374 – Mounted Archery

1:49 The News
10:37 Security Update
20:35 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
41:38 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news, Linux Mint Monthly News, Firefox 94 released, Steam OS announcement, System76 Desktop announcement, Intel has been doing this for a long time and Nvidia released a fix

In security, A Dutch newspaper gets hacked, Azure is vulnerable, and AMD and Intel have more security flaws

Then in our Wanderings, Joe works on an xbox, Josh remodels a bathroom, Tony got a new phone and Norbert tells us about running arch

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

The News

• Linux Mint Monthly News, November
• Firefox 94, the release we’ve been waiting for?
• Valve Says SteamOS 3.0 Will Be Available for Everyone to Download and Install
• System76 is Building its Own Desktop Environment
• Intel Celebrates 50 years of their 4004 microprocessor
  • November 15, 1971
• NVIDIA 470.86 Linux Driver Released With VRR/G-SYNC Fix

Security Update

• Dutch newspaper accuses US spy agencies of orchestrating 2016 Booking.com breach
• ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone’s plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools
• AMD reveals an Epyc 50 flaws – 23 of them rated high severity. Intel has 25 bugs, too

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• Joe
• Josh
  • MX Linux
• Tony
  • Juno Computers a Brutus 5000
• Norbert
  • The AUR

Announcements

• Our next episode will be Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 2 pm US Central Standard Time, 8 pm UTC/GMT.
• Check when this will be in your local timezone
• Our next Saturday live stream will be Saturday,  November 20, 2021 at 2 pm US Central Standard Time, 8 pm UTC/GMT.
  Check when this will be in your local timezone

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Tony Hughes – HPR – http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected], [email protected]
• Norbert – [email protected]
• The Other Other Josh – [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

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

• Norbert 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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