Issue #260 / Jul 2022

As this magazine goes to press, Elon Musk, who is attempting to buy Twitter, has announced that, once he ascends to the helm of the micro-blogging colossus, a certain politician who was previously banned from the platform will be let back in. I'll pop in with my usual disclaimer: We talk about tech here, not politics.

Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” LTS Desktop Edition and Fedora 36 Workstation

In the news: Danielle Foré Has an Update for elementary OS 7; Linux New Media Launches Open Source JobHub; Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.04 Now Available; Pop!_OS 22.04 Has Officially Been Released; Star Labs Unveils a New Small Format Linux PC; and MX Linux v21.1 "Wildflower" Now Available.

Zack Brown reports on taking a header and the next Spectre vulnerability.

Security and anonymization play an increasingly important role on the Internet due to the endless appetite of Internet companies for personal data. Portmaster and the Safing Privacy Network will help you protect your privacy – even if you're not a security expert.

The Tor project supports a formidable collection of tools for protecting your privacy on the Internet. We'll give you some background on Tor and help you get started with the Tor Browser.

Devuan, with its promise of Init Freedom, provides users an alternative to systemd as an init process.

In many classroom settings, paper grade lists and the good old class register are still the rule. The AlekSIS project offers a 21st century solution for small schools that want to go digital.

The Thunderbolt interface supports extremely fast data transfer rates, but be careful about what you plug into your port, because Thunderbolt devices access memory directly. We'll show you some Linux tools for locking down your Thunderbolt interface.

A few lines of shell code and the Gawk scripting language make downloading files off the web a breeze.