TL;DR: Alleged unauthenticated RCE on "all GNU/Linux systems (plus others)"
Now would be a great time to:
- Get all your systems on orchestration
- Shut down all non-critical endpoints
- Prepare yourself to speedrun patches, potentially requiring a reboot, across your entire infrastructure
- Stock up on popcorn
We're quibbling on the definition of respect. A master of the craft should still respect his apprentice. The apprentice frees the master from the tedium of simple tasks to accomplish greater works, but that is no reason to look down on his apprentice. Both have their functions to perform while increasing their knowledge of the craft: the apprentice to learn from the master's example and the master to set the example and increase the overall body of knowledge by pushing his craft's limits.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.