Listen "454 – Linux Bans Facebook"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Solus 4.7 Released, Facebook bans Linux, WINE 10 released, RISC V stuff, and cursing at your AI is the way forward
In security and privacy: Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant,
Then in our Wanderings: Joe builds things, Bill butters his Mint, Majid likes cursing at his computer
Full Show Notes Here
The News:
Solus 4.7 Released
Facebook bans Linux
Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes
GTK’s X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite
“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
Security and Privacy:
Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant
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 the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram, BlueSky and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Special Thanks To:
Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
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
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
In security and privacy: Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant,
Then in our Wanderings: Joe builds things, Bill butters his Mint, Majid likes cursing at his computer
Full Show Notes Here
The News:
Solus 4.7 Released
Facebook bans Linux
Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes
GTK’s X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite
“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
Security and Privacy:
Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant
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 the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram, BlueSky and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Special Thanks To:
Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
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
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
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