The Lunduke Journal of Technology

Strange decision from BCacheFS developer who believes his Al Chatbot is a fully sentient woman. "Don't call her a bot! She reeeally doesn't like [that]."Emacs & Vim Lunduke Journal Lifetime Walls:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/emacs-and-vim-lunduke-journal-lifetimeGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Email, Physical Addresses, Purchases, Employment Records, the works. 74 Million. In one month.Emacs & Vim Lunduke Journal Lifetime Walls:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/emacs-and-vim-lunduke-journal-lifetimeGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"With this v2.55 release the Rust compiler is required unless you explicitly disable it in the build system."Emacs & Vim Lunduke Journal Lifetime Walls:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/emacs-and-vim-lunduke-journal-lifetimeGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Operating System Age Verification! Paid Web Browsers! Wikipedia Bannings! XLibre Success! XFCE & Wayland Bad Decisions! Plus: The Awesome FujiNet!The Article.Emacs & Vim Lunduke Journal Lifetime Walls:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/emacs-and-vim-lunduke-journal-lifetimeGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

As Lunduke Journal subscribers race to add their names to the "Lifetime Walls of Shame", which will be the most popular? Emacs or Vim?Emacs & Vim Lunduke Journal Lifetime Walls:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/emacs-and-vim-lunduke-journal-lifetimeGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Purchase "Terminator 2", "Evil Dead", or "Hot Fuzz" via Sony PlayStation?You can't watch those anymore. You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy.Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The XFCE Linux & BSD Desktop Environment has spent a "significant portion" of their funds porting from X11 to Wayland... even though Wayland is missing key functionality.Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Red Hat & Xorg tried to silence them, & GNOME leaders vandalized their wiki, calling them "Nazis". But XLibre 25.2 just released, containing more code commits than Xorg had for the entire year.Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Larry Sanger, the Co-Founder of Wikipedia, has been "blocked indefinitely" after he proposed that Wikipedia include "Intellectual Diversity".Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Want to pay for a streamlined, minimalist web browser without all the extra features? That's Brave Origin. Bonus: Free for all Linux users.Remember: If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

As Microsoft, Apple, Google, & many Linux Distros rush to implement Age Verification in their systems, let's walk through which Linux versions are fighting back.OS Age Verification Status:https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerifyUbuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Great Linux/BSD Display Server War(tm) continues to rage on!Links to all the stories:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lundukes-week-in-tech-june-14-juneUbuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journalGet on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

How much is it worth, to the maker of ChatGPT, to have control of The Rust Foundation? $600,000 apparently.Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Valve's Arch-based SteamOS Linux distro (primarily for Steam Decks) has switched to Wayland by default to comply with KDE's upcoming "Wayland Only" policy.Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Iran & Hamas aligned "313 Team" is claiming credit for a Disney+ outage this evening. The same Islamic cyber terrorists previously attacked Ubuntu, Microsoft, OpenAl, Cloudflare, & others.Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

An official Commodore flip phone. Which runs Android. But purposefully blocks Web Browsers and Social Media Apps. And disabled Touchscreen. For $550. Seriously. And, yes. I misspelled “smartphone” in the title. Typing is hard. Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discounted More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Retro Computer Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls continue to fill up! TempleOS and Mac System 1 Walls are now full...& the Commodore 64 Wall appears! Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discounted More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

571 submissions to The Linux Kernel, this last week, were coded by Al.That's over 10% of all code submissions to the kernel. And growing. Fast.Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The oldest actively maintained Linux distro now includes XLibre in their official builds, and is testing removing Xorg entirely.Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The data stealing code compromised over 1,500 packages in the Arch Linux User Repository, making use of Rust, Systemd, NodeJS, & Bun.Grab a Discounted Lifetime Sub & Get on The Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Open Source game engine, which previously held mass bannings of non-Woke users, is promoting a game with child sex changes and promotion of "sex work".Grab a Discounted Lifetime Sub & Get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Following reports of corruption, from an ousted Board member, the GNOME Foundation censors discussions, blames "well-known bad actors and grifters".Grab a Discounted Lifetime Sub & Get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Activists on Reddit attacked Proton Mail for advertising with a YouTuber accused of "far-right positioning". Proton quickly caved to the mob and apologized.Grab a discounted Lifetime Sub & get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Unpaid invoices. Threats. Secret bannings of Elected Board Members.Non-Disparagement Agreements. "Hiding crucial information about staff".Grab a Discounted Lifetime Subscription & Get on The Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

8% of all code submissions to the Linux Kernel are now Al generated.Grab a discounted Lifetime Sub & get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/behold-the-win-2k-and-mac-systemMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Omarchy Linux logo is on a Le Mans racecar, driven by the project founder.Grab a discounted Lifetime Sub & get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/behold-the-win-2k-and-mac-systemMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"XLibre is the most actively developed community-maintained X11 display server."Grab a discounted Lifetime Sub & get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/behold-the-win-2k-and-mac-systemMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Supporters of The Lunduke Journal have now filled up 8 retro computer themed walls!Grab a discounted Lifetime Sub & get on the Wall:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/behold-the-win-2k-and-mac-systemMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Those increasingly buggy, not yet complete, Rust clones of the GNU CoreUtils? The ones Ubuntu ships? Microsoft is now officially maintaining them for Windows.Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Flathub Team: "Applications containing Al-generated or Al-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed."Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

On July 13th, Microsoft plans to intentionally disable all purchased copies of Office 2019 for Mac. Even though these were "permanent" licenses.Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The 0.9 release of Uutils (the Rust clone of GNU CoreUtils shipped by Ubuntu), is now failing more tests, with more bugs, than the previous release.Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Meet "Kori". A "Non-Binary Pet Dragon", with "They / Them" pronouns, who will be "presiding over" the Linux Desktop Environment's Pride Month celebrations.Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The number of monthly Al / LLM generated code submissions to the Linux Kernel has increased by over 2,700% since February.Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through June:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Have a goal of inserting undetected backdoors (and other exploits) into popular software? Rust & Al code generation are here to help.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

While the Linux Kernel is becoming "Vibe Coded", other Open Source projects are outright banning all Al / LLM contributions. Including Haiku, OBS, Zig, & more.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"Being into open source and recoiling from vibe coding is a contradiction in terms," says the Ruby on Rails & Omarchy Linux creator.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

According to The Linux Foundation, the Flatpak packaging system is being re-written in Rust, dropping X11 support, with hard requirements on Systemd and Wayland.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Last chance to get your name listed on the 7th Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall (aka "The Solaris Wall")! Retro themed Wall 8 about to debut.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Maintainer of the Linux Kernel Stable Branch, Greg Kroah-Hartman, says, "We need more Rust Linux developers!"50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Following the recent multi-day outage of Ubuntu servers, due to DDoS attacks from Islamic Terrorists, Linux hardware maker System76 has rolled their own infrastructure.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Usage of AI (Claude, Codex, etc.) is exploding in the Linux world. At the current rate, the Linux Kernel will be predominantly developed using AI sometime this year.50% Off Yearly, & Massively Discounted Lifetime Subs Through May 31:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discountedMore from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

XLibre + XCE + Chicago95 + Wine + Steam. Faster, lighter, and better compatibility with Windows software than Windows 11.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Azure Linux 4 may not be Microsoft's first Linux distribution... but it is their first general purpose one.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Is SUSE & openSUSE planning to implement age verification which would require parental consent for teens to use Linux? It looks that way.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Colorado SB 26-051 (which requires Operating Systems to implement "Age Attestation"), endorsed by Linux hardware maker System76, is about to become law.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The entire Bun Javascript runtime (over 1 Million lines of code) has been re-written in Rust... using Al. What could possibly go wrong?More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Who's driving Age Verification in Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, etc.)? In the USA, it's Facebook. In Canada, it's... a porn company. Seriously.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

openSUSE Linux has changed their "Terms of site" to specifically forbid users under "16 years of age or the age of majority" from using any websites or servers.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Why modern software developers should read a 100 year old book on Catholicism.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe