It is New Years Day! So let's take a momentary break from hard-hitting Tech news to indulge ourselves in the age-old tradition of "Predictions for the year ahead".
(And not just because I'm lazy. I swear.)
Here we go. Lunduke's 5 Tech Predictions for 2024. In no particular order.
Wikimedia Foundation now has $286 Million in assets, spends 10x more on "Equity" than server hosting.
Released Friday before Christmas -- the ideal time to hide any announcement -- in response to losing an antitrust suit, Google proposes no real changes to their company or search business. Unsurprisingly, Mozilla (who likes Google's money) agrees.
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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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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Rant:
It urks me to no end when companies purposefully sabotage their own products for seemingly no reason at all.
Apple got told by the EU "stick a USB-C charger on your iPhones or else". And whether or not you think the EU should've done that is largely irrelevant to the fact that Apple complied in the most malicious way possible.
All Apple had to do was install a USB-C port and a USB3 controller. Shouldn't be that big of a deal. But, in their infinite wisdom, they decided to nerf it to USB2.0 speeds. Why? No reason. Or at least, no reason that makes any sense whatsoever.
The Google Pixel. Is uses basically vanilla ARM cores put on a custom configuration with their Titan TPU installed. It's not a great chip, it's not a bad chip. It's just kinda meh. ARM updated their GPU which brings with it lots of efficiency gains for battery life and some performance gains when in performance modes. All Google has to do is use the exact same chip setup they already are, and upgrade to the latest cores ...
This is pretty cool: The Lunduke Journal has not only hit our December fundraising goal… but we are currently sitting at around 65% of the way towards our fundraising goal for the end of next month (January). Awesome.
That means we’re a bit ahead of where we need to be… by the end of January. If we can get at least close to that 100% line, over the next week, we won’t need to do any fundraising promotions during January. How awesome is that? 😎
Huge thank you to everyone who has gotten us here — you make The Lunduke Journal possible! Feels good to be ahead!
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What an absolutely insane month December has been so far.
The annual reports for The Linux Foundation and Mozilla both dropped (and were just as ridiculous as you'd expect). Massive legal battles moved forward -- involving IBM, Red Hat, Mozilla, & Google. Oh, and I convinced OpenAI to ban my name from usage in ChatGPT. How nuts is that?
And, as usual, none of the big stories are being reported by The Generic Brand Tech News (tm) outlets. The Lunduke Journal remains the only game in town. All the links are below.
Speaking of which -- all of the links below are to Lunduke.Locals.com. But you can now officially find all of these shows on a bunch of other platforms. X, Rumble, Substack, Patreon, YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify... shoot... just about everywhere. You can even downlad DRM-Free MP4s of all shows. How crazy is that? All the links are over on Lunduke.com.
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