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Ertugrul GOKCEN

@ertugrul.social
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Proud dad ❤️❤️❤️ 👧🏼@🇨🇦 • Istanbulite • #InfoSec geek • open source advocate • tennis fan – #FeDal, #Sinner • history buff • pro-science • denialism debunker • anti-fascist, anti-MAGA For 🇹🇷 press @tr.ertugrul.social

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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Wow, thanks, CNN. Once again, intel too little too late llike the condom after sex.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I wish that journalists would stop uncritically buying into Musk's framing of what DOGE is doing as an audit. You can tell it is not an audit because it is being done by people with zero experience in auditing and the methodology is "poke around in files, looking for keywords without any context."
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Dr. Darwin S. Duck @darwinsduck.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If you’re intrigued by the Musk-promoted bullshit about the slave trade and want real historical insight from the Roman era to the Atlantic slave trade, including the Ottomans, Vikings, Slavs, India, and more, I highly recommend slavery episodes (48-71) of @empirepoduk.bsky.social
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 07/02/2025
Now that’s too much.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish
“Hi Chris, this is Jill from Newsmax-“ continues on to ask me to appear on a Super Bowl preview segment

My response - “Hi Jill, thanks for reaching out, unfortunately I have a strict policy of not working with people who back autocrats and dictators, let alone those are at this very moment in the process of destroying the constitutional separation of power that makes companies like you own able to function independently, as opposed to be government propaganda, so I’m going to have to regretfully decline.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
theonion.com
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 27/01/2025
Gift link… 🎁
nytimes.com
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants (Gift Article)
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
China built more solar power in the last 8 months than all the nuclear power built in the entire world in the entire history of human civilisation.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The world’s biggest iceberg — the size of Rhode Island — is heading toward an island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins
detroitnews.com
Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island heading toward penguin-packed island off Antarctica
The trillion-ton slab of ice, called a megaberg, could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or be guided around it by currents.
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Infosecsie (ツンデレ) @myraccoonhands.com · 26/01/2025
“What radicalized you?” There are several things I could list, but a huge turning point for me was working at a pain management clinic and coming across someone with fungal breast cancer who decided, “It would just be easier and cheaper to die” because they couldn’t afford treatment.
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just jess @je-ss.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“what radicalized you” i have college educated, fully employed friends who are on the brink of homelessness due to rent prices.
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 26/01/2025
Danes should be grateful that it wasn’t a golden shower. 😏 #GoldenAge #MakeShowerGreatAgain “… One person [who was briefed on the call] said: ‘He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous.’ …”
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 25/01/2025
I asked Grok (Elmo’s #AI) what makes #DeepSeek R1 so amazing, and here is what it has to say. Elmo wiil definitely deprive Grok of the precious Nvidia chips it craves so much if he finds out it’s praising its rival; this is how stuff is done in the U.S. right now. 👉 x.com/i/grok/share...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"I have a PhD; you have Dunning-Kruger" needs to be on a t-shirt if it isn't already
A guy arguing there are "only two biological sexes" is corrected by a scientist. When his retort is "fillow the science," Dr. JEY McCreight responds "I  did, I literally have a PhD in human genomic. You have Dunning-Kruger"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“[Trump] was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
ft.com
Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland
US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island
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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Decorative mosaics from the dome of Hagia Sophia A short video on the dome of Hagia Sophia youtu.be/3b3Wv14eD3Q
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 24/01/2025
Changing my social media profile pictures now that I quit smoking… :-)
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 17/01/2025
Open-source helpdesk software…
github.com
GitHub - frappe/helpdesk: Modern, Streamlined, Free and Open Source Customer Service Software
Modern, Streamlined, Free and Open Source Customer Service Software - frappe/helpdesk
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 15/01/2025
“… TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks …” (glft link 👇)
wsj.com
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes
TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks.
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🎻 🇺🇦 E @fiddledeedum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
one step closer to hell...
bloomberg.com
China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option
Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according...
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 14/01/2025
Excuse me, but WTF!?!? 🤯
wsj.com
China Officials Discuss Option of TikTok Sale to Elon Musk
Beijing officials preparing options for after Donald Trump’s inauguration have examined possible openness to a deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations with the owner of X.
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13/01/2025
"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires." techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/a...
techcrunch.com
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 13/01/2025
And the plot thickens. 🤔
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A brilliant video explaining the 1960s-70s hippy movement in California and the new Silicon Valley culture which combined free living hippy culture with Ronald Reagan neoliberalism - explaining Musk’s philosophy.
youtu.be
Why Is Elon Musk Like That?
YouTube video by Second Thought
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/12/2024
Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore
theguardian.com
Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore
As Moscow’s top diplomat reeled in Doha, his Turkish counterpart appeared to know he had the upper hand * Middle East crisis – live updates As celebratory gunfire was heard across liberated Syria, the diplomatic guns of Iran and Russia, in Doha to…
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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Sometimes a story writes itself: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 📚💙
bbc.co.uk
The forgotten street found behind a hidden library door
The passageway gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago.
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Joseph Frusci @theaveragejoe.org · 20/11/2024
Every network admin feels this pain.
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 04/10/2024
New #Firefox feature as of v131, bye bye cross-site tracking! 👋 “… Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. …”
blog.mozilla.org
Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 04/10/2024
“… Analysis of satellite data found there was less than one sq kilometre of vegetation in 1986 but there was almost 12km2 of green cover by 2021. The spread of the plants, mostly mosses, has accelerated since 2016, the researchers found. …“
theguardian.com
Antarctic plant cover growing at dramatic rate as climate heats
Analysis of satellite data finds plant cover has increased more than tenfold over the last few decades
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 07/06/2024
This article is about is a VERY disturbing trend that I believe aims to profile browsing habits of the entire Internet. TL;DR: Mobile phones and browsers do not honor #DHCP #DNS settings and use their own DNS servers no matter what. Yikes!!!
blog.raduzaharia.com
On phones, security, and the modern DNS
I always wanted to have my own DNS server. Not for every possible Internet query, but just for the ones I want. I like to avoid using IPs…
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 17/08/2024
Digging through firewall logs like it’s 1994 all over again… 🥹 I wish I had done this earlier; there are a lot of misbehavers out there. 🤨
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
U.S. Wind electricity generation surpasses coal electricity generation for more than one month for first time. The wind generation trend is increasing while the coal generation trend is decreasing. #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets 🧪🔌💡 cleantechnica.com/2024/08/13/u...
cleantechnica.com
U.S. Wind Generation Hit Record in April, Beat Coal! - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Electricity generation from wind established a new record in the United States in April, and wind generation ex...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
It will be a cold day in Hell when I take masculinity advice from a dude who looks like a smug racist poodle fresh from the salon.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 31/07/2024
I swear AI bros these days are just guys who watched Her and completely missed the point.
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 09/07/2024
An Australian mathematician cracked the code of a famous 3700 year old Babylonian clay tablet revealing that they were doing more accurate trigonometry nearly 1500 years before the Greeks.
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 30/06/2024
Modern problems require modern solutions. 🤓
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/06/2024
Ubiquitous LLM/“AI” integration is a total pain in the arse. I will pay for an ecosystem which promises to keep AI the hell away from my work.
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 07/06/2024
This article is about is a VERY disturbing trend that I believe aims to profile browsing habits of the entire Internet. TL;DR: Mobile phones and browsers do not honor #DHCP #DNS settings and use their own DNS servers no matter what. Yikes!!!
blog.raduzaharia.com
On phones, security, and the modern DNS
I always wanted to have my own DNS server. Not for every possible Internet query, but just for the ones I want. I like to avoid using IPs…
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
"be your own boss" = this job is two jobs
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 01/06/2024
Wow!!! 600K routers have been bricked by a mysterious cyber attacker, and had to be replaced by the ISP. 49% of the subscriber base has ben affected.
thehackernews.com
Mysterious Cyber Attack Took Down 600,000+ Routers in the U.S.
Over 600,000 routers bricked in a massive cyber attack targeting a single U.S. ISP.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Altman was fired for being a lying sack if crap. Only his billionaire buddies saved him. www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24...
theverge.com
Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman
OpenAI’s board found out about ChatGPT’s launch ‘on Twitter.’
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 29/05/2024
From today's Pragmatic Engineer, one bit of Bluesky history that I love and wish more people knew -- @jay.bsky.team pushed hard to make us an independent company and was incredibly prescient in doing so newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-en...
Jay used her own money to hire Daniel Holmgren and start prototyping while the details were being finalized. Together, they fleshed out a protocol Jay had coauthored with technical advisor whyrusleeping back in 2018 – a core design that persists in Bluesky to this day.

The project got the green light on 31 December 2021, when Twitter paid the newly formed entity a substantial sum of $13M to build the AT Protocol, and also the sign off for Bluesky to work fully independently. Actually, there was one condition from Twitter:

“Twitter's funding of Bluesky is not subject to any conditions except one: that Bluesky is to research and develop technologies that enable open and decentralized public conversation.”

It’s common for companies raising funding from investors to pursue a bold vision, but it’s extremely rare for a publicly traded company like Twitter to fund a startup and hand it a pretty much free rein. This was likely due to Jack's personal interest in the project, but also stems f
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
before you decide you don't want to vaccinate your children you should have to take a 4 hour cemetery tour with me where i point out every tiny little headstone of a child that died from a preventable disease and is buried with their parents who would have done anything to save them
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Ertugrul GOKCEN @ertugrul.social · 22/05/2024
Never ever think that billionaire “philantropists” actually care about the people or the environment, for that matter. All they care about is their interests and agenda.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
would you believe me if i told you that while the overwhelming majority of examples cited within are of conservatives attacking their political enemies and the majority of those are specifically trump-related this article implicitly treats political violence and terror as a cross-partisan issue
‘We’ll See You at Your House’: How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
Public officials are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs.
11 MIN READ
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
Whenever someone random tries to downplay confederate monuments to me and I don’t have the energy to put my work hat on, I just calmly say, “I don’t know it’s kinda like if we had statues of the 9/11 hijackers, only confederates killed more Americans.” Shuts them up every time.
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