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Continue scrolling past that for an absolutely massive archive of free, publicly available articles and shows to get you started on your Lunduke Journal journey.

Subscriber Exclusive Videos

• The Complete History of Linux (abridged)
• programmers_are_evil()
• They're Watching You
• Awesome Masculinity, Computers, & You
• The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All
• Linux is Freaking Weird
• The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All

• Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)

• The World Wide Web Sucks

• Net Neutrality. No big deal.

• HTTPS is Dangerous

• Maybe the Internet Wasn't Such a Great Idea

DRM-Free PDF Books for Subscribers

• Lunduke’s Dad Jokes About Computers
• Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 1
• Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 2
• “Road-Sign Hank & the Aliens" Issues #1 & #2
• "Linux for Hank" (Children's book about Linux)
• Half a Decade of Linux-y Shenanigans (570 pages of Lunduke's Network World articles between 2012 and 2017)
• Lunduke’s Big Book of Nerdy Satire - Volume 1
• Lunduke’s Big Book of Nerdy Satire - Volume 2
• “Paper Doll Tux” (The Linux mascot... as a paper doll... seriously.)
• “Operating System Not Found” (A nerdy Choose Your Own Adventure tale)

Free Video Games for Subscribers

• Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars (for Linux & DOS)
• Linux Tycoon Classic (for Linux & Windows)
• Linux Tycoon Classic (for DOS)
• 2299: Episode One (for Linux & Windows)

The Massive Free Lunduke Journal Archive

Looking for a particular video or article?  Below you will find a sampling of Lunduke Journal content, all of which is free for the world to enjoy (subscribers and non-subscribers alike).  

The following list is nowhere near complete -- and is being added to every single week.  If you're looking for a searchable, sortable index of every article and show, you'll want to go to The Lunduke Journal Content Archive at Lunduke.Locals.com/content (which is an added benefit for Lunduke Journal subscribers).

Lunduke Journal Exclusive Articles

(You won't find these stories covered anywhere else.)

• Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
• The IBM / Red Hat Leaks
• The Wiki Piggy Bank - Wikimedia grows rich as Wikipedia donations are used for political causes
• Linux Foundation now spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux
• 70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators
• GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director
• The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides
• Google Drive censors files of Pfizer whistleblower
• The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
• MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile
• Red Hat vs Hyprland: Silencing political "undesirables"
• The Internet Archive Loses Appeal. As Expected.
• Is the GNOME Foundation Going to Go Bankrupt in 1 Year?
• The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
• Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are “Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs”
• Remember when "GIMP" was declared an offensive name, and it was forked?  What ever happened to that?
• Yet Another Lawsuit Against IBM for Racial Discrimination
• Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
• GNOME Foundation Helps The Lunduke Journal Hit Record Subscription Numbers
• Mozilla Faces Financial Uncertainty After Google Loses Lawsuit
• Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch
• Is Intel No Longer a Safe Place for Jews? New Lawsuit Details.
• Netflix managers "will not hire this white guy because we have too many white people"
• GNOME Ousts Elected Board Member in Secret... and Tells Nobody for 2 Months
• GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"
• Open Source AI Definition: Not Open, Built by DEI, Funded by Big Tech
• Editor of OSNews calls for the murder of a Conservative, Jewish Tech Journalist
• Fedora (Red Hat) Holds "Diversity" Event. Nobody Shows Up
• GNOME's Shaman Departs as Executive Director after 9 Months on the Job
• Mozilla Firefox Goes Anti-Privacy, Pro-Advertising
• Microsoft Lays Off Some DEI Staff, Keeps DEI Policies

• Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder

• Don't wave the LGBT flag?  SUSE & openSUSE says you are "Rotten Flesh"

• Elementary OS & Asahi Linux declare war on "Right Wing" nerds

• NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder

• Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists

• Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II

• IBM Sued by State of Missouri for Racist Hiring Practices

• Mozilla Sued for Discrimination by Former CEO-To-Be

• Mozilla Firefox blocks anti-Censorship and pro-Privacy extensions in Russia
• The CIA, NSA, and Pokémon Go

• The Club Penguin Leak

• Google Drive censors files of Pfizer whistleblower
• The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides

Lunduke Journal Computer History Articles

• Microsoft's Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
• The (very real) history of :-)
• Myth: Bill Gates said "640k ought to be enough for anybody"
• The True History of vi (and vim)
• The History of the Graphical User Interface -- 1945 to 1980
• Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?
• Myth: "HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee"
• Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail -- 1990's Style
• Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s
• The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop
• Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
• Who really coined the term 'Open Source'?
• The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
• Aug 9, 1991: The First E-Mail... FROM SPACE
• Remembering MUD1 - The first multiplayer role playing game on the Internet
• The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.
• The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
• Traf-O-Data: The company before "Microsoft"
• W: The Window System before X... that nobody seems to remember
• The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web
• The History of BSD - Part 1 (1974 - 1989)
• The History of the First Computer Shell
• Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
• The Story of Otrona -- The Colorado Computer Company of the early 1980s.
• Why is Firefox called Firefox?
• Who (really) created the "Byte"?
• The History of Ctrl-Alt-Delete
• The creator of UNIX built a Trojan Horse which let him log in to any UNIX machine
• The Definitive History of Screensavers: 1961 - 1990
• 1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in Holland

• A tour through computing in 1961... over 60 years ago

• Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (ported to Mac... and Atari ST)

• RoboCop runs on DOS, Terminator runs on MacOS & Apple II

• AppleWorld 1987: When the Mac got color and expandability

• Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977's West Coast Computer Faire

• The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992
• Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail -- 1990's Style
• Microsoft's Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II

Other Very Nerdy Articles

• Watch the planes in the sky near you... from your Linux terminal.
• Mount a drive image from a remote server... on DOS.
• Happy Blue Screen of Death Day!
• 6 cool looking top (& htop) alternatives
• Instantly Become an Elite Movie Hacker

Lunduke Journal Regular Shows

• Linux has Real-Time now. What the fart does that actually mean?
• Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future
• The Next Kings of Linux: Shannon & Steve
• Nextcloud Releases Version 9 of Self-Hosting Platform
• MIT Uses AI Chatbots to Brainwash You
• Exploding Pagers & The Case for a Secure Supply Chain
• EFF: Calling for Genocide of Jews is OK, but Republicans Protesting is a Crime
• Google AI Notebook Turns Documents into Fake Podcasts with Fake Hosts Having Fake Discussions
• FreeCAD 1.0: The Most Important Linux Release of 2024
• Internet Archive Takes Another Step Towards Death
• The Self-Destruction of Open Source Software
• Mozilla Bets the Future of the Web is A.I. Generated Content
• The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
• The Register Runs Cover for CIA-Backed Smartphone Game
• A.I. Now Convincingly Replicates a Person's Handwriting... and it's Just as Creepy as it Sounds.
• The Specific Charges Against the Telegram CEO
• Is A.I. Programming Really the Future?
• Zuck Regrets Censoring Facebook at Request of Democrats
• Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are “Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs”
• Procreate Dev: "I really BEEPing hate generative AI"
• Yet Another Lawsuit Against IBM for Racial Discrimination
• Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
• Inclusivity Activists are Destroying Open Source
• Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong SNL Sketch
• Is This The End of Mozilla? If So, Is That a Bad Thing?
• Intel Assigns Jewish Israeli Employee to Manager Who Publicly Calls for His Murder
• New Downsizing from Dell, Intel Push 2024 Tech Layoffs Over 150,000
• Netflix managers "will not hire this white guy because we have too many white people"
• Python is 71x Slower, Uses 75x More Energy, Than C
• Wine Fixes Bugs in Windows 3.1 Software Running on Linux
• Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - July 31, 2024
• Official GNOME Policy: Link to Lunduke, Get Banned
• Lunduke Does Not Ban Any Tech Organization or News Outlet
• GNOME Ousts Elected Board Member in Secret, Tells Nobody for 2 Months
• GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"
• Open Source AI Definition: Not Open, Built by DEI, Funded by Big Tech
• Editor of OSNews calls for the Murder of a Conservative, Jewish Tech Journalist
• Fedora (Red Hat) Holds Diversity Event. Nobody Shows Up
• Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - July 10, 2024
• The Only Tech News Outlet Covering the Woke Tech Activists
• Tech Journalist publicly hopes for another assassination attempt on President Trump
• GNOME Shaman Out as Executive Director After 9 Months on the Job
• Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser
• No. Microsoft Did Not Lay Off All DEI Staff.
• Don't get cocky: CrowdStrike can happen to Linux & Mac too
• Watch Out Firefox & Chrome: Here Comes Ladybird
• NixOS commits "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
• Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II
• Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists
• How much RAM will you need in 5 years?
• Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - June 26, 2024
• Open Source is not Socialism (or Communism)
• IBM Sued by State of Missouri for Racist Hiring Practices
• Connecting the Dots: What the Heck is Happening at Mozilla?
• Mozilla Sued for Discrimination by CEO-To-Be
• Internet Archive: The Largest Software Piracy Website
• Lunduke's Live Apple WWDC 2024 Keynote Coverage
• Mozilla's War on the Open Internet
• Open Source A.I. Definition to include Closed, Secret Data
• Mozilla Caves to Criticism, Unblocks Firefox Extensions in Russia

• New York Times Source Code Leaked (and verified)

• Leaked documents from Disney's Club Penguin (Over 800 MB)

• The Tech Industry Hates You

• Let's talk about Google censoring a Pfizer whistleblower

• Lunduke reads YouTube Comments
• The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides
• EFF says: Don't stop kids from looking at porn!
• In the Hotseat: Black Python Devs Founder
• Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - May 23, 2024
• End of the Internet? Dead Internet Theory + Disappearing Content = Rut Roh
• The Future of Computing: A.I. and Advocacy. ...Seriously?
• The Open Source Community is Neither "Open" nor a "Community"
• Titus in the Hotseat on "Lunduke: The Alex Jones of Linux"
• What the Fart is a Byte?
• Did Lunduke just scare The Register off Twitter?
• The Register spins to protect Red Hat in discrimination lawsuit

"Linux Sucks" Shows (in order)

• 2009 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2011 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2012 - "Linux Sucks (as usual)"
• 2012 - "Linux Does Not Suck (not even a little)"
• 2013 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2013 - "Linux Doesn't Suck"
• 2014 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2015 - "Windows is AWESOME"
• 2016 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2016 - "Linux Sucks: The Commentary Track"
• 2017 - "Linux Sucks... for the last time"
• 2018 - "Linux Sucks.  Forever."
• 2019 - "Linux Sucks: The Lost Recordings"
• 2020 - "Linux Sucks"
• 2021 - "Linux Sucks: The End of Linux is Nigh"
• 2022 - "Linux Sucks: This time it's personal."
• 2023 - "macOS Sucks"
• 2024 - "This is going to suck more than anything has sucked before."

If you only have time for two shows, check out the "Real-Time Linux" and "FreeCAD" episodes.  Some seriously fun, good news for Linux in there.

But, boy-howdy, outside of Linux... there was some seriously funky news this week.  Especially when it comes to AI shenanigans.  Fake AI Podcasts, AI used to brainwash people, AI surveillance... pretty weird and dark stuff.  All of the AI stories are worth checking out. 

The Shows

• Linux has Real-Time now. What the fart does that actually mean?
• Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future
• The Next Kings of Linux: Shannon & Steve
• Nextcloud Releases Version 9 of Self-Hosting Platform
• MIT Uses AI Chatbots to Brainwash You
• Exploding Pagers & The Case for a Secure Supply Chain
• EFF: Calling for Genocide of Jews is OK, but Republicans Protesting is a Crime
• Google AI Notebook Turns Documents into Fake Podcasts with Fake Hosts Having Fake Discussions
• FreeCAD 1.0: The Most Important Linux Release of 2024

The Articles

• Funny Programming Pictures Part LVI