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.
Is Debian going the way of Ubuntu, dropping tested code in favor of untested Rust clones? It's looking that way.
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Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscribers have spoken! Vim is more popular than Emacs!
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4Chan's lawyer responded by sending the UK's Ofcom a picture of a giant hamster, smoking a joint, and wearing a hat that reads "thug life" while standing on a pile of cash. Seriously.
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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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Just a Coincidence?
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Fable A.I. Writes Original NES Games in Assembly Language...
⏩ Xbox Layoffs at four Studios.
Building My Fake Staff - Who Now How Build Each Other
I’m debugging three AI systems that are all under active development… at the same time.
I’m running Codex on Linux for this.
Each layer is complex. Each layer is changing. Each layer can be the source of the next failure.
Eventually I got tired of playing whack-a-mole. So I gave Codex one instruction:
Run the Autonomous Goal service. If it fails, determine which layer is actually at fault. Fix it. Run again. Repeat until everything works. Then summarize what you found and fixed.
And then…I stopped typing.
For the last couple of hours it’s been doing exactly that. It has been preserving evidence,...
At the current rate, the "Emacs" & "Vim" Lunduke Lifetime Subscriber Walls will both be full and closed by some time tonight!
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Which one will be full first? We'll find out in the coming hours!
If you want on one of these, speak up now (today) or forever hold your peace!
Everyone who has already emailed in (bryan at lunduke.com) to claim their spot on one of these Walls should have received a “Confirmed!” email. If you haven’t, email me pronto to verify.
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.
See Lunduke.com for all other platforms (Rumble, RSS Audio Podcast, etc.).
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)
Huge thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal’s subscribers. You make all of this possible.
-Lunduke
The “Emacs” & “Vim” Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls are on track to be full some time tomorrow (Monday) afternoon!
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.
I’ll let you in on a secret: It’s going to be very close.
So if you already have a Lifetime Subscription (and are not on any other Lifetime Wall), email me (bryan at lunduke.com) and let me know which Wall you want to be listed on.
Or grab a new Lifetime Subscription (scroll down, the details are below). They’re mega discounted and it takes 60 seconds.
Either way. You’ve gotta move quick to get on one of those two Walls.
Through the end of July, Lifetime Subscriptions are only $125 (regularly $300).
And you only pay once. For life. Which means that every month, the “cost per month” gets lower and lower. Save money, and show your support for The Lunduke Journal at the same time. Win-win.
There are 3 different ways to pick up a Lunduke Journal Lifetime sub (Substack, Locals, & Bitcoin). All of them work great and are listed below. Choose whichever is easiest for you!
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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.)
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Bonus: Save an extra $10 with the Bitcoin option, as Bitcoin processing has fewer fees associated with it.
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