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.
571 submissions to The Linux Kernel, this last week, were coded by Al.
That's over 10% of all code submissions to the kernel. And growing. Fast.
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The oldest actively maintained Linux distro now includes XLibre in their official builds, and is testing removing Xorg entirely.
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The data stealing code compromised over 1,500 packages in the Arch Linux User Repository, making use of Rust, Systemd, NodeJS, & Bun.
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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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Also: If you have already emailed me with your request to be added to one of these three Walls, but haven't received a response, email me again ASAP. I had an email issue this last week and I want to make sure nobody gets missed.
Here are how many more names can fit on each of the three currently open Walls (best estimate, variable depending on name lengths):
If you already have a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal, just email me to let me know which Wall you'd like to be on and how you'd like your name displayed (nickname, full name, etc.).
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If you don't have a Lifetime Sub yet... get on that!
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Local Works - But Not Well Enough
I keep occasionally dipping my toes into the local AI for coding pool. It gets better and better - but TLDR; - nowhere near good enough for me right now.
This last time was best yet. I have Codex at my finger tips and after discussing the ins and outs of local on Apple silicon Macs we selected the following:
Pi as the agentic coding harness. Think “Claude Code” - open source and minimal. I like it for when I’m using llm’s via api. Works just as well for local llms.
My machine is an M5 Air with 32gig RAM. I tried to find a solution that would use both the NPU and GPU, alas, that solution hasn’t come online yet. I went wit MLX as that’s Apple’s optimized platform.
mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
Qwen Coder is one of the best local coding llm’s but 4bit just takes out too much of the intelligence.
Fun thing, with Codex’s abilities of late, after we discussed through the options and what was best I could say “install all the ...
Quick heads up:
The "TempleOS" and "Windows 2000" Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls are over 2/3rds of the way full!
At the current rate, those 2 walls will be full sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
If you want your name listed on either, move fast. Spots on those Walls are first come, first served.
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It has been, yet another, weird and wild week in the world of Tech and Open Source.
Filled with awesome and inspiring stories (Linux logos on Race cars!)… mixed with bizarre, Woke politics and concerning technical news.
And, as usual, all but one of the big stories this week were completely ignored by the other of the Tech News outlets.
Here are the major stories from the last week, with direct links to X and Substack. You can also watch / listen on a bunch of other platforms (Rumble, RSS Audio Podcast, etc.), listed on Lunduke.com.
Rust-Based Malware Hits 1.4% of Arch User Repository (X, Substack)
Godot Game Engine Promotes Extreme, Pro-Trans "Pronoun Palace" Game (X, Substack)
GNOME in Damage Control Mode After Revelations from Ex Board Member (X, Substack)
Proton Mail Apologizes for Sponsoring "Far Right French YouTuber" (X, Substack)
Ex Board Member Reveals Corruption & Dysfunction at GNOME Foundation (X, Substack)
AI Generated Patches to Linux Kernel Hits New Record High (X, Substack)
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“When are you going to add a TempleOS Lifetime Wall??!”
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve received that request over the last few weeks. Well. What the heck! Why not?
There are now three Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls (displayed both on Lunduke.com and the end of all new shows) with space available:
Macintosh System 1
Windows 2000
TempleOS
A few quick notes:
The Windows 2000 Wall, which was introduced only 2 days ago, is already about half way full. At the current rate, that one will likely be full by the end of the week. Still plenty of space on the Mac System 1 Wall.
The discount on Lifetime Subscriptions ($125… discounted from the normal $300) runs through the end of June.
One Lifetime Subscription = Name Listed on One Wall. These Walls are crazy popular and fill up super fast, so I have to put that limit in place.
Want your name on more than one Lifetime Wall? Grab a second Lifetime Subscription (use the discounted rate) and you can have your name added to one of the Walls with space still available.
Massive high five to everyone who has supported The Lunduke Journal and made these retro-computer Lifetime Walls so much fun to do!
-Lunduke
Woah! The 8th Lifetime Subscriber Wall of The Lunduke Journal (aka “The Windows 1.0 Wall”) is already full! After only one week! That’s nuts!
So I’m opening up two new, retro computer walls!
Wall 9 - “The Macintosh System 1 Wall”
Wall 10 - “The Windows 2000 Wall”
Show your support for The Lunduke Journal, and be immortalized in a retro computer screenshot. Win-win!
If the past is any indicator, these will fill up crazy fast. First come, first served.
Plus: For the entire month of June, Lifetime Subscriptions are discounted down to $125 (regularly $300).
Scroll down and grab a new Lifetime Subscription (at that bonkers discount).
Choose which of the two new Walls you’d like to be on (Mac System 1 or Windows 2000). Totally optional.
There are 3 different ways to pick up a Lunduke Journal Lifetime sub. All of them work great and include the same perks. Choose whichever works best for you!
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Select “Give Once“.
Enter “125“ 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.
Bonus: Save an extra $10 with the Bitcoin option, as Bitcoin processing has fewer fees associated with it.
Make sure you have a Lunduke.Locals.com or Lunduke.Substack.com account (a free account, to either, works just fine).
Send $115 worth of Bitcoin (or more) to the following address:
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