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Last year, Mullvad (a VPN company) co-founder Daniel Berntsson gave a personal donation of roughly $500k USD to the Swedish Örebro Party -- a political party which calls for stricter immigration policies and "extensive remigration".
What happened next is... predictable.
According to reports, roughly a quarter of the staff of Mullvad joined an internal chat criticizing the donation, with many calling for Berntsson to resign. Which Berntsson refused to do.
After several Leftist outlets in Europe criticized the donation, @mullvadnet issued a statement supporting the co-Founders right to make any donation he wants... but offering customers upset by this a refund on their services.
Then Tor got involved.
Mullvad is the single largest contributor to the Tor Project, providing well over $1 Million USD annually. As you might guess... this made the Leftists very angry.
"highly racist, white supremacist"
"it is the reason I have had to resign as a Tor Browser developer"
With some calling for "a clean break" from "Nazi CEOs".
Tor responded to these attacks with the following statement:
"Tor Project has paused proactive co-branding with Mullvad. That pause applies to joint promotional activity while the technical collaboration continues in alignment with our narrowly scoped agreement. We have also reviewed how Mullvad Browser is described and endorsed on our owned channels, and clarified language suggesting broader alignment between our values. These changes are intended to describe the relationship more accurately and avoid notions of implied endorsement."
The @torproject then by changing the way they describe their relationship with Mullvad from "great value alignment" to a "a narrowly-scoped technical collaboration".
This, as you can imagine, made the Leftists even angrier (because they always get angrier... no matter what).
The attacks on Tor intensified, with Leftists calling their position: "if we get money from right-wing extremists, well, we take it".
Getting LCOS certified as UNIX is *technically* possible -- and would be tremendously amusing.
However, the cost is... a lot. Looks like it would cost roughly $30,000 per year (give or take) to get the official certification.
After the FOSDEM conference rejected a "DEI Devroom" track, Leftists of Open Source are attempting to push forward DEI activism at the largest Open Source conference in Europe.
Here we see the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy talking about both shoehorning DEI lectures into other (non-DEI) tracks... as well as being part of a "DEI side event" taking place right outside the conference.
Many are attempting to organize such a "DEI event" on the streets directly in front of FOSDEM.
With the PHP security news, it's worth taking a moment to look at the current leadership of PHP.
The Executive Director of the PHP Foundation, Elizabeth Barron (Naramore), has built a career on pushing DEI and Leftist politics in software.
- Worked on "Code of Conduct" and "Developer Inclusion" at GitHub.
- Cofounded a "women and non-binary individuals" PHP organization.
- Worked at The Linux Foundation (CHAOSS) where she wrote a "2021 DEI Audit".
- Her X bio used to read: "DEI in Open Source".
- Regularly posted anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, anti-White, and pro-Baby Murder statements on her @ElizabethN account.
Since becoming the PHP Executive Director she has:
- Started an "Accessibility & Inclusion group".
- Started an initiative to onboard "marginalized and underrepresented groups".
LCOS 0.9.5 Has Landed!
Fixes! More hardware support! 1.0 arrives Nov 1st!
lunduke.com/lcos.html
Indian Root Certificate Authority Sets Private Key to 4
Anyone has been able to make fake HTTPS certificates for over a year.
Many years back, I made a statement that “HTTPS is dangerous” due to significant, and obvious, problems in the design of the Certificate Authority system.
The core point I made: A small, simple mistake with a Root Certificate Authority has massive impacts throughout the system, making it highly likely that there were untold numbers of “fake” certificates which were “trusted”.
It is a “security based on trust” system, where we are asked to blindly trust dozens upon dozens of Root Certificate Authority organizations (from countries around the world) to never make a single mistake (or implement any backdoors for any government they are beholden to).
It is, quite simply, a design that appears specifically made to be abused and manipulated.
I was told that I did not understand how CA’s work.
I was mocked and ridiculed.
Well… as a wise man once said…
Who’s laughing now, Wayne?!
In April of 2025, eMudhra (an Indian Certificate Authority), published 8 intermediate CA keys which were so weak that a small child could guess the numbers in a few seconds.
One of the private keys was, literally, 4.
Just… 4.
This massive problem was not made public until October 17th of this year, when it was discovered by an anonymous guy on the Internet who goes only by “Wayne” (like “Cher”…. but… “Wayne”).
What this means in practical terms: It has been trivially simple, for the last year and a half, to create fake “secure” HTTPS certificates. (One person even created a fake HTTPS certificate for a Google.com subdomain.)
It took Mozilla 3 days, after learning about this (from “Wayne”), before they updated their certificate list (which many open source projects — including curl and Python — rely upon).
As of this moment, many systems are still vulnerable (including macOS).
The progress the @omarchy crew is making in adding hardware support is astoundingly impressive. Latest Apple Silicon Mac Mini is now booting Linux.
In April of 2025, eMudhra (an Indian Certificate Authority), published 8 intermediate CA keys which were so weak that a small child could guess the numbers in a few seconds.
One of the private keys was, literally, 4.
Just… 4.
This massive problem was not made public until October 17th of this year, when it was discovered by an anonymous guy on the Internet who goes only by “Wayne” (like “Cher”…. but… “Wayne”).
What this means in practical terms: It has been trivially simple, for the last year and a half, to create fake “secure” HTTPS certificates. (One person even created a fake HTTPS certificate for a Google.com subdomain.)
It took Mozilla 3 days, after learning about this (from “Wayne”), before they updated their certificate list (which many open source projects — including curl and Python — rely upon).
As of this moment, many systems are still vulnerable (including macOS).
FOSDEM (the largest Open Source conference in Europe) has rejected a proposed “DEI Devroom”… and the Leftists of Open Source are furious.
Within moments of the announced rejection, the attacks began to fly. Angry Leftists hurled nearly every attack in their arsenal at FOSDEM (which saw over 10,000 attendees in 2026).
“Fascists!”
“Appease Trump!”
“Part of the problem!”
“Genocide-complicit!”
“Slop!”
These attacks are still ramping up, supported by leadership of several Open Source organizations (including, as expected, GNOME).
Apple’s macOS is no longer UNIX… officially.
It would appear that Apple did not renew their UNIX certification (from the Open Group) when it expired back on August 29th.
As a result, macOS has been removed from the list of “UNIX Certified Products”.
At this point it remains unclear if Apple not renewing UNIX certification was intentional, or an oversight.
As of 3 hours ago, the Linux Kernel no longer requires the usage of AI to be declared for new code submissions.
LCOS 0.9.5 has landed! (Only 12 days until 1.0!)
The following fixes have been added since the 0.9.4 update:
- Hardware support improved for built-in touchpads on some MacBook models, ExpressCards & some eSATA devices.
- Fixed issue where closing the lid on some laptops would not properly suspend.
- Improved support for wireless printers.
- Fixes for dual booting.
- Minor fixes to Lunduke Paint, Lunduke Edit, Updates, and Lunduke City.
- Visual fixes for boot menu under some configurations.
ISO download:
github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS…
Users of the previous 0.9 releases can update to 0.9.5.
GNOME Founder Attacks Omarchy Founder as "Lazy, Racist, Ignorant"
Plus: Red Hat spokesman calls for impeachment of President Trump and to "fight the far-right extremist" Elon Musk.
Lifetime Sub Sale, Plus Your Name on the LCOS About Window: lunduke.substack.com/p/lifet…
