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First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and PocketCast goes free

In security and privacy: French government rejects security backdoors, and TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

Then in our Wanderings: Joe moxxes the prox, Bill goes deep in the heart of Texas, Moss sings again, and Majid finally learns Audacity…sort of

Full Show Notes Here
The News:

Firefox’s Updated Terms of Use Are Not As Bad As They Sound

uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on

Cloudflare’s bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls

Pocket Casts Makes Its Web Player Free and Criticizes Corporate-Owned Rivals

Security and Privacy:

France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision

TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

Contact Info:
  • JoeTllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
  • Moss Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR, new article monthly in FCM
  • 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 and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast 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
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