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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
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Spotted around .

A red utility box with a sticker warning about ring camera surveillance.

The sticker says:

Did you know?
Your
Ring
camera
is selling
your
neighbors
to ICE.
Smash it now.

@reverseics hmm that seems to be 6 months off

@felix For BeOS this was one of it's famous aspects even back in the 90's on a real Pentium!

@juliank Life is like chocolate. Or something like that.

In 2024, France counted 13,335 millionaires who paid ZERO income tax.

This is yet another example of why we need a UN Tax Convention to fix global tax rules and finally make the super-rich pay their fair share, so there is real money for public services, climate action, and a green transition, instead of more loopholes for extreme wealth.

Liza Simpson meme with a presentation slide saying: "In 2024, 13,335 millionaires paid no income tax in France. There is enough money for hospitals, schools, and climate solutions, it is just in the wrong hands."

@littlealex *cough*

No, I don’t want an AI assisted experience

I want clean air, forests, and a future for the next generation

Voor wie doe jij het veilig?

Of je vandaag een Valentijn hebt of niet, met ons stappenplan zal in ieder geval je instant-messaging-dienst je geheimen bewaren…

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/12/11/weg-van-big-tech-stap-7-instant-messaging/

Gele achtergrond met daarop de tekst: Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF. I would switch to Signal for you. Daaronder een rode roos en het Bits of Freedom logo.

Congrats to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

A comedic short about a scientist who attempts to improve human life by altering reality, only to find that each well-intentioned fix deepens the chaos.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-reality-engineer

@ariadne Yep, I don't know the full history either, but from the context I got in this thread, things sound fixable so I hope it goes into that direction from the Debian side so that it stops causing problems upstream and for users of the package in Debian.

@ariadne That post now walks into conspiracy theory territory there. I know Andrej personally and I think you're assuming a lot more bad faith here than he deserves.

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor — who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

Research finds that by the late 21st century, most of Africa will no longer experience occasional heatwaves but will instead endure extreme heat for most of the year. This will not be just a slight warming

https://theconversation.com/heat-with-no-end-climate-model-sets-out-an-unbearable-future-for-parts-of-africa-274323

And this is why you don't let billionaires - or any company - own platforms.

YouTube just terminated PlainSite's YouTube channel, which posted certain Epstein Files video directly as provided by the government, because doing so purportedly violated YouTube's "spam, deceptive practices and scams" policy.  For real. Providing the Epstein Files is a "scam" according to Google.

@alienghic @bri7 LFP batteries are quite safe. As in, you can throw them into a fire and they still won't explode, or you can take a pick-axe to them and they won't catch fire. They also last 3-4 times as long.

@Edwin085 A gen z would figure this out in an instant, you just press one of the buttons on the opposite side where the Yes label is missing due to an AI glitch.

@256 Certainly one of the best 4 player PC games of the time

@foone Easy. You get to watch TV when she's finished.

Me too! Hoping to make it out there again some time.

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