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BiWeekly Wanderings 31:19
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First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.

In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.

The in our wanderings: Guy talk

In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.

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

The News Linux Mint, OMG Ubuntu, How-To Geek, The Register, 9to5linux.com* – Linux Mint 21 Beta Release * TimeVivaldi adds Mastodon plugin Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time * Elementary Updates * NixOS 22.11 Released**

Security and Privacy

  • Eufy’s “local storage” cameras can be streamed from anywhere, unencrypted
  • Samsung’s Android AppSigning Key has leaked
  • CosmicStrand: the discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit

Wrap-up Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee * Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, other information found at It’s Moss dot com * Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org * Norbert* – norbert@mintcast.org

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, AudioFreak(Riyo) and all others for our audio editing
  • Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Linode for hosting mintcast.org
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!