454 – Linux Bans Facebook

Bill Houser — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:11:19 +0000

First up in the news: Solus 4.7 Released, Facebook bans Linux, WINE 10 released, RISC V stuff, and cursing at your AI is the way forward

In security and privacy: Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe builds things, Bill butters his Mint, Majid likes cursing at his computer

The News:

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram, BlueSky and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.

Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
Archive.org for hosting our audio files
Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about