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Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II
NixOS banned Lunduke! Linux Mint banned the word "Lunduke". Drew DeVault says Lunduke is a threat to FOSS!
July 05, 2024
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My very existence drives many nerds to the brink of madness.  It is... a gift.

Below is a small sampling of nerds -- and Tech Industry folk -- who have lost their gosh-darned minds after reading a few of my Wild and Wooly Words of Wounding.

Here we go.  "Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II"

Warning: One of the screenshots below contains some naughty words.  I censored those words... but you can probably still figure out what they were.  Also other screenshots, while not filled with naughty words, are mildly retarded.  Which may or may not be contagious.  I don't know.  I'm not a doctor.

Drew DeVault

We kick off this installment with a post from Drew DeVault -- CEO of SourceHut & developer of the Sway Window Manager.

 

Source: Mastodon

 

Drew DeVault wants people to know about an important threat facing Free and Open Source Software: "a small but growing community of right-wing conspiracy theorists ala lunduke et al."

You hear that?  I am a threat to Free Software.  I, Lunduke, am dangerous.  Drew fears me.

Hey, maybe there's something to that!  We've already learned that I am capable of destroying entire Open Source projects entirely with my "Word Magic (tm)".  So, who knows!  Maybe I am a threat!

Also... when describing "right-wing" people in the Free Software world... who do they think of?  Lunduke, that's who.  That, right there, is some serious branding success.

Wait.  "lunduke et all"?  "et al"?

And... others?  Who are the others?  Am I their leader?  Do we have meetings?  Was there punch and pie?

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Endless OS

Cassidy James -- engineer on Endless OS, co-Founder of elementary OS -- spends a tremendous amount of his time talking about that dastardly Lunduke fella.  Pretty much any time a Lunduke Journal article gains traction within the Linux world... Cassidy is there to remind people just how evil I am.

 

Source: Mastodon

 

Deadnaming!  Misgendering!  Regressive commentary!  Asking questions!

This Lunduke menace must be stopped!

I mean... come on!  Regressive commentary!  Regressive!

My favorite part of this is that last line: "[I don't know] if the contents of this post are true--I refuse to visit that site--but I figure you should know what you're linking to."

Everybody take note of what a good person Cassidy is.  You know he's a good person because he refused to read a Lunduke article... and he loudly told you (and everyone one else) about it.  That is the very definition of "good person".

I mean... Cassidy had to tell people how he refused to read a Lunduke article!

Shoot.  That virtue ain't gonna signal itself!

It's OSNews again!

The editor of OSNews.com is back for round 2!  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you... Thom Holwerda!

 

Source: Mastodon

 

Yessir.  He's a professional.

I'm impressed I was able to find a post of his where I only needed to censor 3 words.

NixOS

Within a few hours of publishing an article on NixOS... the Nix team got to work on their most important and ambitious code submission yet: "Suspend Bryan Lunduke".

 

Source: GitHub NixOS Moderation

 

That's right: "Bryan Lunduke has been suspended on all platforms"

Did I have accounts on the NixOS forums and such?  Apparently!  I guess?

Have I ever posted anything to any NixOS forum or system?  I don't... think so?  I mean... maybe?

But I definitely won't be posting anything now!

"Check mate, Lunduke," exclaimed the NixOS Foundation Team!

Linux Mint

Speaking of being banned from Linux Distribution forums... that reminds me of the time, a few months back, when Linux Mint not only banned me from using their forum... but they banned any usage of the word "Lunduke".

Seriously.

 

Source: Linux Mint Forum

 

A Linux Mint user sent me the screenshot above, showing how the word "Lunduke" was instantly transformed into "violates forum rules".

So, naturally, I had to try this out.  It just sounded too ridiculous to be true.  Well, lo and behold...

 

Source: Linux Mint Forum

 

"I was told that my name (violates forum rules) was listed as a forbidden word here on the Linux Mint forum.  Which... just sounded too preposterous for words.  Thus I am testing it out.  ;)

 

Yours in nerdiness,
violates forum rules"

 

Ironically, this very publication was almost named "The Violates Forum Rules Journal".  Had a nice ring to it, right?

Within minutes of making that test post, my Lunduke (err... I mean "violates forum rules") user account was banned completely.

 

Source: Linux Mint Forum

 

Eventually enough people complained about this... so the Linux Mint folks unbanned my name.  Which means, I believe, you can use the word "Lunduke" again.

So, you know, I've got that going for me.

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