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@elborro.bsky.social

ICS/OT cybersecurity. Has fun with software/hardware hacking. Loves science fiction and space things. :) Privacy and hacking-is-not-a-crime advocate. Matrix, Mastodon, Pi-hole and Signal patron. Be kind, he/him, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡³πŸ‡±.

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Terwijl jij er eentje knapt? πŸ¦‰πŸ˜‰

14.01.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mag de lente eerst ook nog? Alsjeblieft? Lente is zoveel leuker. πŸ˜„

13.01.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
(Michael Jackson) They Don't Care About Us - Gabriella Quevedo (LIVE)
YouTube video by Gabriella Quevedo (Michael Jackson) They Don't Care About Us - Gabriella Quevedo (LIVE)

Aparently it was her birthday yesterday! She turned 29, but here she was just 15. Such an amazing talent, definitely love Gabriella Quevedo!
youtu.be/sDTPy4dKZm8

13.01.2026 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's also worth mentioning that she arranges almost every song she plays herself. It's amazing what talent with dedication can yield. She practises 4 hours a day with gorgeous results. Much love for her music and play.

13.01.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call your reps this January and tell them:

β€” NO to KOSA
β€” NO to Section 230 reform
β€” NO to the SCREEN Act
β€” NO to the App Store Accountability Act
β€” NO to the Parents Over Platforms Act
β€”NO β€œage verification” laws
β€”NO to digital ID systems

05.01.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1236    πŸ” 900    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 20

Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as β€œchild safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.

05.01.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1263    πŸ” 611    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 24
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Public service announcement; The Β£1.50 dish dryer from IKEA holds ps5 controllers perfectly.

31.12.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ook voor jou een wie je liefhebt een fijne jaarwisseling en een fabeltastisch 2026 toegewenst, Govert.

31.12.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Met de snelheid van chaos? πŸ˜„

22.12.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Als één wolf een kleuter aanraakt, moet hij dood en zijn soortgenoten verbannen. Als jaarlijks tientallen kinderen en jongeren zwaar verminkt raken, heet het verbod op vuurwerk 'overdreven regelzucht' en een aanval op onze 'vrijheid' en traditie.

22.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 784    πŸ” 318    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 14
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ReCalibri They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.

I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions πŸ‘‡

11.12.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2105    πŸ” 926    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 52

πŸ˜‚ Wijn heb ik uiteraard ook in huis.

06.12.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Veel conserven hoef je ook niet te koken. Omdat ik vaak last minute zakelijk van huis moet, had ik nog wel eens dat bij thuiskomst het één en ander bedorven was. Sindsdien heb ik ook bijvoorbeeld groenten in pot, knakworst, etc. in huis.

06.12.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No need. Alles wat in zo’n noodpakket zit en meer heb ik al in huis.

06.12.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In je bio β€œJa, ALLE Daf-originals zijn echt.”?

27.11.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha, wat leuk πŸ™‚. Mijn opmerking van laatst inspireerde deze mooie bespreking van het originele verhaal van Frankenstein. Als je alleen een van de bewerkingen kent: het boek is anders & de moeite waard.

23.11.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
A slice of the 3D map of galaxies collected in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey with annotations identifying key features in the map. Earth is at the tip, with the furthest galaxies plotted at distances of 11 billion light-years. Each point represents one galaxy. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies β€” less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume.

Credit: DESI Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

A slice of the 3D map of galaxies collected in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey with annotations identifying key features in the map. Earth is at the tip, with the furthest galaxies plotted at distances of 11 billion light-years. Each point represents one galaxy. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies β€” less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume. Credit: DESI Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

Contrary to all those click-baity headlines about how cosmology is "broken," scientists are mostly frustrated that it's *not* obviously broken.

When we can find the real cracks, we'll have a path to deeper understanding. πŸ§ͺπŸ”­

noirlab.edu/public/news/...

23.11.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,

Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

23.11.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Als avond mens wil ik juist liever niet twee uur tegen mijn biologische klok in aan de dag beginnen om ochtend mensen tevreden te houden. Liever zo dicht mogelijk bij onze natuurlijke tijd leven waarin de zon weer het hoogst staat aan het begin van de middag. #teamutc

26.10.2025 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saggiessss

26.10.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's stalk everyone 24/7.

22.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every now and then I could swear that we (society) mainly learn how to screw up even better next time. β€œWe survived last time, so what are you talking about?”

20.10.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.

I’m not even going to mention the word redundancy πŸ˜‚πŸ˜œ

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

20.10.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around β€œrni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.

Comic. [Person with ponytail using handheld device in front of a large sign with crooked, off-center header, with crooked QR code (with illegible URL) and crooked list beneath] Header: DOANATE TO FIX THIS SIGN! List: $10 Fix kerning [kerning around β€œrni” of kerning is difficult to read]; $20 Align Columns [out of alignment] $20 Fix text size [much smaller text size]; $50 Fix typo; $50 Fix centering; $100 fix rotation. PERSON: Grrr… [caption] My new company’s business model is based on extorting graphic designers.

Fix This Sign

xkcd.com/3113/

10.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4378    πŸ” 729    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 55

Nou zeg… Maar blijft wel mooi equipment.

10.07.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only 42 tickets left! Grab yours via tickets.why2025.org before we're out of fish!

07.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

04.07.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10789    πŸ” 1818    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 174

This is your regularly scheduled message to USE SIGNAL

(I ditched whatsapp in 2014. yes, when Facebook bought it.)

Signal is secure and private - these are NOT THE SAME THING

(Whatsapp uses your metadata for spying and marketing)

And pay for Signal if you can. Best Β£10 p/month I spend.

19.06.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

β€œSurveillance pricing,” or as it’s sometimes called, β€œpersonalized pricing,” is another way for corporations to pull one over on you.

Here to explain how it works (and what we can do about it) is former FTC chair Lina Khan. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GGq_tBcBaIR3_Wby

21.06.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2260    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 36
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Join us and StudSec on June 11 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for: "Built for Good, Used for Evil"

Industry professionals will walk you through real-world examples where well-intentioned tools have been misused, sometimes with serious consequences.

www.meetup.com/wicca...

28.05.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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