Wil van Antwerpen
wilva7.bsky.social
Wil van Antwerpen
@wilva7.bsky.social
Software Developer

Author of:
https://vimalin.com VMware Fusion/Workstation Backup
https://vimarun.com Autorun VMs
https://antview.dev MS WebView2 ActiveX

VMware vExpert / HAM radio & electronics
AntView 2.0.567 release

- Adds custom context menu functionality.
- A synchronous cookie management interface.
- Access to enable/disable buttons in the built-in Pdf viewer.
- Extended examples for Visual FoxPro.

Downloads:
antview.dev/downloads/
Documentation:
doc.antwise.com/antview2/
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.
malwaretech.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Vimalin for Fusion 2.6.613 has been released.
This is a bug fix release.

Download: vimalin.com/downloads/
Release notes Vimalin for Fusion: forums.antwise.com/showthread.p...
#vmware #vexpert
Download Vimalin for Windows and macOS from here
Download the latest Vimalin for Windows or macOS. Ensure running your VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation virtual machine backups today.
vimalin.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Vimalin for Windows 2.6.611 has been released.
This is a bug fix release.

Download: vimalin.com/downloads/
Release notes Vimalin for Windows: forums.antwise.com/showthread.p...
#vmware #vexpert
Download Vimalin for Windows and macOS from here
Download the latest Vimalin for Windows or macOS. Ensure running your VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation virtual machine backups today.
vimalin.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
How to set up your very own local Skynet at home so Altman/Zuckerberg/Musk/Bezos/Etc... can't scrape your user data for additional, future nefarious purposes:
Getting Started Running Local LLMs with Ollama
With the recent (but not unexpected) discovery that OpenAI never deleted your chats and now courts are demanding chat histories for upcoming legal cases... I thought that now would be a good time to write an article helping people who want to explore large language models (LLMs) like LLaMA, Mistral, or Gemma without relying on cloud services or APIs 😬.
mistwire.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
My @GitHub Sponsors profile is live! You can sponsor me to support my open source work 💖 github.com/sponsors/guy...
Sponsor @guyrleech on GitHub Sponsors
I have worked in the EUC arena for the last 30 years & have also developed software across 5 decades so I combine these skills to produce robust utilities to assist me in my work which I share with...
github.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I stand with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
For persons interested in joining the #vExpert program, applications are open until January 10th 2025.

As has become tradition in the past couple of years Martin and I run an vExpert Office Hours.

Jan 7 & 8 8PM CET

For an invite email: vexpertofficehours@gmail.com
#vCommunity #vExpert #vEpertPro
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
Basically everything worth a hill of beans uses HTTPS; that encrypts from your browser, all the way to the server side. Nothing in between (including, interestingly, your OS and its networking stack) can see the contents barring some MITM corporate nonsense.

This is why public wifi is "safe."
December 23, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Ahh.
A nice cuppa tea.
December 5, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
Protect trans kids.
December 4, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
I’ve been enjoying @bluesky since making the switch, I’ll probably use this as my primary platform going forward.

A forewarning, sometimes it’s gonna be tech talk, sometimes it’s gonna be cat pics 😸

Right now it’s cat pics :)

Happy #caturday!
November 17, 2024 at 12:00 AM
No, you didn't order Microsoft Copilot for $360,-

There's a VERY convincing phish going around.
In the from address it says "microsoft.com", but of course that's the description. The real from address is "onmicrosoft.com" and send via "protection.outlook.com"

Do not click the link(s).
November 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Wil van Antwerpen
Exciting that #VMwareFusion and #VMwareWorkstation are now 100% free for all uses, even commercial!

blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...
VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users
These powerful desktop hypervisor products are free to all users - commercial, educational, & personal users alike!
blogs.vmware.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:51 PM