438 – Copilot Takeover

First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group. Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills. Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:30:33 – Security And Privacy 00:34:08 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings 01:30:19 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:31:08 – Wrap Up 01:33:48 – Outro The News Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option Turkey bans Distrowatch Security and Privacy High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts The next two articles will actually be discussed during the innards (next episode) but we’ve linked them here anyway. Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], 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 and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected], 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>