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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

Gardiner Bryant gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online

California just put FOSS devs on the financial hook for your kids "safety"

So California finally did it. They passed Assembly Bill 1043. And now your OS is legally required to collect your birthdate and report it to every app developer... so they can verify you're not a baby....

https://gardinerbryant.com/california-just-put-foss-devs-on-the-financial-hook-for-your-kids-safety/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

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@stuartl Being 44, I've made peace with this, I keep my expenses low, and plan to transition to paid for maintenance of a few pieces of software. Relying on a day job just doesn't seem sustainable anymore. I think the people who are my age who hope to work at the same company until they're 65 have some hard realities that will hit them.

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Veritasium covers the XZ backdoor in the detail that any person can understand, just as well as they do on many other topics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

KDE kde@floss.social

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

will cut off independent developers to if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 susankayequinn@wandering.shop

"“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang...OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has concurred, lamenting pushback... “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow"

We're making the AI broligarchs sad, friends, but we can do better.
MOAR SADDNESS FOR SAM AND JENSEN
:hammer:
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-ceo-ai-hate

Michael Banck mbanck@mastodon.xyz

"A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered" (via Techmeme)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

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@fossdd @ncopa Ah. Well might as well go all the way then. In my experience users are more forgiving of newer software with new bugs than older versions with fixed issues upstream that they have to wait for. YMMV etc :) - I'm a little curious what you end up deciding and why!

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@ncopa Not sure if it's a useful datapoint for you. In Debian there was the same question for the next release, and IIRC the decision was to go for Python 3.14, but first upgrade to 3.13 as a step in between to help the transition (currently 3.13 is in unstable / 3.14 in experimental).

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@zhenech Good. You didn't need that feature anyway. *ducks*

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@Jyoti People who use Medium are bad people.

Keep Android Open keepandroidopen@techhub.social

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

First page of the open letter opposing the Google Android Developer Verification program.

occult occult@vox.ominous.net

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.

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@reverseics hmm that seems to be 6 months off

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

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@pevinkinel Yikes.

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

Greenpeace International greenpeace@mastodon.social

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."

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@littlealex *cough*

Greenpeace International greenpeace@mastodon.social

No, I don’t want an AI assisted experience

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

Bits of Freedom bitsoffreedom@chaos.social

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.

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