Cutest-Sounding Scientific Effects
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Ask Lunduke some questions! (Just make ‘em good and nerdy.)
Bonus points for questions about Alternative Operating Systems and Retro Computing. ⌘ Read more
no, niplav, you won’t get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.
RT by @mind_booster: Lembrete anual, para quem nunca seguiu a revolução no Twitter
Lembrete anual, para quem nunca seguiu a revolução no Twitter
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RT by @mind_booster: “The Hungarian and German constitutional courts refused the ratification of the agreement on a Unified Patent Court. What’s next?” Katalin Gombos is […] judge at Kúria (Supreme Court) of Hungary https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/17/1/35/6516025
“The Hungarian and German constitutional courts refused the ratification of the agreement on a Unified Patent Court. What’s next?” Katalin Gombos is […] judge at Kúria (Supreme Court) of Hungary [academic.oup.com/jiplp/artic…](https://academic … ⌘ Read more
At the cemetery, by a babbling fountain with a passing train. ⌘ Read more
Talvez eu seja demasiado novo para dar real valor a certos símbolos da democracia Portuguesa e do #25deabril, mas sinceramente custa-me aceitar que um tanque seja colocado numa praça como “símbolo da Paz” (e, no sentido mais lato, não consigo achar interessante este urbanismo).
Talvez eu seja demasiado novo para dar real valor a certos símbolos da democracia Portuguesa e do #25deabril, mas sinceramente custa-me aceitar que um tanque seja colocado numa praça como “ … ⌘ Read more
Make Linux Shell scripts declare “Success” or “Failure” using the Super Smash Bros announcer voice
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“By the end of the century, the worst-case scenario for crop yield loss would be a disaster, but even the best-case scenario would be devastating for the world’s most important crops.”
“By the end of the century, the worst-case scenario for crop yield loss would be a disaster, but even the best-case scenario would be devastating for the world’s most important crops.”
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R to @mind_booster: 5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
5/5, I’m definitively happy with my choice!
**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.
What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.
What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.
⌘ Read moreCelebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware. ⌘ Read more
Psychic Paper (Java Vulnerability) - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Naming kids is hard for us computer nerds.
There’s just so many great names to choose from. ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu, facing declining marketshare, doubles down on most hated feature
How long before Ubuntu abandons Snap packaging in order to save the Linux distribution? ⌘ Read more
Removing the stigma of a CVE
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here’s how we think of them at GitHub. ⌘ Read more
5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 1.01000 PPM
The Media Hates This Man ⌘ Read more
Assigning Numbers
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Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work. ⌘ Read more
Climate Change Solutions with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Katharine Hayhoe ⌘ Read more
10 reasons every nerd wants to become a Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriber
Number 10 will SHOCK you! ⌘ Read more
A new (free) racing game for DOS has been released!
From a developer that has released racing games for Amiga, Linux, Sega Genesis, and… Haiku?! ⌘ Read more
Nix 2.8.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be
available from NixOS -\
Getting Nix / NixOS.
Here are the release notes:
New experimental command:
nix fmt, which applies a
formatter defined by theformatter.<system></system>flake
output to the Nix expressions in a flake.Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input
using--file -.New experimental builtin function
builtins.fetchClosurethat c … ⌘ Read more
Improving Git push times through faster server side hooks
The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safely replacing them. ⌘ Read more
The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn’t)
A story of crazy drama within an amazing Open Source project. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part ½
Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value. Payments are a part of financial services that have undergone rapid and transformational change over recent years, and the Erlang Solutions team has been at the cutting-edge of many of these changes working on exciting cli … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast – April 21 2022
Listen now (20 min) | LundukeFest 2022 - “Linux Sucks”, Retro Computing, & Good Times ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.
This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage … ⌘ Read more
Reflecting on my work
I have been a full-time software developer for over a year now. I’ve since settled in well in the job, and I’m getting along better and better, even if the topics are sometimes still quite complex and difficult to understand, especially when it comes to “historically grown” things. ⌘ Read more
NiceOS – a Linux distribution that uses packages from whatever Linux distro you want
No SystemD. No default package manager. NiceOS is… weird. But also nice. ⌘ Read more
Organization profiles leading the way
Organization profiles can now display custom content visible only to members of the organization. A new Member view can be tailored to show an alternative README and pinned private repositories. ⌘ Read more
LundukeFest is back on the schedule! May 14th, 2022!
“Linux Sucks”, Retro Computing, Internet History & more are on the schedule! ⌘ Read more
Codespaces for multi-repository and monorepo scenarios
We’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos. ⌘ Read more
5 habits of highly effective creatives ⌘ Read more
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Scott Morrison: Compulsive Liar ⌘ Read more
Entwives
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You can now subscribe to The Lunduke Journal via Patreon!
Patreon subscribers can now get all the same perks as subscribers on Substack or Locals. ⌘ Read more
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Earth Day ⌘ Read more
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Sharing security expertise through CodeQL packs (Part I)
Introducing CodeQL packs to help you codify and share your knowledge of vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more
W: The Window System before X… that nobody seems to remember
(Nobody seems to even know what it looked like.) ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 19, 2022
Listen now (16 min) | Why no ChromeOS phone? ⌘ Read more
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Run a full, desktop Linux distro on your Android phone with UserLAnd
Just as if it were an Android app. Because… well… you know you want to. ⌘ Read more
First Founding Member group hangout next week!
Thanks to all the Founding Members, we were able to drop the subscription price this month! ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36. ⌘ Read more
The BookMac – The 1984 Macintosh Laptop… that never got released
Not “MacBook”… “BookMac”. Seriously. ⌘ Read more
Chrome : RAM :: Dog : Bed
(Assuming the dog has his legs stretched straight out. Which he does.) ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 18, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | The Ubuntu Marketshare Nosedive ⌘ Read more
How to Vote! ⌘ Read more
Family Reunion
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Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C. ⌘ Read more
My thoughts on and motivation behind GoBlog reactions
Yesterday I announced a spontaneously developed GoBlog feature, reactions. The post also got a lot of reactions, over 900 times the buttons were pressed. But I also got some comments. ⌘ Read more
Happy Easter! ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu market-share is in a nosedive (and that’s ok)
No Linux distribution can remain #1 forever, right? ⌘ Read more
Not only Telegram implements new features, I spontaneously had an idea and a bit of programming desire. As an optional feature GoBlog now offers “reactions”. I don’t think I need to explain this feature, just try it out on this post. 😉 ⌘ Read more
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Telegram is now a super-app?
It seems that there is a new super-app: Telegram. Bots can now also use HTML5 and JavaScript and thus “replace websites”. ⌘ Read more
Security alert: Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party integrators
On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users. ⌘ Read more
Humans in Space with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astronaut Leland Melvin, & Dr. Sheyna Gifford ⌘ Read more
Web Devs are not real programmers.
There. I said it. Shots fired, etc. ⌘ Read more
Pronouncing computer words can be tricky.
Tricky, tricky, tricky. ⌘ Read more
Brainwashed by the Media ⌘ Read more
Geiger Counter
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain Light Pollution ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal about to hit our subscription goal for end of April! Awesome!
Can we push it over the top today? ⌘ Read more
FreeGEM/XM – The open source version of the unreleased, multi-tasking GEM
Because unreleased, 1980s operating systems are cool. ⌘ Read more
Square & Multiply Algorithm - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Dependabot alerts now surface if your code is calling a vulnerability
Today, we’re shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you’re affected by a vulnerability. ⌘ Read more
Friendlyjordies Takes Melbourne! href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $41 Billion
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41 billion, just days after rejecting a seat on the social media company’s board. From a report: Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosedin a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last trading day before the Tesla CEO’s more than 9% stake in the company … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Introducing Stream Support In RabbitMQ
In July 2021, streams were introduced to RabbitMQ, utilizing a new blazingly-fast protocol that can be used alongside AMQP 0.9.1. Streams offer an easier way to solve a number of problems in RabbitMQ, including large fan-outs, replay & time travel, and large logs, all with very high throughput (1 million messages per second on a 3-node cluster). Arnaud Cogoluègne s, Staff Engin … ⌘ Read more
After the repair, I am really excited about my pedelec. The battery significantly increases the range of a “small” bike ride and allows me to visit many beautiful places in the vicinity of my hometown Braunschweig and enjoy the nature. ⌘ Read more
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Remembering the “Tempest Lunduke Edition” tower from Pogo Linux
Because it is just so choice. ⌘ Read more
“Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars” update released for Linux & DOS
Release 2 is a lot like Release 1. But more betterer. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke explains ways to hide your activity on the Internet… using an iced coffee.
Incognito Mode… VPN… Tor… what’s the difference? ⌘ Read more
We need to talk about carbon credit rorts | with Polly Hemming ⌘ Read more
JMP: Computing International Call Rates with a Trie
A few months ago we launched International calling with JMP. One of the big tasks leading up to this launch was computing the rate card: that is, how much calls to different destinations would cost per minute. While there are many countries in the world, there are even more calling destinations. Our main carrier partner for this feature lists no fewer than 59881 unique phone number prefixes in the rates they charge us. This list is, quite frankly, incomprehen … ⌘ Read more
Weird Unicode Math Symbols
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Cosmic Queries – StarTalk-ology with Alie Ward & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Git security vulnerability announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine. ⌘ Read more
To kick off my few days of Easter vacation, I took my freshly inspected and repaired pedelec (e-bike) with beautiful weather (20 degrees and sun) and drove a round on the “Ringgleis”, a bike path around my city. The total mileage has now also finally reached the 3000 km. That’s still not much over several years, but I still have my second, non-electric bike, with which I probably ride a lot more. ⌘ Read more
What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more