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Tech Journalism with zero ads, & zero Big Tech influence. We cover the Big Tech stories that other publications are afraid to touch.

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The Lunduke Journal publishes to over a dozen different platforms: Audio Podcast RSS feed, Substack, X, Rumble, Locals, YouTube, Patreon, TikTok, Itch, iTunes, Spotify, Fountain, & even Facebook. Every single one is laser focused on nothing but original Tech News reporting and investigative Tech Journalism. Nothing else. With the exception of here on X. On X I publish all of the same Tech News as everywhere else… plus thoughts on any number of topics (from religion to politics to video games to movies). Pick whichever platform works best for you: lunduke.com
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Bun Re-Written in Rust Using AI The entire Bun Javascript runtime (over 1 Million lines of code) has been re-written in Rust... using Al. What could possibly go wrong? More from The Lunduke Journal: lunduke.com
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“There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers.” This coming from @NYMag, which has 1.6 Million @X followers.. yet struggles to get more than a couple Likes on posts. With 0 (zero) likes being the most common on NyMag posts. Would @NYMag consider that “catastrophically small”?
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There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan. Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts. “If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.” Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV
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Bun has been ported to Rust entirely using AI. And, as many on this wide, weird Intertube of ours have surmised, I do, indeed, find this amusing. Because many of you have asked (or hypothesized) here are Lunduke’s thoughts: 1) Not terribly interested in Bun. It’s an overhyped NodeJS clone with a bathtub and kitchen sink thrown in. I don’t hate it, but I don’t use it and consider it bloated. 2) It’s unsurprising that it was re-written using AI. It is, after all, owned by @AnthropicAI. Doing this “AI Re-write” is a good marketing stunt for them. 3) It’s also unsurprising that they chose Rust for the AI re-write. Rust is, like Bun (and Anthropic, in general), overhyped. Overhype X 3 = Marketing idea that management can’t say “no” to. 4) There will, almost assuredly, be both positives and negatives for rewriting Bun in Rust with AI. 5) If I used Bun in production… I would be *very* hesitant to use this re-write any time soon. Give it a year or two to work out kinks before moving away from the non-Rust version.
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Reality: An Italian-Canadian named Rocco (and his Arab-Canadian business partner) pushes for Age Verification in Operating Systems. Retards on the Internet: THA JOOZ DID IT!!
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Senator @BernieSanders (with support from @AOC) has introduced a bill to stop ALL construction on data centers which have anything to do with AI. This would include both new construction and upgrades on potentially thousands of data centers across the USA. This Senate Bill (4214) is literally called the "Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act". As of now there is no House version of the bill. congress.gov/bill/119th-con…
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4 Million! Those are some serious numbers! Well done to the Zorin OS crew! Also worth noting that @ZorinOS is not implementing Age Verification features. github.com/BryanLunduke/D…
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Something big just happened: Zorin OS 18 reached 4 million downloads today 🎉 What's even more exciting is that more than 3 in 4 of those came from Windows users. It's a clear sign that more people than ever are looking for alternatives to Big Tech and finding a better one. To everyone who downloaded, spread the word, or simply believed in what we're building: this milestone belongs to you as much as it does to us. Thank you for helping to make this our biggest release ever!

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What "tribe" owns the porn company which is pushing Age Verification at the Operating System level in Canada? The owner is an Italian Canadian named Rocco Meliambro. The managing partner (who runs day to day opeartions) is an Arab Canadian named Fady Mansour. Those are the two top people in that company. But, honestly, I can't see how any of that matters here. Their motivation is clearly business (shifting the Age Verification burdens away from their company).

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Who's driving Age Verification in Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, etc.)? In the USA, it's Facebook. In Canada, it's... a porn company. Seriously.
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What "tribe" owns the porn company which is pushing Age Verification at the Operating System level in Canada? The owner is an Italian Canadian named Rocco Meliambro. The managing partner (who runs day to day opeartions) is an Arab Canadian named Fady Mansour. Those are the two top people in that company. But, honestly, I can't see how any of that matters here. Their motivation is clearly business (shifting the Age Verification burdens away from their company).
☦️Charles MacDonald III🇮🇪@notmyaccount996

@LundukeJournal What tribe owns that porn company?

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Big Tech almost completely controls Tech Journalism. Check out this ridiculous "article" from @ZDNET: "Red Hat Desktop vs. Fedora Hummingbird: Which AI development Linux path is right for you?" zdnet.com/article/red-ha… It reads like someone took a Red Hat press release (along with some quickly written advertising copy) and fed it into ChatGPT with the prompt, "Make a fake article out of this that will convince people to buy something from Red Hat". This is par for the course from ZDNET: Advertisements pretending to be articles. And, at the same time, ZDNET has refused to cover any of the *real* Tech News that is critical of the companies which pay their bills. And ZDNET is not alone. We could be making the same criticism of nearly every "Big Tech Journalist" website out there.
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openSUSE Linux Bans Teenagers. Seriously. The Linux distro has changed their "Terms of site" to specifically forbid users under "16 years of age or the age of majority" from using any websites or servers.
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Eric S Raymond says, “The age of hand-coding is mostly over.”
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“Remember when the whole industry walked on eggshells for years because a small group of radicals made it clear they would go after your job if you disagreed with them? That was weird!” It’s true. It’s very weird. What’s even weirder… is that it’s still happening. In force. Big Tech companies, Tech Foundations, and Open Source organizations, far and wide, continue to actively engage in extreme political activism… including threats against any who dare to disagree with them. Despite this… you can count the number of Tech Journalists who are actively covering the problem… on 1/5th of one hand. The same Tech Journalist, as it so happens, who has been covering the situation for years (despite repeated threats from Tech Foundations and Journalists). Only a *very* small number of prominent developers have spoken out against the insanity of those “radicals”. The remainder of the industry remains firmly in the “walking on eggshells out of fear” category.
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Remember when the whole industry walked on eggshells for years because a small group of radicals made it clear they would go after your job if you disagreed with them? That was weird!

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The Islamic Terrorist organization, 313 Team, is claiming responsibility for downtime reported by @Spotify. Earlier today, the Iran & Palestinian aligned Islamists claimed responsibility for a short-lived DDoS attack on @wordpressdotcom servers. In a statement published in both Arabic and English, the terrorist organization stated: “Connections to Spotify servers have stopped due to a massive attack carried out by the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq - 313 Team. As promised, the hand of revenge will reach the killers of Imam Khamenei.”
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The Islamic Terrorist group, "313 Team", has launched a DDoS attack on @wordpressdotcom systems. As of this writing Wordpress.com services appear to be going up and down (including the main website and user authentication). The Iran & Palestinian aligned, anti-American terrorist organization had previously launched, nearly identical, Denial of Service attacks against Ubuntu, Microsoft, eBay, Goodreads, & BlueSky. According to 313 Team, their motivation is to be "the hand of vengeance" and to "strike the killers of Imam Khamenei". The Islamic group has stated that they specifically "target major American corporations".
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