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The War for Linux

Widespread discrimination based on Ethnicity, Religion, & Politics across the Linux World. Red Hat, IBM, The Linux Foundation, GNOME, elementary, Linux Mint, and more are involved -- bullies working to exclude those they don't like.

They are at war against the very soul of the Linux and Open Source world.

This is the first part in a series of shows and articles. I'm going after these bullies.

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On the Z-80 Holborn Computers

Remembering the (very) funky Holborn computers of the early 1980s.

The full article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5588902/1950s-sci-fi-style-computers-powered-by-a-z80-built-in-holland

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On The History of Screensavers: 1961 - 1990

From Sci-Fi novels and Atari... to old Macs and Flying Toasters.

The full article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5588984/the-definitive-history-of-screensavers-1961-1990

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November 22, 2023
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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The futility of Ad-Blockers
November 21, 2023
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! šŸ¤£

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openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
September 13, 2023
"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044

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"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044
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Red Hat's Company Meeting Slides - June 7, 2023
As revealed by a lawsuit against the Linux giant.

Thanks to the ongoing racial discrimination lawsuit against Red Hat, we now have the slide deck from the Red Hat Company Meeting from June 7th, 2023.

The Lunduke Journal is publishing the entirety of those slides below for study and reference (completely unedited) -- and they can also be found within the lawsuit PDF itself, as "EXHIBIT D".

While much of this is already well understood from past Red Hat leaks, it does provide additional examples of Red Hat's goals of excluding and descriminating, against their employees, based on gender and ethnicity.Ā  Particularly in Slides 8, 9, & 10.

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Lawsuit filed against Red Hat for racial discrimination

It's happening.Ā  The dominoes are starting to fall.

In December of 2023, a number of leaks from James O'Keefe and The Lunduke Journal were released to the public -- exposing the extreme racial discrimination happening within both IBM and Red Hat (the world's largest Linux company).

Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Red Hat, on behalf of Allan Wood, who was a Senior Director at the Linux giant.

That lawsuit alleges significant racial, relgious, and gender discrimination.Ā  And, based on what information we currently know about Red Hat's discriminatory policies... his case looks incredibly strong.

Below is the entire announcement, originally as a thread of posts on X, put into a single, easy to read format (you can also read a variation of this announcement, as well as the full lawsuit as a PDF, on their website).

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We just filed a federal lawsuit against IBMā€™s subsidiary Red Hat for illegal racial discrimination. IBM has allegedly implemented illegal anti-white and anti-male quotas. We will use every tool to hold IBM accountable:

With our co-counsel, including Barnes Law, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of our client against the International Business Machines Corporationā€™s (IBM) subsidiary, Red Hat, for violating Civil Rights laws by allegedly engaging in discriminatory employment and termination practices against white males.

Our plaintiff is a white male and was a dutiful Red Hat employee for eight years, rising to the position of Senior Director. He was an exemplary employee who had never received a negative review during his time at Red Hat.

But for the discrimination he faced, he was on the path to becoming one of the top executives at Red Hatā€¦

In 2021, Red Hat began implementing illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements. In accordance with its illegal activities, Red Hat hired a Chief Executive Officer of DEI to spearhead these programs ā€” mandating employee training while implementing employment quotas aimed at achieving diversity goals by illegally treating race as a dispositive factor for employment and advancement.

On several occasions, managers and executives at Red Hat commented to our plaintiff and other employees expressing their dismay at the lack of diversity in the workforce and their desire to achieve certain workforce quotas based on race and gender. Red Hat executives indicated that these DEI initiatives would influence certain hiring and employment decisions.
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Our plaintiff was vocal about his opposition to these discriminatory policies and continuously advocated for hiring based on merit and skill rather than other immutable characteristics.
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Red Hat made express statements, both vocally and in writing at company events, that were derogatory towards white individuals and presented an anti-white agenda. Red Hat also remarked on the low number of women employed and expressed anti-male rhetoric. Red Hat made it clear that it was going to implement heightened DEI policies, with the sole intent of increasing diversity.
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Red Hat has made it clear that it is in favor of discriminatory policies that the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
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In the case of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard, decided together with SFFA v. University of North Carolina, Red Hat, along with 70 other corporations, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of affirmative action:
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At a kickoff event in Texas, Red Hat brazenly announced its ā€œBold DEI Goals,ā€ which included quotas.
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Red Hat sought to remake its workforce demographic, seeking to reach 30% women globally and 30% associates of color in the United States by 2028.
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Just two weeks after this announcement, our plaintiff was informed by his manager that his role was being eliminated following several months of discriminatory treatment.
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Upon information and belief, 21 of the total 22 individuals were white males.
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Last year, James O'Keefe released a recording of IBM Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman Arvind Krishna promising to fire, demote, or deny bonuses to corporate executives who fail to meet the corporationā€™s racial, national origin, and sex-based hiring quotas or hire too many Asian individuals.
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Following this shocking footage, we filed a federal civil rights complaint with the EEOC against IBM for alleged racial and sex discrimination.
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We also wrote to IBMā€™s Board of Directors, demanding an end to the corporationā€™s systemic violations of law to prevent the waste of corporate assets and harm to shareholders.
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Today, we are proud to file this lawsuit to continue to fight corporate Americaā€™s destructive, illegal, and odious use of illegal DEI initiatives that are fundamentally anti-white, anti-male, and anti-equality.

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Atari Coin Executive -- The Open Source Video Game Arcade management system... from 1982
Powered by an Atari 800. Plus a handheld 6507 computer. And, not kidding, it really was open source.

1982 was a big year for Atari video arcades ā€” with the release of such classics as Gravatar, Millipede, and Space Duel (complimenting the alreadyĀ massiveĀ number of popular Atari games filling video game arcades).

In order to make the management (and, primarily, the accounting) of video game arcades easier ā€” and more future-y ā€” Atari developed and released the ā€œAtari Coin Executiveā€.

And it is incredibly cool.

I wouldn't mind having that desk.

The central brain of the Atari Coin Executive was an Atari 800 computer (with 48k of RAM) with a number of accessories, including:

  • 2 x Atari 810 Disk Drives

  • An Atari 850 Interface Module (which added RS232)

  • An Atari 825 printer

  • An Amdek 13 inch color monitor

The Atari 800. Ainā€™t she pretty?

How the Atari Coin Executive worked was both simpleā€¦ and, at the same time, incredibly cool.

I kinda want to setup an arcade... just so I can use the Atari Coin Executive.

The basic process:

  1. A ā€œCoin Monitorā€ was installed in the coin slot of every arcade game.

  2. Each Coin Monitor is connected back to the Atari Coin Executive workstation (that Atari 800) via ā€œtelephone type wiringā€.

  3. The arcade manager can then use that Atari 800 to see how much each game is earning.

Screenshot of the Coin Executive main menu

Fun fact: The Atari Coin Executive software was open source and written in a combination of BASIC and Assembly. Or, as Atari put it in 1982: ā€œIn Basic and 6502 Assembler - Source listings and manual suppliedā€.Ā  You can find images of the Atari Coin Executive software over on the AtariAge Forum.

In addition to the above mentioned setup, the Atari Coin Executive also included a handheld computer called the ā€œData Recorderā€.

It's a 1982 Atari handheld!Ā  Sort of!

The ā€œAtari Coin Executive Data Recorderā€ was powered by a MOS 6507 CPU with 16K of RAM (8 2k chips), and communicated with the Atari Coin Executive computer via 300 baud serial. It even had a small built-in printer.

This allowed people to manage several arcades, in separate locations, by:

  1. Plugging the Data Recorder into each arcade machine equipped with a Coin Monitor.

  2. Then taking the Data Recorder back to the Coin Executive computer and downloading the data into the Coin Executive software.

Finally, hereā€™s a color picture of the whole setup ā€” including the custom desk which was used for the Coin Executive.

Fern not included.
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