June 30, 2022

390 – This is the Way(land)

1 hour 8 minutes

1:20 The News

15:47 Security and Privacy

21:07 Bi-Weekly Wonderings

35:42 The Linux Innards

56:58 Vibrations from the Ether

1:03:45 Check This Out

1:04:20 Announcements

First up in the news, Gnome wins Microsoft money, Firefox translates offline, Rocky overtakes the Red Hat pack, apps on KDE look more klear, Debian gets the Gecko treatment, Zoom gets Wayland screen sharing, Photoshop is kind-of–but not-really coming to Linux, and Nvidia contributes.

In security and privacy, Hertzbleed is coming for your CPU, and the EU is going after deepfakes.

Then in our Wanderings, Moss goes Custom, Norbert emerges, and Joe is Florida Man

In our Innards section we discuss the various licenses in the world of open source software

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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

The News

GNOME wins Microsoft’s FOSS Fund

Mozilla made a Firefox plugin for offline translation

Rocky Linux Shoots Ahead

This week in KDE: non-blurry XWayland apps!

SpiralLinux: It’s Debian, in the same way Gecko is openSUSE

Zoom Linux App Supports Screensharing on Wayland

Adobe Photoshop For Web Is Free For All Now

NVIDIA Lands AV1 VDPAU Hardware Acceleration In FFmpeg

Security and Privacy Update

Hertzbleed is a new family of side-channel attacks affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, making use of frequency side channels

The EU Is Asking Big Tech To Go After Deepfakes And Fake Accounts

Linux Innards

GNU General Public License (GPL)

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

BSD licenses

2-clause BSD license (BSD-2-Clause)

3-clause BSD license (BSD-3-Clause)

MIT license (MIT)

Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

WTFPL

Creative Commons

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on Sunday, July 10, 2022

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Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on Saturday, July 2, 2022.

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Livestream information is at mintcast.org/livestream

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:

A cast of thousands for our audio editing, including Norbert, Londoner, Tony Hughes, and others. We continue to need volunteers for our audio editing, please contact us.

Bill Houser and Josh Lowe for their work on the website, and Bill Howser for hosting the Linode which runs our website

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

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

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