439 – Doin’ The Proton Dance

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks, ProtonPass is released for MacOS and Linux, and new features come to VLC

In security and privacy: Linux Exploit found by US Federal agency

Then in our Wanderings: Bill distro-hops, Moss has returned from his musical excursion, and Eric deals with multiple security issues.

Full Show Notes Here

• 00:00:00 – Intro
• 00:01:34 – News
• 00:34:58 – Security And Privacy
• 00:40:04 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
• 00:57:28 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
• 00:58:19 – Wrap Up
• 01:00:40 – Outro

The News

Linux Mint Monthly News

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition

Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks

Proton Pass brings secure and private password management to all devices

VLC Adds AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improved Opus Ambisonic + More

Security And Privacy

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [e-mail], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [e-mail], Mastodon @[e-mail],
• Bill – [e-mail], Bill_H on Discord, @[e-mail] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [e-mail] @[e-mail], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon stream. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [e-mail], or on most social media sites as my full name, Eric Adams.

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
• Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about