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• August 22, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  419 – Bill & Majid’s Excellent Adventure

  First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as "Incus", Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Alarm raised over MozillaVPN, EFF launches the TOR University Challenge, news on OpenZFS and ZFSBoot, and Devuan 5 is here

  In security and privacy: SkidMap and Downfall

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill and Majid have cloudy days

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• August 12, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  418 – In Memoriam: Kevin Mitnick

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,

  In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors

  Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave

  In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities

  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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• July 28, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  417 – All Hail Avrecon

  First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat

  In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

  Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

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• July 12, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  416 – The Red Hat Diaries

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Steam Deck exceeds 10,000 games, Red Hat fights public opinion, new LibreBoot is out, Google whines about their new AI search, Peppermint OS upgrades to Bookworm, a new KaOS, First Amendment fails at Supremes, and Solus 4 is released

  In security and privacy, StackRot is here, and so is ProtonPass

  Then in our Wanderings, Moss makes money, Joe goes 3D, Bill mics up, and Majid thumbs his nose at inflation

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• June 28, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  415 – Future Appears Cloudy

  First up in the news, Mint 21.2 betas have been released, Debian 13 gets a name, Ardour 7.5 does remaps, RHEL goes closed-source, and Opera One ships with AI

  In security and privacy, Tsunami comes to SSH

  Then in our Wanderings Joe goes on a little trip, Moss musics, and Majid has toys

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