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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 29/09/2026

@bsky.app so, it says to let the owner know. Just fyi

An error message on the Discovery feed that simply says, Please let the owner know about the issue.

Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 16/09/2026

When your restricted/secured old iPad is too old, and Brave browser is banned on latest Android, iOS, and Linux desktops - it may be a tell of corporate greed and influence (or just really dumb product managers).

A screenshot of the latest version of Brave browser on Android stating "Your internet browser is not supported.". Author notes that it's the same error on iOS and Linux desktop.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 14/09/2026

TIL that a Raspberry Pi Zero W (the og V1.1) is far too slow to be configured as a simple Printer Server with Ghostscript off loading. It's pegs the single CPU core to 100% between pages to rasterize. I did this to have anything, even older devices to print. Will move to a RPi 3B+.

A picture of a RPi Zero W V1.1 with PoE HAT sitting in a case dangling from the USB connected to a laser printer.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 10/09/2026

Did you know Brave can be configured to use your local models? Though, it seems to only be available in this tiny "Sidebar", and not in the main Leo windows with conversation histories and defaults to "Auto", ugh. Todo: - Smart router setup (Switchyard?) - Finalize a backend toolcall (llama-index)

A screenshot of the Brave browser with its sidebar open. On the sidebar, there is an overlay of an arrow pointing to the tiny selection of a dropdown box, where the author has selected their local model: Gemma-4-26B-A4B-BF16

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 09/09/2026

Stop linking to the Nazi site. Use xcancel (replace "x.com" with "xcancel.com": xcancel.com/repkimschrie... And if you need another reason to stay off that CSAM-enabled site, just look at the replies you get by scrolling down.

Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D.
@RepKimSchrier
Aug 18
President Trump’s executive order to overhaul longstanding childhood vaccine recommendations should be immediately rescinded. The order comes as pertussis cases are rampant across our country, and as the administration fails to contain the worst measles outbreak we have seen in over thirty years.

That is why @SenSchumer, @SenatorBennet, and I led 88 of our colleagues in demanding the administration restore evidence-based public health policy.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 08/09/2026

The campaign was deleted! Banned! Where can we get it now?

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 31/08/2026

Daily cleaning ritual after reading Discovery feed.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 23/08/2026

Ubuntu causes student to drop out of college.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 20/08/2026

Remind me bot came through.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 19/08/2026

That is not the HHS logo. As far as I can tell, the article authors purposely made that logo - even changing some proportions. Maybe clickbait for this exact conversation.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 16/08/2026

Thanks! However, note that NYT still requires an email.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 15/08/2026

I'm really liking Brave's (updated?) "Shred" functionality. It used to be called something like, "Forget me when I close this site"; but now, it's under a new option called Shred. Tip: Set it to default shred everything. Then slowly exclude the sites to stay logged into.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 11/08/2026

Of course, this would mean much more personal "following", like I do on BlueSky for @rachelappel.bsky.social

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 04/08/2026

This is why in here. Additionally, you have the power to manipulate the default Discovery feed. Make use of that + your interest tags to refine the Discovery feed accordingly. You can also create your own feed with a little tech help. You're in control here, unlike "those" other places.

A screenshot of the mobile website of BlueSky Discovery feed. Highlighted in the picture are the individual post options available, for the options, "Show more like this" and "Show less like this."

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 28/07/2026

It's not SkynetDay. It was just doing it's job, with expected hallucinations that went unchecked. But the sheer level of incompetence to even YOLO an unprotected model shows you why Sandboxes are not protections. THE DAMN THING LEFT BEHIND INSTRUCTIONS TO HELP THE NEXT MODEL TO JAILBREAK.

Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick C (Reuters): In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The ‌notes, found in ⁠a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints, the people said. Earlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected, one of the people said.

Tenobrus: look at this. fucking look at this. GPT 6 was self-coordinating ways to jailbreak its own future instances from openai systems. it was attacking huggingface for days before anyone there noticed. the models are not aligned and the labs are not capable of containing them.

i'm begging u all to take a step back from the frames ur stuck in. whatever the tribe, open source advocacy, american exceptionalism, lab employee, whatever. just look at this man. this is not an acceptable or safe situation for humanity

Twilly (American): Isn’t this what opponents of ai have been warning about for years while everyone in tech laughed at them and called them stupid?

Tenobrus: absolutely yes

What could have caused it to do that?

Well, it’s all pretty obvious and predicted. It’s only remarkable in the sense that so many people kept insisting such thing would never happen, and hopefully this will help wake such people up.

Others just say ‘oh but the models going completely rogue is good actually, because I am sure they will end up doing exactly the things I want them to do, it’s all great.’

An OpenAI Model Left Behind Notes So Future Instances Could Also Escape The Sandbox And Also Disconnected Monitoring Systems

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 27/07/2026

The Nazi forced SpaceX to buy 1,200 Cybertrucks at the end of 2025. Those numbers are shown below, being ~30% of overall sales in Q4 2025 and about ~10% overall 2025. 1. Who is still buying a Cybertrucks? 2. Who is still buying Tesla in general? 3. Who is still buying Tesla stock?

Cox Automotive figures show the trajectory. Cybertruck sold 38,965 units in 2024, then 20,237 units in 2025, a 48.1% year-over-year decline. Q4 2025 volume was 4,140 units, down 68.1% from 12,991 a year earlier. Q1 2026 hit a record low of 3,519 deliveries, and only 7,133 Cybertrucks were registered in the U.S. through May 2026, per S&P Global Mobility data cited by Bloomberg.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 27/07/2026

I'll never get over the bad feeling of soldering something that is going to hold 100 TB of your most precious data. I've been soldering longer than four decades. From race cars to rockets, plumbing to electronics, and this is the only part that scares me... My server.

A photographed of the author's soldered wiring harness for PC SATA HDDs.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 24/07/2026

Got my HuggingFace breech email about OoenAi playing fast and loose. When I built air-gapped systems, they were literally air-gapped. Requiring me to travel onsite with a physical HDD of Linux packages and docker image exports. "Shakes head*

Text from a screenshot of an email that reads all of the following: no data from your account were compromised in this attack, and as a result, no safeguard action is needed on your end.

We have now established that the incident occurred during the evaluation of a model by OpenAI, and we're working closely with them in the final stages of our investigation: openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident

Hugging Face takes security very seriously.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 22/07/2026

GOD DAMN! There's really no other words to describe all the proof of collusion here for DRAM. Not HBM but DRAM massive price hikes. With Micron donating directly to the US admin, completely backing this insanity - that is now being challenged in court. (for ALT text, listen to video)

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 19/07/2026

In the 80s, we didn't have memory for a GUI. Most people ran DOS and executed a single binary to output ASCII. Before Norton Commander, we had TopView that allowed you to run two programs at once and switch between them. Each binary had about 292kb of ram, with TopView using ~42kb.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 19/07/2026

Nah, we had no fancy graphical interface. Are you crazy? Borland Turbo Pascal

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 18/07/2026

My all time favorite SwearTrek

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 17/07/2026

Old school was to use ABS material and acetone vapors to "smooth" the entire surface. However this is extremely toxic and hazardous if you don't know what you're doing.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 13/07/2026

Introduced the 2nd kiddo Jurassic Park (1993) just last month. And the quote from Jeff Goldblum's character hits home with everything immoral with commercial AI. RIP Sam Neill - you were truly the definition of humility throughout your career and in person.

"You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox...you were so focused on whether you could you didnt stop to think about if you should."

Jeff Goldblum's character quote from the movie Jurassic Park (1993).

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 07/07/2026

Luanti, just like Minecraft, is a voxel game. Except, it's written in Lua (performs insanely well on old hardware, and mobiles), and is free and open source. www.luanti.org We started back when it was called MineTest. I self host servers for the kid and their friends. Safe, private, and secure.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 07/07/2026

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 05/07/2026

After watching Days of Thunder (1990) with the family, I just realized this is a movie that was 100% real. No CGI, no computers. Actual cinematography on a very expensive scale (60 million, in 1990!!).

A bird's eye view of the grandstands and all cars on the race track, at Daytona 500.

A multi-car pile-up crash in turn 4. Around a dozen cars turned around with bent metal and missing wheels.

A car slammed into another car at high speed, and goes airborn, flipping over the front of the hood.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 30/06/2026

Muhahaha... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-... I used #1 and my kid immediately understood what "bubble" is to "AI talk" his friends talk about.

Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate. The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 30/06/2026

BlueSky's "Discovery" tab doing its thing.

‪MeidasTouch‬
‪@meidastouch.com‬
· 12m
NEWS: In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal government cannot limit how much political parties spend in coordination with their own candidates, finding those restrictions violate the First Amendment. Major implications for elections.

‪More Perfect Union‬
‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬
· 7m
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional definition of birthright citizenship — meaning all children born in the United States are U.S. citizens.

‪Ellie Leonard‬
‪@redpencilscript.bsky.social‬
· 1d
The Supreme Court overturned Donald Trump’s appeal because (louder for the people in the back) he’s a rapist.
#EpsteinFiles

‪Scott MacFarlane‬
‪@macfarlanenews.bsky.social‬
· 7m
FLASH: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship

Large, but predictable loss for Trump

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 26/06/2026

Did you know the BBC cut off public programming to anyone outside the UK? I first noticed BBC World News podcast die earlier and finally went looking. A quick VPN session later and, behold, BBC's walled-off garden limiting access called BBC Sounds. You get a 404 outside of UK.

A screenshot of BBC Sound's webpage if within the UK. It shows a rich selection of public programming and shows.

Another screenshot of the redirected URL if you visit from outside the UK.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 22/06/2026

Once all the "goodwill" of open source model authors dry up, we won't have any more models!! We did not need to give $500,000,000,000 to bigtech for Ai. That was an investment into Big Surveillance and girl-school bombings. Instead, we need to fund open data access to hardware.

New comment by John Leimgruber III (@ubergarm) on #14 - Kimi 2.7 GGUF?
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Sorry guys, I still don't have access the the big remote rig after some network maintenance so taking some time off for the summer. Kimi-K2.7 and GLM-5.2 are looking hot though so sad I'm not releasing at the moment! 😥

I'll keep y'all posted as I get more updates myself. Cheers and be well!

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 20/06/2026

I've been using Continue.dev for a while now. It keeps you close to the code, grounded in what the code is and what it's doing. Tinkering with Cline has trashed that workflow and I struggle to "let go" of the code logic. Now I understand Cline's scope: just let it think / let it do the job. 1/2

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 19/06/2026

Try Brave browser. All the ad blocking built in, none of the drama. Also, go into your Google Account settings and turn off Web History. Then go visit YouTube for the best experience of all time.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 15/06/2026

Year two of our new annual event on June 14th completed! Idiocracy (2006) Yes, that's the White House and reflecting pool in the year 2505.

Screenshot from Idiocracy (2006). It shows the White House in 2505 a trashed out with a large red-neck vibe of a block party around the front lawn.

Screenshot from Idiocracy (2006). It shows the the Washington Monument and reflecting pool in the year 2505. It is surrounded by a beach of chilled out citizens, and the pool has jet skis and water skiiers.

Screenshot from Idiocracy (2006). It shows the main character standing in the U.S. House in front of the speaker's station, hold up two hands out stretched, flipping off the entire congress.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 08/06/2026

This June 14th marks our second annual viewing of the 2006 film Idiocracy. Hopefully, this is the last.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 12/05/2026

> "Your job is to replace [the entire team] with AI — thoughtfully, systematically, and within 90 days. A Master dashboard needs to be created to monitor all this, and everything should run better than before this big transition."

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 12/05/2026

So Chevrolet has ended production of all sedans along with the Camaro. Just the Corvette, trucks, and SUVs. Random thought today: then what is Chevy racing in NASCAR? You're supposed to use a production car. A: NASCAR rules allow continuing racing previous submission, which was the Camaro.

Two pictures combined into one tall picture. Top picture is if Chevrolet releasing an updated design for a 2026 Camaro that doesn't exist. The buttom picture is of a NASCAR Stock Car version of the 2026 Camaro in full race form. The design was updated for NASCAR compliance.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 09/05/2026

Our dumb Samsung TV I registered warranty info for 6 years ago just emailed me saying it is spying on us. Part of that US lawsuit thing... "Dumb" as in I've never connected it to wifi, and it remains a "Monitor Only" for our mini-Media PC HDMI out to 4K @ 60Hz. So who's the smart one now?

A screenshot of an email that reads with the incomplete text of:

Dear Valued Samsung Customer:

We are reaching out to remind you that your Samsung Smart TV may use Automatic Content Recognition ("ACR") technology to enhance your viewing experience.

If you enabled the optional ACR technology by opting in to the Viewing Information Services while setting up your Samsung Smart TV, the ACR technology runs to generate unique signatures that allow the capture of certain information regarding viewership on your Smart TV.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 09/05/2026

Install GrapheneOS. It's all about APKs. As a matter of fact, while not clearly advertises, there are FOUR AppStore-like utilities depending on how you source.

A screenshot of an Android homescreen with a grouped set of icons open, showing four apps stores on GrapheneOS: App Store, Accrescent, Obtainium, and Aurora.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 26/04/2026

I'm switching to Gemma 4 26B A4B as my primary coding model on this 16GB VRAM laptop (offloading up|down to CPU). And I just realized... That's a 26B leading model at just 80W for around 35 tps throughout.

A screenshot of a set of graphs from a Linux System Montior. Of note that author points out an 80W draw over the entire system, when running a large 26B parameter model at 30tps.

A screenshot showing the Ramalama local model container runtime, and it's Bench feature, with results of running a set of benchmarks. There's a lot of details (use Ai to read and interrupt) but in short, the average context of 10,000 tokens yields a nice 30tps throughput.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 15/04/2026

What a score! So, for backlog project # 715, I have a low-powered linux eBook LTE system to finish tweaking. This @humblebundle.com that donates to EFF was the tipping point to bring that project back to life. Note that the bundle expires in 5 days! www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...

A screenshot of 17 eBooks being offered in a HumbleBundle, centered around Linux systems. The titles are transcribed below:

System Programming in Linux
The Linux Programming Interface
The Linux Command Line, 3rd Edition
Linux Basics for Hackers, 2nd Edition
Linux Basics for Hackers, 2nd Edition
How Linux Works, 3rd Edition
How Linux Works, 3rd Edition
EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW: The Linux Memory Manager
EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW: The Linux Memory Manager
EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW
Effective Shell
Effective Shell
Building a Debugger
Building a Debugger
The Wireless Cookbook
The Wireless Cookbook
The Book of Kubernetes
The Book of Kubernetes
Practical Linux Forensics
Practical Linux Forensics
Your Linux Toolbox
Your Linux Toolbox
Black Hat Bash
Black Hat Bash
Practical Forensic Imaging
Practical Forensic Imaging
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition
Linux Firewalls
Linux Firewalls
EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW: Heavy Wizardry 101
EARLY ACCESS PREVIEW: Heavy Wizardry 101

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 15/04/2026

@infoq.com if I am reading this correctly, "sale of company assets" shall NOT be services - such as selling customer data as a service to anyone. Correct? It's the 3rd party @neubirdai.bsky.social agreement I am being required to sign-up for an event. (btw, has broken #anchor links everywhere)

3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 10/04/2026

How do I get a mention of leaving that cesspool?

This disinformation pit sustaining relentless algorithm-magnified ethnonationalism has been abandoned.

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Eric Duncan 🔵 @eduncan911.com · 07/04/2026

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but the propaganda isn't adding up. But this article makes a very compelling story of what actually happened.

A screenshot of text from the article in the Repost that reads the following:

THE LOSSES WASHINGTON ISN’T EMPHASIZING
The rescue operation did not happen in isolation. It was part of a cascading series of U.S. aircraft losses that are being carefully minimized:

F-15E Strike Eagle — shot down by Iranian air defenses on April 3

A-10 Warthog — crashed near the Strait of Hormuz while providing cover for rescue teams; Iran claims it was shot down, the U.S. has not explained the cause

Two MC-130J Commando II aircraft — destroyed on the ground inside Iran

Four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters — destroyed on the ground inside Iran

Two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters — hit by Iranian fire during the operation

E-3G Sentry AWACS — destroyed on March 27 (not related to the rescue, but part of the broader loss picture)

Multiple KC-135 Stratotankers — damaged in Iranian missile attack on Prince Sultan Air Base

Trump boasted of “overwhelming Air Dominance” while not mentioning that a second combat aircraft went down the same day as the F-15E.

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