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📰 Former Richard Stallman Colleague Now Argues for Open AI Models Too
📰 Former Richard Stallman Colleague Now Argues for Open AI Models Too Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too... [Weiterlesen]
📚 Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing
The pcTattletale founder escapes a custodial sentence following the first successful prosecution of a spyware maker in the U.S. for over a decade. [Weiterlesen]
🔧 Why I interviewed even when I was happy
🔧 Why I interviewed even when I was happy Things can change… very fast and you should always keep your options open. I was working at a company I really liked. I had great managers and a supportive team, I enjoyed the work I was doing and... [Weiterlesen]
🔒 Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
Richard Stallman spoke Friday at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies.
🔒 Richard Stallman to Speak on Software Freedom and AI at Georgia Tech
📚 Richard Stallman to Speak on Software Freedom and AI at Georgia Tech The free software pioneer returns to campus. Richard Stallman will be speaking on Software Freedom and AI at Georgia Tech university. ...
🔒 pcTattletale Founder Bryan Fleming Pleads Guilty in Federal Stalkerware Case
Bryan Fleming, founder of pcTattletale, pleads guilty in a landmark federal spying case. Read how an undercover HSI sting and a data breach ended a decade of illegal stalkerware sales. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News,… The post pcTattletale Founder Bryan Fleming Pleads Guilty in Federal Stalkerware Case appeared first on IT Security News.
Ladybird Gains Google Sheets Support
The Ladybird web browser can now handle Google Sheets. Watching as Ladybird rapidly gains support for increasingly complex websites (and web “apps”) is a truly marvelous thing. As the lead developer of Ladybird says, it’s not perfect. But increasingly usable. I mean, heck. Look at that. That’s Google Sheets. Running in a web browser that is not based on Firefox or Chrome.
Tech Journalist Engages in Lies & Doublespeak to Defame Lunduke
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -23:44 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As part of a GNOME puff piece, a Tech Journalist for a Free and Open Source publication went on an unhinged attack on all things "Lunduke". And GNOME promoted it. The Article: https://fossforce.com/2025/06/gnomes-new-director-tackles-funding-pride-and-prejudice/ More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ Discussion about this episode Make Computers Fun Again Make Computers Fun Again
The Internet Archive Loses Appeal. As Expected.
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Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are “Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs”
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GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"
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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder
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Debian is, IMO, the greatest Linux distro of them all. I think that Debian is the last step in the ...
Debian is, IMO, the greatest Linux distro of them all. I think that Debian is the last step in the Linux user lifecycle, and that once a user comes to it at the right time, and for the right reasons, it will be their Linux home thereafter. What follows is a rough overview of how a Linux user matures. It isn't serious, just a bit of fun, so don't take it personally. Linux users starting off will use something like Ubuntu, or Linux Mint. Or one of the many other intentionally easy starter distros.
The Open Source Community is Neither "Open" nor a "Community"
The Open Source Community is Neither "Open" nor a "Community"
1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in Holland
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles The futility of Ad-Blockers Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators. It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle.
Why is Firefox called Firefox?
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The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
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The Lunduke Journal gets a little Political!
The Lunduke Journal gets a little Political!
Microsoft executives encourage employees to commit felonies... and then they get promoted.
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The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Command Line Week (Part II) Begins! Terminal. Shell. Command Line. Thing with the letters and stuff. Whatever you want to call it, we're celebrating it all week at The Lunduke Journal! Mozilla Miracles: New CEO, Layoffs, & Actual Press Coverage Linux Sucks 2024: The Trailer Because... Linux Sucks deserves a trailer. 😎 This is mostly for letting people know about it on other platforms...
The Great Tech Industry Demographic Survey of 2024
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Mozilla Miracles: New CEO, Layoffs, & Actual Press Coverage Linux Sucks 2024: The Trailer Because... Linux Sucks deserves a trailer. 😎 This is mostly for letting people know about it on other platforms... but wanted to share with you amazing Locals nerds too. Linux Sucks 2024 "This is going to suck more than anything has sucked before." Recorded live on February 8th, 2024.
Linux Sucks 2024 -- Where (and how) to Watch
Linux Sucks 2024 -- Where (and how) to Watch
Lots of Lunduke Journal Exclusives this week!
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Chris Fisher, Wendell Wilson, & Rob Braxman - Jan 03, 2024 This Week's Special Guests: Chris Fisher (Jupiter Broadcasting), Wendell Wilson (Level 1 Techs), & Rob Braxman.
DistroTube & Brodie Robertson
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This Week's Special Guests: Derek Taylor (DistroTube), & Brodie Robertson Three, highly opinionated Linux nerds. Covering a small mountain of topics in one hour: Xorg, Wayland, Gentoo, Immutable Distros, The Linux Foundation, Red Hat, and more. Glorious. Watch the video version on Lunduke.Locals.com. The Lunduke Journal of Technology Make Computers Fun Again Listen on Appears in episode Recent Episodes
No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith.
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Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - DistroTube, & Brodie Robertson - Jan 10, 2024
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Make Computers Fun Again - Linux, UNIX, Alternative Operating Systems, Computer History, and Retro Computing. Also dad jokes. Interested? Want to learn more about the community? Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - DistroTube, & Brodie Robertson - Jan 10, 2024 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
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How to: Run a DOS-based Web Server (seriously)
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The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop
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GNOME gets 1 Million Euro in new funding
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Ranting about Apple hardware... and glue - Lunduke's Big Tech Show - November 1st, 2023 It needs to be done. Because it's a day that ends in Y. The age of AI generated Linux Distros has begun! - Lunduke's Big Tech Show - October 31st, 2023 "Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044 This episode is free for all to enjoy and share.
Watching "Big Open Source" become "Big Tech"
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles GNOME is being super weird about their Shaman - Lunduke's Big Tech Show - October 23rd, 2023 Yeah. We're still talking about the GNOME Shaman. Because the GNOME Project & Foundation are acting really, really weird about it. And, yeah. I say "2013" at the beginning. Woops.
Mozilla downplaying Firefox, moving into A.I.
We all know about the incredibly bizarre finances of Mozilla -- the Billion dollar corporation behind the Firefox web browser. Huge dollar payments to companies that don't seem to exist. Massive amounts of money funneled into political projects. A nearly total reliance on a single customer (Google) for the majority of their revenue. Huge (and unusual) bonuses given to their CEO. Sketchy to the extreme. And all of that is built upon a web browser (Firefox) that has a total marketshare of around 3%...
The Linux Foundation has practically abandoned Linux
As we all know, The Linux Foundation has continually lowered its direct support for the Linux Kernel almost every year -- with the quarter-Billion dollar (annual) foundation spending a measly 3.2% of its annual expenditures on Linux. In fact... The Foundation that controls Linux spends less on Linux, every year, than they spend on "Blockchain", "Artificial Intelligence", "Compliance Best Practices", and a wide variety of other projects.
The Great uConsole Giveaway
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles "The RSS Feed Returns!" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 22nd, 2023 - Ep 045 Going forward the video versions of the podcast episodes will (with very few exceptions) be exclusive for subscribers -- and the audio version will be available via the RSS podcast feed free for the whole world to enjoy.
Technology & Politics. Let's keep them separate.
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Live Streamed on August 10, 2023 2:58 PM ET Lunduke Livestream - August 10, 2023 Extreme nerdiness. In the outdoors. When it's 100 degrees. Because... why not? Ended! Well that was crazy! Laptop overheated twiced.
The 1985 online service for 48k Atari computers: Games Computers Play Network
In January of 1985, an On-Line service launched that was specifically built for Atari computers equipped with 48k of RAM: the Games Computers Play Network (GCP). No Commodore 64 support. No Apple. No Mac. No DOS. Atari, and only Atari. And only those with 48k RAM upgrades. The entire interface of GCP was graphical… and navigated by using a joystick (with optional keyboard commands). From a central “City” you could choose where to go, who to send messages to (using a “Telephone”) and what games to play.
The Wiki Piggy Bank
Over the last two decades, Wikipedia has become one of the most visited -- and most referenced --websites on Earth. And nearly every one of us is familiar with Wikipedia's regular requests for donations, often including urgent-sounding text along the lines of "protect Wikipedia's independence" and "without reader contributions, we couldn’t run Wikipedia." Sounds pretty dire, right?
'Chris Fisher (Jupiter Broadcasting) on The Changing Business of Podcasting' - Lunduke’s Big Tech ...
I absolutely love the computers of the old Soviet Union. Sure, I never had one: I never lived in the Soviet Union… and I don’t speak a single drop of Russian. Just the same, there’s something fascinating and wild about the computer industry of that particular place and time. The Soviet-styled, Sci-Fi inspired cases. The (often) knock-off copies of hardware and (also often) stolen ROMs and software. The history, technology, and aesthetics are downright whimsical.
'Chris Fisher (Jupiter Broadcasting) on Linux - Past, Present, & Future' - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show...
Many of us have heard the story of “The First Computer Bug”. It goes something like this… On September 9, 1947 — at 3:45pm — Grace Hopper recorded the “first actual case of a bug being found” in her logbook. The bug was a moth found between the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II computer. The story is a fantastic one. A bug. An actual bug causing a computer to misbehave.
Linux Foundation decreased Linux spending to 3.2% in 2022.
On December 8th, 2022, the Linux Foundation released their annual report for 2022. I’m not going to sugar coat this… it is absolutely ridiculous. The highlight? Funding for the Linux kernel, in 2022, dropped to a measly 3.2% of the foundation’s total revenue of $243 Million dollars. Down from the — already absurdly low — 3.4% from 2021. Considering the name of the foundation… that is, needless to say, highly amusing. Or concerning. Possibly infuriating. Likely all three.
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Mozilla, the Foundation behind the Firefox web browser, is absolutely mammoth — with over One Billion Dollars in assets. Where does all that money come from? Where is it being spent? With Firefox marketshare in a nosedive, how is Mozilla reacting?
Lunduke declares war on A.I.
That's it. I've had it. I am done with Artificial Intelligence companies regularly stealing my content -- adding it into their "language models" and databases -- and feeding back slighly modified (read: plagiarized) versions to their users... for their own profit.
"macOS Sucks" - 2023
Modern, 64bit versions of Windows… don’t support running Windows 3.1 software. Linux distributions can’t run Windows 3.1 software either. (At least… not out of the box.) This is, obviously, a tragedy. How on Earth are we expected to play Castle of the Winds or SkiFree on modern operating systems!? Luckily, Wine does an astoundingly good job of supporting Windows 3.1 software… though many might not realize it (as most people are focused on the support for Windows 95 and later software).
Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make?
Lunduke Comedy • Gaming • News • Science & Tech Videos Podcasts Posts Articles Live Streamed on August 10, 2023 2:58 PM ET Lunduke Livestream - August 10, 2023 Extreme nerdiness. In the outdoors. When it's 100 degrees. Because... why not? Ended! Well that was crazy! Laptop overheated twiced.
Every Classic MacOS Release, Emulated in Your Browser. Seriously.
Last year, we talked about the Infinite Mac project — which, at the time, had created websites that could run full versions of MacOS 8 and MacOS 7. Emulated right in your browser. Very cool. Well now the creator, Mihai Parparita, has upped his game considerably by launching InfiniteMac.org — a single website that can emulate nearly every single release of the classic MacOS. From the first release in 1984… all the way up to MacOS 9.0.4 in the year 2000. Ok. Technically, he is missing a few.
The History of BSD - Part 1 (1974 - 1989)
BSD — and BSD-based operating systems — are a staple of computing. From the commercial BSD systems of the ‘80s and ‘90s, to the likes of FreeBSD and OpenBSD powering significant parts of modern Internet infrastructure. But how did BSD get started? And, perhaps even more importantly, why was it created? And, while we’re on the topic… What hardware was used? Who made it happen? And why on earth is Google’s ex-CEO, Eric Schmidt involved!? This is Part 1 of the story of BSD.
Q1 of 2023: The most Tech Layoffs in history
No matter how you slice it, we are now seeing the largest number of layoffs in the history of the computer industry — with numbers that are blowing the Dot Com Bubble Burst out of the water. Back in mid-January I reported on the continuing trend of major layoffs at Tech companies — and predicted that this trend would continue (and escalate significantly) well into 2023. At that time (January 18th), there had been 37,526 employees laid off from Tech companies year-to-date (all in just 18 days).
Digital Prepping, Part 2 - Preparing your Operating Systems to be Off-Line
As we work to prepare our computers for the eventuality of a total loss of Internet access — be it temporary or permanent… planned or unplanned — there is one key aspect that often gets overlooked: Your Operating System. Think about the various Operating Systems you use (both your PCs and Smartphones). Then ask yourself these questions: When you are setting up your Operating System, does it use the Internet for some things (including activation)?
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