Tag: Microsoft

• May 31, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  438 – Copilot Takeover

  First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch

  In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.

  Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.

• January 12, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  428 – 32 bit’s Days Are Numbered

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs

  In security and privacy: Nothin'. We got nothin'.

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill becomes “unstable”; Majid bricks and un-bricks; Moss is counting pixels; Joe …; and Eric does some Homebrewing

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  September 28, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  395 – Buttery Smooth Experience

  First up in the news, AWK gets Unicode, GIMP out, Firefox improves its memory, Nitrux released, Unity is a Flavour, Microsoft drops Linux, Makulu adds to the confusion, and Debian wrestles with firmware;
  In security and privacy, 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered, and Plex gets exposed;
  Then in our Wanderings, Moss reconfigures again, and Norbert contradicts himself.
  In our Innards section, Mint and Gnome have lots to show us;
  And finally, the feedback and a suggestion or two.
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  August 12, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  393 – Quantum of Solus

  First up in the news: Vanessa is finally here, so is the Linux kernel version 5.19, which was published from an M1 Mac by Linus Torvalds
  In security and privacy, Sale of over a billion Chinese users’ data found, DuckDuckGo is (finally) blocking Microsoft trackers, and Linux 6.0 to have run-time verification for running on safety critical systems
  Then in our Wanderings, Bill is hearing things, Moss is losing power, Joe is soldering on, and Norbert is taming the fox
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  June 29, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  390 – This is the Way(land)

  First up in the news, Gnome wins Microsoft money, Firefox translates offline, Rocky overtakes the Red Hat pack, apps on KDE look more klear, Debian gets the Gecko treatment, Zoom gets Wayland screen sharing, Photoshop is kind-of–but not-really coming to Linux, and Nvidia contributes.
  In security and privacy, Hertzbleed is coming for your CPU, and the EU is going after deepfakes.
  Then in our Wanderings, Moss goes Custom, Norbert emerges, and Joe is Florida Man In our Innards section we discuss the various licenses in the world of open source software
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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