366 – Prox Your Mox

First up in the news DuckDuckGo protects us even more, then, It’s always DNS, the SteamDeck looks awesome, the Kernel is 30, and more


In security, updates on Kaseya, PrintNightmare and a new systemd vulnerability


Then in our Wanderings, Joe actually wanders, Josh proxes his mox, and I’m going full btrfs.


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2:17 The News

33:06 Security Update

39:52 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

1:12:51 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news DuckDuckGo protects us even more, then, It’s always DNS, the SteamDeck looks awesome, the Kernel is 30, and more

In security, updates on Kaseya, PrintNightmare and a new systemd vulnerability

Then in our Wanderings, Joe actually wanders, Josh proxes his mox, and I’m going full btrfs

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

The News

DuckDuckGo Tests out Email Spam Protection (Thanks, Londoner and AnonymousTechnophile)
Akamai is Reminded: It’s Always DNS
SteamDeck Preorders
Firefox 90

Firefox 90.0.1
Firefox 90.0.2

20TB Hard Drives coming soon (Thanks, Clayton)
Linux Foundation is celebrating 30 years of the Kernel
Ubuntu 20.10, Groovy Gorilla is End of Life
DebConf will start Aug 22 (Thanks, Felipe Maia)

Security Update

Filesystems in Linux, before kernel 5.13.4 can have length abused (Thanks, Clayton)
Update on #PrintNightmare
Update on Kaseya (Thanks, Londoner)

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

Leo

Timeshift

Josh

Proxmox

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on August 8th, 2021
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Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on July 31st, 2021
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Wrap-up

Joe – www.Tllts.org, www.linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected]
Bo – Crowbar Kernel Panic, [email protected]
Tony Hughes – HPR – http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected], [email protected]
Josh Hawk – [email protected], @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites, Crowbar Kernel Panic
Mike – [email protected] and GrouchyM on Discord and Telegram
Leo – leochavez.org and @leochavez on Twitter, [email protected], linuxuserspace.show. Buy me a coffee!

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

Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and 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!>