Whew! It's been an intense week -- we need a palate cleanser! It's time for some funny pictures about computers and stuff!
Long time ago, people said there were UFOs. Others didn't belive them. They quarreled about it and eventually it was decided that we'll know for sure only if everybody took cameras with them everywhere they went.
Enter XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1235/ In which it is claimed the issue is solved.
But.. I'm here to tell you it's NOT! Observe: all those people watch their phones everywhere they go, so they can't see aliens, so it doesn't matter if they have cameras with them all the time. xD
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.
The GNOME Foundation hastily published report after damning article from The Lunduke Journal on their finances.
The largest Linux company on Earth is being sued for racial, sexual, and religious discrimination -- providing further evidence, validating past reporting by The Lunduke Journal.
Lawsuit filed against Red Hat for racial discrimination:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5611162/lawsuit-filed-against-red-hat-for-racial-discrimination
The IBM / Red Hat Leaks: What we've learned so far:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5515346/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far
Red Hat's Company Meeting Slides - June 7, 2023:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5611236/red-hats-company-meeting-slides-june-7-2023
The War for Linux:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5610526/the-war-for-linux
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.
Looking for the Podcast RSS feed or other links? Check here:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4619051/lunduke-journal-link-central-tm
Give the gift of The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4898317/give-the-gift-of-the-lunduke-journal
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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https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4619051/lunduke-journal-link-central-tm
Give the gift of The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4898317/give-the-gift-of-the-lunduke-journal
Absolutely love that someone is still taking the time to improve a Mac-like desktop OS for the Apple II.
Looks absolutely incredible.
https://www.callapple.org/software/apple-ii-desktop-version-1-4-alpha-9-now-available/
Louis Rossman sits on a panel interviewing developers from the newest FUTO supported project, Immich image gallery.
Rossman suggested sponsoring the project because the Android ecosystem, like Apple, has decided to monetize photo storage by taking away local storage (SD card slots) and focus on cloud storage.
By default, Apple and Google use their own services for backup. Once you have a few gigs of photos on their services, the average user faces the dreaded pay wall. Pay up, or face the daunting task of finding another backup service and moving gigs of photos.
The monetization of data storage masquerades as a convenience feature. But by removing SD card slots and defaulting to their own services, it is really data capture and low key blackmail.
FUTO aims to confront this systemic problem on Android with Immich.
It's happening. 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. 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).
We just filed a federal lawsuit against IBM’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 Corporation’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 Hat…
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 — mandating employee training while implementing employment quotas aimed at achieving diversity goals by illegally treating race as a dispositive factor for employment and advancement.
Today, we are proud to file this lawsuit to continue to fight corporate America’s destructive, illegal, and odious use of illegal DEI initiatives that are fundamentally anti-white, anti-male, and anti-equality.
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. Particularly in Slides 8, 9, & 10.