Jon Kunkee
@jkunkee.daskunkee.net
Software engineer - Windows kernel, emulation, build systems - dad - hobby hardware/embedded tinkerer - sometime ham KC0NID - left-leaned LDS, LGBTQ+ ally - he/him
My views aren't my employer's, ofc
daskunkee.net (sorry my CSS sucks on mobile)
My views aren't my employer's, ofc
daskunkee.net (sorry my CSS sucks on mobile)
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Fun trick I learned in the recording studio: tight-mic the piano, but don't play it. Set it next to the drummer. During playback, isolate the piano mics and listen as the piano softly sings along to the drums.
What is this trick FOR? I don't know, but it's such a cool, spooky sound.
What is this trick FOR? I don't know, but it's such a cool, spooky sound.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Fun trick I learned in the recording studio: tight-mic the piano, but don't play it. Set it next to the drummer. During playback, isolate the piano mics and listen as the piano softly sings along to the drums.
What is this trick FOR? I don't know, but it's such a cool, spooky sound.
What is this trick FOR? I don't know, but it's such a cool, spooky sound.
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You have no idea how absolutely reliable it is, the exact same causal explanations for why engineers have nothing to do with anything and can't be blamed
I write too much about normative beliefs and stereotypes for you to expect me to not notice this 😂
I write too much about normative beliefs and stereotypes for you to expect me to not notice this 😂
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
You have no idea how absolutely reliable it is, the exact same causal explanations for why engineers have nothing to do with anything and can't be blamed
I write too much about normative beliefs and stereotypes for you to expect me to not notice this 😂
I write too much about normative beliefs and stereotypes for you to expect me to not notice this 😂
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LAST CALL!
IT BEGINS! Come get yer Jeffs!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LAST CALL!
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I wonder if they were called com ports because of 'corn' kerning.
Might need a hull modem cable which would have an odd pin-oat. The grains are so varied so you might run the risk of croptalk - would a germination resistor help there or just cause problems with seednal propagation?
Might need a hull modem cable which would have an odd pin-oat. The grains are so varied so you might run the risk of croptalk - would a germination resistor help there or just cause problems with seednal propagation?
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I wonder if they were called com ports because of 'corn' kerning.
Might need a hull modem cable which would have an odd pin-oat. The grains are so varied so you might run the risk of croptalk - would a germination resistor help there or just cause problems with seednal propagation?
Might need a hull modem cable which would have an odd pin-oat. The grains are so varied so you might run the risk of croptalk - would a germination resistor help there or just cause problems with seednal propagation?
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I like that now I'm being cited as the authoritative source. To be clear I have no special insight but I am perfectly comfortable stating this strongly based on the verge article and the text of the terms of service and the original claim not making sense in that context
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I like that now I'm being cited as the authoritative source. To be clear I have no special insight but I am perfectly comfortable stating this strongly based on the verge article and the text of the terms of service and the original claim not making sense in that context
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Turns out the first Christmas at Disneyland in 1955 was the stuff of nightmares.
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Turns out the first Christmas at Disneyland in 1955 was the stuff of nightmares.
When I went and looked at this yesterday, it explicitly said these features do not use your data to train anything. Do with this what you will.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
When I went and looked at this yesterday, it explicitly said these features do not use your data to train anything. Do with this what you will.
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PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
PLEASE, retail workers
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round
(factcheck: true)
the public space stuff this time of year is a lot
(though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc)
PLEASE DO THIS
it is a kindness
@rahaeli.bsky.social and @amyhoy.bsky.social, I saw (via my spouse) this thread on Tumblr and with the MCAS and gluten I thought of you. I'm sending Rahaeli's MCAS 101 blog article their way and the gluten free air fryer idea might be up Amy's alley. www.tumblr.com/thebibliosph...
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
@rahaeli.bsky.social and @amyhoy.bsky.social, I saw (via my spouse) this thread on Tumblr and with the MCAS and gluten I thought of you. I'm sending Rahaeli's MCAS 101 blog article their way and the gluten free air fryer idea might be up Amy's alley. www.tumblr.com/thebibliosph...
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Synchronisity! I just repaired this little guy! It’s an original Sputnik 1 musical model gifted to me after a lecture years ago. As I wanted to set it up today, it made no sound but a little tweak was all that was needed. Now it sings again!
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Synchronisity! I just repaired this little guy! It’s an original Sputnik 1 musical model gifted to me after a lecture years ago. As I wanted to set it up today, it made no sound but a little tweak was all that was needed. Now it sings again!
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I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
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An important and grace-filled post about grieving a partner.
Friday blog in which survival is not a competition.
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#writingcommunity
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#writingcommunity
Friday – Sharon Lee, Writer
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November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
An important and grace-filled post about grieving a partner.
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Wakefield literally made shit up for his initial paper. This was established well over a decade ago. Johnson is an active agent in the destruction of the United States. Whether he's actually paid by a foreign adversary or not, his actions & words express only contempt for the country and its people.
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.
Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Wakefield literally made shit up for his initial paper. This was established well over a decade ago. Johnson is an active agent in the destruction of the United States. Whether he's actually paid by a foreign adversary or not, his actions & words express only contempt for the country and its people.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🎁 A+ gift idea:
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🌈 CHEAP AF ANTI-PLANNERS ALERT 🌈
$40 with ✨free shipping✨ on TikTok Shop for the next 6 HOURS ONLY!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZPH3tPcorN...
💸 Bigger discount than we’ll have Black Friday (sale is TikTok subsidized)
THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST U CAN GET BOOKS THIS YEAR!!! GO GO GO 🏃♀️💨
🎁 A+ gift idea:
$40 with ✨free shipping✨ on TikTok Shop for the next 6 HOURS ONLY!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZPH3tPcorN...
💸 Bigger discount than we’ll have Black Friday (sale is TikTok subsidized)
THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE CHEAPEST U CAN GET BOOKS THIS YEAR!!! GO GO GO 🏃♀️💨
🎁 A+ gift idea:
*nerd whine* no it isn't!
...for *me*, mostly, 'cuz reasons, but a remix is a remix and it's kinda fun to read the comments about ones folks love!
Oh, and Eminence Grise slaps. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzh5...
...for *me*, mostly, 'cuz reasons, but a remix is a remix and it's kinda fun to read the comments about ones folks love!
Oh, and Eminence Grise slaps. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzh5...
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
*nerd whine* no it isn't!
...for *me*, mostly, 'cuz reasons, but a remix is a remix and it's kinda fun to read the comments about ones folks love!
Oh, and Eminence Grise slaps. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzh5...
...for *me*, mostly, 'cuz reasons, but a remix is a remix and it's kinda fun to read the comments about ones folks love!
Oh, and Eminence Grise slaps. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzh5...
Ok Bsky, I switched apps for a minute to look something up and the app forgot my draft, location, feed, etc. Most of the time being a little stateless is OK, but drafts?!
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ok Bsky, I switched apps for a minute to look something up and the app forgot my draft, location, feed, etc. Most of the time being a little stateless is OK, but drafts?!
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Also other people’s expertise is very inconvenient for profiting off pseudoscientific bullshit
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Also other people’s expertise is very inconvenient for profiting off pseudoscientific bullshit
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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As an aside, what with the military tunnels of five centuries, the religious catacombs and vaults, the civilian shelters and cellars, it's hard to believe there's any rock left underneath Valetta. It's the world's first city built on a Menger Sponge...
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As an aside, what with the military tunnels of five centuries, the religious catacombs and vaults, the civilian shelters and cellars, it's hard to believe there's any rock left underneath Valetta. It's the world's first city built on a Menger Sponge...
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so apparently the electrical system fault on the Dali that caused it to crash into the Francis Scott Key bridge was caused by a feral ferrule.
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
so apparently the electrical system fault on the Dali that caused it to crash into the Francis Scott Key bridge was caused by a feral ferrule.