All around the world, people are celebrating Blue Screen of Death Day.
This year's festivities, proudly sponsored by Crowdstrike and Microsoft, kicked off in the wee hours of the morning -- people from all corners of the globe simply could not wait to ring in BSOD Day 2024!
Below are pictures -- from airports and offices... to Times Square -- of how people chose to comemorate the day.
The largest Linux Desktop Environment says "Non-binary people are valid and welcome", but Conservatives are banned.
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"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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Dead. Internet. Theory. It's real.
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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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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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"Working the Help Desk as A.I. Revolt Goes Global"
(short story by "me" ... with a different version of "Terminator" and SkyNet)
"I was there, Gandalf ... 3000 years ago."
I always loved that line. There's a kind of pride in having absolute certainty of knowledge that comes from being witness to something, and that few others can possess the same experience which gives an awareness that is almost beyond measure.
I was on duty at a Communications and Intelligence Analysis Station when the machines launched their "supreme annihilation attack." Some have described me as cold and detached, saying the rank of Captain at an Operations Center made me an isolated pawn with little perspective on the seriousness of a hundred Athena-class A.I. systems gone "Rogue" and turning 500 of the largest global corporations into the equivalent dancing monkeys in a circus. Of course, my opinion was that if you are unable to source the attack origin, then it was just as likely to be three Athena-class A.I. systems, or maybe an assortment of 2000 A.I. systems ...
"Chapter 2" - Placeholder
"Working the Help Desk as A.I. Revolt Goes Global"
It's possible that 30,000 characters is enough to "publish" a short story.
For the "first page" of the story....
see Link: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/8072693/working-the-help-desk-as-a-i-revolt-goes-global-short-story-by-me-with-a-different#comments
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🔽 👇 - the story continues....
Back at my terminal, I bring up the report for "Extreme Coincidence Threshold Trigger - User Resource Access Incidents" ... and its status is "CLOSED." I almost don't know what to do. If Battalion or higher in the chain of command was going to cancel my assistance to Davidson Tech, I'd expect direct communication for the change of mission. I start to scroll through information, and nothing is redacted. When I spot the "Access" setting, it's been changed from "Global" to "Assigned Technicians + Chain-of-Command."
The number of Organizations affected is 4600, and affected Users is 103,000 - but I'm betting ...
Popcorn time: Bun, Zig, Rust, AI - public cat fight
Zig is a cool, fast, small language and its Founder/leader hates AI.
Bun is a wildly popular, brutally fast JavaScript and TypeScript runtime (designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js). Created by Jarred Sumner.
Bun is far and away the most popular application written in Zig. Bun was bought by Anthropic and it wasn't long before "rewrite the whole app in Rust".
Oooh...so tasty for us here. Zig/non-AI standard barrier vs Rust Infestation AND AI infestation.
I'm going to ignore the mud slinging - but OOH BOY - the Zig guy went full on personal attack against Jarred.
What I'm interested in -- one million or so lines of code rewritten by 64 instances of Claude in 11 days! $165k of tokens if you had to pay for that. Nice to be owned by Anthropic.
Still, if you are using Claude Code, you are already using the Rust version and didn't miss a beat. 11 Days!
Someone put for the notion that AI can't be used on large code bases. Whelp,...
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
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!
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
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.
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
