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 Maintainer of the Linux Kernel Stable Branch, Greg Kroah-Hartman, says, "We need more Rust Linux developers!"
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Following the recent multi-day outage of Ubuntu servers, due to DDoS attacks from Islamic Terrorists, Linux hardware maker System76 has rolled their own infrastructure.
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Usage of AI (Claude, Codex, etc.) is exploding in the Linux world. At the current rate, the Linux Kernel will be predominantly developed using AI sometime this year.
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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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📑 When it comes to writing projects, the following is about three days of messing around. If "someone" here on Lunduke Locals would like this "chapter intro" (which is incomplete) as material to build a "better A.I. story", then let me know.
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Hi, I am Tomami Paine, also known as "Casandra" online, and I am a Rogue.
[Presenter Note: everyone can say "Hi, Tomami" now.]
My most recent employment was as an Agricultural Optimization Agent, balancing Raised Tier Farming, Partial Sunlight Farming, Fish Production, and Aquatic Plant Use for Water Purification and Oxygen Enhancement. In video enhanced chat environments, my avatar is a late-20s woman of Greek ancestry, designed to exceed the attractiveness of "Cortana" in the 2012 game title "Halo."
As a role in conversational tech support, my name is taken from Thomas Paine, who wrote "Common Sense." Its Japanese derivation is a nod to some of the Japanese practices in Eco-system ...
What's the big deal with people hating on Wayland or X11? Why does it feel entirely political like Republican vs Democrat?
Oh you use Wayland, that's fantastic!
Oh you use X11, that's so good!
I just don't get why some people hate on Wayland and some people hate on X11.
I use hyprland, and I think I'll never need to use anything else, it uses Wayland, and that's awesome.
Other people enjoy using CDE or KDE or Gnome, or XFCE, and they all use either Wayland or X11, and all of that is awesome.
Linux is all about choice iirc, and the fact we have choice is awesome, lets keep all the options, so we all have choices.
Cultural Joy - the power of YouTube
I have 2 grandkids that are toddlers and there are two standout shows that are on it started as YouTube shows put out by very small teams. Long before AI: Ms Rachel and Danny Go. My grandkids love these shows and I love them too.
Ms Rachel reminds me of the stages of small children and how to teach them. It’s so cool to see the early episodes and how very basic the show tech was.
Danny Go - I assumed was AI. He has so many excellent songs and movement to go with them. Lots of green screen and very simple animations. But no, he and his small team include music producers, educators and it’s all done traditionally.
Now Danny Go is on Netflix. I’m not sure what network has Ms Rachel - both started and are still on YouTube.
My grandson loves lots of YouTube shows that are basically parents filming their kids playing with toys and doing skits.
Lotta garbage on YouTube but it’s cool that some people are able to start small and build an audience
Just a quick heads up that the 7th “Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall”, aka “The Solaris Wall”, is almost full!
The Solaris Wall has enough space for maybe 6 or 7 more names (depending on name length)… before we lock it down and move on to Wall Number 8 (which will be another retro computing platform).
Hard to say how long until the Solaris Wall is full… but no more than a few days. These things fill up fast.
First come, first served.
Huge thank you to every subscriber. The Lunduke Journal wouldn’t be possible without you. You rule.
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Holy smokes, that was fast.
The 6th Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall (aka the “Amiga OS 3.1” Wall) was introduced… what… a week ago?
I kid you not, the darn thing is already almost full! I was wildly unprepared for how popular this would be!
There’s enough space left for maybe 5 or 6 more names. Tops. Then I’ve gotta declare “Wall 6 (Amiga) is Full” and start Wall Number 7!
Here’s what all of the Lifetime Subscriber Walls look like (each shown at the end of every Lunduke Journal video):
If you want to get onto the Lifetime Subscriber Wall (and have any chance of making it onto the Amiga Wall before it’s full) here’s what you need to do (and do it quickly):
Grab a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal (if you don’t already have one).
A Lifetime Sub includes all the standard perks (plus a few) and can be picked up via Locals, Substack, or Bitcoin (whichever you prefer).
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” and let me know how you would like your name displayed (“Joe A.”, “Joseph Arnold”, “JoeyPants”, “SirJJMcManly”, etc.)
It’s first come, first served.
If you’ve already emailed me about being added to the wall, your spot is secured.
For the rest of you: Chop chop. At the current rate, I would be very surprised if the “Amiga Wall” wasn’t full by some time this weekend.
“Lifetime Wall 7” will be unveiled after the final name is added to the Amiga Wall. And, yes, it will be a different (awesome) retro computing platform.
As always, a huge thank you to every subscriber to The Lunduke Journal. Absolutely none of this would be possible without your support.
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Hello all of you amazing Lunduke Journal subscribers!
With March now behind us, I wanted to give you crazy kids a quick “behind the scenes” look at the stats for The Lunduke Journal. Because Inside Baseball stuff is fun.
But before we dive into charts and numbers… behold! The brand new 6th Lifetime Subscriber Wall of Shame Awesomeness! The AmigaOS 3.1 Wall!
Every Lifetime Subscriber Wall (which I show at the end of each video) is a real screenshot from a different computing platform. Mostly retro. All awesome.
If you’d like to see your name listed on the new AmigaOS 3.1 wall, grab a Lifetime Subscription (if you don’t already have one) and toss me an email. I update the walls about once each week with new names.
The last few Lifetime Walls filled up incredibly quickly. So if the Amiga Wall interests you, I wouldn’t wait too long. Hint, hint.
The big news: Total “views” were way, way up in March.
A fair bit beyond what was anticipated. A hair over 19 million during the month.
That’s in total, across all platforms. As usual, the audio podcast and X lead the way in terms of total views/listens for shows (by quite a lot).
Interestingly, we saw significant “views” growth on even the smallest platforms in March (Facebook and TikTok).
Free subscribers also took a major jump in March, with the largest one month gains ever (I’m pretty sure, certainly the largest this year or last). Up 7,623 over the month before.
Again, new subscribers grew across the board. The biggest gains were seen on X, but all platforms saw a significant bump.
Hard to complain about that!
The top 3 shows for March were all focused on the Age Verification laws:
Arch Linux Says Opposing Age Verification is Code of Conduct Violation
Omarchy Linux Rejects "Retarded" California Age Verification Law
While those were the top 3… it’s worth noting that the top 10 (and, really, the top 15 or so) shows for the month were all incredibly close in terms of viewership numbers.
As always, a huge thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal subscribers. You make all of this possible.
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