Listen "418 – In Memoriam: Kevin Mitnick"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,
In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors,
Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave
In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
The News
Mint Monthly News – July 2023
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture
Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
Google warns again it will start deleting inactive accounts in December
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y
Security and Privacy
Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors Puts Encryption Keys and Passwords at Risk
Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
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 contribution
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 security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors,
Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave
In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
The News
Mint Monthly News – July 2023
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture
Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
Google warns again it will start deleting inactive accounts in December
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y
Security and Privacy
Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors Puts Encryption Keys and Passwords at Risk
Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
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 contribution
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!>
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