May 11, 2022

381 – Mozilla Does Something Meta

1 hour 15 minutes

1:44 The News

12:40 Security and Privacy Update

32:30 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

1:11:35 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news: AMD builds brand new Linux graphics driver support and Ubuntu MATE to add native Flatpak support.

In security and privacy: Arch Linux packages are… outdated? Mozilla does something really Meta, the ‘EARN IT Act’ makes a return, and FLoC was a flop, but Google has some new ideas.

Then in our Wanderings Joe gets another new to me bike, Norbert defeats distro-hopping, Moss goes international, Josh tells us about running Manjaro, and Bill is truckcasting.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

AMD Quietly Working On New Linux GPU Driver Support Block By Block

Less than 10% of Firefox users on Linux are running Wayland

Ubuntu MATE 22.04 to add native support for Flatpak

Security Update

Arch Linux could use some help with toolchain maintenance

US senators want the ‘EARN IT’ bill to scan all messages online

Mozilla partners with Meta to create “Privacy Preserving Advertising Technology”

Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies

Multiple vulnerabilities put 40 million Ubuntu users at risk

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

Joe got my care package from Moss to work on, which t included 2 sets of headphones and 2 handheld tape recorders. He took some vacation days this last week in order to try and get some campaign stuff done for the school board.

Norbert hasn’t distrohopped for a couple of months and thinks he found his perfect distros in Fedora, Arch and Void.

Moss was preparing for Episode 030 of Distrohoppers’ Digest and has been making episodes of Full Circle Weekly News. He participated in Eurofilk, a singing and sharing Zoom meeting which happens every couple weeks.

Josh T replaced my trusty Debian 11 install and have opted to live in the Manjaro world for a while.

Bill has been getting his new podcast up and running.

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on March 6, 2022

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Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on February 26, 2022

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Wrap-up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee

Norbert – [email protected]

Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter

Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam

Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.

Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

Norbert and Tony H for our audio production

Leo for timestamps and publishing

Josh Lowe for all his work on the website

Hobstar for our logo

initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time sync

Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

HPR for our backup Mumble room

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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