397 – Bye Bye Stadia

First up in the news, Monthly Mintyness, Gnome gnarliness, and KDE K-ness, Ubuntu 22.10 gets fresh, Ubuntu now on AWS, Brave blocks consent, Google kills another app, GNU Toolchain moves, Matrix patches holes, new Shotcut, new Audacity, and more…

In security and privacy, a new virus for Windows and Linux;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fixing bikes on his audiobookshelf, Moss has more classes, and Bill gets Nextcloud running;

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

The News

• Linux Mint Monthly
• This Week in Gnome #63
• This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability
• Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) Beta Released with GNOME 43, Linux Kernel 5.19
• Ubuntu is now available on AWS
• Brave Browser to start blocking annoying Cookie Consent Banners
• Google is shutting down Stadia
• GNU Toolchain Plans Move To The Linux Foundation’s Infrastructure
• Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
• Shotcut 22.09 Video Editor Adds Initial Support for WebP Animations, New Video Filters
• Audacity 3.2 Released with Real-Time and VST3 Effects, FFmpeg 5.0 and WavPack Support

Security and Privacy Update

• Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices

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

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