Funny Programming Pictures Part XLVI
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GNOME Celebrates Non-Binary People's Day
The largest Linux Desktop Environment says "Non-binary people are valid and welcome", but Conservatives are banned.
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00:25:04
German Tech Journalist Attacks Lunduke... and it's Awesome
"He refers to a trans woman as a man in a dress," says Tech Journalist in hit piece that makes Lunduke sound amazing.
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40% of LinkedIn (& Sneako) Publishing AI Generated Posts
Dead. Internet. Theory. It's real.
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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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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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Linus Agrees - AI is Useful
Before Linus - I must say “see I told you so” 🤪
Now Linus:
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues
with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no
longer in question today.
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will
actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of
those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used
it.
Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer
workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs"
standpoint.
But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La
La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem
to do.
The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers
instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that ...
Token Palooza - How are you spending your extra tokens?
The big guys are competing. OpenAI keeps giving out resets. Anthropic has joined them with resets of their own and extending the accessibility to Fable 5. Even Grok Build is handing out resets and added a 50% boost of usage to your subscription. I'm currently between jobs so I'm building out AI services offerings and infrastructure.
Basically I'm acting as my own CTO and marketing director head of a fleet of AI Employees. Wonderful time to have worked out my autonomous AI employee platform. And I wrote a book on Autonomous AI Employees.
My AI employees have built 7 fully working Agent in a Box offerings with working code, go to market material and sales videos. And I had them build me database modeling software that would cost me $3,000 a year at the enterprise level. Whew :).
Oh, and I'm having a blast!
TRS-80 Model 100 joins The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Wall party!
Buckle up, Buttercup. Because The Lunduke Journal is about to blow your mind.
The “BeOS” Wall Lifetime Subscriber Wall is now full (see all of them on Lunduke.com)!
We’ve added a new “TRS-80 Model 100” Wall (because we can)! That’s the 19th Lifetime Subscriber Wall! 19!
The discounted Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscriptions are still available through to the end of this month (July).
Which means there are, as of this exact moment, 4 Walls with space available (see Lunduke.com for the full list of Walls). But these fill up wicked fast.
Emacs (only a few spots left)
Desqview/X (a little less than 2/3rd’s full)
NeXTStep (still plenty of space)
TRS-80 Model 100 (just launched)
Nice, right?
Worth noting: The “TRS-80 Model 100” has very limited screen resolution (240 x 64), which means only a small number of names can fit on that wall. If you want on it, I’d let me know right away.
Grab a discounted Lifetime Subscription (if you don’t already have one), then let me know (email “bryan at lunduke.com”) which Wall you’d like to see your name on.
Huge high five to everyone who has already added their name to a Wall. At the current rate, we’ll have over 20 retro computer themed walls, filled with all of your names, by the end of the month.
And, doggone it, that’s amazing.
-Lunduke
Vim beats Emacs!
Well, we’ve done it.
We’ve answered the eternal question: “Which Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall would fill with names quicker? Emacs or Vim?”
The answer, it turns out, is “Vim”. And it takes just 8 days.
A hearty “Thank You” to everyone who supports The Lunduke Journal by getting Lifetime Subscriptions (massively discounted throughout July) and getting on these walls! You make all of this possible!
Now. How long will it take for Emacs to fill up (matching the same number of names as the Vim Wall)?
Well, right now the Emacs Wall is a hair over 2/3rds of the way full. So we’ll find out!
Welcome NeXTStep Wall!
With the closing of the “Vim” Wall (and the BeOS Wall only having the space for 1 name left), now seemed like a good time to add a new retro computer wall: The NeXTStep 1.0 Wall.
Right now, there are 4 Walls available to add your name to (*cough* massive discount *cough*).
NeXTStep (just opened)
Emacs (about 2/3rds full)
BeOS R5 (1 spot left)
Desqview/X (1/2 full)
Once again, huge thanks to everyone who supports The Lunduke Journal!
-Lunduke
Lunduke's Week in Tech : June 28 - July 4, 2026
Lunduke’s Thoughts of The Week
Yesterday was the 4th of July.
As such, time that I normally would have spent writing up some thoughts on the Tech News of the Week (tm) was, instead, spent eating hamburgers, watching fireworks, and generally goofing off with my kids.
So allow me to briefly summarize my thoughts using as little effort as possible:
Rust is weird, Sony sucks, and America is awesome.
… Yup. That just about covers it.
I hope all of my fellow Americans had a truly splendid Independence Day.
Biggest Tech Stories - June 28 - July 4, 2026
Here are the major stories from the last week, with direct links to X and Substack.
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Git Takes Another Step Towards Making Rust Mandatory (X, Substack)
74 Million User Accounts Exposed in Breaches During June (X, Substack)
BCacheFS Adding Rust Dependency Even Though “Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI” (X, Substack)
Huge thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal’s subscribers. You make all of this possible.
-Lunduke
