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AI Powered Tabs in Firefox? But... Why?!
Plus: Firefox maker Mozilla finally admits they "May Be Forced to Scale Back Operations".
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"Black Sisterhood in Computing" Tax Payer Funded Grant Cancelled
The ending of DEl grants may cause the the Oregon State University Open Source Lab to shut down. Plus: Mozilla Foundation's "inclusive language" Million Dollar grant officially cancelled.
00:19:44
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. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Just had a chat with the Side Scrollers Podcast (@SideScrollerPod). Partly about the “Adobe silences Tech Journalist” story… but we also dive into a bunch of stuff regarding Leftist Activists in Tech. And the CIA.
I join in around the 56 minute mark.
Mozilla CFO makes bullshit testimony in support of Google (Story not covered by Lunduke)
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/google-search-deals-and-browser-choice/
> Firefox users view Google as the best quality search engine.
Someone should do an independent survey. The only reason that people say they use Firefox seems to be that they hate Google.
The enshittification of Google search is widely discussed. Searching for “Google search” on Youtube brings up a parade of videos roasting it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=google+search
Pinely shows that Google search results are mostly fake news and ads:
A video by Adam Conover:
“A recent study found that higher ranked pages are on average more search engine optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and show signs of lower text quality. That means, the higher a page is ranked on Google, the worse it literally is.”
A video by Ryan George:
“When you ...
Lunduke Interviewed by Side Scrollers
Yesterday I joined the Side Scrollers show for an hour-long interview.
We covered the Adobe Copyright fight, PewDiePie and Linux, Pokemon Go and the CIA, and how The Lunduke Journal came to be. Definitely worth a watch. I join the show around the 56 minute mark.
Next Monday (May 12th), I’ll be a guest on Citizen Podcast with Dan Hollaway.
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Adobe silences Lunduke, "GNOME is Antifa", & Linux Leftists v. PewDiePie
The Lunduke Journal coverage for the week ending May 4th, 2025.
This has been one heck of a weird week — both for Open Source in general, and The Lunduke Journal in particular.
From GNOME contributors declaring that “GNOME is Antifa” to Open Source project leaders declaring that they intend to block PewDiePie fans from using Linux — because PewDiePie fans are, according to Open Source Leftists, “fascists”. Just plain weird.
And, of course, the saga of Adobe working to silence The Lunduke Journal continues to march forward.
As usual, most of these stories were not only broken by The Lunduke Journal… but most Tech News outlets have refused to cover them at all.
Highlights from the last week (ending Sunday, May 4th, 2025):
Leftist Extremists in Open Source: PewDiePie Fans Not Allowed
Counter Claim Filed Against Adobe's Efforts to Silence Journalist
Those links are all to X — but you can also find all of these shows on every other platform where The Lunduke Journal is available (including Rumble, Podcast, YouTube, and the rest).
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Because The Lunduke Journal is funded entirely via subscriptions, every change in total subscription levels has a big impact on daily operations. And every month is different — some months are lower, some months are higher. Last month (April) was, unfortunately, a little bit lower than normal. Not a lot, just a small dip in subscriptions.
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