Issue #285 / Aug 2024

The slipping sands of privacy agreements have been a subject of this column before. You always hope you can write something and be done with it, as if your words have just changed the universe, but it is never that easy. The same things keep happening, so people like me need to keep writing about them.

AlmaLinux 9.4 Boot DVD and Fedora Workstation 40 Live

In the news: AlmaLinux Now Supports Raspberry Pi 5; Kubuntu Focus Releases New Ir14 and Ir16 Laptops; NixOS 24.05; Linux Lite 7.0; KaOS Linux 2024.05 Adds bcachfs Support and More; TUXEDO Computers Unveils New Stellaris Laptop Line; KDE Releases Plasma 6.0.5; Gnome OS Adopting systemd-sysupdate; and Endless OS 6.

Chronicler Zack Brown discusses the makers of manners.

This deep look at how intruders attack an out-of-date kernel should be enough to convince you of the need to stay vigilant.

SnoopGod delivers an Ubuntu-based pentesting distribution with an emphasis on security education.

Although not as popular as headliners like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Litecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, and it offers some useful features, such as dual-mining with Dogecoin.

Over the past 30 years, the apt family has played an important role in dependency resolution for Debian distros.

If you're tired of tinkering with spreadsheets, using hledger and plain text accounting offers a simpler method for managing your finances without vendor lock-in.

Mike Schilli uses a Go program to check whether a strategy for trading stocks is making gains or losses on the basis of historical price data.