By request, I am making “Lifetime Subscriptions” to The Lunduke Journal once again available… but only until end of day tomorrow (Friday, December 30th). So, if you want one, chop chop.
The “Lifetime Subscription” (which runs $300) has the same benefits as the “Founding Member” subscription… with the added bonus of lasting forever. Meaning you get absolutely every perk The Lunduke Journal offers… and you never need to pay again. For life. Which is pretty cool.
Worth noting: If you are a current Monthly, Yearly, or Founding Member subscriber — you can apply the total amount you have already paid during 2022 towards your Lifetime Subscription. Good way to save some bucks. If you need assistance in figuring out how much you’ve paid for your current subscription, feel free to ask and Lunduke can look it up.
How to snag a Lifetime Subscription:
Go to the Lunduke.Locals.com subscription page. Select the “Annual” option, and select “Card”. Then enter the amount for a Lifetime Subscription ($300 minus anything you’ve already paid in 2022).
You will then be contacted by Lunduke to finalize setting up your account (it’s super easy).
Just be sure to do it before end of day on Friday. Because, on Friday night, I’m putting the “Lifetime Subscription” option back in the vault and it will no longer be available for folks to purchase.
This is the first and last note you’ll see about this. No reminders.
FreeBSD Dealing With Profane Anti-Jewish Contributor
Edward Tomasz, a FreeBSD contributor for over 18 years, advocates for the "hunting" of Jews and used the FreeBSD Wiki to spread hate. The FreeBSD Core Team has responded.
Canonical Responds to Sex Offender Employee Defacing GitHub Wiki
"We regret the remarks made by [our employee]", says Canonical (parent company of Ubuntu Linux). Regarding his assaults of children: "At the time of hire, [he] had served his sentence."
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. And there's only one viable way out of it.
I have experienced HiFi for the first time in my life and it moved me to tears - literally. I have long read and watched reviews of HiFi equipment and listened to the descriptions and wondered - what am I missing? I have liked all my pedestrian gear and don’t have budget for much better - but is there anything actually going on with HiFi? Yes, yes there is. At least, and at last, I have experienced the minimal of HiFi with my new Hifiman Edition XS planar magnetic headphones. They debuted 4 years ago at $500ish and now go for $269. I bought my pair on Prime Day sale for $239. No $200 headphone sounds as good as a $1000 pair - but time marches on. These sound like what you needed to pay $1000 for five years ago.
The difference between these and any gear I’ve had before is both subtle and a leap. My Airpods Max have very nice sound as do my wired Phillips Fidelio X2HR’s. The latter being open back and optimized for great music listening experience, the former ...
Was That Amazing Video in Your Feed Real or AI? Tech Platforms Are Struggling to Let You Know https://archive.ph/Y2jhE
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Kalshi, the prediction-market startup that lets people bet on current events and pop culture, ran an ad on YouTube TV during last month’s NBA Finals that was generated entirely with Veo 3, according to a Kalshi spokesman.
The ad, which depicts a series of gamblers enthusing about their bets, cost $2,000 to make and has accumulated 19 million views, the spokesman said.
By the time discerning viewers see an alien chugging beer at a college party, they may realize that nothing in the Kalshi ad is real. But it wasn’t labeled as AI.
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Google says it automatically attaches small visual watermarks to nearly all content created with its Gemini app, which includes Veo; this content also includes digital metadata identifiers that can be used to automatically label it as AI. The ads from Kalshi and Coign appear to have run without any visual marks, however, and videos created with ...
50% off The Lunduke Journal (including Lifetime Subscriptions) through Saturday!
About 3 weeks back we had a deal where every new subscription to The Lunduke Journal was 50% off. Monthly, Yearly, Lifetime… all of it.
And — holy cow! — was that a success. Broke the record for most new subscribers to The Lunduke Journal in a single day. By a mile. Two days in a row.
Never seen anything like it. The amount of support all of you showed for truly independent Tech Journalism was off the charts.
You know what? Let’s try that again. Now through the end of May (which is Saturday, May 31st — the day after tomorrow):
50% off Monthly — Now $3 / Month (was $6 / Month)
50% off Yearly — Now $27 / Year (was $54 / Year)
50% off Yearly MP4 Downloads — Now $27 / Year (was $54 / Year)
50% off Lifetime Subscriptions — Now $100 (was $200)
Choose whichever option feels right for you. All the details and links are below.
Every one — big or small — directly funds the work of The Lunduke Journal (with zero overhead). Every option includes full access to the community Forum. And, of course, every type of subscription keeps The Lunduke Journal ad-free and Big Tech free.
Remember: 50% off is only through Saturday, May 31st. The next day (Sunday, June 1st) the prices all go back to normal.
50% Off Yearly or Monthly Subscription:
50% off a Yearly or Monthly subscription to The Lunduke Journal are available via both Locals and Substack. (This includes full access to the community Forum.)
That means $3 / Month. Or $27 / Year (which works out to $2.25 / Month).
The "World Famous Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription" is exactly what it sounds like. Pay once and get full access to The Lunduke Journal. For life.
Now, through Saturday, May 31st… you can snag one at a crazy discount. Normally these are $200… but you can grab one for $100. (You can also pay more if you’d like to donate a little extra.)
The Lifetime Subscription can be obtained via Locals, Substack, or using Bitcoin. All three options work great and are super easy. Scroll down and choose your option.
Send $100 worth of Bitcoin (or more) to the following address:
bc1qyjakve8fywm8pz2v99v57yhjj0vzr2vjze6fcq
Email "bryan at lunduke.com" with the following information: What time you made the transaction, how much was sent (in Bitcoin), and the email address you use (or plan to use) on Locals.com or Substack.com (or both).
50% Off DRM-Free, MP4 Downloads:
Want to be able to download every show The Lunduke Journal releases (and watch them on whatever device you like)? Yeah. You can do that. For 50% off.
Note: This DRM-Free download option does not include access to the Forum. This option is strictly for downloading the episodes.
Make a One Time Donation
Subscription not enough (or not your thing)? Want to toss in a one-time donation to The Lunduke Journal? There’s a few great options!
Via BitCoin:
Send any amount of BTC to the following address:
bc1qyjakve8fywm8pz2v99v57yhjj0vzr2vjze6fcq
Email "bryan at lunduke.com" with to let us know it was you! You can choose to keep your donation anonymous if you prefer. (Either way, all BTC donations get included in the matching deal.)
A huge thank you to all of the subscribers who have made The Lunduke Journal possible. Because of you, we have been able to do true Tech Journalism — to tell the stories that no other Tech News outlet has the cajones to touch.
And to all of you new Lunduke Journal subscribers (which, wow, there’s a lot of you): Welcome to the last bastion of truly independent, Big-Tech-Free, ad-free, non-Woke Tech Journalism.
50% off Monthly, Yearly Subscriptions! Lifetime Subs for $100! Let's get everyone subscribing to The Lunduke Journal!
The number of free subscribers to The Lunduke Journal has absolutely exploded — across a bunch of platforms — which is truly amazing. The real Tech News is spreading farther than ever.
In fact, the free subscriber growth is so utterly massive, that if even a tiny fraction of you became a paying subscriber… The Lunduke Journal would become comfortably financially set for a very long time. Able to continue reporting on Big Tech — and corrupt Tech Foundations — well into the future.
All without taking a penny from Big Tech.
With that in mind, let’s do something awesome… something that will make Big Tech really grumpy.
Let’s get as many people subscribing to The Lunduke Journal as possible. Right now. This week. Let’s make this Big-Tech-Free, Non-Woke Tech News publication financially set for a good, long time.
To give everyone a kick-in-the-butt to help make that happen, I’m going to discount absolutely every type of subscription in a crazy way — through Friday, May 9th.
%50 off Monthly — Now $3 / Month (was $6 / Month)
%50 off Yearly — Now $27 / Year (was $54 / Year)
%50 off Yearly MP4 Downloads — Now $27 / Year (was $54 / Year)
%50 off Lifetime Subscriptions — Now $100 (was $200)
If even 1% of the new free subscribers who have joined in the last month take advantage of this… The Lunduke Journal will be fully funded through the end of this year. And then some.
Let’s make it happen. Scroll down. Pick which ever subscription type works best for you. Then high-five yourself for making Big Tech grumpy.
Just be sure to do it by the end of the day on Friday, May 9th. The prices all go back to normal after that.
50% Off Yearly or Monthly Subscription:
50% off a Yearly or Monthly subscription to The Lunduke Journal are available via both Locals and Substack. (This includes full access to the community Forum.)
That means $3 / Month. Or $27 / Year (which works out to $2.25 / Month).
The "World Famous Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription" is exactly what it sounds like. Pay once and get full access to The Lunduke Journal. For life.
And now, through Friday, May 9th… you can snag one at a crazy discount. Normally these are $200… but you can grab one for $100. (You can also pay more if you’d like to donate a little extra.)
The Lifetime Subscription can be obtained via Locals, Substack, or using Bitcoin. All three options work great and are super easy. Scroll down and choose your option.
Send $100 worth of Bitcoin (or more) to the following address:
bc1qyjakve8fywm8pz2v99v57yhjj0vzr2vjze6fcq
Email "bryan at lunduke.com" with the following information: What time you made the transaction, how much was sent (in Bitcoin), and the email address you use (or plan to use) on Locals.com or Substack.com.
50% Off DRM-Free, MP4 Downloads:
Want to be able to download every show The Lunduke Journal releases (and watch them on whatever device you like)? Yeah. You can do that. For 50% off.
Note: This DRM-Free download option does not include access to the Forum. This option is strictly for downloading the episodes.
Make a One Time Donation
Subscription not enough (or not your thing)? Want to toss in a one-time donation to The Lunduke Journal? There’s a few great options!
Via BitCoin:
Send any amount of BTC to the following address:
bc1qyjakve8fywm8pz2v99v57yhjj0vzr2vjze6fcq
Email "bryan at lunduke.com" with to let us know it was you! You can choose to keep your donation anonymous if you prefer. (Either way, all BTC donations get included in the matching deal.)
A huge thank you to all of the subscribers who have made The Lunduke Journal possible. Because of you, we have been able to do true Tech Journalism — to tell the stories that no other Tech News outlet has the cajones to touch.
And to all of you new Lunduke Journal subscribers: Welcome to the last bastion of truly independent, Big-Tech-Free, ad-free, non-Woke Tech Journalism.
There are some options. For both subscribing and donating. They're all on this page.
Bonus: At the bottom of this page you will find the invite link to the super-secret Lunduke Journal Discord Chat Server. This is only available for full subscribers, which makes it a nice place to hang out. No riff-raff.
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