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454 – Linux Bans Facebook
Episode 454

454 – Linux Bans Facebook

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February 5, 20251h 48m

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Show Notes

First up in the news: Solus 4.7 Released, Facebook bans Linux, WINE 10 released, RISC V stuff, and cursing at your AI is the way forward

In security and privacy: Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe builds things, Bill butters his Mint, Majid likes cursing at his computer

The News:

Solus 4.7 Released

Facebook bans Linux

Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes

GTK’s X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite

Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

Security and Privacy:

Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant

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Special Thanks To:

  • Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
  • 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
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>