Tag: Security

• May 16, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  412 – Coldpause

  First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets Ryzen 7040 series, Kingston firmware contains lyrics, YouTube tests blocking adblock, Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V gets Ubuntu, and Microsoft wants Firefox to switch to Bing

  In security and privacy, India bans open-source messaging apps “for security reasons”;

  Then in our Wanderings, Bill tells a story, Joe gets political, Moss conquers wifi, and Majid goes back in time.

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• March 22, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  408 – Ffmpegged

  First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released.

  In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;

  Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,

  In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg

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• March 7, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  407 – “There’s an App For That”

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates

  In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help

  Then we have our usual Wanderings

  In our Innards section, we talk about the Android apps we can't live without.

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• February 24, 2023Interview, MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener

  First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

  In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

  In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

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• February 8, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast, Software

  405 – Method Not Allowed

  First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.

  In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

  In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.

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