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.

The Shows

• Linux Foundation Drops Linux Spending to Historic Lows in 2024
• Al "Slop" Bug Reports Hurting Python, Curl, & Other Open Source Projects
• Microsoft Lessening TPM Requirement for Windows 11?
• Inaccurate Computing: AI, Quantum, & The Error-Filled Future
• Google Tells Courts How Google Should Be Punished (and Tried to Hide it)
• ChatGPT Can Not Say "Bryan Lunduke"
• Mozilla Executive Pay Doubles as Loss of 80% of Revenue Looms
• Wordpress Contributors Must Now Agree That "Pineapple is Delicious on Pizza"
• openSUSE Unable to Find Board Candidates After Banning Conservatives
• Mozilla Lawsuit from Former Executive Gets Jury Trial Date
• No. 2025 Won't Be The Year of The Linux Desktop.
• DRM-Free, Downloadable Media is a Good Thing
• 3 Anti-White Discrimination Lawsuits Pending Against IBM & Red Hat
• The End of Physical Media is Here (and That Sucks)

The Articles

• Linux Foundation Drops Linux Spending to Historic Lows in 2024
• Funny Programming Pictures Part LXVII

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There are XXXIX pictures in part LXVII of "Funny Programming Pictures".

IX out of X people reading that sentence just googled "Roman Numeral Converter".