394 – With music on our side to break the old hard drives
1:25 The News
16:15 Security and Privacy
26:03 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
1:22:59 Housekeeping and Announcements
First up in the news, The Kernel gets a bump, LibreOffice adds a point, Android 13 is out if you have a Pixel, and Gnome has a birthday,
In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are pythoned, and hard drives apparently have a taste in music
Then in our Wanderings, Joe plays with his handheld, Bill is setting up a new server, Moss skips the assault and gets a couple batteries, and Norbert has had done some things.
Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.
The News
- The next kernel will be 6.0
- LibreOffice 7.4 released
- Android 13 is shipped to Pixels
- There’s no place like GNOME: Project hits 25, going on 43
Security and Privacy Update
- Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing nightmare
- Janet Jackson’s music video is now a vulnerability for crashing hard disks
Announcements
- Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on September 4, 2022
- Get mintCast converted to your time zone
- For 394: Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on August 27, 2022
- Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone
- Livestream information is at mintcast.org/livestream
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, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
- 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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