Listen "438 – Copilot Takeover"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch
In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.
Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.
Full Show Notes Here
00:00:00 – Intro
00:30:33 – Security And Privacy
00:34:08 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:30:19 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:31:08 – Wrap Up
01:33:48 – Outro
The News
Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users
KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support
Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option
Turkey bans Distrowatch
Security and Privacy
High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts
The next two articles will actually be discussed during the innards (next episode) but we’ve linked them here anyway.
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected],
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Distrohoppers’ Digest and 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 [email protected],
Special Thanks To:
Bill 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 security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.
Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.
Full Show Notes Here
00:00:00 – Intro
00:30:33 – Security And Privacy
00:34:08 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:30:19 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:31:08 – Wrap Up
01:33:48 – Outro
The News
Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users
KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support
Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option
Turkey bans Distrowatch
Security and Privacy
High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts
The next two articles will actually be discussed during the innards (next episode) but we’ve linked them here anyway.
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected],
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Distrohoppers’ Digest and 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 [email protected],
Special Thanks To:
Bill 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!>
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