412 – Coldpause
First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets Ryzen 7040 series, Kingston firmware contains lyrics, YouTube tests blocking adblock, Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V gets Ubuntu, and Microsoft wants Firefox to switch to Bing
In security and privacy, India bans open-source messaging apps “for security reasons”;
Then in our Wanderings, Bill tells a story, Joe gets political, I conquered wifi, and Majid goes back in time.
The News
Mozilla Thunderbird Is Adding Paid Features and Services
Raspberry Pi OS updates with new kernel, chromium
Sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust for better security
Flatseal 2.0 released with GTK4, libadwaita
Framework Laptop gets Ryzen 7040 Series
Coldplay Lyrics Hidden in Kingston SSD Firmware
YouTube Is Testing Blocking AdBlockers
Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V Gets Ubuntu
Microsoft wants Firefox to ditch Google, switch to Bing
Security and Privacy
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck
Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here
Wrap Up
- Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
- Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
- Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
- Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
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- Bill Houser for our audio editing
- Archive.org for hosting our audio files
- Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
- Londoner for our time syncs
- Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
- The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
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Re Thunderbird; they have started a podcast. Two episodes so far, once a month and about one hour. Thundercast RSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/thundercast
I think I heard that somewhere. I’ll have to go check that out. I think it’s really cool that they’re doing so well.
Yes, it is! And in a Mastodon-post they give some more financial details not covered in the report, among else “Our average donation amount $15.78. “. See more details in the post: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird/110344291408480373 So, donations from ordinary users really are important.
That means they’ve got a whole lot of small donations. This is an amazing story