again lead to things like this.
Even if it didn't look malicious, and systemd, it is so incompetent that the entire organization must be run very poorly.
And these are for bells and whistles people are trying to get away from, like they are doing everything they can to make ubuntu into os x, when people dont want os x.
Or like they listen to only their most uniformed users who ask for things to help them have to think less, and is they are the type of people who are into that sort of effort, then we already know we can't trust them.
thesesystemsarefailing.net (but especially the corporate-non-profit-whatever software devel model of canonical and mozilla)
(which is to say, if you are trying to help, don't sell out even if they promise they aren't corporate. They are corporate, and they are not buying your idea to help your users, but to harm them)