Podcast Season 3 Episode 14

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Title: Spreadsheets that rock

In this episode: There’s a Firefox vulnerability that shares your SSH keyfiles, though that isn’t why future versions of Firefox will only install signed add-ons. LibreOffice 5.0 has been released, and it’s fabulous. The EFF has level-upped our privacy with Privacy Badger. Lenovo, meanwhile, is helping Windows users switch to Linux. Don’t miss the most awesome Finds section ever, and a reddit-tastic Voice of the Masses.

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • Danger: there’s an exploit in Firefox that can reveal the contents of .ssh. And from version 42 onwards, all versions of Firefox will require add-ons and extensions to be signed. Celebrate – LibreOffice 5.0 has been released! Upgrade your browsing privacy with the EFF’s Privacy Badger 1.0. Lenovo is still patching Windows files from the BIOS. A prototype of KDE’s Plasma Mobile can now run on a Nexus 5 smartphone. And GNOME is now 18 years old.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
    • <Stilvoid> Google’s DeepDream thing is the stuff of nightmares.
    • <chemist69> ZIM desktop wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/). I use it for almost everything, esp. documenting my work.
    • <pwaring> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki – an open source single page Wiki.
    • <einonm> I’ve found a great site for learning bioinformatics (genome sequencing) that is a set of small problems that you write a Python script for, and then submit the results to the website in real time – rosalind.info
    • <Devilment> Not a Linux find but something you might appreciate playing with during downtime. Dunc’s Algomusic – www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=48880.0
    • <einonm> The muppet song ‘mahna mahna’ was first written for a (and I quote wikipedia) ‘documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behaviour in Sweden’
  • Mike:
    • This episode’s Voice of the Masses has become our fourth biggest story on reddit/linux
  • Graham:
    • Filter your Google searches with Startpage.
    • Let’s hope Alien: Isolation comes to Linux.
  • Ben:
    • Package manager dependencies as galaxies of data.
    • Strava’s heat maps of popular cycling and running routes
    See all the reddit posts that have linked to a domain with (eg.) https://www.reddit.com/domain/linuxvoice.com
  • Andrew:
    • A remote car key vulnerability, that has only recently been reported, was discovered 2 years ago.
• Vocalise Your Neurons:
Get in touch with Mike (mike@linuxvoice.com) if you’d like your neurons vocalised next episode.
• Voice of the Masses: Should we pay more attention to Richard Stallman?

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.

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Duration: 1:12:02

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.