The Lunduke Journal of Technology

DuckStation developer says, "Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks." Specifically naming Wayland as a source of problems. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Why The Lunduke Journal uses the "10th Man Rule" to counter groupthink in the Tech Industry. (And why you'll definitely disagree with Lunduke sometimes.) Stick it to Big Tech, 50% off everything at The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/stick-it-to-big-tech-50-off-everything More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Non-Woke "Political Protest Forks" like XLibre & Redot are thriving. Non-DEl Linux Distributions like Open Mandriva are as well. But Woke projects? Not doing so well. The Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/open-source-political-protest-forks More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Google / Mozilla stooges said, "It can't be done!". Ladybird said, "Hold my beer." The Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-proves-you-can-just-build More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Mozilla may be on the brink of losing 80%+ of their revenue, but that won't stop them from spending money on some Social Justice. The Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/mozilla-fest-2025-climate-justice More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Selfies, Drivers Licenses, & Locations. All made publicly available by the developer. The Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-tea-app-breach-60gb-of-personal More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

A plague of Al bots is devouring the Net like a swarm of programmatically generated locusts. And mandatory ID verification could be the only solution. The Article: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/id-verification-could-fix-the-dead More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Based on available data, as of June, 2025, there are as many as 72 Million Desktop PCs running Linux. Which is more than all Apple IIs, Amigas, & Win 3.1 PCs combined. Ever. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The "Learn Linux TV" YouTube channel hit 1 Million subscribers. But how many of those are bots? At first glance... a lot. Possibly most. The Dead Internet Theory is real. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Sessions on "Databases and Diversity" and "intersectionality" are featured in the FOSSY conference later this month. Where masks and daily Covid tests are encouraged. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Debian & GNOME hide a registered sex offender on their team. Many Open Source projects attack Jews, Christians, and Conservatives. Does that make you less likely to use them? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Canonical has confirmed that Jeremy Bicha is "no longer engaged" with the maker of Ubuntu Linux. Debian, GNOME, & Hacker News are all covering for the criminal. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

There are some Open Source organizations which truly hate Lunduke -- some banning anyone who mentions the name. What if, hypothetically, Lunduke endorsed them? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

DebConf 25, the annual Debian Linux conference, includes a presentation by Jeremy Bicha, a Debian, GNOME, & Ubuntu developer convicted of "thousands" of acts of abuse of children. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Edward Tomasz, a FreeBSD contributor for over 18 years, advocates for the "hunting" of Jews and used the FreeBSD Wiki to spread hate. The FreeBSD Core Team has responded. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"We regret the remarks made by [our employee]", says Canonical (parent company of Ubuntu Linux). Regarding his assaults of children: "At the time of hire, [he] had served his sentence." More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Does the world of Linux and Open Source welcome and protect rapists, pedophiles, and general degenerates? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Representatives of Ubuntu & GNOME recently defaced a wiki page for the XLibre fork of Xorg. One of them was convicted of "thousands of [sexual] assaults" of little kids. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

As Al systems, like ChatGPT, are linked to suicides, OpenAl hires a psychiatrist to figure out why... and Microsoft recommends laid off employees use Chatbots. Seriously. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The Leftist NPCs have a new script for attacking The Lunduke Journal. One of them, Brodie Robertson, says he is "spending all day trying to reign in Lunduke's followers" to bring you "back down to Earth". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

And Brave Search processes 1.4 Million Queries Per Month. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"[America] was pretty much terrible the whole time to be honest," says Elementary OS founder. Red Hat Evangelist says, "US people celebrating Independence Day feels like a sick joke." More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

PewDiePie, Primeagen, DHH, & Valve (Steam). The momentum behind Arch Linux (and Hyprland) is significant. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

An empty room. Only a handful of video views in 3 months. Even when sponsored by Google & The Linux Foundation... nobody is interested in DEl in Tech.More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Also from Chimera Linux: "Any effort to put XLibre in Chimera will be rejected" because the "maintainers [are] dips**ts". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"Applications being broken and not conforming to what Wayland requires isn't an issue with Wayland, it's an issue with applications," says Red Hat engineer. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Alpine Linux says, "If anyone merges XLibre i will be pursuing a code of conduct violation against them. This is about politics, not just software." More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The proposal to drop 32 bit software support in Fedora Linux -- which would kill Fedora as a gaming system -- has been scrapped... and Fedora "blames clickbait 'Tech Press'". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

"Look at all the black and brown faces on this call... If he keeps it up, he can expect a long career at IBM and lots of bonuses."Timeline of IBM & Red Hat leaks: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5515346/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Other things we learned from Canonical's annual report: The USA accounts for 80% of their business, and their 1,175 employees have mandatory, yearly Diversity Awareness Training. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Big Tech & the major Linux foundations are driving Desktop Linux into the ditch. Plus: No "Linux Sucks" this year. That would be like kicking a crippled puppy. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

GNOME calls Lunduke a "fascist maggot" and "apartheid, ethnosupremacist, babykiller apologist clown", XLibre Dev an "actual Nazi, transphobe, 911 truther nut job". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

GNOME publishes an official FAQ which states visually impaired users are "concern trolls", "Xorg development has halted", "Happy Pride Month", and "Free Palestine". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Al generated content, posted (without review) to accounts being followed by bots, which like and reply with Al generated comments. Welcome to the future. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

And we've got the first screenshot of a Linux distro (OpenMandriva) running the Xorg fork! Plus: XLibre is coming to BSD as well. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Phoronix spent the last few years praising the X11Libre developer. Now that Red Hat has decided that dev (and project) is evil, Phoronix is now attacking it. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Red Hat does not want you to know that X Windows still exists, but Devuan & OpenMandriva support X11Libre. Plus: KiCad dev shares why Wayland is not ready. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

So many components of modern computers were created not just years ... but decades ago. Maybe that's a good thing? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Wordpress, Riot Games, Apple, GNOME, & SEGA all are promoting Pride Month 2025. But Microsoft has gone all-in on Trans Activism and Pride. To the extreme. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Let's look back over the biggest DEl & Woke Policy stories, within the Tech Industry, to see if "Jews" actually were behind them (as some say). More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

A large portion of the people in "Open Source" -- including Red Hat -- have been moving, rather dramatically, away from some of the core ideals of "Open Source". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

In The Register's article about XLibre (the Xorg fork), roughly 50% was virtue signalling about Vaccines and Social Justice. What's really horrible: This was one of their better articles. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

On June 5th, XLibre (Xorg fork) was announced. Red Hat immediately worked to suppress it. 3 days later, GNOME dropped Xorg. 2 days after that, Ubuntu Xorg as well. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Both Mozilla Pocket and Orbit are shutting down with the potential loss of more than 80% of the Firefox makers funding coming in August.More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Immediately following news of the Xorg fork (Libre), the developer was banned by FreeDesktop and Red Hat mass closed hundreds of past Xorg merge requests. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The XLibre fork of the ubiquitous open source X11 implementation, Xorg, plans first release with "about 3,000 commits" and no "DEI". More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

As part of a GNOME puff piece, a Tech Journalist for a Free and Open Source publication went on an unhinged attack on all things "Lunduke". And GNOME promoted it. The Article: https://fossforce.com/2025/06/gnomes-new-director-tackles-funding-pride-and-prejudice/More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Across all major platforms -- X, Twitch, YouTube, Reddit etc. -- they vilify and encourage violence against Jews. Then the violence occurs. From Leftist Activists to the "Woke Right", when should they be censored? More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

The GNOME Project and Foundation is obsessed with Lunduke. In a creepy, unhealthy way. With several posts that are clearly libelous and extremely vulgar. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Software needs to stop trying to be so dang fancy. Simple is almost always better. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

In Unrelated News: Nearly 30 Million user accounts leaked in two massive data breaches. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe