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Theropod101@Theropod101

April 28, 2024

Three months ago, I was so excited to start a new job as an engineer designing data centers all around the world. Then soon into my position I discovered who our biggest clients were...Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Governments. It's now been a month since I walked away from that position. For years I had been railing against mass data collection, and surveillance and here I was figuratively doing the devils work. If I had stayed I wonder if I could really like myself as a person.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 09, 2024

GNOME Publishes Annual Report: Still Losing Money

The GNOME Foundation hastily published report after damning article from The Lunduke Journal on their finances.

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 09, 2024

Red Hat Sued for Racial Discrimination

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

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 08, 2024

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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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

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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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

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! 🤣

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

September 13, 2023

"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044

This episode is free for all to enjoy and share.

Be sure to subscribe here at Lunduke.Locals.com to get all shows & articles (including interviews with other amazing nerds).

Danjoredd@Danjoredd

4 hours ago

Been a while since we last had a Desktop thread. Show off your customized desktops!

trigglux@trigglux

4 hours ago

This doesn't exactly qualify as Sunday Sounds, althought it's real close. Also, computers are involved, and also it's really cool. ~170 years ago, in 1857 a French dude invented a method of recording sound onto a de facto optical medium. Mind you, he didn't have a method of reproducing it back, but he belived it would be possible to analyse the recording anyway, for other purposes, and perhaps future technological advances would make it possible to eventually reproduce the recorded sound.

Well he was right and modern digital technology was able to play the sound back. :) It was him singing a song, which is where the link to Sunday Sounds comes in. xD

Nevernown@Nevernown

9 hours ago

Rant incoming!

As you all are aware, Microsoft acquired Minecraft and decided to migrate all accounts to Mojang accounts.
As it turns out, my wife removed all emails from Mojang account migration alert because they looked like phishing (let's be honest, it does smell phishy if you get an email "Important information about your Mojang account" ).

So long story short, she missed both migration windows, including the one where you could get a license re-issued if you had a proof of payment.

So now all support requests bounce off of the microsoft wall of incompetence, ignorance and general disinterest.
It does feel (ar you know, it actually probably is) unfair to be denied access to your legally bought product that you would own forever... Though I am not sure how much effort it is worth to push them to help out.
Probably cheaper time-wise to jsut buy antoher license, but that feels like validating Micro$oft in their horrid behaviour.

End rant.

The sad part is that we were going to set...

Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 11, 2024

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (May 5 - May 11, 2024)

Tons of Computer History! Red Hat & GNOME news! The War for Linux! Huzzah!

Holy smokes. This has been one heck of a week at The Lunduke Journal!

A pile of articles on computer history, breaking news on the biggest names in Linux & Open Source, big opinion pieces... and, of course, a little goofiness to keep things balanced.

Once again: Thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal subscribers who make all of this possible. Notice how there's not one advertisement in any of these? And notice how we're covering news and topics no other Tech Journalist is willing to touch? Yeah. You made that happen. You rule.

Here's links to everything. Free to enjoy and share with the world.

The Videos:

GNOME Publishes Annual Report: Still Losing Money
Red Hat Sued for Racial Discrimination
The War for Linux <-- Lunduke's Pick O' The Week

The Articles:

Whew! What's in store next week, you ask? I know. But I ain't tellin'!

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 10, 2024

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXXIX

Woah. That's a lot of X's.

Whew! It's been an intense week -- we need a palate cleanser! It's time for some funny pictures about computers and stuff!

Programmers: Animal Cruelty Free Since dateOfFirstProgrammer.toString()

Lol. Laughing at the misfortune of AWS users is fun.

Admit it. You thought through the logic for a bit... and you weren't sure if you fully understood it. It's ok. You can tell us. We're all friends here.

Wait. This isn't about computers! How'd this one get in here! I sense shenanigans!

This is, word for word, exactly how Brendan Eich described his proposed design for Javascript back in 1995.

It's funny because we're beating up C++.

Laughing on the outside. Crying on the inside.

Wait. What? Really? Dangit, China! Don't make me take your side on something!

They'll need to pry these terms from my cold, dead hands. They'll have to Blacklist and Terminate me first.

Hey! Hey! What's going on here? Is this the second one that isn't about computers. Shenanigans, I tell you!

Heck. I already forgot the first picture I posted at the top of this page. Admit it. You either already did... or you are about to scroll up to see which one was first.

My favorite words when leaving any programming job: "Not my problem anymore."

We seem to have lost some of the knowledge we had back in the 90s...

I'm going to call it right here: Quantum Computing is baloney. Whenever I read a book or article on Quantum Computing, the same phrases keep poping up in my head. "Yeah, that's not how that works." and "Whoever wrote this just made that up."

Making fun of CSS will never get old. Side note: I'm still a bit grumpy about the deprecation of the CENTER tag.

It's ok if you need to crawl under your desk and cry for a bit. I won't tell anyone.

We've been found out! Quick! Look busy! Somebody start compiling code in a full screen terminal!

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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke

May 08, 2024

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. Particularly in Slides 8, 9, & 10.