381 – Mozilla Does Something Meta

1:44 The News
12:40 Security and Privacy Update
32:30 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
1:11:35 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news: AMD builds brand new Linux graphics driver support and Ubuntu MATE to add native Flatpak support.

In security and privacy: Arch Linux packages are… outdated? Mozilla does something really Meta, the ‘EARN IT Act’ makes a return, and FLoC was a flop, but Google has some new ideas.

Then in our Wanderings Joe gets another new to me bike, Norbert defeats distro-hopping, Moss goes international, Josh tells us about running Manjaro, and Bill is truckcasting.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

• AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block
• Less than 10% of Firefox users on Linux are running Wayland
• Ubuntu MATE 22.04 to add native support for Flatpak

Security Update

• Arch Linux could use some help with toolchain maintenance
• US senators want the ‘EARN IT’ bill to scan all messages online
• Mozilla partners with Meta to create “Privacy Preserving Advertising Technology”
• Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies
• Multiple vulnerabilities put 40 million Ubuntu users at risk

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• • • Joe got my care package from Moss to work on, which t included 2 sets of headphones and 2 handheld tape recorders. He took some vacation days this last week in order to try and get some campaign stuff done for the school board.
    • Norbert hasn’t distrohopped for a couple of months and thinks he found his perfect distros in Fedora, Arch and Void.
    • Moss was preparing for Episode 030 of Distrohoppers’ Digest and has been making episodes of Full Circle Weekly News. He participated in Eurofilk, a singing and sharing Zoom meeting which happens every couple weeks.
    • Josh T replaced my trusty Debian 11 install and have opted to live in the Manjaro world for a while.
  • Bill has been getting his new podcast up and running.

Announcements

• Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on March 6, 2022
• Get mintCast converted to your time zone
• Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on February 26, 2022
• Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Norbert – [email protected]
• Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
• Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.
• Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

• Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
• Leo for timestamps and publishing
• Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
• Hobstar for our logo
• initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time sync
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• HPR for our backup Mumble room
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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