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 GRANITE Act has been filed in the state of Wyoming. And The Lunduke Journal got an early copy of the bill which fights censorship of Americans by foreign governments.
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"[Diversity & Inclusion] is just gone and not mentioned. Like it never existed," said one Microsoft employee.
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Gatekeeping. Discrimination. Whatever you call it, the Leftist Activists within Tech have a message for anyone who disagrees with them: "You are not welcome here!"
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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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I haven’t been able to work on my project to archive old computer magazine articles for a while, but I found time to do a couple today. I was going back through my posts here and realized that I have not posted any for a while. So here we go. I hope you enjoy.
I’m not convinced this is all that bad, but the Win11 file explorer is sluggish and prone to crashing and Office apps take longer to boot than linux and emacs put together. I really miss the speed of Win8 and Office 2007.
Truly, we have SO MUCH to be thankful for. Obvious things like family, friends, health, freedom, food and shelter. Nerdy things like classic computers, video games, and the Lunduke Journal. That we live in a country where brave nerds like Lunduke can still report the news even when it's unpopular. I could go on and on and on and on. Thank you, Lord, for all the blessings.
Anyway, it's been a while since I've been here, and may be a while more till I can come back, but I wanted to share something awesome. Yes, I had help from AI, but I finally cracked the SSH game server thing! Using the same design as SSH Tron (a custom server) and the same strategy as websocketd (piping stdin/stdout from a regular command-line app to the user). I don't have anything worth "hosting" using this tool yet, but now I have an excuse to build it. :-D
The Lunduke Journal is only able to do this type of independent, Big-Tech-Free, non-Woke Tech reporting thanks to all of you!
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Scroll down. Pick the subscription type that looks the best to you — starting at $2.25 per month (not too shabby) to full Lifetime subscriptions.
Available via both Locals and Substack. (This includes full access the community Forum, and all other perks.)
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The “World Famous Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription” is exactly what it sounds like. Pay once and get full access to The Lunduke Journal. For life.
Now, through Monday, November 24th, you can snag one at a crazy discount. Normally these are $300… but you can grab one for $150. (You can also pay more if you’d like to donate a little extra.)
The Lifetime Subscription can be obtained via Locals, Substack, or using Bitcoin. All three options work great and are super easy (& all three include access to all of the perks). Scroll down and choose your option.
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Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/support.
Select “Give Once“.
Enter “150“ (or more) into the amount field.
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This was yet another fantastic week at The Lunduke Journal!
Two great interviews — one with Ruby on Rails & Omarchy Linux creator (DHH), and another with the lawyer for 4chan & Kiwi Farms (Preston Byrne) — and now The Lunduke Journal’s YouTube channel has hit 100k subscribers.
Which mean I’m supposed to get one of those “I survived YouTube’s attempts to destroy my channel so now I get this silver plaque” awards. Which I may or may not have plans for.
How does The Lunduke Journal celebrate such a glorious week?
Why, by offering a super-mega-huge discount on subscriptions! Naturally!
50% off. Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime. Through this next Wednesday (November 19th).
Every Subscription come with all of the perks:
DRM-Free MP4 Downloads of all videos.
Full access to the exclusive forum.
And a bunch of nerdy eBooks.
Scroll down. Pick the subscription type that looks the best to you — starting at $2.25 per month (not too shabby) to full Lifetime subscriptions.
Every subscription helps The Lunduke Journal continue to do this reporting. This is only possible thanks to all of you.
Available via both Locals and Substack. (This includes full access the community Forum, and all other perks.)
That means $3 / Month. Or $27 / Year (which works out to $2.25 / Month).
Via Lunduke.Locals.com:
$3 Monthly Subscription via Locals (Code: AUTOEXEC)
$27 Yearly Subscription via Locals (Code: CONFIGSYS)
Via Lunduke.Substack.com:
Monthly or Yearly via Substack (No Code Needed)
Note: You can also grab a Monthly subscription via X, YouTube, or Patreon — and get all of the same perks. There’s no way to offer a discount on those platforms, but those are still good options!
The “World Famous Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription” is exactly what it sounds like. Pay once and get full access to The Lunduke Journal. For life.
Now, through Wednesday, November 19th, you can snag one at a crazy discount. Normally these are $300… but you can grab one for $150. (You can also pay more if you’d like to donate a little extra.)
The Lifetime Subscription can be obtained via Locals, Substack, or using Bitcoin. All three options work great and are super easy (& all three include access to all of the perks). Scroll down and choose your option.
Note: The Lifetime Subscription only applies to Substack and Locals. Other platforms (such as X, Patreon, & YouTube) do not provide the functionality necessary to create Lifetime Subscriptions.
Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/support.
Select “Give Once“.
Enter “150“ (or more) into the amount field.
After checking out, Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status. (This usually happens within a few hours.)
Select the “Lifetime Subscription” option.
After checking out, Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status. (This usually happens within a few hours.)
If you would also like full, Lifetime access to Lunduke.Locals.com (which is included):
Make a free account on Lunduke.Locals.com.
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the email address you use on both Substack and Locals (can be different email addresses).
Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status on Locals.
You can also obtain a Lifetime Subscription via Bitcoin.
Make sure you have a Lunduke.Locals.com or Lunduke.Substack.com account (a free account, to either, works just fine).
Send $150 worth of Bitcoin (or more) to the following address:
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No matter which type of subscription you choose, thank you for your support! Every subscription goes directly towards keeping The Lunduke Journal running well into the future.
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Just a few quick Lunduke Journal-y tidbits on this fine Wednesday afternoon!
Two fascinating interviews this week: DHH and Preston Byrne (the attorney for 4chan). Both are worth catching if you haven’t already.
The 50% off Subscriptions deal has been extended through this Friday (Nov 14th). So many of you kept picking up new subscriptions… I figured… what the heck! Why not keep the party going? So Monthly, Yearly, and Lifetime subs are all half off at least through Friday!
The “Lifetime Subscriber Wall” isn’t part of today’s (November 12th) shows. There have been so many requests to be added to the wall this week that I need to update the design a bit to fit everybody. The Lifetime Wall will re-appear at the end of new shows tomorrow or Friday.
Once again, thank you for your support! None of this would be possible without you!
-Lunduke
