mintCast 361 – The Launch Launch

First up, in our Wanderings, I start building, Joe writes with a pinecil, Tony upgrades, and Josh fights a game


Then, our news Audacity gets bought up, System76 Launches the Launch, and LibreOffice Lets you Search!


In security, the death of CAPTCHA


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2:16 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

38:33 The News

1:02:53 Security Update

1:19:36 Announcements & Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I start building, Joe writes with a pinecil, Tony upgrades, Josh fights a game, and Bo tries to leaf.

Then, our news Audacity gets bought up, System76 Launches the Launch, and LibreOffice Lets you Search!

In security, the death of CAPTCHA

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

Leo

CM ML120L

Joe
Tony H

‘North Coast 500′

Josh

THE NEWS:

Audacity taken over by Muse Group
The Audacity Takeover by Muse Group is No Cause for Celebration 
Microsoft embraces Linux kernel’s eBPF super-tool, extends it for Windows
‘A fair amount of stuff, all over the place’: Torvalds closes merge window for Linux 5.13 with support for Apple M1 
System 76 Launch Launches
Six Years After The Request, LibreOffice 7.2 Offers Searchable Commands

SECURITY UPDATE:

DarkSide’s Ransomware Folly
The Death of CAPTCHA

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

We’re putting OGG to sleep. Forever.

Mp3 has been patentless for more than three years now and that’s free enough for us. It cuts down on back end workload since we do most everything manually when it comes to getting the show out there.
No need to change feeds! The mp3 will now come down in the OGG feed. Just don’t look under the covers, and hopefully absolutely nothing noticeable will change.

Moss extended hiatus
The New Saturday Show (mintNight? mintTalk? No official name yet.)
Our next episode will be at 2 pm US Central time on May 30, 2021.
Get the show time converted to your time zone!

Wrap-up:

Joe – www.Tllts.org,  www.linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected] 
Bo – YouTube Undercast Collective
Moss – It’s MOSS, MeWe, several blogs, music on Bandcamp and on various YouTube channels, @[email protected] on Mastodon, [email protected], Full Circle Weekly News, Sponsus! 
Tony Hughes – HPR –  http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=338, Occasional Blog https://tony-hughes.blogspot.com/, Twitter @TonyH1212, [email protected], [email protected] 
Tony Watts – [email protected], Echoes of Savages (band)
Josh Hawk – [email protected], @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites. Crowbar Kernel Panic on Spotify.
Mike – [email protected] and GrouchyM on Discord
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 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!>