Tag: Security

• August 3, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  465 – “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children!”

  First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.

  In Security and Privacy, Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way and Microsoft Recall issues

  In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts

  And finally, Vibrations From the Ether

• July 7, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  463 – Tacos And TikTok

  First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have killed Bazzite and a new Firefox release

  We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!

  In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech

  And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions

• May 17, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  461 – Virtualization

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, BackBlaze backups may be in trouble, you can run Arch inside Windows, Linux kernel drops 486 and early 586 support, and a new RaspberryPiOS release, and the end of Windows 10 support brings new opportunities

  In security and privacy: openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop over security issues, Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes mobile, Moss plays with a Pangolin, Eric finally fixes his WiFi.

  In our Innards section: we talk about Virtual Machines

  In Bodhi Corner, just a bit about theming

• April 5, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  458 – The Mobile Generation

  First up in the news: New GIMP, Debian comes to a RISC-V tablet, Google explains why the are putting Terminal on Android, Asahi Linux loses another top dev, Plex goes for the gold – yours, meet EU OS, Kernel 6.14 is released, Gnome 48 released, new GRUB updates, AerynOS is released with GNOME 48

  In security and privacy: “MyTerms” wants to let the user dictate privacy

  Then in our Wanderings: Moss plays Musical Tablets, Joe Moxes the Prox, Dale has a burpday, Majid is on holiday and Bill is off truckin’ somewhere...

  In our Innards section: Dale takes us through Mobile Networks

  In Bodhi Corner, Moss covers new translations and work on the next version.

• March 22, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  457- mozillaCast

  First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and PocketCast goes free

  In security and privacy: French government rejects security backdoors, and TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

  Then in our Wanderings: Joe moxxes the prox, Bill goes deep in the heart of Texas, Moss sings again, and Majid finally learns Audacity...sort of