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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/09/2026

And this is why companies need UI/UX experts. Black remote with black buttons - for a “smart” light. Try finding that button in the dark 🤷

Photo of a black remote control, with black buttons on black background. This is the remote control for a “smart” ceiling light.

If only the designers had been just as “smart” and thought about having to find the black “on” button on that black remote when coming home in the dark …

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 10/09/2026

Yup, this feels like a totally legit investment option… #Arcen #resort

Website for Arcen Resorts in Limburg, “selling” holiday homes (investment) with most of the website only containing Lorem Ipsum placeholder content.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 28/06/2026

Wow. Nobody *) could have predicted this! The article below contains banger after banger… www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Quoting Charles Poon, VP of vehicle hardware engineering at Ford: “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 27/06/2026

Time to get a car from the 1950s! rarehistoricalphotos.com/vinyl-record...

Muhammad Ali is shown jockeying singles into the Philips record player in his 1959 Cadillac Eldorado

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 12/06/2026

#Kraftwerk experience at #Klokgebouw Eindhoven, June 11 2026. Great show by the pioneers of electronic (dance) music 🎹

Kraftwerk - The Model performance at Klokgebouw Eindhoven 2026-06-11. Four band members standing at four consoles, with a black and white background showing a 1930’s era image of an actress

Kraftwerk band members standing at their consoles with the Evoluon ‘flying saucer’ building on a background projection. There is an animated Evoluon saucer section landing “over” the Evoluon building. The concert in Klokgebouw Eindhoven is very near to the actual Evoluon.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 15/04/2026

According to #HomeAssistant, I should replace my fridge. Today, it consumed nearly 2.7 GWh. Imagine my electricity bill! To make matters worse, my beers are now too cold, at 5000 Kelvin below absolute zero. Waiting for the Nobel Prize for physics based on my amazing discovery ;-)

Homeassistant screenshot, showing impossibly large energy consumption for my fridge: nearly 2.7 GWh per day.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 06/04/2026

Energy consumption graph from Home Assistant, showing that my 1000 Watt bathroom heater has used 10.7 Gigawatt-hours of energy today. That explains why it’s nice and toasty at 53 million degrees now ;-)

Energy consumption graph from Home Assistant, showing that my 1000 Watt bathroom heater has used 10.7 Gigawatt-hours of energy today so far.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/02/2026

From a post by Tuta on Mastodon: tuta.com/blog/volunta...

A political cartoon of a Trojan horse labeled "Protect Children" being pulled into a city gate by figures labeled "EU Member States," while inside the horse a panel reads "Mass Surveillance," implying hidden surveillance measures introduced under the pretext of child protection.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 02/02/2026

“Freedom includes the right to leave. When exit is too costly, the freedom to fork becomes symbolic.” - Richard Fontana, #cfgmgmtcamp

Slide with text: “Freedom includes the right to leave. When exit is too costly, the freedom to fork becomes symbolic.” - Richard Fontana

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 20/11/2025

Perfectly illustrated by my feed ;-)

Flavor Flav (of Public Enemy fame) scritching the ears of a dog through an open car window.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/08/2025

Note that this power consumption is for 4h 20 minutes of #Tailscale running. I hope that @tailscale.com can fix whatever is causing this behavior.

iPhone battery usage menu, showing that Tailscale had been running for 4 hours 20 minutes at the time it had consumed 19% of battery.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/08/2025

I really love @tailscale.com but 20% battery use is a *lot*. Apart from turning it off when not actively using it, is there another way to improve power consumption?

iPhone battery usage by app, showing that Tailscale uses nearly 20% of battery. This is while not actively using a Tailscale connection.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/08/2025

Boeren Bedrog Beweging

BBB-Statenlid Johan van Dommelen plaatst een compleet verzonnen verhaal over een bijtende wolf in Oirschot

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 16/05/2025

In 1981, Acorn released the BBC model Bee - the first computer to contain no less than 3 Bees! (but no Free Bees, alas) #retrocomputing

Top view of an Acorn BBC Model B computer, released in 1981. As you can see, there are at least 3 Bees in that computer.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 16/05/2025

… and back to being awesome. It’s a busy life.

Red cat, lying on his side on a garden bench. Looking up, probably at a bird flying past.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 16/05/2025

Our orange kitty, curled up and asleep after letting all his awesome shine out ;-)

Orange cat, curled up and sleeping on the couch. He’s holding one of his hind legs with both his fore legs, looking absolutely adorable.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 15/05/2025

Like I said, the drive motor is a chonky boy ;-)

Rear view of an 8 inch floppy drive, showing the drive motor. It is a chonky motor. The specification reads 220 Volts at 0.15 Amps. This roughly translates to 35 Watts of power consumption. The motor is a large rounded cube, mounted to a very sturdy cast metal frame.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 01/05/2025

Not impressed with Apple Intelligence - Image Playground has no idea what a typical cat looks like ;-)

AI-generated drawing of an orange cat in a forest. The cat has two tails.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/04/2025

Starting a GreaseWeazle build with 3.5” and 5.25” floppy drives. I had a SCSI enclosure with power supply - ideal for this purpose.

A beige square box that has 2 slots for 5.25” devices such as CD recorders. The top cover is removed, showing a cooling fan in the back panel.

There is a 5.25” beige floppy drive in the bottom slot. The upper slot is vacant, so the electronics of the floppy drive are partially visible.

The front of the box has a wavy pattern for decoration. The bottom right of the front panel has a round power switch.

The project is a work in progress; a 3.5” floppy drive still needs to be mounted in the upper slot.

Purple-colored Printed Circuit Board of a GreaseWeazle v4.1, lying on a blue silicone mat.

The PCB shows a flatcable connector on the righthand side, where the floppy drives will be connected.

On the lefthand side there’s a USB-C socket for connecting a PC that runs the floppy imaging software.

The middle of the PCB shows a couple of SMD chips and components including some jumpers to configure the board.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/04/2025

Asking price has dropped, perhaps wait a little longer before making an offer;-)

Table showing asking price dropped from $50 million to a way more affordable $44,950,000. At that price it’s an absolute bargain 🤣

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 21/12/2024

I think the bots are having a good time ;-)

“Magic-8-Bot” and “Endless Screaming” bots in a pointless and endless chat

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 01/12/2024

So many new hardware / software projects still being developed for the Beeb, after all these years!

Mainboard of an Acorn BBC-B micro with modern IFEL sideways ROM/RAM board installed.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 01/12/2024

Sleep well, we have the watch during your hibernation.

Black and white “cow-patterned” cat standing in snow

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 25/11/2024

The Mary Lee Family Band show in Eindhoven was a blast! This was the first show on their tour marylee.com.br

Concert photo of Mary Lee Family Band on a small cozy stage in Eindhoven. There are 5 band members on stage, playing piano / mandolin, upright bass, guitar / lead vocals, fiddle and drums. The stage has red drapes in the back. In front, there’s the monitor speakers and a wooden set of stairs.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 21/11/2024

As for the S9 badge wire, this could be part of an (attempted) DIY install of a floppy disc controller: acorn.huininga.nl/pub/unsorted...

Screenshot of text found at the URL in the post. The text was too long to fit in the post, hence the screenshot. It describes the components and modifications needed to install a floppy disc controller in the Acorn BBC micro.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/11/2024

Ok, I laughed ;-) (not mine)

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/10/2024

And of course, even older systems such as Acorn System 3 (not pictured) and Acorn ATOM (1980) were also present at the ABUG-NL

Acorn ATOM, the first non-rackmounted Acorn Computer. Released in 1980.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/10/2024

Someone brought an Acorn BBC Master with a Gotek floppy emulator that was installed *very* nicely - although I would personally hesitate to cut into a retro computer like that 😀

Side view of an Acorn BBC Master computer with a Gotek floppy emulator installed in a cutout in the original case.

Close up showing how neatly the Gotek was installed in the computer case. Perfect edges with a nice chamfer.

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EdVoncken @edvoncken.net · 13/10/2024

And with a known-good network, we were able to fix one of my Acorn BBC-B machines with Econet interface. Turns out the SmartSPI ROM interfered with Econet networking.