MP3 – mintCast

394 – With music on our side to break the old hard drives

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1:25 The News

16:15 Security and Privacy
26:03 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
1:22:59 Housekeeping and Announcements

First up in the news, The Kernel gets a bump, LibreOffice adds a point, Android 13 is out if you have a Pixel, and Gnome has a birthday,

In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are pythoned, and hard drives apparently have a taste in music

Then in our Wanderings, Joe plays with his handheld, Bill is setting up a new server, Moss skips the assault and gets a couple batteries, and Norbert has had done some things.

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

The News
  • The next kernel will be 6.0
  • LibreOffice 7.4 released
  • Android 13 is shipped to Pixels
  • There’s no place like GNOME: Project hits 25, going on 43
    • Security and Privacy Update
    • Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing nightmare
    • Janet Jackson’s music video is now a vulnerability for crashing hard disks
          • Announcements
            • Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on September 4, 2022
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            • For 394: Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on August 27, 2022
            • Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone
            • 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:

                • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing
                • 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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