EdVoncken
@edvoncken.net
Open Source, InfraCoding, DevOps, Cats, Electronics, Linux, CISSP, RHCE, Ex-RHCA, PC4ED, RetroComputing, Acorn BBC-B, BBQ
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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I have been finding an unusually large number of interdimensional portals on my walks recently. I am calling this one ‘Mystical Bridge Of The Shy Pissing Troll’.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I have been finding an unusually large number of interdimensional portals on my walks recently. I am calling this one ‘Mystical Bridge Of The Shy Pissing Troll’.
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Am reminded of what one Ukrainian colleague wrote me after the Feb 28 white house debacle:
‘We used to so admire the Americans. They were our great role model. Now look what wimps they really are. So eager to surrender to Russia, but nobody’s even shooting at them. What have we to learn from them?’
‘We used to so admire the Americans. They were our great role model. Now look what wimps they really are. So eager to surrender to Russia, but nobody’s even shooting at them. What have we to learn from them?’
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Am reminded of what one Ukrainian colleague wrote me after the Feb 28 white house debacle:
‘We used to so admire the Americans. They were our great role model. Now look what wimps they really are. So eager to surrender to Russia, but nobody’s even shooting at them. What have we to learn from them?’
‘We used to so admire the Americans. They were our great role model. Now look what wimps they really are. So eager to surrender to Russia, but nobody’s even shooting at them. What have we to learn from them?’
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Donald Trump-Krasnov
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Donald Trump-Krasnov
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Trump and Witkoff want to give Ukraine to Russia and then get paid for it by Russian oligarchs. But what do they mean?
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Trump and Witkoff want to give Ukraine to Russia and then get paid for it by Russian oligarchs. But what do they mean?
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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“Agree to disagree” reminded me of this: great way to extricate yourself from what promises to be a useless argument/debate is
”Well, I’m just going to have to agree with myself on this one.” 🤣🤣🤣 Works great!
”Well, I’m just going to have to agree with myself on this one.” 🤣🤣🤣 Works great!
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Agree to disagree” reminded me of this: great way to extricate yourself from what promises to be a useless argument/debate is
”Well, I’m just going to have to agree with myself on this one.” 🤣🤣🤣 Works great!
”Well, I’m just going to have to agree with myself on this one.” 🤣🤣🤣 Works great!
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
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Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
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This is what I mean when I say “my collection”. Real photos, postcards, slides, and film negatives plus a box of glass plate negatives. Not screenshots of things found online.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is what I mean when I say “my collection”. Real photos, postcards, slides, and film negatives plus a box of glass plate negatives. Not screenshots of things found online.
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Michael Che with the joke of the night on SNL's Weekend Update.
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Michael Che with the joke of the night on SNL's Weekend Update.
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A BBC Micro… that wasn’t a BBC Micro? Meet The Dolphin.
Built by Cumana in the mid-1980s, it offered the same feel and compatibility, without the price.
Built by Cumana in the mid-1980s, it offered the same feel and compatibility, without the price.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A BBC Micro… that wasn’t a BBC Micro? Meet The Dolphin.
Built by Cumana in the mid-1980s, it offered the same feel and compatibility, without the price.
Built by Cumana in the mid-1980s, it offered the same feel and compatibility, without the price.
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When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
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About me: I'm an election security expert with two decades of experience. I've led comprehensive security assessments on behalf of states of their voting tech. I've testified in congress several times about election vulnerabilities. I run a major election security conference.
The claims are BS.
The claims are BS.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
About me: I'm an election security expert with two decades of experience. I've led comprehensive security assessments on behalf of states of their voting tech. I've testified in congress several times about election vulnerabilities. I run a major election security conference.
The claims are BS.
The claims are BS.
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I made a Bsky content manager site because of Requests and I wanted it. You can:
• import your history
• search w keywords, dates, # of likes, replies ...
• find, delete, or export things individually or in bulk
• download official backup (.CAR)
• some basic stats :)
I CANNOT RETRIEVE YOUR DATA
• import your history
• search w keywords, dates, # of likes, replies ...
• find, delete, or export things individually or in bulk
• download official backup (.CAR)
• some basic stats :)
I CANNOT RETRIEVE YOUR DATA
Skymarshal - Bluesky Content Manager
Search, filter, and manage your Bluesky posts, replies, likes, and reposts. Delete unwanted content in bulk or individually. Export your data as CSV or CAR backups.
dr.eamer.dev
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I made a Bsky content manager site because of Requests and I wanted it. You can:
• import your history
• search w keywords, dates, # of likes, replies ...
• find, delete, or export things individually or in bulk
• download official backup (.CAR)
• some basic stats :)
I CANNOT RETRIEVE YOUR DATA
• import your history
• search w keywords, dates, # of likes, replies ...
• find, delete, or export things individually or in bulk
• download official backup (.CAR)
• some basic stats :)
I CANNOT RETRIEVE YOUR DATA
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
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THREAD.
Some thoughts on moving a subscriber list away from Substack - for various reasons, some political, some personal, some about not wanting to give part of my income to venture capitalists - and something very very strange (and a little scary) that has happened as a result of it...
Some thoughts on moving a subscriber list away from Substack - for various reasons, some political, some personal, some about not wanting to give part of my income to venture capitalists - and something very very strange (and a little scary) that has happened as a result of it...
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
THREAD.
Some thoughts on moving a subscriber list away from Substack - for various reasons, some political, some personal, some about not wanting to give part of my income to venture capitalists - and something very very strange (and a little scary) that has happened as a result of it...
Some thoughts on moving a subscriber list away from Substack - for various reasons, some political, some personal, some about not wanting to give part of my income to venture capitalists - and something very very strange (and a little scary) that has happened as a result of it...
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The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
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if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
So, the #PhilipsHUE app just forced me to read and accept dozens of pages full of legalese, just to control MY lights that I bought with MY MONEY. They are altering the conditions after the sale. OK, off to the #boycott list with you then. Customer-hostile arseholes.
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So, the #PhilipsHUE app just forced me to read and accept dozens of pages full of legalese, just to control MY lights that I bought with MY MONEY. They are altering the conditions after the sale. OK, off to the #boycott list with you then. Customer-hostile arseholes.