The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - May 12, 2023
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Serenity OS Week Begins at The Lunduke Journal!
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Bye Bye Bye, Substack! Hello, Locals!
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All In for Students 2023 cohort: our biggest group of open source leaders yet!
The second cohort of All In for Students has graduated! With a cohort 12 times as large as the pilot, learn about how this group of college students is leaning into the future of technology. ⌘ Read more
This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress
Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials. ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, & the Coming Code Apocalypse
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There is a “right” way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though I’m pretty certain it will not be.
Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a “public” version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, “leasing”, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if that’s something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliers–the people who create the code that makes their tool possible–instead of simply stealing what they need and pretending that’s fine.
This era we’re living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other people’s work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoft’s actions in this instace are creating for everyone.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also think it is best called fake. Art is created by human beings, for human beings. It mediates a relationship between two people, and is a means of expression.
A computer has no inner life, no feelings, no experience of the world. It is not sentient. It has no life. There’s nothing “in” there for it to express. It’s just generating pixels in patterns we’ve learned to recognize. These AI technologies are carefully crafted to fool people into experiencing the things they experience when they look at human-made art, but it is an empty experience.
Mozilla, OSI, & the memory-holing of Computer History
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@abucci@anthony.buc.ci that is an ironic example. Since the inventor of the seatbelt gave rights to use the technology freely.
The future of Linux as a gaming platform
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Low-tech Magazine: The Comic
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The Linux Software Store War Rages On
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The Lunduke Journal of Technology Monthly PDF Magazine - February, 2023
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On my blog: Commenting Code https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/05/comments.html #rant #technology
Lunduke’s BSD Thoughts (as BSD Week ends)
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On Lunduke’s New Radio Show (and how awesome it is)
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Linux is the new “It Just Works” OS
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On my blog: Five Phases of AI Grief https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/26/ai-grief.html #rant #technology
Lunduke tries FreeBSD… and it doesn’t totally suck!
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UNIX is Everywhere
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BSD Week Extended by an Extra Week!
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OpenBSD, HelloSystem, and BSD Rabbit Holes
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386BSD hates me (& NetBSD does too)
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BSD Week begins at The Lunduke Journal of Technology!
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The inside story of how Microsoft Office was ported to the first MacOS X
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The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Feb 7, 2023
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166 pages of extreme, DRM-Free nerdiness
The Lunduke Journal of Technology PDF magazine for January, 2023 is now available. ⌘ Read more
The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index. ⌘ Read more
What will computer technology be like in 15 years?
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A census for computer nerds!
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You get a layoff! And you get a layoff!
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Ask Lunduke Anything! (As long as it’s nerdy.)
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Announcing the second publication in The Lunduke Journal family.
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Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire!
We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.
I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.
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Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist
There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.
This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep … ⌘ Read more
GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology. ⌘ Read more
What if We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows?
The bicycle and the bow are both highly efficient, human-powered technologies that could substitute for two very harmful alternatives: the car and the firearm. Why do we promote one but not the other? ⌘ Read more
Understanding the social impact of open source technologies
Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good. ⌘ Read more
How to Use the Node Docker Official Image
Topping Stack Overflow’s 2022 list of most popular web frameworks and technologies, Node.js continues to grow as a critical MERN stack component. And since Node applications are written in JavaScript — the world’s leading programming language — many developers will feel right at home using it. We introduced the Node Docker Official Image (DOI) due […] ⌘ Read more
Protecting Internal Web Resources
BackgroundTL;DR: This blog post is a write-up of the process I went through to setup a set of internal web resources and apps for a small company I am running in my spare time ( providing a Single-Sign-On / SSO experience for internal users with web applications protected by flexible access policies including single and multi-factor authentication / two-factor authentication or 2FA).
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Erlang Solutions: Pair Programming
As a junior software developer, finding the right tools and techniques to help you learn a new language or technology can make a huge difference. While spending the last few months learning Erlang and Elixir, one of the techniques that I have found really helpful is pair programming.
I will be breaking down the concept of pair programming and my experiences with it so far, including the benefits and different ways of utilizing this programming style.
**What is pair progra … ⌘ Read moreWhy we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That’s why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We’re committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, … ⌘ Read more
Four Ways Docker Boosts Enterprise Software Development
David Balakirev, Regional CTO at Adnovum, describes how they show the benefits of container technology based on Docker. ⌘ Read more
Containerizing a Slack Clone App Built with the MERN Stack
The MERN Stack is a fast growing, open source JavaScript stack that’s gained huge momentum among today’s web developers. MERN is a diverse collection of robust technologies (namely, Mongo, Express, React, and Node) for developing scalable web applications — supported by frontend, backend, and database components. Node, Express, and React even ranked highly among most-popular […] ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · August 2022 Edition
We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center. These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this August. Read more about these projects in […] ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How Can Technology Answer the Questions Still Unanswered in FinTech?
Leaders in the fintech industry joined us to discuss how technology can answer the remaining questions in fintech. They explored key technologies shaping the sector that could also have an impact on society as a whole. Join our panel moderated by Andrew Vorster (Innovation Catalyst) featuring Jacky Uys (Mambu … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · July 2022 Edition
While some of us have been wrapping up the financial year, and enjoying vacation time, others have been hard at work shipping open source projects and releases. These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this July. […] ⌘ Read more