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Examples of two, popular A.I. systems — OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft GitHub’s Copilot — and how they can negatively impact the world… plus the highly unethical (and illegal) ways that they are developed.This episode also available on Lunduke.Locals.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

With so many people jumping from Twitter to Mastodon, let's take a moment to talk about some of the downsides (and upsides) of Mastodon... and the Fediverse in general. Along with some of my, rather bizarre, history with it.Podcast also available on Locals. 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

It’s time for the weekly normal computer news. The Big Tech stuff that’s worth taking a look at.Apple now worth more than Google, Amazon, and Meta… combinedSeriously.“Apple finished Wednesday's session with a $2.31 trillion market cap, according to Yahoo! Finance data. Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta were worth a combined $2.3 trillion.”Microsoft sued for GitHub CopilotThe Joseph Saveri Law Firm has filed a suit against Microsoft.According to Bleeping Computing:The complaint was submitted to the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, demanding the approval of statutory damages of $9,000,000,000."Each time Copilot provides an unlawful Output it violates Section 1202 three times (distributing the Licensed Materials without: (1) attribution, (2) copyright notice, and (3) License Terms)," reads the complaint."So, if each user receives just one Output that violates Section 1202 throughout their time using Copilot (up to fifteen months for the earliest adopters), then GitHub and OpenAI have violated the DMCA 3,600,000 times. At minimum statutory damages of $2500 per violation, that translates to $9,000,000,000."Microsoft releases Teams “progressive web app” for LinuxWe’re excited to announce the general availability of support for the Microsoft Teams progressive web app (PWA) as a feature of our current web client for Linux customers.Linux customers who rely on Microsoft Teams for collaboration and communication needs told us they want the full richness of Teams features available for their users in a secure way. This can now be achieved using the Teams PWA.Additionally, the PWA enables us to ship the latest Microsoft Teams features faster to our Linux customers and helps us bridge the gaps between the Teams desktop client on Linux and Windows. The PWA experience is available for both Edge and Chrome browsers running on Linux.The PWA offers access to more capabilities, including custom backgrounds, gallery view, reactions, the raise-a-hand feature in meetings, as well as large gallery and Together mode views. The PWA also provides desktop-like app features, such as system notifications for chat and channel, a dock icon with respective controls, application auto-start, and easy access to system app permissions.Ubuntu Summit 2022 shows Canonical’s plans for the futureCanonical has held their first, in-person Ubuntu Summit for a few years. With sessions on a number of topics, with keynotes on:* The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - Latest updates and future improvements* An Ubuntu for a 10 ton steel press and your window shades, UbuntuCore at a glanceThe Register notes strong emphasis on UbuntuCore, IoT, and snap packaging. Giving us all a little peek into what Canonical plans to focus on going forward. 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

Here is the “Weird” computer news — the retro and alternative OS stuff — for November 6th, 2022!Currently 3 blocker bugs for Haiku Beta 4For those looking forward to the upcoming “imminent" release of Haiku Beta 4… it’s worth noting that, according to the official Haiku bug tracker, there are only 4 issues that are marked as “blocker” for Beta 4.Meaning that — at least as of this very moment — only three known bugs are considered critical to be fixed before Beta 4 is released.What’s more, all three look to be fairly “simple” tasks. This bodes very well for Beta 4 being released in the near future.If Haiku Beta 4 releases this month, it will arrive roughly 16 months after the previous version (Beta 3 was released in July of 2021).Haiku Week Starts Wednesday!On a related note: Starting Wednesday, November 9th, The Lunduke Journal Community will begin celebrating “Haiku Week”.This will include articles here on The Lunduke Journal and posts over on Lunduke.Locals.com. As with past themed weeks, the community posts will be gathered up and posted for all to enjoy.Ladybird web browser now can run Linux in a PC emulator in JavascriptIn “That’s Awesome!” news: The Ladybird web browser — the completely from-scratch web browser that originated as part of the Serenity OS project — is now advanced enough that it can run JSLinux.org… a Javscript PC emulator that runs Linux.Think about how awesome that is for a web browser that was developed… from scratch.So… you can run Linux… in a from-scratch web browser… running on a from-scratch operating system. The future is now.GNU Make drops support for OS/2, Amiga, Cray, and XenixThe GNU project has announced that it will no longer be supporting multiple “retro” platforms: OS/2, Amiga, Xenix, and Cray.While it’s always sad to see dropped support for aging and alternative operating systems… I’m not sure that the loss of future versions of GNU Make will have much of an impact on programmers for those four systems. It simply doesn’t appear to be that widely used on those platforms.That said… you can get versions of Make in ArcaOS (the updated OS/2) and several GNU tools (such as GCC) as part of the latest AmigaOS SDK. 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

It’s Wednesday! So let’s talk about the normal computer news. You know. Big Tech stuff. Popular stuff. (Come back on Sunday for the weird computer news…)Upcoming Lunduke Journal EventsNext week is a crazy week here at The Lunduke Journal!* Wednesday, November 9 - Haiku Week beings!* Thursday, November 10 - First Live Call-in Show!* Friday, November 11 - First show in the Lunduke Journal Video Interview Series!* Saturday, November 12 - “macOS Sucks”!For full details on how to join the official Lunduke Journal Discord, see this post on Substack (or here on Locals).Be sure to pick up a subscription to The Lunduke Journal — if you haven’t already — so you can take part!EU forcing Apple to change iPhone hardware (and maybe software)The European Union has made passed a law that will force Apple to change to use a USB-C charging port by 2024.But they aren’t stopping there. According to Wired, one EU official is quoted as saying:“If you have an iPhone, you should be able to download apps not just from the App Store but from other app stores or from the internet.”The law behind this is the “Digital Markets Act”, which was passed by EU Parliament back in July. And, clearly, the EU would like to use it to force Apple to allow third party software stores (and, thus, non-App Store installation of software).I have an awful lot of thoughts on this. I like flexibility of installing software. I like standard hardware ports. But I dislike governments telling tech companies how to make their hardware and software. My feelings here are complex. Tune into today’s podcast to hear me wrestle with this.GNOME is closing all mailing listsE-Mail lists are a mainstay of the open source world. Every major project seems to have a long-standing mailing list, and GNOME is no exception.That is… until now. GNOME is closing down their mailing lists (all of them) in favor of a forum hosted on Discourse.The GNOME Infrastructure Team told The Register:“Since we introduced Discourse, GNOME's Mailman instance has seen a decline in utilization over the past years. The new platform offers way more features than Mailman, including gamification which newer generations, in general, appreciate, but also markdown support, RSS feeds, proper spam support, multiple authentication types and so on and so forth.”The part that stuck out at me: The GNOME project wants to “gamify” communication within their community. Which. That just feels weird.The GNOME executive director blamed Python:“Like many other projects which use Mailman, we are finding that relying on a Python 2 program is not sustainable.”Ubuntu 23.04 to be… “Lunar Lobster”?Ubuntu 23.04 — scheduled for release in April of 2023 — does not yet have an official “Alliterative Animal” codename. You know. Like “Dancing Doggy” or “Cantankerous Cow”… like all Ubuntu releases get.Well, the Ubuntu Twitter account has tweeted out this little teaser:Technically… it’s a question. In emoji.A moon. And a lobster. With a question mark.Could that mean Ubuntu 23.04 will be… “Lunar Lobster”? Since the releases go in alphabetical order… and the current release is “Kinetic Kudu”… it seems logical that “Lunar Lobster” is what they’re proposing.Possibly related: Apparently there is a lobster on the “moon” tarot card. Which… has a meaning… or something? Who knows. But here’s a picture of it.VHS makes animated GIFs of Terminal output for Linux, Mac, WindowsThis new open source tool, VHS, is absolutely glorious. It runs a predefined set of terminal commands… and spits out an animated GIF of the output. What’s better: it runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.With VHS you can change the font size, the typing speed… the works. This is just such an incredibly good idea, I had to share.Chromebook (and tablet) sales drop. A lot.According to IDC:“Chromebook shipments also struggled in 3Q22, falling to 4.3 million units and a year-over-year decline of 34.4%.”While this was also a bad month for tablet sales (in fact… the 5th quarter, in a row, of declining tablet sales — down 8.8% from this time last year)… that 34.4% decline in Chromebook sales is pretty massive.Here’s the breakdown based on individual Chromebook makers:Lenovo Chromebook sales down over 50%. In a single year! Dang!Still quite a large number of Chromebooks sold in the third quarter (4.3 million laptops). So it’s not exactly a dead market. But that decline is going to have an impact going forward.Twitter to make that blue check cost… $8 / monthTwitter’s new El Presidente has unveiled one of his plans for the platform in a series of Twitter posts:“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is [NAUGHTY WORD]. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parityYou will also get: - Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam - Ability to post long video & audio - Half as many adsAnd paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with usThis will

Got a sale going right now on Lunduke Journal Subscriptions!* Founding Member Subscriptions: $75 / Year (normally $125)* Lifetime Subscriptions: $200 (normally $350)For the details on how to take advantage of it, see this post on Lunduke.Locals.com.It’s time for some weird computer news! None of that mainstream, Big Tech mumbo jumbo. Just the weird, fun, alternative OS and retro stuff!Haiku Week is coming!From November 9th through November 16th, The Lunduke Journal Community will be celebrating “Haiku Week”.Much like with our previous “DOS Week” and “Command Line Week”, this will be an opportunity for all of us to embrace the wonderful world of the Haiku operating system (originally started as an open source replacement for BeOS).There is a very real possibility that our Haiku Week will line up with the Haiku Beta 4 release (which is “imminent”). So make sure you’ve got your Lunduke.Locals.com account setup and come join in the fun!FreeBSD 12.4 hits BetaThe first beta release of FreeBSD 12.4 have been released:“The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available.”The final release of 12.4 is expected during the first week of December (a little over a month from now). After which the release process for FreeBSD 13.2 is set to begin in January.The 12.x line is continuing support for the previous major release (as 13.x is current) for those still using it.In related news, the FreeBSD Foundation is falling dramatically behind in their fundraising goals — having raised less than 10% of their annual budget.“Our goal this year is to raise at a minimum $1,400,000 towards a spending budget of around $2,000,000. As we enter the last quarter of 2022, our donation total sits at $167,348”What that means for the viability of continuing to fund the FreeBSD Foundation remains to be seen. But it doesn’t seem great.Ladybird adds support for more websites Last week we briefly touched on the rapid progress that Ladybird (the web browser engine and project that began within Serenity OS) has been making.In the few days since then, Andreas Kling (the head honcho of Serenity OS and Ladybird) has continued to showcase current improvements to how major websites are rendered in their new web browser. Including YouTube, Google, Instagram, and Google Maps.The results are nothing short of outstanding. Take a look:Why I bring this up:This is, quite possibly, one of the biggest shake-ups in the modern computing world… and it is happening rather quietly. Under the radar of most of the tech press.A brand new web browser (and engine) — developed entirely from scratch — is rapidly gaining significant compatibility with modern websites. Not only is this a massive win for Serenity (as modern web browsing is one of the major obstacles for new OS adoption nowadays)… but this could become a competitor to Mozilla and Google. Quite possibly very quickly (at least if the current development speed is maintained). All without the baggage of legacy code that those companies are saddled with.MACE - Mac Application Compatibility Environment I recently discovered MACE… and was intrigued.“The goal of M.A.C.E. project is the create an runtime library and executing environment for old Mac applications, similar to Apple’s deprecated Classic environment, but without needing any ROM images or System Software binaries by Apple.”Running classic Mac applications — on a modern OS — without ROMs or the Mac System Software? Cool!According to their (rather extensive) July 2022 status update, they are working towards a full release:“We will continue working on the missing features as always, trying to reach the goal of a generic runtime release as soon as possible. We also will try to find solution for the binary file distribution in near future, so anybody interested trying the new features out could do that as soon as possible (especially considering the last released binaries are already getting quite old). We will keep you updated on this blog on our progress as always.”Want to really blow your mind? Here’s a screenshot of MACE (which, again, no system software used) running SoftWindows (a PC emulator for 68k Macs)… running Windows 3.1.That’s my kind of weird. Now, here’s hoping the development team can get a release out so we can all play with it.This reminds me somewhat of “Executor” — a similar “run Mac software without MacOS” application that was released for DOS (and Linux).Seriously. That sale. It’s rad.Got a sale going right now on Lunduke Journal Subscriptions!* Founding Member Subscriptions: $75 / Year (normally $125)* Lifetime Subscriptions: $200 (normally $350)For the details on how to take advantage of it, see this post on Lunduke.Locals.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

Time for your “Normal” computer news! You know. The mainstream stuff. Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Google. That sort of thing.Dive in below, and feel free to listen to the podcast as you go.Apple releases macOS VenturaThis week Apple released the latest revision of their desktop Operating System: “macOS 13 — Ventura”.Among the new features, Stage Manager (a tool for organizing windows on the desktop) and Freeform (a whiteboard-like software for real-time collaboration) seem to be the most standout.Some of the Lunduke Journal Community members had some initial thoughts:“It feels like a refined experience over Monterey. I really like the Continuity Camera that allows you to use your iPhone camera—that’s pretty nice and practical. It also has a brand new settings interface that is closer to the iOS experience. That’ll be a big change for people.” - microwerx“Installed fine on 3 macs…Intel and Apple Silicon. Already ran into the “how do I do something I already knew how to do” since the system preferences is completely different. Looking forward to using my iPhone as a webcam. Seems more responsive, but that could be a placebo effect.” - leebaseAnd Dan Scott provided a few thoughts of his own:“Everything is as it was before but it does feel a bit faster and less clunky to me.One minor thing that I like that I doubt anyone will really notice or care about, but in the About This Mac window, they went back to the simplified style that we had in earlier versions up to Mavericks. They changed it to include more info with Yosemite. I personally like this.The feature I was waiting for the most was Stage Manager. It's nice, and I like it, but I wish it would show all of your open windows. Instead, it only shows your 5 most recent windows and hides the rest so command+tabbing is still your best bet for cycling through open windows. Running Stage Manager hides the desktop icons, though this can be changed in the system settings, or just click the desktop. I'm not sure there's a real need for something like this, but it's a cool feature. It definitely works better on my external monitor. It just takes up too much space on the Air's little display.I'm not sure how I feel about the new System Settings layout yet. It's very much like iOS now, but I think I still prefer the more traditional System Preferences layout.”You can read more of Dan’s first impressions on his Substack.Canonical releases Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”The latest “will only be supported for a couple months” version of Ubuntu has been released. With some of the major updates being:* The default audio server is now PipeWire instead of PulseAudio.* Ubuntu 22.10 is shipped with the new 5.19 Linux kernel.* GNOME has been updated to include new features and fixes from the latest GNOME release, GNOME 43.* The new Steam snap available on Ubuntu Software includes the latest Mesa.One fascinating tidbit: Canonical does not once mention “Snap” packaging in their full release notes.Microsoft looking at changing how Linux boots, wants to require TPM 2.0Microsoft engineer, Lennart Poettering, has unveiled his (and, assuredly, Microsoft’s) desires to tightly intertwine the Linux boot process with TPM 2.0.The TPM (Trusted Platform Module) of course, being created by Microsoft.While there are interesting — and valid — points made by Poettering (creator of systemd), the idea of making the mere act of “booting Linux” reliant on a locked down Microsoft specification… well… no sir, I don’t like it.Linux to drop 486 support?This week, Linus Torvalds stated on the Linux Kernel Mailing list:“We got rid of i386 support back in 2012. Maybe it's time to get rid ofi486 support in 2022?”And then he followed that up by stating:“So I *really* don't think i486 class hardware is relevant any more.Yes, I'm sure it exists (Maciej being an example), but from a kerneldevelopment standpoint I don't think they are really relevant.At some point, people have them as museum pieces. They might as wellrun museum kernels.”Are we about to lose 486 support in Linux? Looks like it. Is that a huge deal? Probably not. But I don’t like it.No, sir. I don’t like it one bit.Microsoft ships ARM Windows computerWant a $600 Windows computer that 32 GB of RAM, 512 GB NVMe drive, a Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 CPU, and a thin little form factor?Microsoft will now sell you one.It’s intended for developers (it’s dubbed the “Windows Dev Kit 2023”), but it still looks rather nice. Even has an ARM native version of Visual Studio and Microsoft 365. And Windows running on this ARM box has WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)… so you can do all your Linux-y stuff on it.The Lunduke Journal of Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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 Wednesday we talked about the “Normal” computer news.But today is not Wednesday. Today is Sunday.Thus we do the only logical thing… we talk about the “Weird” computer news.Alternative Operating Systems. Retro computing. And funky stuff that most people will never hear about… but are mind-melting-ly awesome.Solitaire via GopherThis isn’t exactly breaking news — it was made back in April — but it was news to me. Plus… it’s so ridiculous and awesome that it deserves to get talked about.Someone built a functional game of Klondike Solitaire… on Gopher. Yeah. That Gopher (the one before HTTP and HTML). Not kidding. Take a peek:Think about that for a minute. Think about the limitations of Gopher. Then let your brain slowly melt.From the genius behind this work of art:“In the 1990’s a text based system called “Gopher” competed against the World Wide Web.The web won.However Gopher is still around today and so I decided to make a version of Solitaire that you can play over Gopher!”So grab a Gopher Client, and head to gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/. OpenBSD 7.2 releasedOpenBSD doesn’t get enough love. It is a truly impressive operating system. And their glorious leader (Theo de Raadt) just announced the new 7.2 version.And, as is often the case with OpenBSD, the release notes are *ahem* rather extensive.But this little bit certainly jumped out at me:* New/extended platforms:* Added support for Ampere Altra* Added support for Apple M2* Added support for Lenovo ThinkPad x13s and other machines using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC.Plus… check out the release artwork!Pumpkin OS gets file browser and resource editorI continue to be excited about the prospect of getting my hands on Pumpkin OS — a system that runs PalmOS applications in a multi-tasking, multi-window environment. Basically a “Desktop PalmOS”. It’s nuts.Well the developer recently teased another feature of Pumpkin OS:“I was reminded that every OS should have a "file browser thing" and maybe one resource editor or two, so here is a first try for #PumpkinOS.”Super cool. When I asked the developer when he might make a public release, this was the response:“Soon I hope... there are so many small things to tweak.”Am I excited to try it out? You bet, I am.Zeal 8-Bit OS for a new Z80 computerIn “because you can never have enough operating systems for 46 year old CPU architecture” news… Zeal, a brand new operating system for the Z80, has just been released. From the project’s GitHub page:“Zeal 8-bit OS is an operating system written entirely in Z80 assembly for Z80 computers. It has been designed around simplicity and portability. It is inspired by Linux and CP/M. It has the concept of drivers and disks, while being ROM-able.”The “inspired by Linux and CP/M” bit already had my interest. But there’s more…“…this project is in fact part of a bigger project called Zeal 8-bit Computer, which, as it name states, consists of an entirely newly designed 8-bit computer. It is based on a Z80 CPU.”Seriously. Check out the “Zeal 8-bit Computer”.Ladybird Web Browser continues improving I’m a big fan of SerenityOS. Love the design. Love the passion of the developers and community behind it. Love the amazing, breakneck speed of their progress.And I’m also a big fan of the web browser project that evolved as an off-shoot of SerenityOS: Ladybird.Obviously a brand new, from scratch web browser has a lot of work ahead of it in trying to render the “modern web” properly. I mean, heck, it takes Firefox roughly 200 Bazillion Gigawhompers of RAM to render a simple blog nowadays.Just the same, Ladybird is making huge strides towards rendering modern (and commonly used) web sites correctly. Here Ladybug is rendering Wikipedia almost perfectly (a few minor little issues):And here is Ladybird’s take on GitHub:Not too darned shabby!The number of issues stopping me from being able to use Ladybird full time are dwindling almost by the day. Darned impressive!Hey! You! Are you subscribed to The Lunduke Journal yet? There’s so many perks… plus… supporting an ad-free, 100% independent computer nerd publication just feels good. 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 is always something fun and nerdy happening over on The Lunduke Journal Community (Lunduke.Locals.com). Let’s take a tour of some of my favorite stuff that’s being talked about this week (ending October 21st, 2022).Note: This is by no means comprehensive. This is just a handful of the fun posts that jumped out at me this week. Things that made me smile. More family friendly, troll-free nerdiness than you can shake a stick at.Here is the podcast. And the links. All in one place.If you don’t have access to Lunduke.Locals.com, you can do so directly through Lunduke.Locals.com — and it is a perk of some subscription types of The Lunduke Journal.“Command Line Week” ends!On Wednesday, “Command Line Week” ended. It was most outstanding.Wolfenstein, Enemy Territory is currently free at GOGNullman alerted us to this deal. Free game. No DRM. Sweet.Meatlotion had a video chat with Michael TomczykMichael Tomczyk was the PM for the Commodore VIC-20. Legend. And one of our community members had a video chat with him. So groovy.A new 8-Bit fantasy computer / VMGeekOnSkates shows off his new project: Geek-Rig. Here’s how he describes it:“The Geek-Rig is software that works like a brand new 8-bit computer. I've heard all kinds of names for projects like this, ranging from "fantasy emulator" to "emulator of a system that doesn't exist" to "virtual machine". I kind of like the idea of calling it a VM, cuz that really is the most accurate and least wordy description. Anyway, it runs on an emulated 6502, the same processor as most 8-bit things ran on, and designed to run inside a Linux terminal. I expect its main purpose will be for games, though of course it's not limited to just that.”So cool!Is there a WYSIWYG word processor that doesn’t suck?Peleg posed the question. Many, many thoughts.Getting stuff done in Haiku!ArchieT is getting a jump start on Haiku Week (which doesn’t start for a few weeks). With a screenshot.Mystery 8-Bit computing boxes!What is inside them?! Sdloveless wonders if you can figure it out!Roguelike Contest Winners!Thanks to xibb for running this Roguelike contest!Fixing a Gameboy Color Pokemon cartridgeRetropunk did some surgery on a GBC cartridge… because those backup batteries don’t last forever!A new “Multi-Relay Chat” BBS door!MeatLotion shares progress he (and another dev) have been making on mrcX — a new BBS door that is a version of “Multi-Relay Chat”. A chat room software, that works on telnet BBS’s, that allows you to chat with others on different BBS’s. Rad!ProtonMail makes some privacy improvements!Gginorio alerted us that ProtonMail no longer requires a phone number or existing email address to set up an account. A good thing for those concerned with privacy!Plus one of the kindest, happiest, nerdiest communities this side of the Rio. Seriously. Subscribing is pretty cool. 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

Here comes the “Normal Computing” news of the week! What is “Normal Computing”? Stuff about Microsoft, Apple, Google, and the like. Big Tech. The “Big 5”. Mainstream. You know. “Normal”.Microsoft drops “Office” name… “Microsoft is now 365”In “well that’s a dumb idea” news… Microsoft is officially killing off their “Microsoft Office” branding — which has been a cornerstone of the company for over 30 years — and renamed their office suite… “Microsoft 365”.As someone who worked on the Microsoft Office development team for many years, I have thoughts:* You use “Microsoft Office” to do “Office” stuff. What do you do with “Microsoft 365”? 365 stuff?* Everyone knows the “MS Office” brand. Ditching it is stupid.* The marketing and product executives at Microsoft clearly have too much time on their hands, and nothing to do.* In short: This is dumb.Apple makes new, colored iPads with USB-C“We’re so excited to bring the completely redesigned iPad to our most advanced iPad lineup ever,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With a large 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display, powerful A14 Bionic chip, a first-ever landscape front camera, fast wireless connectivity, USB-C, and support for incredible accessories like the new Magic Keyboard Folio, the new iPad delivers more value, more versatility — and is simply more fun.”Quick thoughts:* USB-C! Huzzah!* They moved the front facing camera to make it more logical. Good move.* Colors are cool. Reminds me of when the iMacs got multiple colors.* Strangely, it appears the stylus (Apple Pencil) is not USB-C. So it needs an adapter. Odd. This seems like it must be temporary.* Still no expandable storage.* Still no replaceable battery.Prices start at $449 (without the stylus or keyboard) and go up from there.GitHub Copilot InvestigationA new website has launched to collect stories of people who believe their licenses and copyrights have been violated by Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot.“We’re inves­ti­gat­ing a poten­tial law­suit against GitHub Copi­lot for vio­lat­ing its legal duties to open-source authors and end users.”“Microsoft and OpenAI must be rely­ing on a fair-use argu­ment. In fact we know this is so, because for­mer GitHub CEO Nat Fried­man claimed dur­ing the Copi­lot tech­ni­cal pre­view that “train­ing [machine-learn­ing] sys­tems on pub­lic data is fair use”.Well—is it? The answer isn’t a mat­ter of opin­ion; it’s a mat­ter of law. Nat­u­rally, Microsoft, OpenAI, and other researchers have been pro­mot­ing the fair-use argu­ment. Nat Fried­man fur­ther asserted that there is “jurispru­dence” on fair use that is “broadly relied upon by the machine[-]learn­ing com­mu­nity”. But Soft­ware Free­dom Con­ser­vancy dis­agreed, and pressed Microsoft for evi­dence to sup­port its posi­tion. Accord­ing to SFC direc­tor Bradley Kuhn:”“[W]e inquired pri­vately with Fried­man and other Microsoft and GitHub rep­re­sen­ta­tives in June 2021, ask­ing for solid legal ref­er­ences for GitHub’s pub­lic legal posi­tions … They pro­vided none.”Firefox version 106 gets… sneaker features?The One-Hundred and Sixth major version of Firefox came out this week. What’s new?* Editing PDF’s within Firefox.* Text recognition from images (on macOS).* Swipe navigation on Linux.But the big feature that Mozilla is touting? They partnered with a sneaker maker to promote… feelings? Or colors? Or something?“‘Independent Voices’ are the voices of the past and present that create a better future,” Lascio said. “I chose this as my inspiration for the collaboration because it feels authentic to me but it also aligns with Firefox and the vision that we can make the world better, on the internet and beyond.” - Keely Lascio, Street-wear and sneaker designerThis new feature lets you tell Firefox that you are… an… “Activist”… with a “balanced intensity”… which… makes… the window border… blue? Thanks to… sneakers?This is clearly what we call a “Killer Feature” of a web browser.Oh. And they also added “Firefox View”. Which nobody will ever use.Thank you for reading and listening to The Lunduke Journal of Technology. This post is public so feel free to share it. Spread the love.The Lunduke Journal of Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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

It’s time for the important news of the week! And this week is a fun one!Haiku Beta 4 is “imminent”!The September “Haiku Activity Report” has a number of excellent updates in it… but this little tidbit at the bottom of the monthly report was especially exciting: Are we beta4 yet?Two blocking issues were resolved last month. The only ones that remain are “tasks” (i.e. not true issues, but things which must be changed before the next release, and should not be hard to do at all.)Thus it is my plan to start the release process imminently: hurrah! This should have happened months ago, but things were delayed as usual.That’s right. They “plan to start the release process imminently”. Awesome news.And absolutely perfect timing, as The Lunduke Journal Community is going to be doing a “Haiku Week” starting on November 9th. Looks like we’ll be able to use Beta 4 of Haiku for it! Huzzah!Serenity OS is 4 years oldOctober 10th marked the 4 year anniversary of the very first commit of Serenity OS.It is absolutely amazing what this crew of developers, led by Andreas Kling, has accomplished in those 4 years. To the point where they now have their own programming language, web browser, and an extraordinarily powerful (and oddly polished) desktop operating system.I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Serenity is going places. I would not be surprised if this system begins to gain significant traction as a “daily driver” operating system very, very soon.Amiga OS 4.1 SDK Update ReleasedReady to blow your mind?Amiga OS is still in development.Like… the real, original Amiga OS.The company who has the rights to this side of Amiga OS (the legal history of Amiga is complicated and wild at this point) had released “AmigaOS 4.1 SDK 54.16”This updated SDK includes new versions of GCC (yes, Amiga has GCC as well), VBCC (another C compiler), Git and Subversion support, an updated SSL library, and a bunch of other stuff.If you’re looking at that list of SDK features and thinking to yourself, “Huh… so AmigaOS has modern development tools…”, you’d be right. In fact, porting many Linux and BSD applications to AmigaOS is quite doable with this SDK (considering the already fairly impressive POSIX compatibility of the Amiga). 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

Officially “Command Line Week” starts at 8am (Eastern) on Wednesday.But I’m just too excited. So I recorded the podcast episode and am posting it about 10 hours early. Let’s do this!Here is a quick outline of the schedule of events (all times Eastern):* Wednesday, Oct 12 @ 8am — Command Line Week kickoff podcast* All Week — The Community posting all manner of Command Line goodies at Lunduke.Locals.com* Saturday, Oct 15 @ 11am — Video Hangout for Founding Members and Lifetime Subscribers* Saturday, Oct 15 @ 12pm — Text Chat for all subscribers over on Lunduke.Locals.com* Wednesday, Oct 19 @ 8am — Wrap-up podcastPlus: Over the course of the week, I’ll be posting articles related to the Command Line (Linux Shells, etc.) on The Lunduke Journal — like the recent “The History of the First Computer Shell”.And don’t miss Gabe’s Awesome List of TUI Software! It’s a fantastic place to start on your Command Line journey!Make sure you have a Lunduke.Locals.com account!This is key to unlocking the full enjoyment of Command Line Week!While Substack is absolutely amazing, Locals provides the community features we need to fully enjoy the awesomeness of something like this — including the ability for everyone to make top-level posts, live chats, and more. It simply is not possible entirely via Substack.To make getting a Locals account easier for folks, I’m going to have a very specific sale… that is only available if you take advantage of it through Lunduke.Locals.com.I know. I know. I said I wasn’t going to have any more sales this year. But I am so excited about Command Line Week — I don’t want anyone to miss out! Plus… I’m the boss. I can change my mind if I want to. ;)How to take advantage of this dealRepeat: This sale is only available if you create an account on Lunduke.Locals.com. The whole point is to bring more of you over to Locals to enjoy the good times! However, both of these options also come with full access on Substack as well! Best of both worlds!* Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/Subscription.* Choose “Card” and “Annual”.* Enter the amount of the subscription you want (choose from the options below).* Lunduke will follow up with you to make sure you have full access to both Substack and Locals. (This usually only takes a couple hours.)Founding Member Subscription - Cost: $125 / Year $75 / YearBenefits: Everything from the Standard Subscription, plus:* A monthly video hangout with Lunduke & other Founding Members* Full access to both Lunduke.Locals.com and Lunduke.Substack.com* Founding Member Email Newsletter* Personalized Audio MessagesLifetime Subscription - Cost $350 (one time) $200 (one time)Benefits: Everything from the Founding Member Subscription:* For life… pay once, and and you get all of the perks… for as long as The Lunduke Journal exists. Which, considering Lunduke has been publishing articles and podcasts for over 15 years, is likely to be a good, long time.I highly recommend the Lifetime Subscription. It is just such a good deal.Note: This deal cannot be combined with the “Upgrade System of Awesomeness” (where you can apply your current subscription towards an upgraded one. It’s already too good of a deal. Stacking them would just be… insane. :) 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

What follows is the most important news for the week! Linux-y news! Retro computer news! Alternative OS news! You know… the stuff that matters!The Free Software Foundation is 37 years old!On October 4th, 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation.Weird thought: On October 3rd, 1985, the Free Software Foundation didn’t exist.After all these years, it’s almost hard to imagine a world where the FSF wasn’t around.A physical, retro-Hard-Drive sound simulator: HDD ClickerThis mad genius got tired of the silence of his flash based hard drives. He longed for the days when his bit, magnetic hard drives made all of those awesome “hard drive noises”.So he did something about it: He build a small device that made that noise when his flash drives are accessed..Check out the video demos he gives. Turn the sound up. Just lovely.I want four.Canonical launches Ubuntu Pro as free service for individualsCanonical is now offering an “Ubuntu Pro” service for individuals… for free.“Anyone can use Ubuntu Pro for free on up to 5 machines”And then, naturally, companies and big organizations will need to purchase a subscription plan for the Ubuntu Pro service. Makes sense. And, really, is a model I quite like: Businesses and Enterprise customers are helping fund the development and support… which directly benefits the individuals. Nice.The primary purpose of Ubuntu Pro looks to be “ten years” of security updates for the core OS plus “23,000” other packages:“Ubuntu Pro (currently in public beta) expands our famous ten-year security coverage to an additional 23,000 packages beyond the main operating system.Including Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python 2, Redis, Rust, WordPress, and many more...”Honestly, this seems like the way to go for folks using Ubuntu. Better support, longer lifespan of updates in the repository… if I were running Ubuntu, I’d probably jump on that. Especially considering the fact that it’s free. 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

It’s Sunday! Which means it’s time for some Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing news!You know… the important stuff.The podcast & the article! All in one spot! Huzzah!GNU toolchain hosting moving to… Linux FoundationIt appears that the GNU toolchain projects — which includes GCC, Make and glibc — are preparing to move their hosting entirely to… The Linux Foundation.Seriously.From the announcement:“During the Sourceware / Infrastructure BoF sessions at GNU Cauldron, the GNU Toolchain community in collaboration with the Linux Foundation and OpenSSF, announced the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure project (GTI). The collaboration includes a fund for infrastructure and software supply chain security, which will allow us to utilize the respected Linux Foundation IT (LF IT) services that host kernel.org and to fund other important projects.”This will definitely not end badly. *cough*VM2 - a modern VMU for the Sega Dreamcast!A new project to create a modern, updated memory unit for the Sega Dreamcast has raised almost 150 thousand dollars over on Idiegogo. And, I gotta say, it looks kinda awesome.“The VM2 project aims in the total reproduction and upgrade of the original VMU for our beloved Dreamcast. The VMU was one of the greatest console's assets, but with many design flaws. Now, with the VM2, all of these flaws are eliminated giving the user an experience that truly feels like next-gen! Internally, the VM2 received a totally fresh design with modern electronics. Externally, it is upgraded and at the same time keeps the original looks & feels, as a tribute to the original VMU.Features & Upgrades* ​New monochrome backlit LCD* Higher screen resolution* Micro-SD storage* Internal storage of 128KB (200 blocks)* Embedded High-capacity battery* USB-C port (for charging & connecting to a PC)* Original Audio support* DreamEye support* Original language support (EN/JP)* LCD game images streaming to PC* Charging from both the controller, and the USB-C port* Support for VM2-to-VM2 connection (with future firmware update)”NES-OS… an OS. For the NES.There is a new OS — albeit a limited one — for the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES-OS.“NESOS is an operating system designed for the Nintendo Entertainment and Family Computer Systems. The operating system features two core applications, the word processor, and the settings. The word processor allows users to print characters and certain blocks to the screen, then save that data in the form of a file for later use or editing. The settings app displays system information and lets the user select one of seven cursors, and one of 53 possible desktop background colors. It also acts as the file manager, allowing users to delete their saved files.”It’s limited. Highly limited. Only able to save 8 files (of up to 2k each). But, still. Super cool that it was done at all.Fun side note: This is not the first project called “NES-OS”. There was another one created 6 yeas ago, which you can find on Git Hub, which took a completely different approach. That one consisting of a design for a PS/2 hardware interface (so a keyboard could be connected to the NES), a command line, a BrainF interpreter, and two sample games (Life and Snake)Fedora shipping without some codecsFedora 37 has disabled GPU support for some media codecs (such as H.264) due to legal concerns.This has caused many to be quite annoyed — understandably — because not having support for some popular codecs is inconvenient.That said… this is not exactly unprecedented.In fact… this is the very reason that Linux Mint exists at all. Mint was created for the sole purpose of having some media codecs preinstalled… codecs that Ubuntu did not feel like they could legally distribute in many countries at the time. There was, quite literally, no other reason for Mint existing in those early days.Likewise, openSUSE (which I used to be on the Board for) also opted to not distribute many such “legally dubious” media codecs — such as MP3 — back in those days. Resulting in multiple openSUSE based distros that added the codecs in.System76 ditching GTK for new POP!_OS desktopIt appears that System76, the company behind the Pop!_OS Linux distribution, is working to ditch GTK for their upcoming “Cosmic” desktop environment. Instead opting to use the, Rust based, Iced framework.According to one of the developers:“After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK.Iced is a native Rust GUI toolkit that's made enough progress lately to become viable for use in COSMIC. Various COSMIC applets have already been written in both GTK and Iced for comparison. The latest development versions of Iced have an API that's very flexible, expressive, and intuitive compared to GTK. It feels very natural in Rust, and anyone familiar with Elm will appreciate its design.COSMIC Settings will be developed in tandem with, and from, this toolkit.”It remains to be seen how this will turn out. 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Today’s topic: Why no ChromeOS phone?The perks for subscribing to The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/all-the-subscriber-benefits-for-the The Lunduke Journal Community: https://lunduke.locals.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

Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive (and that's ok):https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-market-share-is-in-a-nosedive The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.substack.com/ The Lunduke Journal Community: https://lunduke.locals.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 Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 10, 2022 New Book: "Lunduke's History of Computers - Volume 1"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/new-book-lundukes-history-of-computers The Lunduke Journal has now published 10 eBooks. 10 very, very nerdy eBooks.https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-has-now-published 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 Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 6, 2022 Microsoft releases Windows 3.1 as Open Source https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsoft-releases-windows-3-1-as-open-source DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s A brand-spanking-new Windows 3.1 mouse driver. Seriously. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-brand-spanking-new-windows-31-mouse Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal... and much more. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/wordle-ported-to-windows-31-palmos Lunduke Journal Events for April - BBS Game Tournament, Linux Sucks, Hangout https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lunduke-journal-events-for-april The Lunduke Journal Community: https://lunduke.locals.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

Former Ubuntu Snap advocate develops "Unsnap" to help people stop using Snap:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/former-ubuntu-snap-advocate-develops Announcing Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriptions:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/announcing-lunduke-journal-founding The Lunduke Journal Community: https://lunduke.locals.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

Todays Topic: Make Linux look like Retro Operating SystemsMake Linux look like Windows XPMake Linux look like Windows 95Make Linux look like MacOS 9Make Linux look like Amiga OSMake Linux look like BeOSThe Lunduke Journal Community: https://lunduke.locals.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 topics for today: Elementary OS is dying & Arch for M1 Macs 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

Lunduke.Substack.com — Lunduke.Locals.com — Reddit — TwitterCurrent subscriber exclusives for The Lunduke Journal:eBooks: Lunduke's Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1, Linux for Hank (kids book), Half a Decade of Linux-y Shenanigans, Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 1, Paper Doll Tux, Road-Sign Hank & the Aliens (comic book), Operating System Not Found (choose your own adventure)Games: Linux Tycoon (Linux, Windows, DOS), 2299 (Linux, Windows)+ Exclusive Podcasts, Articles, & 24x7 Telnet BBS Access 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

Lunduke.Substack.com — Lunduke.Locals.com — Reddit — TwitterCurrent subscriber exclusives for The Lunduke Journal:eBooks: Lunduke's Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1, Linux for Hank (kids book), Half a Decade of Linux-y Shenanigans, Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 1, Paper Doll Tux, Road-Sign Hank & the Aliens (comic book), Operating System Not Found (choose your own adventure)Games: Linux Tycoon (Linux, Windows, DOS), 2299 (Linux, Windows)+ Exclusive Podcasts, Articles, & 24x7 Telnet BBS Access 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

Me thinking about how goofy the various Linux code names are. Seriously. They make me smile.Lunduke.Substack.com — Lunduke.Locals.com — Reddit — TwitterCurrent subscriber exclusives for The Lunduke Journal:eBooks: Lunduke's Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1, Linux for Hank (kids book), Half a Decade of Linux-y Shenanigans, Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 1, Paper Doll Tux, Road-Sign Hank & the Aliens (comic book), Operating System Not Found (choose your own adventure)Games: Linux Tycoon (Linux, Windows, DOS), 2299 (Linux, Windows)+ Exclusive Podcasts, Articles, & 24x7 Telnet BBS Access 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