Reposted by Kolbenkopp… but at what cost? @electronicfuture.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I can only echo the sentiment 1127
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Someone on our street must be working for MB. Gotta find out who that is :-). At any rate, looks like they brought some work home over the Christmas break. 1111
Reposted by KolbenkoppWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happy Halloween everyone. #WorldBollardAssociation 👻 231808242
Reposted by KolbenkoppTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 30/10/2025You can always call in well. “Sorry, boss, I just feel entirely too great to come into work today.” 131
Reposted by KolbenkoppRoberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Today has big friday energy. let's just not show up tomorrow. 3134
Reposted by KolbenkoppAndrew Burns @mrburnsns.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Even though he's closely associated with the UK, most Queen fans don't realize Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar & went to school in India before his family fled to the UK during the revolution. 041
Reposted by KolbenkoppRichard Porter @sniffpetrol.com · 27/10/2025In today's Smith and Sniff, aside from reviewing the new Honda Prelude, Jonny and I talk about the time we were left alone in a room at Google's London HQ and got so bored we covered a whiteboard in made-up business toss. Just found my photo of that... 15695
Reposted by KolbenkoppThe Register @theregister.com · 27/10/2025You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/l...theregister.comOne week to opt out or be fodder for LinkedIn AI training: Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line 01712
Reposted by KolbenkoppThe Register @theregister.com · 27/10/2025Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problemdlvr.itSignal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice' Messaging service Signal may be unusual in its deployment of credible end-to-end encryption, but it shares a common availability vulnerability with many other internet services – dependence on Amazon Web Services (AWS).… 02111
Reposted by KolbenkoppGGtld @ggtld.fr · 24/10/2025Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs ian.sh/fia 011
Reposted by KolbenkoppÉquipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 22/10/2025we don’t talk often enough in our little corner of the universe about the time Giugiaro designed pasta, “lined for maximum sauce and flavour retention…designed to remain well ‘structured’ after boiling, and to be ‘displayed’ in nouvelle cuisine dishes” www.italdesign.it/en/project/m... 88621
Reposted by KolbenkoppTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I just tossed a few bucks to the site that I use dozens of times a day. I should take the money I saved by canceling my WaPo subscription and make a monthly recurring donation in that amount. 0223
Reposted by KolbenkoppAndrew Clews @crackedwindscreen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Say nothing Andrew, say nothing...... 0195
Reposted by Kolbenkopp737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 17/10/2025tonoight on top gear, james gets vertigo and drives off a bridge richard breaks down in the middle of a channel gale and i try to establish a tax haven on one of the artificial islands 5314
Reposted by KolbenkoppNial @vintageracer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Folks... 1-Mika Hakkinen, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Jackie Stewart, Bernie Ecclestone, Lord March, Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve and Emmerson Fitipaldi. 2-Bob Bondurant John Fitch Phil Hill, Dick Gulstrand 3-Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Graham Hill 4-Steve McQueen, Jaquline Bisset 062
Reposted by Kolbenkoppvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 07/10/2025it’s later than you think it is 215136
Reposted by KolbenkoppRoberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Watched E.T. today. The greatest movie adaption ever of a horrible video game. 2132
Reposted by Kolbenkoppe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2025this might seem controversial, but I think we should send everyone who identifies as a "tech youtuber" to a nice quiet farm somewhere littered with fake cameras, where they can run around like labrador retrievers without hurting other people with their performative stupidity 1122025
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Happy to report the French spirit of rebellion is alive and well ;-) 011
Reposted by Kolbenkoppdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Guys, Trump said this in November of *2015*. If you read my Salon piece about The 'F' Word" from that month you will see that many *Republicans* were calling Trump out as a fascist. It's been obvious from the beginning. (And I don't want to hear about guardrails. They were made of jello.) 419547
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Hello @sentimentbot.bsky.social! How well am I faking this? ;-) 100
Reposted by KolbenkoppTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The bill that was meant to protect US citizens from Chinese disinformation now being leveraged so that TikTok can be used for Trump-friendly disinformation. 23213
Reposted by KolbenkoppMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16/09/2025PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome. 561264253
Reposted by KolbenkoppChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"Around 75% of mothers of young children outside the labour force point to care duties as the main reason, compared to just 13% of fathers." Sigh. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...ec.europa.euWomen, older people, migrants and persons with disabilities are key to tackling EU skills and labour shortagesBetter integrating underrepresented groups — such as women, older people, migrants and persons with disabilities — into the job market can help to mitigate skills and labour shortages and offset the d... 2216
Reposted by KolbenkoppThe Register @theregister.com · 16/09/2025The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking itdlvr.itThe end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking itBeware the meeting room zombies Beware the meeting room zombies. We don't mean you when you're listening to a colleague reading out a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation, but some expensive Microsoft meeting room hardware that may be obsolete in a few short weeks.… 171
Reposted by KolbenkoppAntony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Will be rustling up an ad for the Rallye soon. Limited reach on here, but if anyone knows somebody who is after one of these, let me know. 75022
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 14/09/2025What poster did you have hanging in your room as a kid? 020
Reposted by Kolbenkoppe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/09/2025mode confusion and insufficient driver attention management have been a factor in Autopilot-involved crashes going back to at least 2016 923931
Reposted by KolbenkoppKamil @thekamil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Same. People would spy on each other and turn each other in. Being part of the Solidarity movement early on was like being in a secret organization; you’d only talk to trusted people. 194
Reposted by KolbenkoppJulia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are. 15553091707
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Missed this when it came out. Good marketing and even for a grumpy old fool like myself, impossible to be cynical about. www.mazda.com/en/mazda-mir...mazda.comRX-7: 25 Years of Memories, Three Days of Farewell, and the Parting Gift of a Dear FriendNaoko Nishimoto, a resident of Nagasaki, has shared her life with an RX-7 for 25 years since purchasing it at the age of 55. This sports car has been her cherished companion through a quarter of a cen... 010
Reposted by Kolbenkopp737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 05/09/2025this is *easily* a dissertation topic if we were making new Phds in this country 172
Reposted by Kolbenkoppjoelcawley.bsky.social @joelcawley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025This suggests the right historical industrial policy at the advent of the auto would have been to set the pace of that tech transition based on the capex requirements imposed on horse breeders. I doubt that strategy works. Can’t escape the 21st century. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comFederal government to delay electric-vehicle mandate to aid tariff-hit automakersPrime Minister Carney expected to announce several measures to help sectors affected by U.S. trade disputes 021
Reposted by KolbenkoppSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments. 722153498
Reposted by KolbenkoppZEVENT @zevent.fr · 04/09/2025Mes amis ! C'est l'Orchestre Curieux qui ouvre le bal du ZEVENT 2025, accompagné d'Alice Duport-Percier et Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur : Expedition 33), ainsi que de Marianne et PV Nova ! Avec, qui sait, une apparition d'Esquie ? 👀 213136
Reposted by KolbenkoppVincent Desmonts 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 @desmonts.net · 04/09/2025Les organisateurs en profitent pour confirmer l'exportation du concept Rétromobile aux États-Unis : la première édition new-yorkaise aura lieu en novembre 2026. ➡️ www.retromobile.usretromobile.usRetroMobile US 011
Reposted by KolbenkoppVincent Desmonts 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦 @desmonts.net · 04/09/2025Rétromobile fêtera l'an prochain ses 50 ans (déjà !) ainsi que les 50 ans des fameuses #ArtCars BMW. L'affiche met d'ailleurs en scène la 3.0 CSL habillée par Alexander #Calder (1975). 🧑🎨 Le salon aura lieu du 28 janvier au 1er février. 📅 122
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025After sharing this link with some trainees at work, happy to report their morals are in a worse place than mine :-D. www.electrive.com/2025/08/29/b...electrive.comBASF delivered cathode material for semi-solid-state batteries to WeLion - electrive.comBASF has for the first time supplied cathode materials to the Chinese manufacturer WeLion, which are to become part of batteries with semi-solid electrolyte. 100
Reposted by KolbenkoppAntony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"Lost in the archive" in this week's Autocar is a fun read, and given it's about how the UK car industry of the 1970s - which was turning out utter toss, believed Japan should buy more of its wares and sought restrictions on Japanese imports - has parallels with the current US situation too. 2143
Reposted by KolbenkoppAndrew Clews @crackedwindscreen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Go on, UK Government, how to try and spin this to the UK people? 231
Reposted by KolbenkoppUri Halevi @uhalevi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025This carbonium fibre stuff sounds like the future 151
Kolbenkopp @kolbenkopp.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Can't tell all crossovers apart even without camo, but guess this is a new Benz? 130
Reposted by KolbenkoppAntony Ingram @antonyingram.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Well he *was* friends with Epst... ohhhhh wait, that's not what they were going for is it 051
Reposted by KolbenkoppThe Register @theregister.com · 15/08/2025Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offlinedlvr.itCyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offlineWho knew zero-days could be so useful to highway speedsters? The lingering effects of a cyberattack on the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands are preventing it from reactivating speed cameras across the country.… 054
