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amcclure··on How killing cookie banners made the web usable again
Installing uBlock's the first thing I do on new web browser setups anymore. Second is enabling the filters.
amcclure··on Red Hat Is Phased Out of Existence This Month Onwards
That's a different article, but thanks
amcclure··on In Case Anybody Still Believes Microsoft Lunduke Cares About GNU/Linux
"Horrible and unreadable" more so describes The Register MS rather rather than Techrights.
amcclure··on It Took GNOME's CoCC over 8 Months to Realise Reports Went into /Dev/Null/
Both articles include some of the same things, but Techrights provides some additional context behind the whole GNOME CoC situation, rather than being a mere "resend your censorship requests please" blog post.
amcclure··on GNU/Linux Has Grown a Lot Lately
It could be a lot of "AI Agent" traffic getting detected as GNU/Linux use for all we know.
amcclure··on Unixcop.com Is the Latest "Linux" Site to Have Become a Slopfarm After Death
Full title that needed shortened to fit with HN's title limit: 'unixcop.com is the Latest "Linux" Site to Have Become a Slopfarm After 2 Years of Death (Inactivity)'
amcclure··on Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation
Full title: "Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation. Revisiting His Attacks (and Attack Site) on Richard Stallman Might be a Good Start."
amcclure··on Have a "Lifetime" Without Microsoft
It turns out that a "lifetime" is only about 5 years.
amcclure··on Jumping Up/Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Gates Did
If Hacker News allowed full-length titles, it would be: "Jumping Up and Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Bill Gates Did"
amcclure··on GNUtrition 0.33.0rc5
Update: RC6 fixes an implied declaration that was missed in RC5. (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnutrition/2026-06/m...)
amcclure··on GNUtrition 0.33.0rc5
A test release of GNUtrition, 0.33.0rc5, is now available.

GNUtrition is free nutrition analysis software. The USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used as the source of food nutrient information.

This release fixes bugs from 0.33.0rc1-rc4, removes inaccurate algorithm constants, removes additional unnecessary dependencies, improves reliability/usability on non-GNU systems, among other general improvements and bug fixes. Version 0.33.0 (the first ftp.gnu.org release of GNUtrition since 2012) is expected to be released by June 5th. Any and all testing for the upcoming release will be greatly appreciated. Please use the bug-gnutrition and help-gnutrition mailing lists for your bug reports and/or other questions.

More information about GNUtrition may be found on its home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutrition/. This test release can be obtained from the alpha.gnu.org server at one of the following:

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
Please report any problems you experience to the GNUtrition bug reports mailing list: bug-gnutrition@gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnutrition).
amcclure··on Firefox 150 Released
clugstj is correct (https://lwn.net/Articles/1068851/)

> Why were web sites ever able to access your local network without your permission? This seems like it was always a bad idea.

amcclure··on Help Wanted: Porting GNUtrition to Python 3 and WxPython
Followup: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutrition-devel/2026-03/...
amcclure··on Linux Kernel Establishes Official AI Coding Guidelines
Al Chatbots officially allowed for all aspects of Linux Kernel development. “Kernel contributors have been using [Al tools] to generate contributions for a long time.”
amcclure··on Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down
53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.
amcclure··on Lunduke 8-Bit Week: Do Your Homework [video]
Wherein we explore word processing and spreadsheets on the 8-bit.
amcclure··on [dead]
The Em Dash ( — ) has been in use for centuries by some of the most renowned writers — from journalists to classic literature to modern Sci-Fi authors. Not a good way to identify AI output.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

amcclure··on [dead]
Two weeks ago, The Lunduke Journal pointed out how many Leftist Open Source organizations (Rust, NixOS, Linux Kernel, etc.) still used the “Master” branch naming (against their “inclusive naming” rules). Yesterday, Rust changed to “Main”.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

amcclure··on Internet Archive Reaches Secret Settlement with Universal Music
Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle, was the final hold-out in reaching a settlement. Which is being kept confidential.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

amcclure··on Internet Archive in Settlement Negotiations with Universal [video]
With potential damages upwards of $412 Million USD, the Internet Archive is in last ditch negotiations with Universal Music Group.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/