PAYLOAD;; issue 4

Thanks for joining me.

Welcome back! I’m freshly (fully) vaccinated and ready to inject your inbox with another list of Linux links and news.

Housekeeping note: two very sharp readers of the newsletter both pointed out a desire to have a little explanatory blurb for some of the links. Can do! That’s a good idea and will be implemented immediately. A multimedia idea I had was to also include some Linux video content from YouTube; that’s another good source of tons of information.

Do you also have ideas for the newsletter? Drop me a line.

• Raspberry Pi USB Copier Duplicates Data in a Flash | Tom's Hardware

  Use a cheap and easy dedicated device to make your backups!

• Distribution Release: AlmaLinux OS 8.3 (DistroWatch.com News)

  Alma is the new replacement for CentOS as they will no longer be a truly free OS anymore.

• Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns – OSnews

  Rust is a surging language but looks like they might need to redouble their efforts to scale sustainably and safely.

• 533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

  PSA: your local OS security can’t protect you from clownish fails on someone else’s servers.

• How to Setup Central Logging Server Using Rsyslog on Ubuntu 20.04

• How to Install VirtualBox 6.1 on Ubuntu 20.04

• Armv9 Introduced at Arm Vision Day 2021 | ServeTheHome

• MX Linux 19.4 Released with Latest Kernel

  One of my favorite Linux versions, top of DistroWatch rankings.

• How to Install Mosh Shell as SSH Alternative on Linux

• How to Install AWS CLI on Ubuntu 20.04

  ”AWS CLI (Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface)  is  an open-source command-line utility tool for managing Amazon web  services. AWS CLI is a utility tool provided by AWS to manage resources.  AWS API is directly accessible through AWS CLI. Using AWS CLI utility,  you can create scripts for automating Amazon Web Services.“

• Doggo Is A DNS Lookup Utility With Colorful Output, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS Support (Command Line) - Linux Uprising Blog

• Build a home thermostat with a Raspberry Pi | Opensource.com

• Audacity 3.0 Released with New Project File Format and Fixes

  ”The free and open-source, cross-platform audio editor Audacity brings its latest major release – Audacity 3.0. This release is significant as it brings some important improvements over the prior stable release.”

See you next week.