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
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
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The News
GNOME wins Microsoft’s FOSS FundMozilla made a Firefox plugin for offline translationRocky Linux Shoots AheadThis week in KDE: non-blurry XWayland apps!SpiralLinux: It’s Debian, in the same way Gecko is openSUSEZoom Linux App Supports Screensharing on WaylandAdobe Photoshop For Web Is Free For All NowNVIDIA Lands AV1 VDPAU Hardware Acceleration In FFmpegSecurity and Privacy Update
Hertzbleed is a new family of side-channel attacks affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, making use of frequency side channelsThe EU Is Asking Big Tech To Go After Deepfakes And Fake AccountsLinux Innards
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Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffeeNorbert – [email protected]Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on TwitterNishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ SteamMoss – [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 DiscordBefore we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:
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