Kris
@webkris.bsky.social
Sys Admin, Hardware Hacker, Automotive Enthusiast.
This year on Bluesky I wrote 233 posts and 244 replies. I received 709 likes, whereas 34 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "just" and 🙄!
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webkris.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out webkris.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!
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December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This year on Bluesky I wrote 233 posts and 244 replies. I received 709 likes, whereas 34 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "just" and 🙄!
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I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don't understand why apologizing for a mistake and pledging to fix is so difficult.
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
This amounts to thousands of real people who didn't realize their activity was publicly accessible retroactively for over a month. That's not fake news. It deserves to be recognized. 🤷🏻♂️
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Democracy faced threats this year that technology supercharged—dystopian surveillance, attacks on encryption, and government censorship. EFF's lawyers, technologists, and activists are fighting back. But we need you! Join EFF today: eff.org/YEC
Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 and you’ll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
supporters.eff.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Democracy faced threats this year that technology supercharged—dystopian surveillance, attacks on encryption, and government censorship. EFF's lawyers, technologists, and activists are fighting back. But we need you! Join EFF today: eff.org/YEC
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“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." www.404media.co/flock-expos...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." www.404media.co/flock-expos...
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
I know that the future is here but it just isn't evenly distributed - but it's almost 2026 and there is no real way to find and remove duplicate files (images / media) with explorer.exe in Windows.
Meanwhile notepad.exe is now an LLM AI spy bot.
Remember when software just helped you? #Clippy
Meanwhile notepad.exe is now an LLM AI spy bot.
Remember when software just helped you? #Clippy
December 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I know that the future is here but it just isn't evenly distributed - but it's almost 2026 and there is no real way to find and remove duplicate files (images / media) with explorer.exe in Windows.
Meanwhile notepad.exe is now an LLM AI spy bot.
Remember when software just helped you? #Clippy
Meanwhile notepad.exe is now an LLM AI spy bot.
Remember when software just helped you? #Clippy
"Of course we're not going to show you evidence of us murdering 2 people."
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Of course we're not going to show you evidence of us murdering 2 people."
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
Rocket Mortgage bought Mr. Cooper and so far the value add is having to now opt out of all of THEIR fucking emails.
If the transaction is for more than the price of a car:
I not installing your app. I want ink and paper. All correspondence will be written and mailed.
This is the hill I will die on.
If the transaction is for more than the price of a car:
I not installing your app. I want ink and paper. All correspondence will be written and mailed.
This is the hill I will die on.
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rocket Mortgage bought Mr. Cooper and so far the value add is having to now opt out of all of THEIR fucking emails.
If the transaction is for more than the price of a car:
I not installing your app. I want ink and paper. All correspondence will be written and mailed.
This is the hill I will die on.
If the transaction is for more than the price of a car:
I not installing your app. I want ink and paper. All correspondence will be written and mailed.
This is the hill I will die on.
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
As we end the year I received dozens of software cyber-security vendors calling me desperate to get $10K+/yr contracts to protect my data.
It occurs to me that I really need protection from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple. How much of my data have they stolen this year??
It occurs to me that I really need protection from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple. How much of my data have they stolen this year??
December 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
As we end the year I received dozens of software cyber-security vendors calling me desperate to get $10K+/yr contracts to protect my data.
It occurs to me that I really need protection from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple. How much of my data have they stolen this year??
It occurs to me that I really need protection from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Apple. How much of my data have they stolen this year??
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I'm gonna resonant computing so hard that my adaptive pluriverse becomes as prosocial as a god damned golden retriever.
resonantcomputing.org
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'm gonna resonant computing so hard that my adaptive pluriverse becomes as prosocial as a god damned golden retriever.
resonantcomputing.org
resonantcomputing.org
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Funnily enough, Nazi Donald Duck already exists!
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Funnily enough, Nazi Donald Duck already exists!
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Mandatory social media disclosure and surveillance “has not proven effective at finding terrorists and other bad guys,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @NYTimes.com. “But it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers” and Americans, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would be required to share five years’ worth of social media.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Mandatory social media disclosure and surveillance “has not proven effective at finding terrorists and other bad guys,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @NYTimes.com. “But it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers” and Americans, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...
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“The government acted unlawfully when it demanded Apple remove ICEBlock,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. “While this case is rightfully only against the government, Apple should also take a hard look at its own capitulation.”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
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ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.
arstechnica.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“The government acted unlawfully when it demanded Apple remove ICEBlock,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. “While this case is rightfully only against the government, Apple should also take a hard look at its own capitulation.”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
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LISTEN: Those “year-in-review” insights from your apps might seem fun to see and share, but they’re a symptom of the surveillance culture that permeates the internet and threatens your privacy, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social told @KCBSRadio.bsky.social.
www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...
www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
LISTEN: Those “year-in-review” insights from your apps might seem fun to see and share, but they’re a symptom of the surveillance culture that permeates the internet and threatens your privacy, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social told @KCBSRadio.bsky.social.
www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...
www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...
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The EFF Nails It: What’s Wrong With UK Digital ID
The EFF Nails It: What’s Wrong With UK Digital ID
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The EFF Nails It: What’s Wrong With UK Digital ID
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Will it be messy? Yep.
Were they left with little else?
The difference between genX hiding Playboy magazines we were "banned from" in the woods, and getting around a modern social media ban: Nude mags didn't viciously algorithmically market to children by messing with what makes kids happy and sad.
Were they left with little else?
The difference between genX hiding Playboy magazines we were "banned from" in the woods, and getting around a modern social media ban: Nude mags didn't viciously algorithmically market to children by messing with what makes kids happy and sad.
Social media ban: Can you ban kids from social media? Australia is about to try
The law comes into effect this week but critics worry it can't be enforced - and shouldn't be either.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Will it be messy? Yep.
Were they left with little else?
The difference between genX hiding Playboy magazines we were "banned from" in the woods, and getting around a modern social media ban: Nude mags didn't viciously algorithmically market to children by messing with what makes kids happy and sad.
Were they left with little else?
The difference between genX hiding Playboy magazines we were "banned from" in the woods, and getting around a modern social media ban: Nude mags didn't viciously algorithmically market to children by messing with what makes kids happy and sad.
Just tell them that your software can build apps six times faster...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India
Disaster as Microsoft-backed unicorn implodes.
ia.acs.org.au
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just tell them that your software can build apps six times faster...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
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Records newly obtained by @rangemedia.co show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at political protests this year.
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Protested this year? Cops might’ve looked for you on Flock cams. – RANGE Media
Newly obtained records show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at protests.
rangemedia.co
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Records newly obtained by @rangemedia.co show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at political protests this year.
rangemedia.co/flock-camer...
rangemedia.co/flock-camer...
I was hoping to "prevent service disruption" by buying a lifetime license #TeamViewer
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I was hoping to "prevent service disruption" by buying a lifetime license #TeamViewer
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Let’s be very, very clear: Striking shipwrecked survivors is a war crime. Straight up.
We need the Department of Justice to open an investigation. If they don’t, a future Administration will.
We need the Department of Justice to open an investigation. If they don’t, a future Administration will.
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Let’s be very, very clear: Striking shipwrecked survivors is a war crime. Straight up.
We need the Department of Justice to open an investigation. If they don’t, a future Administration will.
We need the Department of Justice to open an investigation. If they don’t, a future Administration will.