Kevin Welch
@thrungaron.bsky.social
Kevin Welch is a mind forever voyaging, piloting a cyborg vessel on existential seas. Medtech startup Technology Director. Hacker. Cyberpunk. Activist. Improvisational musician. Written word muser. Post-colonialist Kantian. Will play Satie for a Sazerac.
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Just a reminder to DONATE: network guru Chris Boyd served EFF-Austin as board member and treasurer for 20+ years until his passing on May 13. In his memory, we're still soliciting donations to support Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and EFF-Austin: gofund.me/dcb51faa
Donate to Honor Chris Boyd: Support Digital Rights, organized by Kevin Welch
Chris Boyd was a man of many virtues, but one of the principal among them was his… Kevin Welch needs your support for Honor Chris Boyd: Support Digital Rights
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June 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just a reminder to DONATE: network guru Chris Boyd served EFF-Austin as board member and treasurer for 20+ years until his passing on May 13. In his memory, we're still soliciting donations to support Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and EFF-Austin: gofund.me/dcb51faa
Adulthood is caring about the differences between Sections, Columns, and Tables in LibreOffice when it comes to document layout and flow.
June 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Adulthood is caring about the differences between Sections, Columns, and Tables in LibreOffice when it comes to document layout and flow.
A good friend and fellow board member of mine passed away recently. Help us honor Chris' memory by donating to Electronic Frontier Foundation in his name. Whether it's $5 or $500, we, and Chris, thank you.
Donate to Honor Chris Boyd: Support Digital Rights, organized by Kevin Welch
Chris Boyd was a man of many virtues, but one of the principal among them was his… Kevin Welch needs your support for Honor Chris Boyd: Support Digital Rights
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June 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A good friend and fellow board member of mine passed away recently. Help us honor Chris' memory by donating to Electronic Frontier Foundation in his name. Whether it's $5 or $500, we, and Chris, thank you.
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Our next meetup features @eff.org's Cindy Cohn talking to us about code as speech, join us!
Coding, Free Speech and You, Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
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June 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our next meetup features @eff.org's Cindy Cohn talking to us about code as speech, join us!
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Our meetup next month will feature Nate Bartram of @thenewoil.org discussing the basic of improving your phone privacy, join us!
Phone Privacy 101, Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
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May 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Our meetup next month will feature Nate Bartram of @thenewoil.org discussing the basic of improving your phone privacy, join us!
Woot, self-hosted Ghost on a VPS. The installation instructions could do a with a bit of guidance on how to properly manage Node versions with nvm without making systemd cranky, but overall a pretty easy, pleasant experience as far as self-hosting goes.
May 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Woot, self-hosted Ghost on a VPS. The installation instructions could do a with a bit of guidance on how to properly manage Node versions with nvm without making systemd cranky, but overall a pretty easy, pleasant experience as far as self-hosting goes.
I and EFF Director Cindy Cohn joined the Plutopians for a free-wheeling discussion of digital civil liberties activism, give the 'ol podcast a listen! plutopia.io/cindy-cohn-a...
Cindy Cohn and Kevin Welch: Settling the Electronic Frontier - Plutopia News Network
EFF's Cindy Cohn and EFF-Austin's Kevin Welch discuss with Plutopians the history and evolving mission of EFF in defending digital rights.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I and EFF Director Cindy Cohn joined the Plutopians for a free-wheeling discussion of digital civil liberties activism, give the 'ol podcast a listen! plutopia.io/cindy-cohn-a...
A lot of modern popular music leaves me cold (or maybe I'm just getting old), but Honey Water by Japanese Breakfast is phenomenal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEZ0...
Honey Water
YouTube video by Japanese Breakfast - Topic
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May 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A lot of modern popular music leaves me cold (or maybe I'm just getting old), but Honey Water by Japanese Breakfast is phenomenal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEZ0...
Lol, Google's gotten so much criticism about how bad search has become that they've added a tab/search mode called Forums that is basically the trick everyone's been doing of site:reddit.com to actually find relevant results.
May 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Lol, Google's gotten so much criticism about how bad search has become that they've added a tab/search mode called Forums that is basically the trick everyone's been doing of site:reddit.com to actually find relevant results.
Ok, someone did it and has the greatest car bumper sticker of all time: "Keep honking. I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 meteoric sensation 'Universal Consciousness.'"
May 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ok, someone did it and has the greatest car bumper sticker of all time: "Keep honking. I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 meteoric sensation 'Universal Consciousness.'"
If something is bringing you suffering because you think it's interfering with or getting in the way of what you want, ask yourself if what you want is truly what YOU want, or if society has merely told you from a very young age that it's what you SHOULD want.
May 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If something is bringing you suffering because you think it's interfering with or getting in the way of what you want, ask yourself if what you want is truly what YOU want, or if society has merely told you from a very young age that it's what you SHOULD want.
This is absolutely wild, and has me wondering about a future where AI simulacra of deceased individuals are accepted as valid witnesses in trials, especially in any scenario where the outcome hinges around what the deceased would have wanted the outcome to be. www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
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May 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is absolutely wild, and has me wondering about a future where AI simulacra of deceased individuals are accepted as valid witnesses in trials, especially in any scenario where the outcome hinges around what the deceased would have wanted the outcome to be. www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
The unfortunate thing about utopian plans for the world and the fortunate thing about dystopian plans for the world is that the world has other plans.
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The unfortunate thing about utopian plans for the world and the fortunate thing about dystopian plans for the world is that the world has other plans.
You have to admire Apple's audacity in making a show where you laugh at a megacorp gifting its abused employees with waffle parties, wondering what idiot would fall for such a stupid bribe, all while you relax on the couch at the end of a hard day and reward yourself with some Severance as a treat.
April 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You have to admire Apple's audacity in making a show where you laugh at a megacorp gifting its abused employees with waffle parties, wondering what idiot would fall for such a stupid bribe, all while you relax on the couch at the end of a hard day and reward yourself with some Severance as a treat.
Every attempt to control others eventually results in the creation of the means of your own control.
April 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every attempt to control others eventually results in the creation of the means of your own control.
You may think I have forgotten or ignored your text or email, but I can assure you that not only have I not forgotten it, even if you sent it six months ago, but that I've been spending those six months feeling guilty that I haven't had a chance to reply to you yet.
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You may think I have forgotten or ignored your text or email, but I can assure you that not only have I not forgotten it, even if you sent it six months ago, but that I've been spending those six months feeling guilty that I haven't had a chance to reply to you yet.
Programmer friends, what are some upcoming conferences this year that might be worth attending? Especially interested in conferences that will be talking about the latest and greatest in web technologies, open source, and intelligent ways of integrating AI into one's workflow.
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Programmer friends, what are some upcoming conferences this year that might be worth attending? Especially interested in conferences that will be talking about the latest and greatest in web technologies, open source, and intelligent ways of integrating AI into one's workflow.
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions-these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
-Roland Barthes
-Roland Barthes
April 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions-these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
-Roland Barthes
-Roland Barthes
Believe it or not, I think the thing I hate about the current administration the most is how cynical and disillusioned they have made young people about the future, and that it's really hard for me to argue that they're wrong.
March 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Believe it or not, I think the thing I hate about the current administration the most is how cynical and disillusioned they have made young people about the future, and that it's really hard for me to argue that they're wrong.
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Our meetup next month features Louis Rossmann discussing right to repair, join us!
Right To Repair: An Activist's Perspective, Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
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March 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Our meetup next month features Louis Rossmann discussing right to repair, join us!
You know it's a satisfying band practice when you learn to do a pretty decent cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Blue Monday, and True Faith in thirty minutes.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
You know it's a satisfying band practice when you learn to do a pretty decent cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Blue Monday, and True Faith in thirty minutes.
Successfully rooted my phone and installed CalyxOS on it. The experiment to de-Googlefy my Android begins.
March 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Successfully rooted my phone and installed CalyxOS on it. The experiment to de-Googlefy my Android begins.
Ugh, there's something about my python3 config that causes an xed version dependency issue that breaks upgrading Linux Mint to version 22. Thank goodness for Timeshift backups and bootable media. Now to figure out why my python install is borked.
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ugh, there's something about my python3 config that causes an xed version dependency issue that breaks upgrading Linux Mint to version 22. Thank goodness for Timeshift backups and bootable media. Now to figure out why my python install is borked.
The Superb Owl was fine, I guess. Kendrick killed it, though. And to have Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam telling Kendrick to make himself acceptable to the American public, all while he did his own thing, powerful.
February 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The Superb Owl was fine, I guess. Kendrick killed it, though. And to have Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam telling Kendrick to make himself acceptable to the American public, all while he did his own thing, powerful.
So, ByteDance just launched their OmniHuman-1 video deepfake product, and...it's truly, staggeringly good. We are about to return to a world before the invention of the photograph, where there isn't really such a thing as objective photographic or video evidence of events as they actually happened.
ByteDance OmniHuman-1 sample
YouTube video by Kyle Wiggers
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February 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So, ByteDance just launched their OmniHuman-1 video deepfake product, and...it's truly, staggeringly good. We are about to return to a world before the invention of the photograph, where there isn't really such a thing as objective photographic or video evidence of events as they actually happened.