Patrick Lambert
@dendory.net
Computer Engineer with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. I mostly write about tech, art and gaming. 🇨🇦 https://dendory.net/
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Patrick Lambert
@dendory.net
· Jan 20
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🕹️Favorite games: KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, HL2, Cyberpunk 2077
📺 Favorite TV shows: Star Trek, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Re: Zero, Love Live
📀 Favorite tech: Linux, Python, Proxmox, MSDOS retrocomputing
🏰 Hobbies: Homelab, gaming, traveling, digital art, anime figures collecting
🕹️Favorite games: KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, HL2, Cyberpunk 2077
📺 Favorite TV shows: Star Trek, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Re: Zero, Love Live
📀 Favorite tech: Linux, Python, Proxmox, MSDOS retrocomputing
🏰 Hobbies: Homelab, gaming, traveling, digital art, anime figures collecting
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Trump: “We’re going to run Venezuela until a safe transition takes place.”
An invasion.
An invasion.
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Trump: “We’re going to run Venezuela until a safe transition takes place.”
An invasion.
An invasion.
Reposted by Patrick Lambert
Trump: “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in and spend billions of dollars to fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”
An invasion.
An invasion.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Trump: “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in and spend billions of dollars to fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”
An invasion.
An invasion.
Good thing it's not a war, just a "special military operation". Now the US administration can bomb, invade and conduct arrests anywhere in the world, sovereignty means nothing. We're just 3 days into 2026 and things are already getting worse.. apnews.com/article/vene...
US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington.
apnews.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Good thing it's not a war, just a "special military operation". Now the US administration can bomb, invade and conduct arrests anywhere in the world, sovereignty means nothing. We're just 3 days into 2026 and things are already getting worse.. apnews.com/article/vene...
As the US turns its back on science, I hope Canada and the EU can pick up the pace, showing the world a better path forward. #canadasky #europesky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
As the US turns its back on science, I hope Canada and the EU can pick up the pace, showing the world a better path forward. #canadasky #europesky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
What is fate? A few thoughts for the beginning of the year. Happy 2026 everyone! dendory.net/posts/fate.h...
What is fate?
How your success comes from equal part luck, a good social environment, and hard work.
dendory.net
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
What is fate? A few thoughts for the beginning of the year. Happy 2026 everyone! dendory.net/posts/fate.h...
Subscriptions make you a slave of the company you pay money to. You're left paying, and never owning anything, with the company controlling 100% of the relationship. Say no to subscriptions. #tech #sysadmin #vmware old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...
VMware now threatening outages to perpetual license holders
# The saga with VMware continues!!! **Backstory:** We've been a VMware shop for 10+ years with multiple data centers globally. We decided to...
old.reddit.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Subscriptions make you a slave of the company you pay money to. You're left paying, and never owning anything, with the company controlling 100% of the relationship. Say no to subscriptions. #tech #sysadmin #vmware old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...
Here's why open source and self hosted AI models are so important. Can you imagine ChatGPT being like: "You seem depressed today.. perhaps a tasty drink of Coca Cola would cheer you up?!"
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers
OpenAI is reportedly mulling a new form of ads on ChatGPT called "sponsored content," which could influence your buying decisions.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Here's why open source and self hosted AI models are so important. Can you imagine ChatGPT being like: "You seem depressed today.. perhaps a tasty drink of Coca Cola would cheer you up?!"
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
New blog post on how I deployed Nexus for self-hosted Docker and Python artifacts. #sysadmin #selfhosted #tech #homelab dendory.net/posts/nexus....
Self-hosted Nexus deployment
How to locally host your own Docker images and Python modules.
dendory.net
December 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New blog post on how I deployed Nexus for self-hosted Docker and Python artifacts. #sysadmin #selfhosted #tech #homelab dendory.net/posts/nexus....
Never an off day for #cybersecurity www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
MongoDB warns admins to patch severe RCE flaw immediately
MongoDB has warned IT admins to immediately patch a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited in remote code execution (RCE) attacks targeting vulnerable servers.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Never an off day for #cybersecurity www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
AI facial recognition is already leading to multiple false arrests in the US. This is likely to become more common. #tech #privacy #ai youtu.be/B9M4F_U1eEw?...
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
AI facial recognition is already leading to multiple false arrests in the US. This is likely to become more common. #tech #privacy #ai youtu.be/B9M4F_U1eEw?...
Another fascinating example of a core Internet infrastructure service being reliant on a single person/small team. #sysadmin groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services
groups.google.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Another fascinating example of a core Internet infrastructure service being reliant on a single person/small team. #sysadmin groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
Always good reminder of the risks of US travel. #canadasky youtu.be/oZoCiJy3OJU?...
U.S. Travel Risks | Your Morning
YouTube video by CTV Your Morning
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Always good reminder of the risks of US travel. #canadasky youtu.be/oZoCiJy3OJU?...
This is so braindead, it's almost like executives told themselves: "Hey, you know how some people hate our AI offerings? Well instead of promoting the benefits, let's do everything we can to piss them off even more!" #tech #ai www.digitaltrends.com/home/microso...
Microsoft Copilot quietly shows up on LG TVs, and you can’t remove it
LG TV owners are discovering Microsoft Copilot on their home screens following a software update. The AI assistant installs automatically and cannot be removed, highlighting how AI features are increa...
www.digitaltrends.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is so braindead, it's almost like executives told themselves: "Hey, you know how some people hate our AI offerings? Well instead of promoting the benefits, let's do everything we can to piss them off even more!" #tech #ai www.digitaltrends.com/home/microso...
This is a good write up on the massive amount of #cybersecurity changes that happened in the US in 2025 under the new administration. My take away? The US doesn't deserve the hold the reigns of anything remotely related to cybersecurity at this point. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dism...
Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to address a broad spectrum of technology challenge...
krebsonsecurity.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is a good write up on the massive amount of #cybersecurity changes that happened in the US in 2025 under the new administration. My take away? The US doesn't deserve the hold the reigns of anything remotely related to cybersecurity at this point. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dism...
Every year it's worth checking out what's entering the public domain. Here is the list for 2026 #DataHoarding web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Every year it's worth checking out what's entering the public domain. Here is the list for 2026 #DataHoarding web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
I think this is a great take on what the cloud truly is. #cloud #sysadmin #tech youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
The BIG Outage: The One System That Can Take Down Everything
YouTube video by Dave's Garage
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I think this is a great take on what the cloud truly is. #cloud #sysadmin #tech youtu.be/13IaHGr_FJA?...
From the sysadmin community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the sysadmin community
www.reddit.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A reminder to mandate strong passwords on anything that's Internet accessible. Bad actors can easily attempt millions of passwords in a matter of hours. #cybersecurity www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
New password spraying attacks target Cisco, PAN VPN gateways
An automated campaign is targeting multiple VPN platforms, with credential-based attacks being observed on Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect and Cisco SSL VPN.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A reminder to mandate strong passwords on anything that's Internet accessible. Bad actors can easily attempt millions of passwords in a matter of hours. #cybersecurity www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
It seems like these stories (not just about iCloud but all SaaS providers) are becoming more and more common. Don't have all your eggs in one basket. #homelab #selfhosted hey.paris/posts/appleid/
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple De...
hey.paris
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It seems like these stories (not just about iCloud but all SaaS providers) are becoming more and more common. Don't have all your eggs in one basket. #homelab #selfhosted hey.paris/posts/appleid/
I think this is a very good and timely video. It shows how even a modern and civilized society can be turned into an authoritarian hellscape with people simply getting used to it, the world moving on. This could be New York, Portland or Chicago in a very short time. #privacy youtu.be/s80wVezQ95Y?...
Hong Kong is Slowly Turning into a Totalitarian Nightmare.
YouTube video by Places
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I think this is a very good and timely video. It shows how even a modern and civilized society can be turned into an authoritarian hellscape with people simply getting used to it, the world moving on. This could be New York, Portland or Chicago in a very short time. #privacy youtu.be/s80wVezQ95Y?...
"US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump" "Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said."
How is the US not a rogue state yet..?
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
How is the US not a rogue state yet..?
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump" "Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said."
How is the US not a rogue state yet..?
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
How is the US not a rogue state yet..?
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
This is from an official AWS webinar. I understand that it's a demo, but people are dumb and they will copy/paste code all day long. No one should ever do something like this, especially in a demo. Use os.environ['TOKEN'] instead and don't have tokens in your code. #cybersecurity #aws
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is from an official AWS webinar. I understand that it's a demo, but people are dumb and they will copy/paste code all day long. No one should ever do something like this, especially in a demo. Use os.environ['TOKEN'] instead and don't have tokens in your code. #cybersecurity #aws
AI can be a great tool, but the way companies keep using it to create such pure crap is only helping to make us hate the entire field. #ai #tech www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
“BG3 players exploit children.”
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
AI can be a great tool, but the way companies keep using it to create such pure crap is only helping to make us hate the entire field. #ai #tech www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...