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Buggy Rust Clone of Coreutil Breaks Ubuntu Builds
A critical bug in Rust clone of GNU copy command causes Ubuntu builds to completely fail, prompting Ubuntu to revert to well-tested GNU originals.
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Like Computers? Thank America.
On this 250th birthday of the USA, let's celebrate the fact that computers exist because of America. From the Internet to the Mouse and, yes, even Open Source and Free Software.
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Ubuntu Sponsors Rust Clone Foundation
Canonical is the 1st Gold Sponsor (40,000 EUR) of the "Trifecta Tech Foundation", with the goal of replacing existing software with Rust based clones.
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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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Am I committing a sin?
As a young child, I wanted an NES. My parents wouldn't buy me one. Back in 2000, I found one, in box with all the documentation and original twist ties on the cables. It had obviously been taken out, 1 controller used, probably played once and then put away.
I paid $20 for it and kept it. I never so much as tested it. But I want to play it.
So today, I liberated it from it's Styrofoam and connected it to my TV.
It works like it's brand new.
I only have 2 game cartridges. The Vollyball/Soccer game it came with and Superbike I rescued from the trash eons ago.
Should I try to find more games and play it, or am I committing a cardinal sin right now?
Grok Build
xAI released the beta of Grok Build - their entry into the space Anthropic created with Claude Code. It will feel very familiar, same with Codex and many others. You get a nice new coding model, Grok Build, that is a very nicely priced and capable coding specific model. It’s designed for agentic coding, multiple steps etc.
I have my own orchestrator where I create a playbook of all the steps an application, feature, release etc. needs. The orchestrator enforces the AgentFlow methodology, makes sure the llm’s do what they are supposed to - and has the ability to assign any coding harness/model combination per step. I’m experimenting using grok-build for the coding steps, and Claude Code/Opus 4.8 for the code review steps etc.
BTW, I’m working on an enhancement that is aware of my subscriptions. So if I’ve set the coder to Grok and I use up my subscription window, it will use the coder from the next best of my subscriptions.
I haven’t tried every feature of Grok Build, ...
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)
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-Lunduke
Last call for Emacs & Vim Walls!
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If you want to get your name on one of these, chop chop!
As soon as these Walls are full, I will update Lunduke.com (check the bottom) and send out the final result.
Will “Emacs” or “Vim” be the first to fill up?
I’ll let you in on a secret: It’s going to be very close.
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Emacs & Vim Walls almost full!
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These bad boys are filling up fast. If you don’t have a Lifetime Subscription yet, you can snag one at a mega-ultra-discount right now and get your name on one of these sweet, sweet Walls… show the world your support for The Lunduke Journal!
The “Emacs” and “Vim” Lifetime Subscriber Walls are almost full! Which one will be completed first? I expect to announce the victor some time this weekend! If you want to be sure your name gets onto either “Emacs” or “Vim”, let me know very quickly. Like… today.
The “Desqview/X” Wall (aka “Wall 17”) launched a few days ago and is off to an awesome start. The first request to add a name to “Desqview/X” arrived literally 2 minutes after I posted it. I can’t blame him. This Wall makes me smile! But there’s still over half of the space left, so you’ve got at least a few days to get your name on this one.
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