In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data

Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games, Moss survives, and Majid finally “gets” Arch

In our Innards section: we discuss the current mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

New Feature: Now the links below open show notes to the specific section covered on the show! Try It!

1. 00:00:00 – Intro
2. 00:01:29 – News
3. 00:29:27 – Security And Privacy
4. 00:43:53 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
5. 01:06:54 – Innards
6. 01:32:40 – Vibrations From The Ether
7. 01:38:17 – Check This Out
8. 01:38:37 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
9. 01:39:30 – Wrap Up
10. 01:41:58 – Outro

The News

Linux Mint Monthly News

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

“There is no such thing as a real picture”: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24

Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork

Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

Security And Privacy

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM

Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web

Check This Out

There is a really long, detailed, highly informative, and extremely well-written article explaining The Fediverse on The Verge. If you’re interested, you should check it out.

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify
• Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org, Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.

Special Thanks To:

• Bill Houser for our audio editing
• 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
• Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

In our Wanderings, Joe does some 3d printing, Josh got a new monitor, Norbert switches OS’s, and Clayton looks back

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

• Linux Mint Blog-November
• The European Commission Will Make its Software Solutions Open Source for Public Benefit
• The Sad State Of Web Browser Support Currently Within Debian
• Fedora 36 Planning To Run Wayland By Default With NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
• Firefox Relay is Now Out of Beta & Adds New Premium Plan to Help Protect Your Real Email Address
• Updated Rust Code For Linux Kernel Patches Posted

Security Update

• New Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Patches for 6 Vulnerabilities
• FGKASLR Appears Closer To Mainline For Improving Linux Security
• New Payment Data Stealing Malware Hides in Nginx Process on Linux Servers
• Go Daddy Data Breach

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• Joe
  • 3d printing, crypto, food
• Josh
  • Health, monitors, outdoors
• Norbert
  • Debian testing, Gnome, Japanese
• Clayton
  • The old days, SSD’s, printing

Announcements

• Our next episode will be Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 2 pm US Central Standard Time, 8 pm UTC/GMT.
• Check when this will be in your local timezone
• Our next Saturday live stream will be Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 2 pm US Central Standard Time, 8 pm UTC/GMT.
  Check when this will be in your local timezone

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org
• The Other Other Josh – jt@mintcast.org, Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – nishant@mintcast.org,riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
• Clayton

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

• Norbert for our audio production
• Leo for timestamps and publishing
• Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
• Hobstar for our logo
• initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time sync
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• HPR for our backup Mumble room
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>

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In our Innards section, we make our 2020 Predictions!

And finally, our listener feedback

LINUX INNARDS: 

2020 Predictions:

• Joe
  • We will see many more operating systems that are optimized and working for the Raspberry Pi 4.  
  • Probably also see a new slim version sometime this year
  • Microsoft will push more towards applications that can run on either operating system.  We will still be blind to their evil plans.
  • The announcement for edge OS will be towards the end of the year
• Leo
  • Microsoft Office will have a native Linux version released
  • Adobe Photoshop will have a native Linux version released
  • AutoCAD will have a native Linux version released
  • Moss will record a Gentoo show
  • Firefox vs. The World. Firefox will be the last popular non-Chromium holdout.
• Tony W
  • Maru OS will significantly expand supported devices
    • Will add support for a Oneplus device, very likely 3/3T
    • Will also add support for Galaxy Note devices, Note 9 and/or Note 10
  • We will see convergence on Pine64 devices, with Pinephone able to dock to peripherals and run full desktop applications
  • A big box store will sell a PC preconfigured with Linux in 2020
• Tony H
  • Linux Driver support will continue to improve and more hardware manufacturers (Nvidia I’m looking at you) will develop open source Linux Drivers. 
  • I’m banking on a New R.Pi revision if not a totally new model, I still think that adding M.2 support, as other SBC manufacturers have, is the way to go in the long term. But this will probably require a totally new board design and may still be a year or 2 away. It may be that someone designs an add on board that will provide this function, but if they do it needs to be a device that allows the drive to be the boot drive.  
• Moss
  • I was going to beg off on any predictions. But no. Now that Canonical has agreements with Microsoft for WSL and Amazon for Ubuntu Pro and AWS, I predict they will begin (or continue, if they have already begun in secret) working on agreements with other megacorps such as Alphabet, Oracle, SAP, and Apache.
  • If they succeed with any one of these new alliances, they will be insulated from potential buyouts and takeovers. I therefore predict this is the year they go IPO.
• Oliver
  • End of Windows 7 support won’t increase the Linux desktop uptake
  • Intel’s new Graphics card wont suck on Linux
• Eric Lietz (listener)
  • Purism will go out of business – the Librem 5 phone endeavor will put it under
  • The PinePhone will be an amazing product and success story for Pine64
  • An major industry specific software company (Adobe, Autodesk (for AutoCAD), or similar) will offer a Linux version for a flagship software product
  • Microsoft will offer Office 365 on Linux
  • Linux preinstalled from a major hardware supplier will be available in big box stores available off of the shelf

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

•  Katya* (from Discord)
• Erik Lietz
• Benjamin Moser

CHECK THIS OUT! 

• Moss
  • Is Safari converting to chromium?
• Tony H 
  • HPR New Years Eve Show/Marathon 
• Joe 
  • Rambler will drop NGINX criminal case

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

• Next Episode will be January 12th, 2PM Central, 8PM UTC

WRAP-UP:

• Joe – www.Tllts.org  linuxlugcast.com MeWe jb@mintcast.org 
• Bo – undercastnetwork.com 

• Moss – Triad Bardic College, Peaceful Hippo, MeWe, music on Bandcamp and Moss Bliss’ YouTube channel or Robert Warren’s channel, I should have my ReverbNation site back soon, moss@mintcast.org, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com, Sponsus (Now with Tiers, and a Donate Button!)!

• Tony Hughes – HPR –  http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338 Occasional Blog https://tony-hughes.blogspot.com/ Twitter @TonyH1212, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com th@mintcast.org   

• Tony Watts – tw@mintcast.org, Echoes of Savages (band)
• Josh – josh@mintcast.org, josh@edublocks.org, edublocks.org and @all_about_code on Twitter
• Leo – leochavez.org and @leochavez on Twitter, and you can get your five minute news digest at Full Circle Weekly News

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

• Josh for all his work on the website and the livestream
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about (Thanks, Clem!)

Download

In our Innards section, we make our 2020 Predictions!

And finally, our listener feedback

LINUX INNARDS: 

2020 Predictions:

• Joe
  • We will see many more operating systems that are optimized and working for the Raspberry Pi 4.  
  • Probably also see a new slim version sometime this year
  • Microsoft will push more towards applications that can run on either operating system.  We will still be blind to their evil plans.
  • The announcement for edge OS will be towards the end of the year
• Leo
  • Microsoft Office will have a native Linux version released
  • Adobe Photoshop will have a native Linux version released
  • AutoCAD will have a native Linux version released
  • Moss will record a Gentoo show
  • Firefox vs. The World. Firefox will be the last popular non-Chromium holdout.
• Tony W
  • Maru OS will significantly expand supported devices
    • Will add support for a Oneplus device, very likely 3/3T
    • Will also add support for Galaxy Note devices, Note 9 and/or Note 10
  • We will see convergence on Pine64 devices, with Pinephone able to dock to peripherals and run full desktop applications
  • A big box store will sell a PC preconfigured with Linux in 2020
• Tony H
  • Linux Driver support will continue to improve and more hardware manufacturers (Nvidia I’m looking at you) will develop open source Linux Drivers. 
  • I’m banking on a New R.Pi revision if not a totally new model, I still think that adding M.2 support, as other SBC manufacturers have, is the way to go in the long term. But this will probably require a totally new board design and may still be a year or 2 away. It may be that someone designs an add on board that will provide this function, but if they do it needs to be a device that allows the drive to be the boot drive.  
• Moss
  • I was going to beg off on any predictions. But no. Now that Canonical has agreements with Microsoft for WSL and Amazon for Ubuntu Pro and AWS, I predict they will begin (or continue, if they have already begun in secret) working on agreements with other megacorps such as Alphabet, Oracle, SAP, and Apache.
  • If they succeed with any one of these new alliances, they will be insulated from potential buyouts and takeovers. I therefore predict this is the year they go IPO.
• Oliver
  • End of Windows 7 support won’t increase the Linux desktop uptake
  • Intel’s new Graphics card wont suck on Linux
• Eric Lietz (listener)
  • Purism will go out of business – the Librem 5 phone endeavor will put it under
  • The PinePhone will be an amazing product and success story for Pine64
  • An major industry specific software company (Adobe, Autodesk (for AutoCAD), or similar) will offer a Linux version for a flagship software product
  • Microsoft will offer Office 365 on Linux
  • Linux preinstalled from a major hardware supplier will be available in big box stores available off of the shelf

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

•  Katya* (from Discord)
• Erik Lietz
• Benjamin Moser

CHECK THIS OUT! 

• Moss
  • Is Safari converting to chromium?
• Tony H 
  • HPR New Years Eve Show/Marathon 
• Joe 
  • Rambler will drop NGINX criminal case

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

• Next Episode will be January 12th, 2PM Central, 8PM UTC

WRAP-UP:

• Joe – www.Tllts.org  linuxlugcast.com MeWe jb@mintcast.org 
• Bo – undercastnetwork.com 

• Moss – Triad Bardic College, Peaceful Hippo, MeWe, music on Bandcamp and Moss Bliss’ YouTube channel or Robert Warren’s channel, I should have my ReverbNation site back soon, moss@mintcast.org, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com, Sponsus (Now with Tiers, and a Donate Button!)!

• Tony Hughes – HPR –  http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338 Occasional Blog https://tony-hughes.blogspot.com/ Twitter @TonyH1212, distrohoppersdigest@gmail.com th@mintcast.org   

• Tony Watts – tw@mintcast.org, Echoes of Savages (band)
• Josh – josh@mintcast.org, josh@edublocks.org, edublocks.org and @all_about_code on Twitter
• Leo – leochavez.org and @leochavez on Twitter, and you can get your five minute news digest at Full Circle Weekly News

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

• Josh for all his work on the website and the livestream
• Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about (Thanks, Clem!)