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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 11, 2022
Listen now (57 min) | Ask Lunduke! ⌘ Read more
Election Time with your Family ⌘ Read more
The many Operating Systems of the Commodore 64
UNIX for C64? CP/M for C64? Seriously?! (Yes. Seriously.) ⌘ Read more
Performance at GitHub: deferring stats with rack.after_reply
How we sped up GitHub.com by moving slow, non-critical code into rack.after_reply. ⌘ Read more
My tiny creative studio tour (+ new desk setup) ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 10, 2022
Listen now (27 min) | Why do Tech Journalists so often get Computer History… totally wrong? ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal has now published 10 eBooks. 10 very, very nerdy eBooks.
Plus 4 video games. And like a bazillion articles and podcasts. Which is crazy awesome. ⌘ Read more
Taylor Series
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HOTDOGbuntu - Make Ubuntu look like classic Mac, Atari ST, Win 3.1, & Amiga systems
Because more ways to make modern Linux look like retro computing systems is always a good thing. ⌘ Read more
Why blog at all? (and indieblog.page)
What a coincidence: I was just thinking about why I blog at all, when I saw a post from Andreas Gohr in my feed reader with the announcement of indieblog.page. Cool site to discover blogs! ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Updates from the Poezio ecosystem
Releases have happened recently that revolve around Poezio, a TUI
(Terminal UI) client for XMPP, including Poezio itself, its backend XMPP
library Slixmpp, and also the poezio and
slixmpp plugins for OMEMO.
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The first two nights with my new weighted blanket were good! The blanket is very cozy but not sweaty. The weight is not oppressive, but just right, and also makes me feel somehow more tired than usual before I sleep, and then let me fall asleep almost immediately, as if flipping a switch. And somehow I seem to dream much less, which can be a positive sign for more deep sleep. ⌘ Read more
A Constellation Compilation: Exploring the Night Sky with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977’s West Coast Computer Faire
The introduction of the Apple II and the Commodore PET. ⌘ Read more
PicoShare – simple file sharing
Having recently posted about rathole, today I’d like to share another tool I use in combination with rathole: PicoShare. ⌘ Read more
Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone
Ensuring secure access to your source code is more important than ever. Git Credential Manager helps make that easy. ⌘ Read more
Achieving SLSA 3 Compliance with GitHub Actions and Sigstore for Go modules
Learn how to build packages with SLSA 3 provenance using GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19
Introduction:Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.
In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 6, 2022
Listen now (39 min) | Remembering Windows 3.1 on its 30th Birthday ⌘ Read more
Luxe: This House Blows my Mind ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal subscription price lowered thanks to Founding Member subscribers!
Enough Founding Members joined, in one day, to knock annual subscriptions down to $1.13 per month. That’s amazing! ⌘ Read more
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII… in 1996.
It’s time for a little dive into mid-1990s computer history! ⌘ Read more
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GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services. ⌘ Read more
Prevent the introduction of known vulnerabilities into your code
The new dependency review action and API prevents the introduction of known supply chain vulnerabilities into your code. ⌘ Read more
The “Burn-My-Windows” extension for GNOME is *glorious*
Shattering glass. Star Trek transporter. The “Thanos” Snap. Bring back the glory days of Compiz style effects to your Linux desktop… and then some. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse Openfire plugin 9.1.0-1 released!
Earlier today, version 9.1.0 release 1 of the Openfire inVerse plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party Converse client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 9.1.0!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternat … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.4.0-1 released!
Earlier today, version 4.4.0 release 1 of the Openfire JSXC plugin was released. This plugin allows you to easily deploy the third-party JSXC client in Openfire. In this release, the version of the client that is bundled in the plugin is updated to 4.4.0!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can … ⌘ Read more
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How Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
We want to take away the pain and effort of keeping your code secure, so check out how Dependabot empowers developers to keep to their projects secure. ⌘ Read more
Automating Boston Dynamics Spot Robot - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Message of the Day (MotD) plugin version 1.2.3 released
Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin dir … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.0 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version adds a new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-arc … ⌘ Read more
I built the World War II V2 Rocket Steam Turbine ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Events for April - BBS Game Tournament, Linux Sucks, Hangout
Just some nerdy fun. ⌘ Read more
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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 5, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | On Snap, Flatpak, and Thunderdome-ing your OS ⌘ Read more
Childhood Toys
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Brian Cox & Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain Light Sabers & More ⌘ Read more
Former Ubuntu Snap advocate develops “Unsnap” to help people stop using Snap.
FallOverLaughing.gif. Also StandingOvation.gif. ⌘ Read more
Mozilla responds to Google Chrome version 100 by releasing Firefox version “1,000,000”
“You just got mathed, Google.” ⌘ Read more
4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub. ⌘ Read more
Announcing Lunduke Journal Founding Member subscriptions
Includes some fun perks: Monthly group video chats, and even 1-on-1 chats for the high rollers. ⌘ Read more
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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 4, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Make Linux look like Retro Operating Systems ⌘ Read more
Linguistics Degree
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Miss Winamp? Try Audacious + the Winamp Classic skin.
Works great on both Linux and modern Windows. Really whips the llama’s… well… you know the rest. ⌘ Read more
i remembered i liked structural regular expressions, but re-reading the paper reminds me of how cool they are
Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm ⌘ Read more
ntfy – open source push notifications
In December, I wrote about ntfy.sh: ⌘ Read more
Proactively prevent secret leaks with GitHub Advanced Security secret scanning
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature. ⌘ Read more
Ron Gilbert returns to Monkey Island! New game coming this year!
The original creator of Monkey Island 1 & 2 makes his triumphant return to the series. ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Interoperability in a “Big Tech” world
As an answer to the announce of the EU parliament to force some service
providers to allow others to interact with them, that we call
“interoperability”.
In theory, interoperability is a way to allow different networks to
communicate together. And it’s great, it’s even important for … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 3, 2022
Listen now (41 min) | Elementary OS is dying & Arch for M1 Macs ⌘ Read more
the prayer room ⌘ Read more
Apple Silicon (M1) Mac owners can now say “BTW, I run Arch”
Asahi Linux has released their first alpha version for M1 based Macintosh’s. ⌘ Read more
Emulate a Classic Macintosh… in your web browser. Seriously.
Not a web app that looks like a Mac… but a true, complete classic (68k) Macintosh emulator entirely in a web browser. ⌘ Read more
Elementary OS reduces staff to 1, warns “less features” for next release
Elementary is “just me now”, and has been an “uncool place to work”. ⌘ Read more
rathole - ngrok alternative
Some time ago I tried to make my Nitter instance available on the Internet from home via Tailscale, Caddy and an own building block in between, but stopped it again a short time later because it didn’t work that well somehow. Today I found out about rathole, and what can I say? It works great and seems to be much faster than my previous solution! ⌘ Read more
“Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars” now available for download
For Linux and DOS. Tactical Nukes included. ⌘ Read more
It’s Friday. Here’s 12 funny, nerdy pictures about computers.
Ok. 11 pictures about programming and computers… 1 picture about Ninja Turtles. Because I’m a child. ⌘ Read more
Massive price slashes to Lunduke Journal subscriptions… because inflation sucks
We could all use a leg up. Annual subscriptions now cost less, per month, than a gallon of gas… in 1990. ⌘ Read more
State of The Lunduke Journal - Q1 2022
And a big price drop to both Substack and Locals – to help offset this stupid inflation. ⌘ Read more
Sticky Science: The Force Be With You with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Snow in April?!? 🌨️ ⌘ Read more
Instructions
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/g/ [~subset] re: excel 2.0 ⌘ Read more
60 Minutes Takes Aim at Albo ⌘ Read more
3 tools to make your computer look like it is busy hacking and coding… while doing absolutely nothing.
Because sometimes we all want to be lazy while still looking like a l33t hax0r. ⌘ Read more
My March ‘22 in Review
Now March is also over, the first lockdown turns two, my bachelor’s degree one. Time to look back a bit on the past weeks. ⌘ Read more
Run x86 Windows games…on a Raspberry Pi. Not kidding. It really works.
ARM Linux running x86 Windows games? What sort of crazy Mirror Universe do we live in?! ⌘ Read more
Our Brains on Film: Neurocinematics with Heather Berlin & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Mastodon 3.5 finally supports the Update ActivityPub activity. GoBlog supports sending updates for quite a while already, but only Pleroma showed the updated posts and not Mastodon. That would have been useful recently, when I posted “Spaces!” but wanted to post “Tabs!” and updated my post. 😅 ⌘ Read more
How GitHub does take home technical interviews
We believe our technical interviews should be as similar as possible to the way we work at GitHub. ⌘ Read more
Penkesu Computer - A DIY, Linux-powered palmtop with a mechanical keyboard
And the total cost ain’t too shabby either. ⌘ Read more
Why your life is so boring ⌘ Read more
High Level Languages & the IBM 360 Series - Computerphile ⌘ Read more