August 05, 2022

392 – Return of the Trampolines

1 hour 35 minutes

2:30 The News

29:46 Security and Privacy

42:06 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

1:30:26 Housekeeping and Announcements

First up in the news: Vanessa is almost here, Xfce flirts with Wayland, GNOME is touching up the touchscreen experience, and STAR protects data on Brave browsers;

In security and privacy, the Retbleed speculative exploit is more than just speculation, but the kernel team already have a fix, and Lightning Framework flashes our way;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill is back from Pennsylvania again and again, Norbert polishes his laptop, Moss is doing the Makulu Shift, Joe is working the mods, Josh T is fixing watches, and Tom is channeling.

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

The News

Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” Beta Released

Xfce’s window manager sees Wayland port based on wlroots

Gnome Shell 43 and Mutter 43 alphas have been released

STAR protects browser data on Brave

Security and Privacy Update

Retbleed is a newly disclosed speculative execution attack

Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw

New Linux Malware Framework Lets Attackers Install Rootkit on Targeted Systems

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on Sunday, August 7, 2022

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Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on Saturday, July 30, 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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