We’ve been upgrading RAM and tooting in the fediverse. We discuss Hollywood embracing open source, a new release of LibreOffice, pacemakers getting hacked and fax machines becoming selfaware and taking over the planet. We also round up the community news and events.

It’s Season 11 Episode 23 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan has been upgrading RAM.

* Mark has been tooting on Mastodon.

* We discuss the news:

* Academy Software Foundation founded

* LibreOffice 6.1 released

* Malicious fax causes security panic

* Hack causes pacemakers to deliver life-threatening shocks

* We discuss the community news:

* Mystery Donation Lets Elementary Hire Full-Time Staff

* KDE Plasma 5.14 Desktop Environment Lets You Upgrade Your Computer’s Firmware

* Opera arrives as an Ubuntu Snap for most Linux distros

* We mention some events:

* FOSDEM: 2nd – 3rd Feburary 2019, Brussels

* OggCamp!: 18th – 19th August 2018. Sheffield, UK.

* Image credit: Hunter Johnson

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