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

• Youtube Link 1
• Youtube Link 2
• Youtube Link 3

02:00 Listener Responds to SSH Questions - Roger

man ssh_config

• Cyberciti Article

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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