448 – The Archive Is Breached!

17/10/2024 1h 50min Episodio 448
448 – The Archive Is Breached!

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Episode Synopsis

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – September, Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support, Archive.org is breached, Arch and Valve team up, WWWFoundation packs it in, More WordPress news, even MORE WordPress News, and Google adds Linux apps to future Android versions
Then in our Wanderings: Bill connects with the younger generation, Joe is still fixing things, Moss whines, and Majid folds some more


Full Show Notes Here



00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:47 – News
00:53:01 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:45:54 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:46:45 – Wrap Up
01:48:24 – Special Thanks
01:49:02 – Outro


The News:
Mint Monthly News – September, 2024
Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support
Archive.org, a repository of the history of the Internet, has a data breach
Arch Linux and Valve team up to make Steam gaming even better
WWW Foundation packs it in
159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates
WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
KDE neon upgrades to 24.04.1 Ubuntu base
Contact Info:

Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
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 the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. 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!>