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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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• August 2, 2023MP3, OGG, Podcast

  417.5 – Pick Me! Pick Me!

  In our Innards section, we talk “ethical telemetry”

  And finally, the feedback

  In "Check This Out" Check out the new version and tell us what you think!

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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 19, 2023MP3, OGG, Podcast, Software

  416.5 – Browser Arousal

  In our Innards section we talk browsers

  And finally, the feedback

  In "Check This Out" a link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look

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