A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 28, 2022
Listen now (14 min) | Pay What You Want for “Linux Sucks 2022” and Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more
Awesome Masculinity, Computers, & You
Watch now (53 min) | Be prepared to make manly, grunting noises. ⌘ Read more
The Hunger | ContraPoints ⌘ Read more
“GameShell” interactive game for learning Linux shell commands
Change directories… save the world. ⌘ Read more
**Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e estilos, que olha para a cidade onde nasci.
https://tilde.pt/~marado/blog/lamego-2022—o-antes-e-o-depois.html**
Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e est … ⌘ Read more
“Pay What You Want” for Lunduke Journal – just for Memorial Day Weekend
Want to pay $5 for “Linux Sucks 2022”, a years subscription, and a mountain of extras? Go for it! ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks. Forever.
Watch now (50 min) | (The 2018 edition of “Linux Sucks”) ⌘ Read more
I will be at Southeast Linuxfest 2022 (June 10-12) in Charlotte, NC.
Title says the gist.
In 2018, I went to Southeast Linuxfest and gave a presentation which you can see here or .
It was nice meeting the (shockingly normal) people who knew me from the interest last time.
I’m going to be attending again this year, as the title says Ju … ⌘ Read more
I will be at Southeast Linuxfest 2022 (June 10-12) in Charlotte, NC.
Title says the gist.
In 2018, I went to Southeast Linuxfest and gave a presentation which you can see here or .
It was nice meeting the (shockingly normal) people who knew me from the interest last time.
I’m going to be attending again this year, as the title says Ju … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!
The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more
Concussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Leonard Marshall, & Heather Berlin ⌘ Read more
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′04″W] Reading: 0.88000 PPM
Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
Watch now (51 min) | Yelled at by Gates. Spit on by Ballmer. NT 5, DEC Alphas, Office for Mac, Windows Media Player for Mac, and more. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Revelador como não largam o osso. Como o governo não conseguiu dar a volta ao sensato chumbo do TC, tenta dar a volta e dizer que as operadoras têm de recolher mais dados “pra faturação”
Obv não tem nada a ver com faturação, e isto é +1 jogada rasteira
https://www.publico.pt/2022/05/27/sociedade/noticia/proposta-governo-alarga-metadados-operadoras-podem-guardar-efeitos-facturacao-2007952?ref=hp&cx=stories_cover__important_b–608204**
Revelador como não largam o osso. Como o governo não consegui … ⌘ Read more
Based.Cooking has become more grandma-usable.
Over the past month, I’ve taken some off-time to tinker with
Based.Cooking, the cooking site I/we made a year or so
ago as a proof of concept for a simple and unintrusive recipe website. There
have been over 250 recipes submitted, but the hobbled-together static site
generator originally used proved unable to keep up and with all the
submissions, there was a big issue of content organization.
There have been two big changes. Firstly, I port … ⌘ Read more
Based.Cooking has become more grandma-usable.
Over the past month, I’ve taken some off-time to tinker with
Based.Cooking, the cooking site I/we made a year or so
ago as a proof of concept for a simple and unintrusive recipe website. There
have been over 250 recipes submitted, but the hobbled-together static site
generator originally used proved unable to keep up and with all the
submissions, there was a big issue of content organization.
There have been two big changes. Firstly, I port … ⌘ Read more
sqlite3 fiddle
With all my SQL and SQLite posts, this link is probably also quite interesting: sqlite3 fiddle. ⌘ Read more
npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings. ⌘ Read more
What video games are burned into these CRTs?
Let’s play “Name That Burn-In!” ⌘ Read more
Field Topology
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/5/ i could really use a sabbatical ⌘ Read more
What Now? ⌘ Read more
Identifying the Unknown Soldier with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tim McMahon, & Franklin Damann ⌘ Read more
The Definitive History of Screensavers - Part 1
“The history of screensavers needs multiple parts?” Yes. Yes, it does. ⌘ Read more
Switzerland has some nice and beautiful places! 🇨🇭 ⌘ Read more
They’re Watching You
Watch now (50 min) | (Get your tin-foil hat ready) ⌘ Read more
Founding Members now have full access to all Lunduke Journal sites
No matter which site you subscribe on, Founding Members now get full access on both Substack and Locals. ⌘ Read more
The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All
Watch now (21 min) | (We’re all doomed) ⌘ Read more
I 3D Printed a Water-Cooled Jet Engine in Plastic ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: WombatOAM & the machine learning library
WombatOAM, the powerful operations, monitoring, and maintenance platform has a new machine learning library to assist with metric prediction. Learn about the main features, the algorithms used and how you can benefit from it together with WombatOAM’s new UI from Mohamed Ali Khechine, [Tamás Lengyel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tam%C3%A1s-lengyel-715b7 … ⌘ Read more
Feeling grateful for all of you nerds.
The Lunduke Journal would not be possible without all of you. ⌘ Read more
Funny Programming Pictures Part VI ⌘ Read more
**Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.
Desta vez, o artigo final fala em Software Livre (tema que não é novo nestas páginas, mas sempre bom de ver na imprensa).**
Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.
Desta vez, o artigo final fala em S … ⌘ Read more
Election Wrap-up ⌘ Read more
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt. ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks 2019 - “The Lost Recordings”
Watch now (17 min) | aka “The Great Trainwreck” ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks “For the Last Time” (2017)
Watch now (36 min) | The very last “Linux Sucks”. Ever. (Other than the ones that came after.) ⌘ Read more
Why Information Theory is Important - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open source.
Para aceder:
https://meet.jit.si/SessaoAbertaESOP_26deMaio_OpenSourceEJovensProfissionais
Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open s … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 24, 2022
Listen now (22 min) | The Lost History of Wendin-DOS – The Multitasking, Multi-user MS-DOS clone ⌘ Read more
Voyager Wires
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4.2
As promised earlier, releasing new Gajim versions is now much easier! 🎉 Gajim 1.4.2 comes with better performance and an important bugfix. But there is more! After popular demand, we brought back the calendar for browsing history.
Mainly it’s one bug we fixed in this release. We improved how Gajim manages chat messages it displays to you. Before this improvement, messages would sometimes only show after changing focus or resizing the window. This issue has been fixed.
Afte … ⌘ Read more
Annual Lunduke Journal subscriptions drop to 83 cents / month!
All thanks to the generosity of the Founding Member subscribers to The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more
Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.
Produced by a small team, and lost to the sands of time… until now. ⌘ Read more
Why is the Night Sky Dark? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains… ⌘ Read more
My 3 Desert Island Retro Computers
I’m stuck on a desert island… and can only bring three retro computers with me… ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal adds premium videos
With more on the way! ⌘ Read more
Windows is AWESOME!
Watch now (43 min) | (lol) ⌘ Read more
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′33″W] Reading: 0.34000 PPM
GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away! ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 23, 2022
Listen now (25 min) | Dreaming about MUDs ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「Locked Shields 2022参加記」 ⌘ Read more
The Complete History of Linux (Abridged)
Watch now (40 min) | A 40 minute crash course on Linux history. ⌘ Read more
PEP 693: Python 3.12 Release Schedule
This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.12. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. ⌘ Read more
“Dodecahedron Assemblies was the publication I chose to read on my way to heaven”—apparently Uriel has managed to gain short contact via the Gato agent.
**TRS-80 Model 100 emulator for the DevTerm **
1983 meets 2022. And it is GLORIOUS. ⌘ Read more
programmers_are_evil()
Watch now (41 min) | // curse their frozen hearts ⌘ Read more
My final verdict on NFTs…
I bought NFTs. I sold NFTs. I got annoyed by NFTs. ⌘ Read more
Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021! ⌘ Read more
mprocs: A new way to run multiple shell applications in one shell
With a cool process list. And it works on Linux, Mac, & Windows. ⌘ Read more
“Everything is Normal” Week: May 22 - May 29
“No Freebies” week is canceled. Because it was a dumb idea. ⌘ Read more
**“Candidatei-me e fui eleito para um cargo complicado e difícil, e agora fazer o meu trabalho é difícil e complicado”.
Que mediocridade.**
“Candidatei-me e fui eleito para um cargo complicado e difícil, e agora fazer o meu trabalho é difícil e complicado”.
Que mediocridade.
Labor Wins ⌘ Read more
Goofs
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Remembering MUD1 - The first multiplayer role playing game on the Internet
The roots of all online RPGs date back to 1978… and a PDP-10 computer. ⌘ Read more
Liven up your Linux Shell with random colorful ASCII art
Plus: How to display colorful art whenever you start a new Linux Terminal. ⌘ Read more
** That one time when Buffy the Vampire Slayer maybe saved my life? **
A secret pleasure of mine in high school was getting home before my parents and watching 30 - 60 minutes of TV. I technically wasn’t allowed to do it, but I suspect they new I snuck this time whenever I could.
My favorite show to watch in this secreted me-time was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Of all the episodes 3 have stuck with me the longest — the musical one…because of course…and the a pair of episodes;“I Was … ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: “What about live?”
I got you covered:
https://youtu.be/IlYI4_Iq_wk**
“What about live?”
I got you covered:
⌘ Read more**10 years later, and “Wake Up” is still my ‘go to’ album from @psenough.
Relevant now, as it was a decade ago, these “sounds to awaken the world to a new tomorrow” still resonate, as - it seems - we collectively decided to stay in bed for a while longer.
https://archive.org/details/enrmp300_ps_-_wake_up**
10 years later, and “Wake Up” is still my ‘go to’ album from @psenough.
Relevant now, as it was a decade ago, these “sounds to awaken the world to a new tomorro … ⌘ Read more
Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX (from 1990) ported to Linux
Not a joke. Really happened. The story is fascinating. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal “No Freebies” Week: May 22 - May 29
All articles & podcasts are “Subscriber Only” all week long. ⌘ Read more
Here we go…
Here we go…
“Common Table Expressions in SQL”
I’m currently working in a project that involves a lot of data processing and therefore databases. This means that we often come into contact with SQL at work and have to write an SQL query at least once a day. ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Bem, 1997 foi um ano muito prolífico (o início do “boom” da Internet em Portugal?), e erro se não mencionar também que foi o ano do nascimento do Terràvista.
A @jonasnuts “celebrou” o seu quarto-de-século aqui:
https://jonasnuts.com/25-anos-de-terravista-592111**
Bem, 1997 foi um ano muito prolífico (o início do “boom” da Internet em Portugal?), e erro se não mencionar também que foi o ano do nascimento do Terràvista.
A @jonasnuts “celebrou” o … ⌘ Read more
A thin, flexible 6502 processor has been created!
Like the ones used in the NES, Apple II, and C64… except thin. And flexible. ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (recordo NickServ 1º, depois ChanServ) são de Outubro 1997.
+info: https://student.dei.uc.pt/~rfonseca/historia.html**
Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (rec … ⌘ Read more
I CALL THE SHOTS ⌘ Read more
I have neglected my homepage for a while. But now I have deleted or updated a few pages, like the list with the hardware I use or the list with my self-hosted services. 🧹 ⌘ Read more
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′39″W] Raw reading: 0x6288C632, offset +/-3
📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur
“Typioca” - A terminal-based typing speed tester
A really, really classy looking one. ⌘ Read more
Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
68000 CPU (like the Mac and Amiga) and 4 MB of RAM. All powered by AA batteries. (Seriously.) ⌘ Read more
**Para onde vai parar o dinheiro do 5G em Portugal?
(resposta certa nos comentários)**
Para onde vai parar o dinheiro do 5G em Portugal?
(resposta certa nos comentários) ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.1
Only a week after the release of Gajim 1.4.0, we’re happy to announce Gajim 1.4.1! 🎉 This release brings several fixes for issues you reported to us. Thanks for your feedback!
In order to make it easier to reach us for help, we added a new menu item “Join Support Chat” under “Help”. Clicking it will directly join our support chat at gajim@conference.gajim.org.
While redesigning the message window, we moved message timestamps to the r … ⌘ Read more
What is the Multiverse? | StarTalk 101 ⌘ Read more
LundukeFest Part 2 scheduling update!
Bringing in some backup! ⌘ Read more
Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?
Because it sure ain’t Ada Lovelace. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Notas da Semana 16/05/2022
Metadados (ainda)
Pressão da CE sobre os Estados-Membros na transposição da directiva do copyright
Relatório da IFLA
Livros & Reviews
https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/notas-da-semana-16-05-2022/**
Notas da Semana 16/05/2022
Metadados (ainda)
Pressão da CE sobre os Estados-Membros na transposição da directiva do copyright
Relatório da IFLA
Livros & Reviews
[paulasimoesblog.wordpress.co…](https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/notas … ⌘ Read more