Tag: News

• 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 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 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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  July 26, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  391- Putting our Money where our mouths are

  First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dropping the X, Linux gets Siri, er, Cortana, er, Carola.
  In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips
  Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still
  In our Innards section We talk subscription Services
  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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  January 6, 2022MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  377 – Zero Days of Christmas

  In the news, Pop OS 21.10 is released, GNOME 42 – Top New Feature and Release Detail, ReactOS 0.4.14 has been released, Krita 5.0 has been released, and there’s yet another desktop environment on the horizon
  In security, a grub update causes problems with Ubuntu and a Log4shell update
  Then in our wanderings, Joe's on vacation, Norbert's full of gingerbread, Nishant is surviving the winter, Josh is on Windows, and Bill's just glad to be here
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