Episode 3:17: Pass-Ackward

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Coming up in this episode

1. Plasma's Kind of Hot Right Now
2. Brush your passwords
3. Browser Watch!
4. A little feedback
5. And a little FOCUS

0:00 Cold Open
1:33 Akademy Awards
3:22 Plasma 5.27
24:33 Your Last Pass... Word
47:05 Browser Watch!
55:36 The Mailbag
1:05:35 Community Focus: Vashinator
1:08:08 App Focus: ClamAV
1:20:24 Next Time: EndlessOS History
1:22:25 Stinger

Watch this episode on Youtube
https://youtu.be/L3haDDxBJU0

Banter

• Akademy videos are online
• Plasma 5.27 is ❤
• Nick from The Linux Experiment did a video that goes over some highlights.
• Jupiter Broadcasting covered it in Linux Action News too.
• The question of why isn't KDE Plasma the main DE for a main distro comes around every once and a while.

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Password hygiene is all the rage

• LastPass Blog announcement of the security incident
• We talked a lot about password managers in episode 11.
• Mozilla's pitch.
• Brian Krebs has this to say.
• You can check your passwords against Have I Been Pwned.
• If you use Bitwarden/Vaultwarden, you can use the reports to check exposed, reused, and weak passwords.

More Announcements

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Browser Watch

• Gnome Web has a new UI for handling permissions.
  • We pitched Gnome Web a couple of episodes ago.
• Version 110, Firefox got the addition to import bookmarks, passwords and history from Opera, Opera GX, and Vivaldi.
• Vivaldi makes improvements to their Window Panel.
• Brave does HTTPS everywhere.
• Microsoft Edge adds Adobe Acrobat.

Feedback

"ee" "dee", gotcha 😉

• Turns out we were the joke instead of making one. Apologies.

Anonymous Listener suggests ownCloud

• ownCloud
• We'll check it out and report back.

Daniel M. says...

• Podman
• Daniel's document

Frank W. says...

• Brave is great and cheer from the Great White North, eh!
• Thanks Frank!

Eric M. on Youtube says...

• Pixar and other animation studios use RHEL for their workstations.
• In Podman, the pod comes from kubernetes. A pod is a group of containers that are in the same namespace.

Housekeeping

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Community Focus - Vashinator

• Vash's YouTube channel.

App Focus ClamAV

• ClamAV

Next Time

The history of EndlessOS, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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