Comments by "David Goodnow" (@davidgoodnow269) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. I would bet, not good money, but freedom from incarceration, that the AI Moderation is done by an "independent" contractor granted unrestricted access to Telegram, and that contractor will also accept contracts for services to governments -- thereby avoiding the whole process of subpoena and due process, and that is why the Telegram terms of service are changed thusly!
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  2. I don't think Debian has UEFI support, but I haven't kept up. But UEFI is itself an open vulnerability that is only patched by use of TPM, and TPM 2 is required for Windows specifically because TPM 1 has consistently been broken within days of each iteration. I haven't read anything public about TPM 2 being broken yet, but my cursory analysis of it found five obvious breaks and two backdoors in the one TPM 2 module I have had access to. Apple's pre-Intel implementation of Open Firmware was far more successful . . . and there's a blatant reason that Apple moved to make its own silicon . . . any Intel Mac is a hard pass, but so is using any form of biometric security, so options are limited.
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  3. The "why the legal ramifications exist" is politics. The legal ramifications are entirely a legal thing. Courts of Law, "a Nation of Law" don't do justice or decency, and certainly are not ethical, because they are the opposite of those concepts.
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  4. Are we forgetting that, after adoption and implementing the Secure Shell Hardening (O.K., I am forgetting the actual name) created by the NSA as part of the SecureLinux distro, once it was accepted into the common standard, the NSA implementated a series of updates and changes that were also accepted . . . that turned out to PERMANENTLY AND IRREVERSIBLY compromise ALL Linux distributions? Code so deep, with so much tacked on, that ALL LINUX DEVS gave up on ever going back to pre-"Secure" Linux and rebuilding from there?
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  5. ​ @RanCham727  But you specifically pointed to bread. My family were farmers. What he wrote about subsidies is true, but didn't used to be. Throughout the Cold War, governments bought excess crops -- contracting the plantings to insure there would be a surplus. The grain was stored in government granaries -- which is why so many grain silos are abandoned now -- for three years. Grain looses its nutritional value over time, even if well-stored, unless it's canned air-tight and preferably nitrogen-sealed, so that surplus left over from filling out demand in years of storm or draught, was shipped off as U.S. A.I.D.; and if they had to dig deeper than the rollover year's harvest, they could. But since the end of the Cold War, farmers are paid to keep their lands unproductive. I have known farms that have sat barren for 7-10 years or more! (It's been a while since I passed that way.) Often, a family farm is bought by an agribusiness and, if possible, left fallow for years. Sometimes this is getting that government money that the deceased farmer was getting -- the government likes to keep all their paperwork unchanged -- and other times it's a tax write-off as "conservation."
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  6. My dad had that desk in brown with matching chair, I miss them!
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  7. Mint is my go-to for usability when introducing people to Linux for about a decade. But I also like Endless OS, specifically for educational purposes. Full versions in three languages only, 20+ GB download, install to a drive and that drive will boot and run on almost any hardware built since 2010; very good support response for any lack of functionality you find, becoming increasingly NON-woke at the management level, but sometimes doesn't support the very latest hardware (until people report issues). Full version includes an astonishing array of programs and a pretty comprehensive encyclopedia (15 GB is just encyclopedias grouped by subjects). Backup and cloning is its weakness; you can only back-up user files and documents, the core OS and files and all programs are encrypted to prevent alteration. All apps are Flat packs, which means updates are bulky. Did I mention that the drive will boot and run on almost ANY computer you move it to, with no recompile or alterations? FANTASTIC for troubleshooting!
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  8. Dude. I compiled a custom Linux kernel specifically for doing digital audio work in 2001. Wah harder.
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  9.  @toby2581  I had just bought a magazine with the installation disk to start with Linux two weeks before. I found out what was causing the problems, learned about what I would need to do to fix it, and my boss let me print out the entire kernel man file on a printer at work. I used that to figure out what options I needed to set, and how. Refusing to use your brain is a you problem!
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  10. ​​ @NotMarkKnopfler  Now I am whistling Sinner. !
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  11. ​ @xgui4-studio  If you want recent, I suspect Arch or Slack is the only real choice. Possibly running Enlightenment as the desktop, or KDE. Arch + Enlightenment for the Righteous, and Slack + KDE for the Centric? OpenBSD and the other BSD got maimed when the whatsisname Revelations broke, and hasn't recovered; all of the Reveals about Linux being compromised at unfixable levels has simply been ignored by users, since developers can't do anything about it, so I expect 2025 is when all personal computers that aren't running unmodified Windows 11 are banned and ordered scrapped
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  12. It's a built-in option to the Linux version of Brave web browser, which is also built on Chrome/Chromium. Right-click on the icon, and you get options for Private mode and Private with TOR. Run a VPN, too, and host your own VPN as well, if you want to VPN to Onion routing to your off-site VPN, so that you aren't exposed to the Onion routers.
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  13. What about GreyJay, then, as a YouTube substitute?
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  14.  @sdrc92126  It's the presumptiousness that someone else thinks they know, or should control, what I know or when I know it.
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  15. You can think that, and you may be able to say that, but the U.S. government vehemently disagrees. There are warning signs posted about photography written and still enforced referencing Executive Orders by President Eisenhower!
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  16. It won't become an AI Empire, no-way no-how. What the telemetry gives Mozilla is something it can market to bring in money for HQ raises.
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  17.  @belstar1128  It was made by Indians, but for the past several years a lot of the devs are in South America, and quite a few in Central America. I don't know how many are North American or European, but English, French, and Spanish are the languages of the full version. I think English is because it is a major unifying language, still, in India -- India has six major regional languages, hundreds of dialects, and requires every student to learn four of its six major languages -- and French seems to be because it is such a major trade language, while Spanish is both a major trade language and the language common in Central and South America, the Philippine Islands and Pacific; there are many languages that Endless OS comes in, but those three are the ones that have a "full version" available. I'll warn you that Endless definitely fits the typical Linux distribution cycle: x.x.0 always have something significant broken, x.x.1 works admirablely, x.x.2 fix little glitches and add features, and x.x.3 breaks stuff, driving the creation of a new x.x.0!
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  18. LOOOOONG story, goes back to Edward Snowden, so read what he posted about it and then learn the fallout from that.
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  19. Yeah, I was an EFF member for a decade or two . . . and then, when I tried to arrange for the police department to receive training from EFF on the current legally-approved ways for gaining electronic evidence, I found out that cops believe they have cause to believe that anyone who works in the EFF org is probably a sex offender!
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  20. ​ @Animal_lives_matter  Not so I have ever noticed, no.
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  21. I remember some great games but serious limitations to the Unreal Engine, played a lot of UFO: AI 15-17 years ago! The big one was non-destructable objects, like walls, since UFO: Alien Invasion was modeled on UFO: [something] Defense, a DOS/early Windows game.
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  22. Linux accounting software has been around for more than a decade, GnuCash was certified by the tax authority in Britain in 2006 and exports to Quicken/QuickBooks if that's what your accountant needs. Or, you can just print out the tax forms you need and run queries in GnuCash to fill in the blanks. That it isn't some kind of certified global standard doesn't change the fact that it has been doing the accounting books correctly for nearly twenty years, and accounting methods do have to meet a certified global standard!
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  23. Never heard of it. But I have been using AbiWord for more than two decades.
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  24. Maybe . . . this is where Congress is going, with making public and then forming "public-private partnerships to develop U.A.P./'alien' samples, knowledge, and research"? (Quoting from recent discussions in the House Committee on U.A.P.s held outside of Congress -- in television interviews.)
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  25. This fits with the destruction of The Internet Archive being an inside job, across the board . . . no pun necessarily intended. Copying books that are still in copyright and publishing the e-book versions was unwise. But then lockdowns, and lots of stupid behaviors, with people jamming to, "Breaking the Law, breaking the law, duh dun nun nun na, na na na," and someone at TIA . . . decided to flagragntly violate the cause for winning the prior cases brought against The Internet Archive by publishers! Now, with this mess, who is going to donate to The Internet Archive to bail them out of their troubles? This is all about destruction of The Internet Archive because it was the Internet Archive! There is no replacement!
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  26. I remember that raid! I supported EFF from founding, until a cop freaked out when I offered to arrange training in warrant and evidence collection from them, and got an earful about all the pedos and slave-traders involved with them!
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  27. ​ @xpusostomos The judges of a circuit decide whether to join cases, and it is a decision made by a vote of all judges of that circuit. Sometimes, judges on a circuit will campaign to time that vote and which way it will go, before bringing it to a vote. See the 9th Federal Circuit.
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  28. Someone at the Internet Archive sabotaged The Internet Archive, because those things were absolutely knowably, common sense, illegal, immoral, and unethical. RIP Internet Archive! You existed to preserve, and some shitheaded asswipe fucked us all!
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  29. P III-733?
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  30.  @JonBrase  Nice!
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  31. Funny that this is the first time I have heard of this. I guess there were just so much weird, mentally corrupt and evil thinking going on back then, and of course, still is -- simply due to empire building by people who need an excuse for their job and budget!
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  32. Berkeley UNIX license? It's been a long time since I read it, and I don't recall the dates.
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  33. Those sound interesting. Mozilla used to have a lot of interesting and useful projects that it has since dropped. I like Midori, which is its own browser project, but it takes getting used-to!
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  34. I don't disagree, but that simply isn't how the government works. A great deal of government spending -- from local to federal -- is through grants. Those can quickly become very corrupt, because a grant is granted by a Board of Review, which is often its own oversight, and audit is limited to making slightly sure that the Board is not actually directly pocketing the funds -- but anything beyond that, is outside the purview of the audit! I have seen this too much at the local level -- both the use of federal grants, and the appropriation and eventual disbursement of local grants -- to see the whole process as anything but bottomless and frequently destructive corruption.
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  35. For why, if you stuck with it so long? Did your 286 die?
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  36. Nobody gives up property willingly. There has to be a value exchange.
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  37. Oooh, I like that!
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  38. I used Mandrake and loved it (on n.1 Releases, anyway) as my desktop Linux; I'll give this a shot. Trying out the Slim KDE Rolling version!
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  39.  @cianmoriarty7345  Plus, strategic sources -- minimum five of those -- and those are reduplicated civilian + military, again, with slightly different components; usually, these don't feed separate internal and external agencies. Instead, these strategic sources feed separate internal and external agencies, on the civvie side -- and often, separate internal and external civilian agencies are reduplicated for the separate military and civilian strategic resource feeds! Yes, even the smallest countries do this, even if the "agency" (defined as, "One who has agency to act.") is one-to-three people!
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  40. If you look at the wider world and current news of U.S. government programs supporting ideological subversion and destruction, and look back at what Snowden revealed about how Linux security is fundamentally sabotaged and how much work it was going to take to dig out from that; and then look at how this is a simultaneous push across core, systems development, and every distribution; then this looks like another U.S. government-funded psyop for disruption. So, make lists of the people yelling loudest and look at the people directing them, and document them as federal intelligence agency assets, and publish those faces and identities globally. If they are for-real, they will have to follow protocol and abandon that identity!
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  41. I miss my old computers!
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  42. The big ones that buy and hold blue chip stocks like Microsoft? Yes, yes they are that stupid, and they also happen to want the entire human race dead. The investment companies that handle pension funds went A.I. with machine learning years and years ago.
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  43. Startling, but true!
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  44. Because it means he cares more than he would like to care?
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