Author: mintcast

• October 19, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  398 – I Hear A Leak, Must Be Android

  First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky; 
  In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;
  Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;
  In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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• October 12, 2022MP3, OGG, Podcast

  397.5 – Anything You Can Do Linux Does It Better

  In our Innards section, we talk about how Linux has permeated Everything;
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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• October 7, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  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.
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  October 7, 2022MP3, OGG, Podcast

  396.5 – Newschool Ransomware

  BleepingComputer publishes a series titled “This Week in Ransomware” each week as a news summary on this topic. In early September they covered multiple times schools being increasingly targeted by ransomware and we decided to cover it in the innards.
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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  October 4, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  396 – Ransomware Goes Wild

  First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and Intel fogs the processor market;
  In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;
  Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.
  In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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