A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. System 76 has a new professional desktop, the Linux Foundation has a new open source signing tool that could make secure software supply chains universal.
-- During The Show --
00:30 LumoSQL - Dan
02:00 Listener Responds to SSH Questions - Roger
man ssh_config
03:00 Off Site Backup suggestion? - Alex
- Rsync
- Snapshots
- Bluray Archive Disks
- ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
- Tarsnap
- Cryptomator
13:00 Pick of the Week
- Plasma Leakguard
- Auto-restarts KDE Plasma if it is taking an abnormal amount of memory
16:00 Gadget of the Week
- Opensource.com Article
- Raspberry PI router + Modem
- Requirements
- Raspberry Pi
- Power Cable
- Computer (Preferably running Linux)
- MicroSD Card (16GB or larger)
- Ethernet cable
- LTE Modem
- SIM Card
- Default IP 192.168.1.1
- modemmanager to configure modems
20:55 Sigstore
- Software signing through block chain
- From the Linux Foundation
- Functional but considered to be beta software
- Tech Republic Article
27:00 System76 Thelio Mira
- System76 Blog Post
- Hand crafted in the USA
- 4th Gen AMD Ryzen CPUs
- PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage
- Up to 128GB RAM
- Unique Cooling system
31:40 India Planning Cypto Currency ban
- ArsTechnica Article
- India is planning to introduce legislation banning crypto currency
- Legislation would give crypto currency owners six months to liquidate
35:00 KDE Elisa Grows Up
- Article Link
- Music Player
- Now supports AAC files
- Pinephone experience is better than Zebra devices in use today
41:50 Sky Global
- ArsTechnica Article
- US uses RICO warrants to charge SkyGlobal Executives
- US alleges SkyGlobal knowingly sold devices with strong encryption to drug dealers
47:00 Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
- Bloomberg Article
- ArsTechnica Article
- 5 Billion Dollar Lawsuit
52:15 Fedora Workstation 34
- Gnome Blog Post
- NVidia driver catches up with wayland
- Headless Display support (Thank You Jonas Ådahl)
- Full Pipewire support
- Red Hat is getting into the automotive space, Watch for related job posts
54:00 Call to Action
- SELF will be virtual this year!
- SELF Link
- SELF dates June 10-12
- Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details
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