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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