We now ship the 3rd and likely final release candidate of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie". Thanks to the Debian Installer Team! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00001.html

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Deep in a New Zealand swamp, scientists discovered an ancient kauri tree that had been entombed for more than 40,000 years—its trunk preserved like a wooden time capsule. But this wasn’t just any prehistoric tree. Its rings revealed something extraordinary: it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion, a rare moment when Earth’s magnetic poles reversed. More alarming, however, was the period just before the flip—known as the Adams Event—when the planet’s magnetic field all but vanished, exposing the Earth to an onslaught of cosmic radiation.

With Earth’s magnetic shield weakened to as little as 0–6% of its normal strength, solar and cosmic radiation surged in, triggering global climate chaos. Ice sheets expanded dramatically, storm systems rerouted, and once-verdant lands like parts of Australia were swallowed by desert. Some researchers believe the event contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals and forced early humans into caves for protection—where they began creating the earliest known symbolic art. These dramatic shifts suggest the Adams Event wasn’t just a magnetic anomaly—it was a turning point in human history.

Now, the ancient kauri stands as both relic and warning. Its rings carry the silent testimony of a world on the edge, a reminder that our magnetic field is not permanent. If such a collapse were to happen today, the consequences could be dire—satellite failure, communication breakdowns, grid collapses, and rapid shifts in climate. This tree, long dead, still speaks—whispering across the ages about the fragility of the invisible forces that shield our modern world.

Bitte teilt diese Petition zur Reformation der deutschen Bahn mit allen die ihr kennt. Die Rückführung zu einer gemeinwohl-orientierten Struktur würde der deutschen Gesamt-Infrastruktur auf extrem vielen Ebenen zu gute kommen.

Am Infrastruktur-Zerfall kann man sehr klar erkennen dass die Entscheidung die Bahn in eine AG umzuwandeln keine gute war.

Natürlich ist es im aktuellen politischen Klima unter Führung der CDU schwer ein "soziales" Projekt durchzusetzen, aber versuchen müssen wir es trotzdem.

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_06/_18/Petition_182777.nc.html

#epetition #bundestag #deutschebahn

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Have you heard of the 3-30-300 🌳 rule?

Everyone should be able to:

🌲 See at least 3 trees from their home
🌳 Have 30% tree canopy cover in their neighbourhood
🍃 Live within 300 meters of a high-quality green space

Trees help us cool down our towns in the summer, improve air quality and regulate the water cycle.

That’s why The EU Biodiversity Strategy commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.

Learn more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!RGwp7f

The EU is making a very bad mistake here.

The EU is developing an app for age verification that can be used by many other applications as a legal way of ensuring that a user is at least 18 before accessing some protected content.

The problem is here:

The current release provides only basic functionality, with several key features to be introduced in future versions, including:

• App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation
• Additional issuance methods beyond the currently implemented eID based method.

What does it mean that it relies on the Google Play Integrity API?

Put simply, that:

• Any Android device not certified by Google will not be able to run the app. Do you use /e/OS (which is a European fork of Android btw), GrapheneOS, LineageOS or any other open-source fork of Android? Sorry, no age verification for you, which will mean that you’ll probably be locked out of many applications in the future. We often forget it, but, even though developed by Google, the core of Android (AOSP) is open-source and anyone can fork it. Google lately is already trying to attack that core hard enough to turn Android into a fully closed-source operating system exclusively controlled by them. The EU is just doing them a favour apparently.

• The Google Play Integrity API relies on keys and certificates exclusively owned by Google. Which means that if you use alternative privacy-aware frameworks to the Google Play Services (like microG) you won’t be able to do age verification. Google is already trying hard to force all vendors that install Android on their devices to get a certification from them only if they also pre-install Google apps and the Google Play Services (see the Android Certified program). The EU in the past opposed such plans because they clearly violate all the possible antitrust rules on the face of the earth. But, by piggybacking on mandatory Google Play Services for age verification, it seems that it’s just doing a U-turn and doing Google another favour.

In other words, EU representatives have (rightfully) talked a lot over the past years about digital sovereignty, technological independence from American tech giants and supporting open-source.

And then, when tasked to build an institutional app for age verification, what do they do?

Well, they entirely delegate the process to an American tech company that they pledged to decouple us from, and they play in their interests by putting another nail in the AOSP’s coffin.

Luckily the age verification app is still in alpha state and it’ll still take time to be deployed, and it’s also open-source.

So please, if you have a Github account, add a reaction or a comment to the issue opened by @SylvieLorxu on the project of the app to boost its visibility.

And if you have contacts with a EU representative don’t hesitate to write to them and express these implementation concerns.

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