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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Lunduke Journal of Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Make Computers Fun Again]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com</link><image><url>https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17734081-10f6-4605-a42d-5b239aafa2c6_1280x1280.png</url><title>The Lunduke Journal of Technology</title><link>https://lunduke.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:39:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://lunduke.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[lunduke@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[lunduke@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[lunduke@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[lunduke@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></googleplay:author><item><title><![CDATA[Ada Lovelace accused of not collaborating well with GNOME Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lovelace has not submitted a single line of code to the GNOME project.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ada-lovelace-accused-of-not-collaborating</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ada-lovelace-accused-of-not-collaborating</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:58:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A core member of the GNOME team, Christopher Davis, has accused famed computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, of not collaborating well with the open source desktop project.</p><p>“I’ve been making veiled comments about a situation in the Linux desktop community for a while,” Tweeted Davis in a not-at-all overly dramatic way. “And I think it’s finally time to lift the curtain.”</p><p>“This is a case study on how <em>not</em> to collaborate with upstream,” stated Davis on his blog post, Monday. “Of course, I do not speak for GNOME as a whole, only for myself. But Ada Lovelace is <em>just the worst</em>. Everyone on the GNOME team thinks so.”</p><p>In Davis’ lengthy blog post, he goes into great detail on the number of complaints the GNOME team has with the programming pioneer.</p><blockquote><p>“Lovelace fixed bugs in her own code for the Analytical Engine before submitting new patches to the GNOME project! This is truly poor behavior. Absolutely outrageous!”</p><p>“In fact, we looked through all of her code in 1843’s <em>Sketch of the Analytical Engine </em>and we couldn’t find a <em>single line of code</em> intended for use within GNOME. <em>Not one</em>. That’s just being a bad contributor.”</p><p>“Lovelace has completely failed to write any code in CSS or Javascript, the preferred languages of the GNOME project. Not using CSS and Javascript is literally violence.”</p></blockquote><p>Ada Lovelace could not be immediately reached for comment.</p><div><hr></div><p>This is satire. Feel like that probably shouldn’t need to be said… but just in case. I highly recommend sharing this with your GNOME-loving friends. Just because.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ada-lovelace-accused-of-not-collaborating?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ada-lovelace-accused-of-not-collaborating?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>If you aren’t currently a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, I highly recommend it. It is so choice. The free edition is great. If you pitch in a few bucks you get <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/all-the-subscriber-benefits-for-the">some fun perks</a> (and warm fuzzies). <a href="https://lunduke.locals.com/">The Lunduke Journal community</a> is also a ton of fun.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #12 - Lunduke & Friends]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen now (59 min) | Lunduke & Hartley talk about happy nerdy things for a full hour.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-12-lunduke</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-12-lunduke</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:46:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lunduke & Friends is only for full subscribers to The Lunduke Journal — either on Substack or <a href="https://lunduke.locals.com/">Locals</a>.</p><p>Free subscriptions get most of the podcast episodes. But not Lunduke & Friends. These episodes are special. ;)</p>
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7 ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #11 - GEM was cool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen now (16 min) | ]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-11-gem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-11-gem</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:41:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/44271787.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this computer comic strip cartoonist from the 1980s?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artist named "Bush" drew some adorable computer comic strips in the 80s. But who was "Bush"?]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-is-this-computer-comic-strip</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-is-this-computer-comic-strip</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:12:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99058643-80c9-482e-a4a7-72163df18b55_718x573.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, in the Seattle area, there was a monthly magazine — really, it was a newspaper — devoted to all things “computer-y”: <em><strong>The Puget Sound Computer User</strong></em>.</p><p>The “Computer User” was a core part of the computer nerd community for the entire region (which included Microsoft headquarters, in Redmond, Washington). Local computer ads, job postings, community events, BBS phone numbers, and articles on everything from programming to desktop publishing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-259-430" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5ab24f9-77de-47ba-93f8-7ca5b348e7b2_1560x936.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5ab24f9-77de-47ba-93f8-7ca5b348e7b2_1560x936.png" width="430" height="258.11813186813185" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e5ab24f9-77de-47ba-93f8-7ca5b348e7b2_1560x936.png","height":874,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":430,"bytes":2880006,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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18 </style></a></figure></div><p>And, like all good newspapers, this one included comic strips.</p><p>Most of them, at least from this time period, seem to have been drawn by someone who signs their name as “Bush”.</p><p>Here’s one example from the May, 1987 issue:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-793-728" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa461cc82-93ff-4cb5-b652-0f415d3770f0_728x793.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa461cc82-93ff-4cb5-b652-0f415d3770f0_728x793.png" width="728" height="793" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a461cc82-93ff-4cb5-b652-0f415d3770f0_728x793.png","height":793,"width":728,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1071309,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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29 </style></a></figure></div><p>But who, <em>exactly</em>, is “Bush”?</p><p>Searching the Internet for a cartoonist named “Bush” tends to result in comic strips about former US Presidents. And scouring through the pages of <a href="https://archive.org/details/puget-sound-computer-user-newspaper-may-1987/mode/2up">issues of The Puget Sound Computer User</a> have, likewise, yielded no good info thus far.</p><p>Some of those Bush computer comic strips are pretty funny!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-805-563" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141a0a90-074a-4e6a-a3b6-3be3e049137b_563x805.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F141a0a90-074a-4e6a-a3b6-3be3e049137b_563x805.png" width="563" height="805" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/141a0a90-074a-4e6a-a3b6-3be3e049137b_563x805.png","height":805,"width":563,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":791346,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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40 </style></a></figure></div><p>Some of the comics, in the same issue, don’t have a signature on them… but, based on art style, I’m guessing they are by the same “Bush” as created the others…</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-521-637" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77d49915-9f5b-47d7-af3d-0677b0398f40_637x521.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77d49915-9f5b-47d7-af3d-0677b0398f40_637x521.png" width="637" height="521" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77d49915-9f5b-47d7-af3d-0677b0398f40_637x521.png","height":521,"width":637,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":657227,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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51 </style></a></figure></div><p>These cartoons are so much a product of their time. And I love them for it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-573-718" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99058643-80c9-482e-a4a7-72163df18b55_718x573.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99058643-80c9-482e-a4a7-72163df18b55_718x573.png" width="718" height="573" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99058643-80c9-482e-a4a7-72163df18b55_718x573.png","height":573,"width":718,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":823981,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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62 </style></a></figure></div><p>Lots of robots. Lots of floppy drives and CRT monitors. References to playing vinyl records backwards, and the sounds that computers make. All stitched together with some serious Dad-quality jokes.</p><p>Just fantastic.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-521-716" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F860fc50a-b821-4114-a852-8b3690a93f60_716x521.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F860fc50a-b821-4114-a852-8b3690a93f60_716x521.png" width="716" height="521" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/860fc50a-b821-4114-a852-8b3690a93f60_716x521.png","height":521,"width":716,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":708277,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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73 </style></a></figure></div><p>But who is “Bush”? I am determined to find the identity of this cartoonist — and collect more of his works. (Or maybe Bush is a “her”? … I guess I assume Bush is a man due to the Dad-joke nature of some of the comics.)</p><p>Have you seen “Bush” comic strips about computers? Do you happen to know who the artist is? I would love to hear from you. Together, we can get to the bottom of this mystery.</p><p>Add a comment here (or on <a href="https://lunduke.locals.com/">Locals</a>) or email me at bryan@lunduke.com.</p><div><hr></div><p>Share this. Share it far and wide. Someone out there knows who Bush is.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-is-this-computer-comic-strip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-is-this-computer-comic-strip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 286, EGA PC from 1987.]]></title><description><![CDATA[As advertised in the May, 1987 issue of "Puget Sound Computer User".]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-286-ega-pc-from-1987</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-286-ega-pc-from-1987</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:02:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65bbb337-3fa1-4e64-97e7-99e9106b01f5_998x806.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I was working on an article talking about a few old, regional computer newspapers and magazines.</p><p>… but I need to pause for just a moment and direct your attention to <em><strong>this</strong></em> gorgeous hunk of metal, advertised in the May, 1987 issue of “Puget Sound Computer User” (a regional computer paper published in the Seattle, Washington area).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-806-998" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65bbb337-3fa1-4e64-97e7-99e9106b01f5_998x806.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65bbb337-3fa1-4e64-97e7-99e9106b01f5_998x806.png" width="998" height="806" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65bbb337-3fa1-4e64-97e7-99e9106b01f5_998x806.png","height":806,"width":998,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1650124,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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84 </style></a><figcaption class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><p>I mean. <em><strong>Just look</strong></em> at it!</p><p>The full ad is equally spectacular.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-1980-1456" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa04b6c02-bf11-4c25-b960-2785462ec222_1626x2211.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa04b6c02-bf11-4c25-b960-2785462ec222_1626x2211.jpeg" width="1456" height="1980" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a04b6c02-bf11-4c25-b960-2785462ec222_1626x2211.jpeg","height":1980,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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95 </style></a></figure></div><p>Two floppies! A 1.2MB and a 360K!</p><p>Color EGA graphics!</p><p>A 40 MB hard drive! (An MFM drive, I’m assuming.)</p><p>A 286! At 10 Mhz!</p><p>A meg of RAM! <em>A MEG!</em></p><p>But, most importantly… <em><strong>look at that case</strong></em>!</p><p>BIG! Beige! Metal! With a lock on the front. And a turbo button (just like the good lord intended computers to have)!</p><p>And, speaking from experience with that exact case, it has a big, red power switch in the back on the right hand side. One which has a satisfying “KA-CHUNK” when you switch it on.</p><p>One odd bit: The picture shows MS-DOS. The ad lists PC-DOS 3.1. But I’ve decided to let that pass. Because everything else is just too gosh darned gorgeous.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-286-ega-pc-from-1987?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-286-ega-pc-from-1987?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecting to Telnet BBSes the most awesome way: Via Telemate in DOSBox]]></title><description><![CDATA[Use the exact same software to dial BBSes at 28.8 in 1995... and to telnet to BBSes in 2021.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/connecting-to-telnet-bbses-the-most</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/connecting-to-telnet-bbses-the-most</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 04:48:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64d84eec-4225-4dd6-85c0-9a24e8c4bc76_720x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Connecting to (and using) old-school style BBSes is a unique experience. One that I heartily recommend, even now in 2021. Heck, maybe more so <em>now</em>, in 2021, than any year before.</p><p>It’s just fun.</p><p>There is an excellent article, at the <a href="http://www.starbase21.net/telemate.html">“StarBase” 11 BBS website</a>, detailing how to accomplish exactly that. Highly recommended.</p><p>In a nutshell:</p><p>Step 1) Get DOSBox (I use <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/dosbox-x-dos-emulation-on-steroids">DOSBox-X</a>).</p><p>Step 2) Find a copy of a BBS communication program (like Telemate or QModem). Something super old-school. There are a few options over at <a href="http://www.starbase21.net/telemate.html">the StarBase 11 tutorial</a>. I recommend Telemate. It’s classic.</p><p>Step 3) Edit the DOSBox.conf file to enable “modem listenport 23” for serial 1 (chage “serial1=dummy” to “modem listenport 23”). Or use the DOSBox-x Configuration tool like this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-843-1354" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce936e86-d08d-461d-a2a6-2dbbe13f3102_1354x843.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce936e86-d08d-461d-a2a6-2dbbe13f3102_1354x843.png" width="1354" height="843" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce936e86-d08d-461d-a2a6-2dbbe13f3102_1354x843.png","height":843,"width":1354,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":198415,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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106 </style></a></figure></div><p>That basically sets “serial1” (COM Port 1) to pretend to be a real modem. You can then use any software that used traditional dial-up modems. Which is crazy rad.</p><p>Step 19) Run TM.EXE.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-400-720" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7049da4-b2dd-4645-910c-81f302aa65c7_720x400.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7049da4-b2dd-4645-910c-81f302aa65c7_720x400.png" width="720" height="400" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c7049da4-b2dd-4645-910c-81f302aa65c7_720x400.png","height":400,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":12951,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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128 </style></a></figure></div><p>Step … 50k?) Type “atdtbbs.lunduke.com”. This issues the atdt command to dial a phone number… with “bbs.lunduke.com” as the phone number. DOSBox then does a neat trick where it connects via telnet to that address. It just works. It’s freaking magic.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-400-720" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cf270fd-15e6-4b21-ab76-73b26a21ba08_720x400.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cf270fd-15e6-4b21-ab76-73b26a21ba08_720x400.png" width="720" height="400" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5cf270fd-15e6-4b21-ab76-73b26a21ba08_720x400.png","height":400,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3323,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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139 </style></a></figure></div><p>ANSI login screens! Huzzah! The House of Lunduke BBS is awesome, but there are tons of great systems out there to check out.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-313-720" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F425b19a1-586a-42af-951a-1a606873a4b0_720x313.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F425b19a1-586a-42af-951a-1a606873a4b0_720x313.png" width="720" height="313" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/425b19a1-586a-42af-951a-1a606873a4b0_720x313.png","height":313,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":23891,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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150 </style></a></figure></div><p>… like bbs.erb.pw. That bad mama jama is a Telnet BBS run by a member of the Lunduke Journal community. Which instantly makes it just a little more awesome. There’s others too. Just ask around.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-400-720" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6cd3f1b6-c70f-45bc-8de5-39f6a5f03710_720x400.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6cd3f1b6-c70f-45bc-8de5-39f6a5f03710_720x400.png" width="720" height="400" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6cd3f1b6-c70f-45bc-8de5-39f6a5f03710_720x400.png","height":400,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":7433,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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161 </style></a></figure></div><p>With menus! Look! Menus! In ANSI! Just like the good lord intended.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-400-720" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64d84eec-4225-4dd6-85c0-9a24e8c4bc76_720x400.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64d84eec-4225-4dd6-85c0-9a24e8c4bc76_720x400.png" width="720" height="400" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64d84eec-4225-4dd6-85c0-9a24e8c4bc76_720x400.png","height":400,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":6802,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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172 </style></a></figure></div><p>Anyway, you get the point. It all just looks and behaves… right. Like it did in Ye Olden Times. Best possible way to play Trade Wars. :)</p><p>There are some good terminals out there for modern systems — ones that do a reasonably good job of emulating the terminals of the 1980s and 1990s — such as SyncTerm and Netrunner…</p><p>… but there’s nothing quite like using Telemate to connect to a BBS over 56k. In DOS.</p><p>Sure. It’s missing some of the experience of using an actual dial-up POTS line and a really-real modem (preferably one with a good speaker so you could really enjoy the connection tones)… but it’s about as close as most of us can get nowadays. Which is pretty darn close.</p><p>Beautiful, I tells ya.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/connecting-to-telnet-bbses-the-most?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/connecting-to-telnet-bbses-the-most?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking at 1980's GEM in 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[The desktop environment from Gary Kildall's Digital Research is worth admiring... even more than 30 years later.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/looking-at-1980s-gem-in-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/looking-at-1980s-gem-in-2021</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:13:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d942687-2fca-487d-855f-68248d704cd0_640x480.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in the 1980s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)#X/GEM">GEM </a>(from Gary Kildall’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Research">Digital Research</a>) was one of the graphical desktop alternatives to Apple’s Macintosh System software and Microsoft Windows. One that was specifically designed to run on DOS compatible systems (similar to early Windows in that regard).</p><p>But, outside of a port to the Atari ST line (where GEM was the default UI), most computer users never really got a chance to use it. By the time 1990 hit… GEM on DOS PCs was already on its deathbed (having been relegated to being nothing more than the UI framework for running <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewMAX">ViewMAX</a> — a file manager that shipped with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS">DR DOS</a>).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-313-460" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bbaeef4-4765-4071-a92a-ec17edbc4486_1920x1305.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bbaeef4-4765-4071-a92a-ec17edbc4486_1920x1305.jpeg" width="460" height="312.77472527472526" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6bbaeef4-4765-4071-a92a-ec17edbc4486_1920x1305.jpeg","height":990,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":460,"bytes":null,"alt":"Atari 1040STf.jpg","title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt="Atari 1040STf.jpg" title="Atari 1040STf.jpg"><style>
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183 </style></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Atari ST, running the Atari GEM port.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Here we are. More than 30 years later.</p><p>GEM has long since been open sourced — called “FreeGEM” — with the <a href="https://github.com/shanecoughlan/OpenGEM">full source code available under the GPL</a>. There’s even a “distribution” of FreeGEM called “OpenGEM”.</p><p>You can <a href="https://github.com/shanecoughlan/OpenGEM/tree/master/binary">download the binaries for OpenGEM</a> and run it on just about any DOS you can imagine — FreeDOS, MS-DOS (or DR DOS or PC-DOS) in a virtual machine, or even DOSBox.</p><p>Do so, and this is what you’ll be greeted with:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-480-640" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0524275c-1ea5-4012-8676-e4d490efb64f_640x480.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0524275c-1ea5-4012-8676-e4d490efb64f_640x480.png" width="640" height="480" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0524275c-1ea5-4012-8676-e4d490efb64f_640x480.png","height":480,"width":640,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":8735,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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260 </style></a></figure></div><h3>On Linux</h3><p>Things are even easier on Linux. Simply install Wine from the default repositories for your distribution.</p><p>On Debian (and Ubuntu, etc.):</p><pre><code>sudo apt-get install wine</code></pre><p>On Fedora:</p><pre><code>sudo dnf install wine</code></pre><p>On Arch:</p><pre><code>sudo pacman -S wine</code></pre><p><em>Whamo</em>. You’re good to go.</p><h3>There are other ways…</h3><p>Using Wine to run Windows 3.1 software (either on Linux or Windows) works fairly well for the majority of software out there. But, occasionally, you’ll run into snags.</p><p>Sometimes… some pretty big ones.</p><p>For those instances, looking at running Windows 3.1 in a dedicated emulator (such as QEMU, VirtualBox, or DOSbox) is going to net far more desirable results.</p><p>But, if the software you need runs in Wine, that route will give you the most “seamless” experience… as the software will run, in its own window, alongside the rest of your software.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-to-run-windows-31-software-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-to-run-windows-31-software-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy 'Back to the Future' Day!]]></title><description><![CDATA[This may not be about computers... but it's Back to the Future. So it's cool.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/happy-back-to-the-future-day</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/happy-back-to-the-future-day</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:00:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c4bb5a7-ab8e-4347-bb2c-3fdb229a6d0f_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today's the day!</p><p>Tonight, at exactly 10:04pm, will mark 66 years since lightning struck the Hill Valley clock tower.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-720-1280" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c4bb5a7-ab8e-4347-bb2c-3fdb229a6d0f_1280x720.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c4bb5a7-ab8e-4347-bb2c-3fdb229a6d0f_1280x720.jpeg" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7c4bb5a7-ab8e-4347-bb2c-3fdb229a6d0f_1280x720.jpeg","height":720,"width":1280,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":55445,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null}" alt=""><style>
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271 </style></a></figure></div><p>Time is Pacific as Hill Valley is in northern California (according to the map in Back to the Future III).</p><p>10:04pm. November 12, 1955. Never forget.</p><blockquote><p>Note: If you start watching part 1 at 8:41pm... lightning should strike the clock tower at 10:20. If I'm doing my math right. Math is hard. Might be worth double checking that.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/happy-back-to-the-future-day?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/happy-back-to-the-future-day?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux Sucks - Audio Book - Chapter 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen now (5 min) | After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-sucks-audio-book-chapter-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-sucks-audio-book-chapter-1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:39:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are <em>finally</em> fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! <em>Huzzah!</em></p><p>For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/all-the-subscriber-benefits-for-the">Subscriber Benefits page</a> as they get published.</p>
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277 ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #10 - System76 & GNOME drama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen now (20 min) | ]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-10-system76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-10-system76</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:28:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/43926129.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo Chambers are Awesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Echo Chambers are not a bad thing… they're actually pretty fantastic. Un-Echo-Chambers (like Twitter) are just the worst.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/echo-chambers-are-awesome</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/echo-chambers-are-awesome</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:28:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm going to put forth a hypothesis:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Echo Chambers are </strong><em><strong>not</strong></em><strong> a bad thing… they're actually pretty fantastic.</strong></p></blockquote><p>At first blush, that seems silly. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200716133038/https://www.dictionary.com/browse/echo-chamber">Echo Chambers</a>, by definition, limit our exposure to ideas different from those we already have. They, in theory, limit our personal growth.</p><p>Which <em>does</em> make a certain amount of sense! If we only talk to people who already think the same way we do – on any particular set of topics – it seems that we would be far less likely to consider (or, certainly, be exposed to) competing ideas.</p><p>One of the biggest, most expansive, attempts to create an un-Echo-Chamber is Twitter. Within Twitter, assuming you use the default settings for the Social Media network, every other Twitter user can see – <em>and respond to</em> – anything you write. The more popular and wide-spread any one of your Twitter posts becomes, the more likely it is that your ideas are being exposed to others… and the more likely it is that people will respond to your post, thus exposing you to their ideas as well.</p><p>When it is described that way, it sounds kind of wonderful!</p><p>There's just one problem…</p><p><strong>This sort of un-Echo-Chamber is, in practice, a horrifying hell-scape of horrible horrors.</strong></p><p>Allow me to expand upon that.</p><h2>The Negativity Bias</h2><blockquote><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200716133038/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias">Negativity Bias</a>: the notion that, even when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.</p></blockquote><p>There are two key ways in which Negativity Bias has a profound impact on any un-Echo-Chamber.</p><p><strong>The first</strong> is something that every public personality has experienced more times than they can count: People are roughly <em>One Bazillion</em> times more likely to complain about something than they are to praise you for that same thing.</p><p>A piece of software. A movie. A book. Or even a little tiny Tweet.</p><p>If 100 people see / read / use the thing you made, and 90% of the people absolutely love it… you're still <strong>likely to hear more negative feedback about it than positive</strong>. Just the way it works. Anyone who's read the comment section of a YouTube video knows exactly what I'm talking about.</p><p>It's human nature to be impacted more heavily by negative things than positive. And humans are far more likely to lash out based on negative feelings than to praise someone based on positive feelings.</p><p><strong>The second</strong> way Negativity Bias hits us is, likewise, rather obvious.</p><p>Those negative comments? They have an impact on <strong>you</strong> when you read them. Especially when those negative comments are <em>directed</em> at you (or someone or something you like)… but even when simply direct at others. All that negativity floating around has a noteworthy impact on anyone who comes into contact with it.</p><p>After receiving those negative responses, some will become defensive. Some depressed. Others angry. Lots of emotions, lots of reactions. Many strong. And most, <em><strong>less than positive</strong></em>.</p><p>Which means that, if you post a thought to an un-Echo-Chamber-y Social Network (like Twitter) – and that post ends up reaching a large audience (something that anyone with a sizable audience will experience regularly) – the amount of negativity you will receive (not just disagreements… but far more negative responses like name-calling and similar attacks) can become quite significant. <em><strong>And damaging</strong></em>.</p><p>Because the experience of reading those negative comments and replies will be such a, well, negative one… the odds of you (and others reading it) responding in an increasingly negative way are significant.</p><p>Which simply becomes an endless loop of increasing negativity. When you look at it that way, a Social Network like Twitter becomes an sort of echo chamber of negative emotions… <em>especially</em> when you and others attempt to treat it as <em>not</em> an Echo Chamber.</p><p>Sort of like the paranormal slime from Ghostbusters 2.</p><p>Systems like Twitter end up, because of human nature, amplifying the negative emotions. And when everyone feels strong negative feelings, they are far less likely to consider alternative viewpoints and concepts. Thus not only negating any benefit of having an un-Echo-Chamber… but actually making people far less willing to truly consider new, foreign ideas.</p><p>The larger the un-Echo-Chamber (in terms of potential people involved), the worse this effect gets.</p><h2>You're Wrong, I'm Wrong, Everyone Is Wrong</h2><p>But… what if that weren't the case? What if, hypothetically, someone could design an un-Echo-Chamber where Negativity Bias never came into play. Where everyone would let their guards down and only publish positive, kind thoughts? Like Twitter… with all the hate removed.</p><p>The reality is… you still would be statistically unlikely to learn something new that is <em>actually</em> true.</p><p>And there's a very good reason for that…</p><p><strong>Almost </strong><em><strong>everyone</strong></em><strong> is wrong. About at least some things.</strong></p><p>Note that I'm not saying that everyone is wrong about everything. But <em>almost</em> everyone… about <em>quite a lot</em> of things.</p><p>Which means that, if you hear from 100 people (on Twitter, for example) on a topic… how do you sort out who is right and who is wrong? Is everyone right? Is nobody right?</p><p>We’re not talking about 100 carefully selected and curated individuals — each with significant, relevant experience on the topic at hand. We’re talking about 100 random people who are, most likely, feeling angry. And they want to tell you how smart they are.</p><p>Who among them has credentials that would suggest they have a <em>chance</em> (however small) of having a truthful or accurate statement on a topic? How do you discern those credentials? Do you have the time, energy, and experience necessary to do so? Do you <em>want</em> to spend the time and energy on that?</p><p>Even for the most well intentioned among us, the reality is that we are highly unlikely to be able to pick out a statement from among 100 Tweets – ones which all disagree with our existing view or understanding of a topic – which is likely to be accurate (or, at least, <em>more</em> accurate than our previously held viewpoint). Even if we had the time, energy, and desire to do so.</p><p>Which we probably don't.</p><p>We probably just want to argue with all those 100 Tweets that told us we are wrong. See: Negativity Bias.</p><h2>Comment Snowball Effect</h2><p>A tiny, little snowball starts rolling at the top of a mountain. By the time it reaches the mountain's base, it is large enough to obliterate the lovely little ski resort town. It's a bummer.</p><p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200716133038/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_effect">Snowball Effect</a> doesn't just happen with actual snow. It happens with people commenting on topics. All day. Every day.</p><p>This can happen on a macro scale – articles being written causing other journalist to write more articles on the same topic, rinse, repeat – as well as a micro scale. One great (subjective) example of this is the comment section of a YouTube video… or the responses to a Tweet.</p><p>Let's say you post a Tweet.</p><p>One negative comment is then posted. Another person responds negatively to that comment. Then two people respond negatively to <em>that</em> comment. At which point the original commentator arrives to comment negatively on two of the replies… and positively to another one (because, hey, even cranky people agree with others <em>sometimes</em>). Right about now a whole army of passive aggressive people arrive. Along with someone who wants to change the topic to something unrelated (and vaguely insulting).</p><p>And if that original Tweet becomes viral in some way? I tell you. That snowball is gonna be big.</p><p>When the potential number of snowflakes (pun not intended, but delightful), which could be added to said snowball, is as large as the user-base of Twitter. Holy heavens.</p><p>A giant, negative snowball. Filled with lies.</p><blockquote><p>Well. Not “lies”, <em>per se</em>. More like “things that are not true or verifiable.” But “Snowball filled with lies” sounded better.</p></blockquote><p>This is similar (though not exactly the same as) what we see with mobs. On-Line mobs. In-person mobs. One spark can, in the right condition, ignite something far more intense and all-consuming.</p><p>Ask yourself, when was the last time you thought “Gee, I'm going to look to the angry mob of people (or that giant snowball running toward me) for accurate information”?</p><blockquote><p><em>Note: I thought about adding in a Twinkie metaphor here, for the sole reason of wanting to post a link to the “That's a big Twinkie” scene from Ghostbusters. Then I realized I could <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V13CZnUCOaQ">simply link to it anyway</a>. Unwritten metaphor be damned.</em></p></blockquote><h2>So What? Should We Not Learn?</h2><p>And now we get to the real heart of the matter.</p><p>If un-Echo-Chambers (like big, open Social Media, such as Twitter) are so negative, inaccurate, and mob-like… what's the alternative? How can we learn from each other – across this broad, planet-wide network – if we all stick to our own Echo Chambers?!</p><p>The answer is obvious and something we've done since… like… forever.</p><p>Smaller, like-minded (or focused) groups. Clubs. Churches. Performance troups. Bands. Teams.</p><p>Everyone intrinsically knows that if you want to accomplish something – if you want to create (rather than to destroy) – you need a team. Whether you're making software, art, or playing a sport. Or scientists researching a topic. Or even simply trying to have a good time; That's an act of creation as well.</p><p>Hanging out with friends, for example, is nicer when it's done… brace yourself… with friends. Crazy thought, I know.</p><p>Class rooms! We don't put kids into giant On-Line Social Media platforms – with millions and millions of other kids from around the world – to help them learn. That'd be insane! We put them in classes. Smaller class sizes perform better (generally speaking) than larger class sizes.</p><p>In other words: Echo Chambers.</p><p>These things are all examples, of varying styles, of Echo Chambers. <strong>And Echo Chambers work </strong><em><strong>incredibly</strong></em><strong> well</strong> for, well, just about everything. Including learning, growing as a person, and creating.</p><p>And, yes, even <em>being exposed to new ideas</em>.</p><p>No two people have exactly the same thoughts, there are always differences… no matter how similar two people are. Build yourself an Echo Chamber with, say, 10 people who all closely align on a topic (computers, religion, hobbies, etc.). You now have 10 people with something in common, which will then make each other significantly more open to learning from each other about any differences.</p><p>Again, that's just how humans work.</p><p>When someone uses the term Echo Chamber to describe the environment someone else is in… it is usually intended as an insult. But, at closer inspection, it really shouldn't be.</p><p>In fact… un-Echo-Chambers tend to be less efficient at spreading ideas (in meaningful ways) and generally not fun at all. Not good for learning, not good for creating. At least not most of the time.</p><h2>Large Scale Open Social Networks</h2><p>If Echo Chambers are so great, why not just get rid of things like Twitter?</p><p>Extremely large, open social networks <em>do have real value</em>.</p><p>I think that is obvious to all of us (even those of us who dislike their current usage). Regional and World event reporting, for example, is incredibly handy to have. The ability to have citizens spread up to the minute information during disasters? Oh, heck, that alone makes such networks highly valuable.</p><p>But, honestly, using things like Twitter much beyond that has proven to be more harmful than helpful. We could benefit, instead, to focus on more small to medium scale Echo Chambers.</p><p>Glorious, friendly, constructive Echo Chambers.</p><h2>Echo Chambers Rule</h2><p>I like the social networks that are more akin private forums. Sort of like members only clubs (where we all get to wear the cool Members Only jackets) and talk about the things that interest us… all among like-minded folk.</p><p>No giant, negative snowballs filled with lies. No Twinkie. Just people with something in common. Working. Bonding. Sharing. Learning.</p><p>All in something as awesome sounding as an Echo Chamber.</p><h2>You're Wrong!</h2><p>Maybe. Go yell about it on Twitter.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you, like me, think people could benefit from thinking about Echo Chambers… consider sharing this article.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/echo-chambers-are-awesome?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/echo-chambers-are-awesome?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><blockquote><p>Side note: I love Echo Chambers so much that I created two of them. Places where I can hang out, On-Line, and enjoy talking and sharing with like-minded folks.</p><p>One specifically for Nerdy and Techie things: <strong><a href="https://lunduke.locals.com/">Lunduke.Locals.com</a></strong>. A politics-free, family-friendly place for nerds to hang out and talk about stuff we’re interested in. Linux, retro computing, video games, esoteric programming languages… that sort of thing.</p><p>And another specifically for Nerds who want to talk about politics from a Conservative perspective: <strong><a href="https://conservativenerds.locals.com/">ConservativeNerds.Locals.com</a></strong>. No trolls. Just conservative-leaning nerds talking about political stuff.</p><p>Both are amazing — yet distinctly different — Echo Chambers. I have learned much — and grown as a person — thanks to the people in both.</p></blockquote>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen now (16 min) | Tech companies discriminating against senior engineers]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-episode-1cf</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-episode-1cf</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:24:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/43853581.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Red Hat and SUSE are the latest companies to focus on hiring junior / entry level staff — discriminating against senior staff in the process. The impacts of this are far reaching and less than good.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much power and influence do Open Source foundations have?]]></title><description><![CDATA[... and how does that power impact us as users of Open Source software?]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-much-power-and-influence-do-open</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-much-power-and-influence-do-open</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:51:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>“I finally switched over to Linux full time. Yay! How much power and influence do open source foundations have and how much does it affect me as a consumer of open source software?"</em> - Evan</p></blockquote><p>First off, welcome to Club Linux, Evan! You'll find the waters here to be, overall, warm and relaxing.</p><p>As for the question of how much influence various foundations actually have in the Open Source, Free Software, and Linux world… well… that's a tricky question that will take us, meandering, through the wilderness.</p><p>And there are lots of landmines hidden just about everywhere.</p><p>The short, highly unsatisfactory, answer is that they have a huge amount of control and influence… influence that you, as a user of the software, will hopefully never have to see. Unfortunately their “invisible influence” is becoming increasingly visible. And influential.</p><p>When we talk about such foundations (and similar types of organizations), really, four of them jump immediately to mind:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.fsf.org/">The Free Software Foundation</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/">The Linux Foundation</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://opensource.org/">The Open Source Initiative</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://sfconservancy.org/">The Software Freedom Conservancy</a></p></li></ul><blockquote><p>Realistically, there are many others – The Document Foundation, The Apache Foundation, The GNOME Foundation, The Mozilla Foundation, etc.. Most of which tend to focus on a narrow set of projects and pieces of software. Essentially ways of organizing and funding their development, promotion, and support.</p></blockquote><p>Those four (FSF, Linux Foundation, OSI, and SFC) have a huge amount of influence over the broader “open software” world. In various ways.</p><p>The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), in my mind, are the most direct and focused of those four. Their missions are easy to understand and very “to the point.” They tend to not get bogged down and side tracked – not always the case, but usually.</p><p>The FSF is, at their core, the publishers and maintainers of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software Definition</a>. All other work they do tends to focus on promoting the ideas behind Free Software, funding development, and pushing campaigns that they see as related to their core mission.</p><blockquote><p>Example: They tend to fight rather vigorously against ideas like Digital Rights Management (DRM) and surveillance – among <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.fsf.org/campaigns">other campaigns</a>.</p></blockquote><p>In this way the FSF has a major impact in setting both tone and direction for many other organizations within the “open” world. Their voice is listened to, and their statements have an impact.</p><p>The Software Freedom Conservancy has a very <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://sfconservancy.org/about/">similar focus</a>: Promote, develop, support, and defend Free (Libre) Software. They also provide infrastructure and legal services for a <em>huge</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/">number of Free Software projects</a>. They also have a tendency to take active roles in legal issues they feel directly impact their ideology (Free Software, Privacy, etc.).</p><p>In those ways, the impact of the SFC is far reaching. If they were to disappear tomorrow, many projects would face tremendous difficulties in their day to day operations. The work they do cannot be understated. And, thus, the dependency many have on them is worth noting as well.</p><blockquote><p>I tend to be a big fan of the SFC, and their work. However their power, and the weight of their voice, is sometimes used in ways that divide and attack portions of the Free Software world – such as when the SFC joined in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/">mob-like attacks on Richard Stallman</a> during 2019. Worth noting: I have many criticisms of Stallman, and have voiced them over the years, but SFC's attacks on Stallman – considering the important role they play, and their close relationship with the FSF – were particularly cruel and harmful to both the community and the Free Software movement.</p></blockquote><p>All that said, overall, I would say the work of both the FSF and SFC are clear, direct, and supportive of Free Software. Easy to understand and evaluate.</p><p>For both The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Initiative… things get much less clear. More… <em>murky</em>.</p><p>Let's start with The Linux Foundation (LF).</p><p>The LF's mission <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/">is stated</a> as “building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.”</p><p>This is something they absolutely, demonstrably, do. And, depending on how you measure things, with great success.</p><p>And we're not just talking about the Linux Kernel here – they employ the founder and maintainer of the Linux Kernel, Linus Torvalds, as well as others. The Linux Foundation is an association of corporations who fund initiatives and sub-foundations they have an interest in.</p><p>Kubernetes. Xen. Let's Encrypt. NodeJS. Tizen. The number of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/">Linux Foundation projects</a> is vast and growing.</p><blockquote><p>Side note: The Linux Foundation suffers from a tremendous amount of “mission creep”. One glaring example is one of their newest business ventures: <a href="https://conservativenerds.substack.com/p/vaccine-passport-company-the-linux">Vaccine Passport systems</a>. What does that have to do with Linux? Your guess is as good as mine.</p></blockquote><p>As of 2017, The Linux Foundation reported revenue <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460503801">north of $81 Million USD</a>. Up roughly $20 Million from the year prior (2016). Which, in turn, was also up roughly $20 Million from the year before that (2015). To say The Linux Foundation is growing rapidly – both in terms of revenue and project control and scope – would be a vast understatement.</p><p>This income comes from a combination of member companies who pay the Linux Foundation for involvement in their work (such as paying to gain a voting seat on their board) and from donations by individuals.</p><p>Member companies include: Microsoft, Google, AT&T, IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Huawei, WeBank, Adobe, Airbus, ADP, American Express, Capital One, Comcast, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, PayPal, and so many others. Almost too many to even comprehend.</p><p>Some of these companies have an obvious interest in the success of both Linux and related Open Source and Free Software projects. Others have a long-standing competition with Linux and Free Software. Others still… have a very unclear interest in such projects.</p><blockquote><p>Interesting side note: When an individual makes a donation to the Linux Foundation… not one penny goes towards Linux development. According to The Linux Foundation… “100% of donations received go towards funding diversity programs.” Funding of things like Linux Kernel development actually comes through the corporate membership dues (at least that is my understanding).</p></blockquote><p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/board-members/">Board of the Linux Foundation</a> is made up of representatives from Microsoft, Comcast, Huawei, Facebook, Google, and many others. These are (some of) the companies that have influence and voting control within The Linux Foundation.</p><p>What does that mean for the influence those companies have over Linux kernel development (and work on many other projects that the Linux Foundation runs)? That's a good question. And, honestly, I don't have a direct or clear answer to that.</p><p>Does is concern me? You be it does. As does the lack of transparency, overall.</p><p>One way the Linux Foundation has a direct impact is within the overall community of developers and enthusiasts (as well as folks who might work within the industry). When folks get <a href="https://conservativenerds.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-bans-person-for">banned from Linux Foundation run events</a> and conferences (for what appear to be political motives), but refuse to talk with the press (or community) about it… that raises red flags.</p><p>Control over who can participate (both as a hobbyist and professionally) within the Linux and Open Source world is deeply concerning.</p><p>Which, finally, brings us to the Open Source Initiative (OSI).</p><p>The OSI has a very simple, very narrow, focus: To evaluate, and endorse, “Open Source” licenses that, it feels, meet the standards of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://opensource.org/docs/osd">Open Source Definition</a> (which they maintain).</p><p>The value here, is that a company (or project) can make sure that a license they select for any given piece of software is one that has been researched, evaluated, and will (hopefully) be acceptable to other companies and individuals working in the “Open Source” space. Logical. Reasonable. Limited.</p><p>Their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200811155416/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative">annual budget</a> is significantly smaller than the other organizations on this list (which makes sense, considering their scope) – about $200k. They <em>do</em> accept funding from companies (such as Microsoft), but (again) that funding is limited.</p><p>The influence that the OSI has is, for the most part, strictly limited to what licenses get listed on their approved list. If licenses get approved that cause potential difficulties – or encourage discrimination or limitations of usage, such as what is currently being proposed by some in the “Ethical Software Development” movement (which has the goal of forbidding people from using software… if those people are ones the author of the software disagrees with politically) – that could have potentially problematic impacts on both developers and end-users.</p><p>Though, honestly, if the OSI were to move down a path where they endorse problematic, restrictive, discriminatory licenses… the OSI simply will cease to be relevant or useful. Thus solving any problem that could arise by that sort of action.</p><p>Phew.</p><p>So, there we have it. Foundations do, indeed, have a lot of influence over the FOSS world – and that influence appears to be increasing at a dramatic rate (at least in some cases). Some of that influence, demonstrably, brings about positive results. Other results are… less positive. But the level of influence is undeniable.</p><p>Now. How does any of this impact you, an end user of such software?</p><p>The reality is that – if you do not work within the software industry, or related industries – that influence isn't typically felt. The impact on you is farther “downstream.”</p><p>What <em>does</em> have a <em>huge</em> and noteworthy impact on end users are the goals and directions of some of the major open source focused companies – especially Red Hat. But that's a topic for a different day.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-much-power-and-influence-do-open?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-much-power-and-influence-do-open?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two problems in software development. [COMIC]]]></title><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-two-problems-in-software-development</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-two-problems-in-software-development</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:50:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9abac4cf-f774-4b3f-a1c2-f125c6bcd600_648x440.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-440-648" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9abac4cf-f774-4b3f-a1c2-f125c6bcd600_648x440.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9abac4cf-f774-4b3f-a1c2-f125c6bcd600_648x440.jpeg" width="648" height="440" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9abac4cf-f774-4b3f-a1c2-f125c6bcd600_648x440.jpeg","height":440,"width":648,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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299 </style></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The cover of the <a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_datamation_1961-11_7_11/mode/2up">November, 1961 issue of Datamation</a>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>John F Kennedy was President. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0">Big Bad John</a>” by Jimmy Dean topped the music charts. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” ruled the theatrical box office.</p><p>And computers were… big.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-1968-1379" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a3c6e2b-09ea-49a0-ab05-c584cedc93ac_1379x1968.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a3c6e2b-09ea-49a0-ab05-c584cedc93ac_1379x1968.jpeg" width="1379" height="1968" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a3c6e2b-09ea-49a0-ab05-c584cedc93ac_1379x1968.jpeg","height":1968,"width":1379,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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332 </style></a></figure></div><p>1200 bps! Blistering speed!</p><p>But you don’t buy the “DATA-PHONE” (what Bell called a “Modem” back then)… you rented it, by the month, from Ma Bell.</p><p>Speaking of moving data around… just check out the state of the art in punch paper tape reading!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-1968-1375" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29f097f0-3d76-4379-a3f2-383bf2fa55ff_1375x1968.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29f097f0-3d76-4379-a3f2-383bf2fa55ff_1375x1968.jpeg" width="1375" height="1968" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/29f097f0-3d76-4379-a3f2-383bf2fa55ff_1375x1968.jpeg","height":1968,"width":1375,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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365 </style></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>“Software is a new and important addition to the jargon of computer users and builders. It refers to the automatic programming aids that simplify the task of telling the computer hardware how to do its job. The importance of software lies in the fact that programming a computer can be an arduous, time-consuming and costly operation and the quality of automatic programming aids ahs become virtually as important as equipment specifications in evaluating the total capability of a data processing system”</p></blockquote><p>The idea of “ready to use” software was, truly, an amazing thing. Something that not every computer manufacturer or user really took advantage of.</p><p>Which… looking at it from 2021 seems wild and zany. But it’s how things were back in 1961.</p><p>I highly recommend reading the entire <a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_datamation_1961-11_7_11/mode/2up">November, 1961 issue of Datamation</a>. It is a wild trip into computing history.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you dig old computer magazines, check out details of the very first issue of the <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-very-first-issue-of-the-very">very first Linux magazine</a>. Then marvel at the <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-truly-epic-byte-magazine-covers">beauty of BYTE magazine covers</a>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-tour-through-computing-in-1961?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-tour-through-computing-in-1961?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linus Torvalds interviews with Linux Journal Magazine: 1994 - 2019]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six interviews with Linus Torvalds that give a peek into the private life of the Linux creator, and provide a history of one of the most important software projects of the last quarter century.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-interviews-with-linux</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-interviews-with-linux</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Linux Journal magazine — which made its <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-very-first-issue-of-the-very">debut back in 1994</a> — chronicled the rise of Linux from almost the very beginning. Unfortunately, Linux Journal has closed up shop, but we still are lucky enough to have the extensive back catalog of articles.</p><p>Some of the shining gems in that collection are the interviews with Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, dating all the way back to the beginning.</p><p>If you ever want to get a good feeling for the mindset, background, and attitudes of the creator of Linux — and how they evolve over time — the Linux Journal interviews are a great place to start.</p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123215/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2736">March, 1994</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>Bob Young (founder of Red Hat) interviewed Linus in the first issue of Linux Journal magazine. The interview opened with the excellent question:</p><p>“Ken Thompson was once asked, if he had the chance to do it all again, what changes would he make in Unix. He said he would add an e to the creat system call. How about you and Linux?”</p><p>A fantastic read.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201108001359/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/36">January, 1995</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>Belinda Frazier talked with Linux about the origin of the Penguin mascot (the whole “bit by a penguin” thing), PowerPC, Windows emulation, OS/2, and all sorts of fun stuff.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190808071113/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/146">September, 1996</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>Phil Hughes talked with Linux on the release of Linux kernel 2.0. They also talk about additional architecture support (SPARC, PPC, MIPS), and some other stuff. This was back when Linus was still mostly a student, which resulted in this exchange that I find rather amusing…</p><blockquote><p>Phil: When you get your masters degree do you plan on “getting a real job” or do you intend to stay the highest-profile unemployed person in the computer field</p><p>Linus: Hey, I resent that remark. I'm not unemployed, I'm just selective about what I do...</p></blockquote><p>They also talk about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201228160644/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2076">Wabi</a>, which was a commercial Windows 3.1 emulation layer that was a big deal in the 90s… but people have mostly forgotten even existed nowadays.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001202026/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5027">October, 1999</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>Doc Searls had a chat with Linus at an event called “Linux for Suits” with the topics heavily focusing on commercial usage and big business adoption of Linux. A fascinating conversation from the early days of when Linux was beginning to make major inroads with companies like IBM></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210803214128/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3655">November, 1999</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>This interview is a bit different as it focused almost entirely on personal things. Marjorie Richardson asked Linus about his childhood, early family life, politics, religion, sports, his kids… if you were ever curious about the private life of Linus Torvalds… this is the interview.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211019012729/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds">April, 2019</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>25 years after the launch of Linux Journal magazine, Bob Young sat down with Linux to have another interview… a quarter of a century after their first one. Lots of gems in here, but this particular exchange gave me a smile:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Bob:</strong> Your running joke back in the day when asked about your future goals for Linux was "world domination". Now that you and the broader Open Source/Free Software community have achieved that, what's next?</p><p><strong>Linus:</strong> Well, I stopped doing the "world domination" joke long ago, because it seemed to become less of a joke as time went on.</p></blockquote></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-360-277" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F379af207-6589-4707-a77f-8c7c4effa2d8_277x360.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F379af207-6589-4707-a77f-8c7c4effa2d8_277x360.jpeg" width="277" height="360" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/379af207-6589-4707-a77f-8c7c4effa2d8_277x360.jpeg","height":360,"width":277,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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376 </style></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p>Disclaimer: I served as the Deputy Editor of Linux Journal magazine during the final days of that glorious publication. Good times.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-interviews-with-linux?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-interviews-with-linux?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Hat to hire less experienced engineers, pay less going forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Linux giant plans to keep a "flat budget" while adding 200 employees... by hiring fewer senior programmers]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-to-hire-less-experienced</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-to-hire-less-experienced</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:19:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df41b5b4-8184-492a-be31-b7b3b1aaa2b5_400x279.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to an exclusive report from The Register (who has been doing some excellent work) <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/red_hat_jobs/">Red Hat is going to be focusing on hiring less-senior</a> (read: cheaper) engineers going forward.</p><p>According to The Register, they were provided a copy of an internal email sent to Red Hat managers by Senior Vice President of Software, Tim Cramer.</p><p>That email read, in part:</p><blockquote><p>"All new plan reqs should be opened at a level below senior (e.g., Associate Software Engineer or Software Engineer).”</p><p>"While this change allows us to use our budget more effectively, it also helps us balance the organization as we have many engineers with senior titles. We recognize that this will mean we need to plan for training and mentoring, promotions, and internal mobility as well, and we are here to support you in that."</p></blockquote><p>In short: Red Hat doesn’t want to hire engineers with lots of experience. Because they expect to be compensated for that experience.</p><p>This is deeply concerning, for many reasons. How will this impact the pay rates across the industry? How will this impact software quality coming out of Red Hat? How will this harm the ability for experienced, quality engineers to find work? What will this do to the working environment at Red Hat? What impact will this have on the larger investment in Linux-related projects that Red Hat has historically driven?</p><p><strong>The answer to those questions: “It won’t be great.”</strong></p><p>But it gets even worse.</p><p>Red Hat won’t just be applying this new “only hire non-senior developers” policy to new roles… but to all current roles whenever anyone leaves.</p><blockquote><p>"All current reqs and future backfills will be down-leveled by one level by default (e.g., Senior Software Engineer to Software Engineer)."</p></blockquote><p>Want even more bad news from the Linux giant?</p><p>Check out this quote from that same memo:</p><blockquote><p>“Even with an almost flat budget, we still aim to hire around 200 additional associates next year”</p></blockquote><p>Flat budget + Hire 200 More Employees = Lowered Pay For Lots of People</p><p>That’s math. Super, duper sucky math.</p><p>This raises lots of questions — and lots of concerns — about the historically significant, Linux powerhouse. Coming in the wake of their acquisition by IBM, and their loss of the longtime CEO (Jim Whitehurst), this does not bode well for the future of Red Hat.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-to-hire-less-experienced?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-to-hire-less-experienced?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maemo Lestse update brings Tor, Wireguard, and more device support]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Linux (Debian) based OS now supports a variety of Phones (including Pinephone, Droid 4, N900 and more).]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/maemo-lestse-update-brings-tor-wireguard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/maemo-lestse-update-brings-tor-wireguard</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:54:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4357297-2ed0-48a7-b5ca-3b94a3f82d6a_960x540.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was a huge fan of the Nokia N810 “tablet” (really, it was palmtop PDA) and N900 smartphone. Both of those amazing devices were powered by a Linux distribution, based on Debian, known as “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo">Maemo</a>”.</p><p>It remains, to this day, one of the most excellent ways to experience Linux on handheld devices.</p><p>Luckily a project known as “<a href="https://maemo-leste.github.io/">Maemo Leste</a>” is continuing the legacy of Maemo. And they have <a href="https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-fifteenth-update-januari-october-2021.html">just released a new update</a> with all sorts of goodies.</p><p>Maemo Leste now has <a href="https://maedevu.maemo.org/images/">builds for quite a few devices</a>, including: Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4, Motorola Bionic, Pinephone, Pinetab, and (it appears) even the Raspberry Pi.</p><p>They have also incorporated and updated Modest (a maemo email client):</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-278-494" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31bee5e1-7ea7-41ee-8bb1-2a2fa547777c_960x540.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31bee5e1-7ea7-41ee-8bb1-2a2fa547777c_960x540.jpeg" width="494" height="277.875" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/31bee5e1-7ea7-41ee-8bb1-2a2fa547777c_960x540.jpeg","height":540,"width":960,"resizeWidth":494,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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398 </style></a></figure></div><p>Wireguard has also been implemented:</p><blockquote><p>“Wireguard is a relatively new and simple communication protocol that implements an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN). There are many use cases, but a few examples are adding your phone to a Wireguard network that makes it possible to access your LAN from wherever you are, give your device a public IPv4 address, or otherwise tunnel traffic via another machine.</p><p>The screenshow below shows a Droid 4 with Wireguard enabled over wifi, and some interface statistics using wg show.”</p><p></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-241-428" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95b66e19-4562-4ec4-92b5-3f09a2233542_960x540.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95b66e19-4562-4ec4-92b5-3f09a2233542_960x540.png" width="428" height="240.75" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95b66e19-4562-4ec4-92b5-3f09a2233542_960x540.png","height":540,"width":960,"resizeWidth":428,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt=""><style>
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409 </style></a></figure></div><p>This is super cool.</p><p>While Maemo Leste is certainly not the only effort currently underway on building a Linux-based smartphone system… it is one with a long history, and years of usability testing.</p><p>I truly hope the team keeps going. They’re doing good work.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://lunduke.substack.com/p/maemo-lestse-update-brings-tor-wireguard?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share","text":"Share","class":null}"><a class="button primary" href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/maemo-lestse-update-brings-tor-wireguard?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA["Browservice" brings modern web browsing to 1990s computers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take a look at this: “What am I looking at?” That, right there, is Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)… loading up the Google Cloud VM manager. A website that requires a modern web browser. But, that isn't a modern web browser. That is Internet Explorer 4.0. On Windows 3.11. Seriously.]]></description><link>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/browservice-brings-modern-web-browsing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/browservice-brings-modern-web-browsing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Lunduke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:31:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8660fa31-c3cb-4eff-8812-90e419c41f43_1024x768.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Take a look at this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-768-1024" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8660fa31-c3cb-4eff-8812-90e419c41f43_1024x768.png"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8660fa31-c3cb-4eff-8812-90e419c41f43_1024x768.png" width="1024" height="768" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8660fa31-c3cb-4eff-8812-90e419c41f43_1024x768.png","height":768,"width":1024,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Screenshot of Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 showing Hacker News","title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt="Screenshot of Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 showing Hacker News" title="Screenshot of Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 showing Hacker News"><style>
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431 </style></a></figure></div><p>That's OS/2 Warp 4. Running Firefox 2. While reading Wikipedia.</p><p>Anyone who uses older (think 20+ years) computers knows… <strong>this just isn't possible</strong> (certainly not with the websites looking… right). While taking many of these older platforms “On-Line” (read: giving them an Internet connection) is certainly doable, browsing modern websites is usually straight out of the question. Webmail, Social Media, most news sites, shopping… none of those things work on web browsers made more than 17 seconds ago (slight exaggeration… but you get my point).</p><p>And to do all of this using the existing, old-school web browsers on those aging systems? “What sorcery is this?!” would be a proper response.</p><h2>So how is this all happening?</h2><p>Using a project known as “<a href="https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice">Browservice</a>” which runs an off-screen browser instance on a server of your choosing… and renders it on your client browser. Essentially Browservice acts as a proxy server to do all the real heavy lifting.</p><p>But this isn't simply displaying a static picture of a website. You can fully interact with the webpages just as you normally would. Which means websites that were previously off limits to older operating systems are fully usable! The only real requirement, on the client, is that you'll need a web browser with at least <em>some</em> early JavaScript support.</p><p>You can even run “Browservice” on a Raspberry Pi (full instructions on <a href="https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice">the GitHub project page</a>). Meaning that you can do something like:</p><ul><li><p>Have a Raspberry Pi that connects to a WiFi network.</p></li><li><p>Connect the Ethernet of, say, an old laptop running Windows 3.11 to the Rapsberry Pi.</p></li><li><p>Use an old web browser to browse the entire modern Internet, via Browservice running on the Pi.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 image2-423-640" target="_blank" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8bad7eff-7c9e-4bff-909e-f03f25b20301_640x423.jpeg"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8bad7eff-7c9e-4bff-909e-f03f25b20301_640x423.jpeg" width="640" height="423" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8bad7eff-7c9e-4bff-909e-f03f25b20301_640x423.jpeg","height":423,"width":640,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Browservice","title":null,"type":null,"href":null}" alt="Browservice" title="Browservice"><style>
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