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In our Innards section: we’re going to discuss some best practices for good hygiene and safety when utilizing technology.





And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News for April, Ubuntu 24.04 released, Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed, systemd introduces run0, Google threatens RISC-V support for Android, RISC-V OS arrives, and BitWarden launches MFA for Android & iOS





In security and privacy: a new ransomware threat is found, and a GitLab maximum security flaw is found





Then in our Wanderings: Majid Endeavours to Fail, Bill Endeavours to succeed, and Joe gets skimmed

In our Innards section: We interview Alan Pope





And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their open source portfolio, Ubuntu 24.04 is out…. And you shouldn’t upgrade your system yet





In security and privacy: nope, nada





Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping

In our Innards section: Migrating Pihole and wireguard to an x86_64 system





In Vibrations from the Ether, we have listener feedback about malicious Linux developer vulnerabilities





And finally, in Check This Out, Bill discusses Fullup – The comprehensive update script for Arch Linux based systems

First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced





In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out of service)





Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets his game on with a new handheld device, Joe gets his game on with every device, Majid gets to be the family IT guy, and Eric deals with technical debt