Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. We were using the the phrase open source in 1987 when I first started using the internet and it had been around as part of the BASIC homebrew community for at least a decade prior. Edit: All of this fails to understand that the US patent office is not the whole thing. A trademark needs to be registered with WIPO to really be enforceable in the internet age, ironically since 1995. US based only, only applies to and is only enforceable inside yankville.
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  2. I know you only cover tech, but this issue isn't just tech. This is* across all industries that hold respect, power, or both in the community.
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  3. Some teenagers have started flaming some people who take themselves too seriously for luls. And they overreact as the teens expected. Amazing.
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  4. 18:23 The three words that doom any distro to obscurity. "It's power user".
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  5. Not if destroying the project is the goal.
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  6. Their new chair of AI comes from an organisation that was confirmed receiving USAID funding.
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  7. I hope they do vote to keep DEI. Apple should have gone bankrupt in the 90s. They destroyed innovation by not going bankrupt earlier. Going bankrupt now from lawsuits over DEI would be a consolation that helps return innovation to the market.
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  8. 9:13 The King of Saudi is the King. The Crown Prince of Saudi will be his successor. He takes some duties, but is not in charge yet, he must have approval from his father, the King. 11:28 Bezos isn't the world's richest man. Neither is Elon. The Crown Prince of Saudi is a Crown Prince, the treasury of Saudi is his bank account. He's worth $1.4T, more than 4 times the net worth of Bezos. You didn't think it was weird those Forbes and Bloomberg rich lists were all people from your country? None of those people are even in the top 20 globally. You don't hear about the world's richest people.
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  9. By the criteria of the list yankville have made, that would make all US big tech AND the Linux Foundation, Yankvillian military companies. That is re-tar-ded. Yankvillian anticompetitive practices are insane. Anyway, can't the Linux Foundation just move its incorporation out of yankville and not have to comply with this craziness anymore? That seems like the easiest path ...
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  10. I truly loath Win 11, it's an* odd year release so it's garbage like ME, Vista or Win 8. I despise that there isn't an overlap this time with support for Win 10 until we get to Win 12. Notepad shouldn't have tabs or spellcheck let alone anything worth paying for. Notepad should just be a lightweight text editor that performs the basic function of displaying user input text. That's it, nothing else.
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  11. Omg. Omg. Omg. This has made my day. Thank you mate. Could we also get the flame wars of bbs? From back before 94 when the internet was all male so it was actually fun.
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  12. The problem Bryan is that you think of this in terms of just an isolated hiring practice. But it's not. You take it at face value in the present instead of understanding the end goal. This is socialism. Not as hyperbole. It's socialism as in actual socialism. As in an active, coordinated attempt to push socialism. That's what ESG, actually is. That's what DEI, actually is. That's why word policing takes place. That's why they want to get rid of merit. That's why you need to agree with "the message" or you are excluded and punished socially. Equity is socialism, it's a means to push everyone to the bottom, so only the elites stand out. The elites aren't the producers, they're the people who impress glorious leader the most with their dedication to the cause. It's all in there Bryan. It is literally socialism. It needs to be called out for what it is. A socialist Coup d'état
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  13. I have a third prediction for you. That welcoming attitude will be the downfall of the project. It's what will turn it woke. I predict that because you've just created an environment where it is put on a bunch of people's radar, a bunch of the people who flood into the project will be subversives. They'll hide amongst all the other normal users. Over the next 6 months they'll engineer scenarios that see good people banned from the project. Over the next 12 months, they'll engineer scenarios that see key people ousted from the project, and that see subversives take their place. Within the next 18 months, I predict we'll see it go the same way as Debian. It won't have with open mandrake because those guys aren't neutral. They're anti-woke so it colours their vision differently. But Devuan is neutral and welcoming, and when the socialists have a coordinated attempt to take things over that stance is a weakness.
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  14. Same thing. If you go after DEI, you by default must also impact H1B.
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  15. @kamu38  What you should note is that it isn't in industries that do not hold respect, power or both in the community. It's almost as if this* isn't driven by the industries or institutions themselves, but instead by a selection of cohorts who are trying to take control, and once captured companies fall into line.
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  16. Iconic? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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  17. I agree, linux sucks. It will keep sucking until someone can make money from it so they can hire full-time staff to make polished, user-friendly, fool proof software, that just works, and is good enough to attract developers of things people actually want to use. When Linux becomes more like Windows, and MacOS and Android, and less like Linux, it will stop sucking. I don't care how much that hurts anyone's feels. Reality is reality. Linux is great if you're a nerd or you need to run massive corporate server infrastructure. But for ordinary users, it sucks.
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  18. When you hire people based on traits, at the expense of merit and productivity, you don't only have a higher chance of acquiring low performers. You are also incentivising those who would otherwise have been medium performers, to be low performers. They didn't need to earn the job, and there is no real risk to them of being fired regardless of how little they perform. So they're going to stack slacking, and slacking, and slacking, until they become low performers who do basically nothing but get a pay cheque. I expect the first round of lay offs to be the meta "product managers" who go on tiktok and do those day in the life videos where they just eat all day, mess around and do no actual work. Those women documented their low performance publicly.
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  19. 🙋‍♂️ I was one of the 12% who believed MacOS shared history with Linux through unix/BSD.
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  20. Sorry to double comment, but I just wanted you to know bryan that I through the last episode on this topic into audition, clipped out the part were you read the message, added some effects and set it as my new mail notification sound. "Ok, I'm just going to read it, this isn't me, I'm just reading what it says... N****r balls" Now I get a chuckle every time I get new emails. I'm glad you toned the nerd stuff down, so I'll subscribe via substack or locals.
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  21. This stops when these companies get sued for discrimination on the basis of race.
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  22. I love the lunduke journal. I watch every episode you put out. I like your episodes, I share them. I comment on them. But Bryan, I'm not a nerd, and I genuinely feel insulted when you call me one by way of claiming everyone watching is one. Genuinely insulted and it's what is stopping me from purchasing a subscription. I really want to subscribe, but you gotta stop calling me a nerd. You can call yourself one. You can reference your audience as one, but can you just also acknowledge that some of your audience aren't nerds and just want good quality industry journalism?
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  23. @ferrumignis  I was talking about this specific thread. It happens several times a day for me. I don't even say anything controversial. It's very weird.
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  24. Truth isn't created.
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  25. As anyone who has run a server with unsecured, open messaging services knows, you get flamers, you get bots, you get strange messages, and they can impact the whole server. Here's what I think happened. Codebergs has a novice webmin who is also a socialist and engaged in those circles. A teenager came along and either manually or with a bot thought it would be funny to flame them with the message. The webmin saw normal site traffic behaviour and thought it was an attack They became melodramatic as socialists often do, and made large claims because to a hammer everything is a nail. Some of the webmins socialist friends picked up on the melodrama and go in. Seeing the support, the webmin then turned it into a marketing campaign to profit. I humbly suggest this started as naivety (as socialists usually are), turned into melodrama (as socialists often create) and then morphed into self enrichment (as socialism always does).
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  26. @Omnifarious0  It's also worth noting in case I wasn't obviously in my previous comment when I mentioned public domain, that the real point of these licences is that copyright is never withdrawn. They remain proprietary and the original copyright holder is free to vary, modify or outright withdraw their licencing at any point. Linus for example could decide that you need to pay him a fee to use the Linux kernal. That's something I expect will happen once he passes copyright on. Or he could just make the linux kernal closed source and proprietary only for use on official sanctioned linux builds similar to to how windows or macos operate and such a decision would be retrospective so no existing distro would be legal unless he said so. Google could do the same with chorium. Any dev who uses such a licence for original software could do that. The only real open, free software is software in the public domain. Once something is in the public domain it has no ownership and is free for everyone to do what they wish with including modification and redistribution without the need for any kind of licence whatsoever.
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  27. Elon is back to showing his true colours. Elon doesn't want H-1B for some patriotic reason. He wants it because it drives down wages, it drives down overall business costs and the sponsor to hold the visa holder hostage if they want to remain in yankville. It's a magnate being a magnate and acting exclusively in his own interests without considering the interests of the people and the country. You really want someone like that in charge of government spending? Elon is a barnum style fellow who belongs in federal prison, not in federal government
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  28. He would convince you that DEI is the greatest thing in the world and make it popular.
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  29. If only we had a word to describe someone who is enthusiastic about CP. Hmmmm If only being enthusiastic about CP was a crime.. oh wait it is. Pedos belong in prisons, and what their opinions on tech conferences are is irrelevant.
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  30. 24:20 I am very technical. I am not a nerd. I was an athlete. I view nerd as a derogatory put down still and always will. Please do not call me a nerd. From my perspective a lot of what is happening is essentially the plot of the movie "revenge of the nerds". To fix things we need to put nerds back in their place towards the bottom of the social hierarchy. That's what trump is doing. That's why suddenly Zuckerberg is trying to be masculine. Jocks are coming back baby.
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  31. 26% funding loss for a small project like this with no further spills won't really hurt them. They might need to make some full time people, part time or casual, but the project will keep going and doing its little niche thing. This isn't really an example of go woke, go broke. The donators didn't choose to stop donating, the project decided they didn't want their money. Guess they calculated the loss in advance.
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  32. LMG has been a woke socialist company for years now. I have all of their channels blocked on youtube because I don't want to support ideologues. Same goes for L1 Tech and a bunch of similar large tech channels. They all push the wokey socialist narrative. Linus personally has stated in videos that he believes in the racism to equality argument. Just stop watching. Let LMG fall apart. Be more conscious of woke creators and stop watching them too. If we make having these views publicly an instant go broke moment then they will stop being repeated ad nausium.
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  33. 25:02 That's why you're banned. That's why people who ask questions and don't want to go down that path are banned. You want the project to succeed, and they want to burn it all down. They want to actively cause it to fail. They want to actively cause all the systems and institutions of civilisation to fail. That's the entire point. That's phase one of any socialist agenda. The only way to stop them is to inoculate society against their subversion. That means helping people to understand what the socialists are really upto and what their agenda is. That's how we get back to normal.
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  34. I think you're right about everything you said, except what you said about Brave. They said "a seat with any meaningful standing" for free. For the linux foundation that sounds about right. Brave holds 0.05% market share. They get lumped in with "other". But the back-up plan for Chrome so they can retain control, yeah I completely expect that's the case. I just doubt it will need to be used. It has to exist as a just in case, I just think it's more likely than not based on past monopoly hearings for big tech, that this all shakes out closer to a slap on the wrist with no meaningful change than not.
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  35. @Rope257  At least you only got shadow banned. I posted a comment which yt have deleted but been good enough to still keep giving me notifications for the thread anyway.
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  36. The company does not want to be in the PC business. They also don't want to be in the iOS device because. They want to be in the fashion business. They've wanted to be in the fashion business for many years, including while steve was alive. It's why they dropped computer from the name. Switching from a PC company to a fashion company is what saved Apple and not only kept them afloat but made them relevant. Relevant in a way they had never been at any point before that. For everything Bryan is talking about as "mac-like", it only led to Apple circling the drain. That's why the future of mac, isn't a mac.
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  37. @Majiger  Man, I put in all that effort replying to you and youtube deleted it.
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  38. I hope you have gone to the police with these clear and obvious threats/incitement to violence. I hope you pursue it to the full extent of the law and seek to have them experience the consequences of their actions. The irony of socialists who have invented the term "minor attracted" and are attempting to normalise it, trying to use it in a libellous way. What a joke
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  39. I miss netscape.
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  40. The wokey socialists didn't just turn up Monday and kick everyone out Tuesday. They're all long term contributors. FAOS has always been full of socialists because the entire idea of FAOS is in line with socialism. Those people just got emboldened.
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  41. I hear what you're saying and I still think you're right about them planning for a worst possible outcome. However, I remain unconvinced that such a worst possible outcome will actually happen. They have a duty of care to shareholders to plan for the worst. I do not buy the argument about them not planning for a good outcome as some kind of evidence they don't think that's the most likely outcome. Firstly, no one needs to plan for a slap on the wrist, and secondly even if such planning were taking place we wouldn't see it. That wouldn't be general knowledge around google campuses. It would be a very selective group of people in the c suite and legal, who know the whole thing. People who will not talk about it even if you're their best friend who does a journalist podcast. If we look at the details of the Microsoft case and the Google case they are ridiculously similar. They even had similar set ups in court transcripts. But you also have a new administration taking office in 5 days. That includes a new DOJ. The Trump administration is stacked with monopolists. Some of which have their own antitrust cases coming down the pipe. You really think they're going to let this Google case buck the trend and create new precedent that puts them at greater risk? I don't buy it for a moment. I'd also like to point out that if you and I can see with transparency what Google is doing as their backup plan, then prosecutors and judges can too. So if they were really trying to nail Google to the wall, this back up plan wouldn't work the judge would order the sale of Chrome to an entity google has no involvement with. That you acknowledge this back up plan might work, is an acknowledgement that the courts are willing to overlook transparently obvious things and aren't really going after Google that hard. And if that's the case, a fine instead becomes much more likely. I have a long history of getting these kinds of predictions right too. Maybe I'm wrong this time, maybe you are. Time will tell.
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  42. 17:50 That is a he, not a she. Microsoft are going down a path of self-destruction. Many corporations will drop them when all this woke stuff goes away.
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  43. 5:30 That list sounds like it's directed at preschool children. 10:19 He is saying that if he gets called out for saying wacko things, that is violence that he will experience because he will feel bad about his ideas. He won't change his ideas, but he'll feel less included so that's violence.
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  44.  @magnum333  Of course it is.
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  45. This is very simple. Any project with "libre" in the name is 9 times out of 10 going to be woke. Also, any project that has messaging about "freedom" and "privacy" is also 9 times out of 10 going to be woke. These have become far left socialist dog whistles. Also, people who base their ideology of software around the concept that all software should be free and without real ownership, is already 3/4 of the way to socialism. So when such projects turn far left socialist, it is not in the least bit surprising. What we need is for profit, paid software that focuses on privacy. That's what we need. Then they have a financial incentive to not go off the rails.
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  46. Palaver is pronounced PAH-LAH-VAH. I would completely support a return to Netscape in name, spirit and ideology.
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  47. Be a zelenskyy? So he wants us to violently overthrow government and become a puppet dictator?
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  48. @elkneto4334  🥱
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  49. It's weird that you separate out woke and DEI as if they're different things. It's also unhelpful that you use these code words, like woke, like far left, but never seem to acknowledge what they mean. They mean socialism. These are socialists. 19:37 You are talking as if it's obvious that Debian want to succeed. That socialist tech journalists want Debian to succeed. That their goal is to grow their distribution. But that's not how socialists think. Yes, they're watching as SUSE and Debian burn to the ground. But they're cheering as it does. Just like they cheered when Malibu burned years ago and they're cheering now as Palisades burns. It's deliberate. There are many in the far left writing and talking about it. Burning down the large institutions is a core tenant of socialism. It's their first step to their so called utopia, which is our dystopia. It's their dystopia too they just haven't clocked on yet. But listen, if you genuinely thought socialism could create a lollipop world where everyone was happy all the time, no one suffered, everyone got along, everyone lived in luxury, no one had to work if they didn't want to, etc, etc. If you had no grounding in practical reality or maths, so you genuinely believed that was possible and was something your ideology could create, and people opposed it, you wouldn't like those people much either. You'd probably think those people were the worst people too. So you can't try to appeal to their practicality or common sense in order to stop kicking people out of their projects who disagree with them. Not only do they genuinely believe the people they kick out are awful people for standing in the way of their utopia, but Debian also is part of the system they view as the problem so it has to be turned to ash so that utopia can be built upon it.
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  50. @jtjames79  I was around during Unix. What you're saying is what I believed, however apparently that isn't true. What is true? No idea, Bryan didn't say.
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