EdVoncken

@edvoncken

Open Source, InfraCoding, DevOps, Cats, Electronics, Linux, CISSP, RHCE, Ex-RHCA, PC4ED, RetroComputing, Acorn BBC-B, BBQ

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EdVoncken@edvoncken· Jun 28

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."

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Jun 27

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

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Jun 12

#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.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Jun 6

Ha! Cool!

Screenshot of the Idea Tiles app on iPhone, showing a set of hexagons. The center hexagon contains “Why did the chicken cross the road”. The other hexagons show different interpretations and suggestions based on that central idea.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Apr 15

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.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Apr 6

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.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Feb 25

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.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Feb 2

“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

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Nov 20

Perfectly illustrated by my feed ;-)

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

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Aug 25

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.

EdVoncken@edvoncken· Aug 25

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?