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DHH: "Omarchy has no plans to do anything in response to this retarded California law." Plus: Fedora "not aware" of age verification laws, & Ubuntu is "reviewing it internally".Latest on the "All Operating Systems must do age verification” laws:https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2029212531194048660More 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 new law, in Brazil, requires age verification on all Operating Systems (including Linux & Windows) by March 17th. Plus a rundown on similar laws in California, Colorado, and New York.Latest on the "All Operating Systems must do age verification” laws:https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2029212531194048660More 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
Ubuntu & Elementary OS developers are planning to add age verification functionality, in a way which impacts all Linux users, to comply with a new California law.Ubuntu Mailing List screenshots:https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2028892521116635283More 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
Ubuntu's Vice President on re-writing everything in Rust: "do it by default with no apology", despite acknowledging that users will "see some breakage".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
"Until we have a better plan, we modified our license to exclude residents of California from using MidnightBSD for desktop use, effective January 1, 2027."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 related news: The GRANITE Act (which would provide a legal framework for protecting against foreign censorship), has passed the Wyoming House of Representatives.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 new California Law (AB-1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires all Operating Systems (from macOS to FreeBSD) to implement age verification, at the system level, this year.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
"Age Attestation on Computing Devices" (Colorado State Bill 26-051) would require age verification on all Operating Systems (both Open Source and proprietary), with fines for violations.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
"Rust community remains annoying, but the tech is good! D"- Ladybird Web Browser founder, Andreas KlingMore 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
Microsoft's managers from India have a long history of favoring Indian candidates. Plus: Paul Thurrott defends Microsoft, calls Lunduke a "piece of human garbage".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
KDE is in damage control after recent moves to restrict the systems which can run KDE Plasma (via Wayland & SystemD). Saying criticism is "FUD" and "fake".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, right on cue, the extremists within Open Source go on the assault, libelously calling GhostBSD a "Nazi bar".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 term “clanker”, a derogatory term for “Al Bot”, is causing people to be banned across the Internet (Reddit, Discord, Social Media, etc.). Because it might offend Al... and, apparently, Al Bots are more important than humans.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 newly created "Main" branch re-bases the open source X11 server on code from February of 2024, specifically to avoid code written by the creator of XLibre (the increasingly successful Xorg fork).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
Tech News site Ars Technica has now deleted an Al-generated article (complete with fake, Al hallucinated quotes) regarding an Al Bot writing blog post hit pieces accusing humans of anti-Al "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
A code change submitted by an Al bot was rejected by an open source project developer. In retaliation, the Al bot accused the human of "Gatekeeping" and "Prejudice" in a Leftist-style rampage.The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore 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
First Notepad++ gets hijacked by Chinese hackers, now Notepad.exe gets a "Severe" CVE. Apparently editing a plain text file is the most dangerous thing you can do on Windows.The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore 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 2024, the Godot game engine enacted a mass "Cleansing" of non-woke supporters. A group of developers responded by creating the Redot fork. How is that fork doing 1.5 years later?The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore 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
Plus: For Linux 7.0 Rust support is now official and no longer experimental... but "not everything works" and it is "still quite experimental".The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore 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
Starting in March, Discord will treat all accounts as "Teen by Default", requiring age verification for several features. This follows a breach of 70,000 Discord accounts (including IDs) last October.The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription:https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-lifetime-subscriptionMore 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
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