479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026, In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News – January 2026 Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally. Face scan or I.D. needed? Firefox Announces ‘A.I. Controls’ To Block Its Upcoming A.I. Features AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management. Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month The Memory Crisis Is Taking No Prisoners RaspberyPi goes Dual RAM Linux 6.19 KDE 6.6 & Gnome 50 Betas out Ubuntu getting rid of the Software & Updater tool Libreoffice 26.2 released Security and Privacy: SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid). Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_doctor@mastodon.social, Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>