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An der Affaire um die verzockte Zahnarzt-Altersvorsorge kann man gut sehen, was eine Aktienrente für die Versicherten früher oder später bedeuten würde.

tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ambulan…


„Ambulante Versorgung stünde ernsthaft infrage“: Zahnärzte schicken wegen drohender Rentenpleite Bettelbrief an Gesundheitsministerin

Zahnärzte aus Berlin, Brandenburg und Bremen bangen um ihre Renten: Ihrem Versorgungswerk droht ein Milliardenverlust. Nun fordern sie Hilfe vom Bund und kritisieren Berlins Wirtschaftsverwaltung.
Alexander Fröhlich (Der Tagesspiegel)

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Should other countries treat Americans the same way America is now treating tourists by taking DNA, fingerprints, mug shots and by going through the past 5 years of their social media?

#poll #america #tourism #travel #news

  • Yes (55%, 50 votes)
  • Not sure (2%, 2 votes)
  • No (37%, 34 votes)
  • They can’t do that. I’m an American (4%, 4 votes)
90 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago

#News #travel #poll #tourism #america

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Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the #weather, personally, to better understand #ClimateChange?

mgifford.github.io/risky-weath…

#ClimateRisk #ExtremeWeather

Risky Weather: Model Comparison

mgifford.github.io
#climatechange #weather #extremeweather #climaterisk
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@WeirdWriter wrote this blistering counterblast to #LLM infiltration into our communities and how it undermines our confidence in our ability to create and do what we love. As well as the joy and care in community rebellion when it can seem hopeless.

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Writers also need support, they'd like to eat and pay rent sometime this month. Especially as the market appears to be hostile to true writing that doesn't enforce the status quo.

Support:

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#llm @Robert Kingett

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It's that time of year again! 🎄 🎄 🎄
Wait, no not that, we mean: ⌚ ⌚ ⌚

Yes, it's time for a new Gadgetbridge release! 🎉

Version 0.88.0 supports even more gadgets than before, is more stable than ever, handles and displays your data better, and fixes several mild annoyances.

And it does all this while keeping your health data fully private, outside the reach of vendors and big tech. 💪

Get it now at Codeberg, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. 📦

Read more here: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-…


Gadgetbridge 0.88.0: New devices and key fixes - Gadgetbridge

A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.
gadgetbridge.org

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Shoutout to the legendary Tuta community 🙌

Thank you all for taking the time to partake in our yearly survey!

Your feedback and opinions help us build stronger, more secure and user-focused Tuta Products. 💪❤️

💡📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2025: tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025

More than 80% are likely to recommend Tuta.

Tuta User Survey 2025 | Tuta

Check out the feedback from this year’s user survey and learn what we’ll focus on in 2026.
Tuta

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Yesterday was the third anniversary of Raspberry Pi announcing that they'd hired an ex-cop (specifically a Technical Surveillance Officer) as their "Maker-in-residence", and then pissing off a huge segment of their target market by acting completely oblivious as to why that might be a problem.

I missed my calendar reminder about it, so instead you can celebrate the third anniversary of Buzzfeed writing an article about it:

buzzfeednews.com/article/chris…

#RaspberryPi #milkshakeDuck


Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed

“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.
Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
#raspberrypi #milkshakeduck

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Ich bemerke in der Teamrunde, dass eine Paketstation für Rollstuhlfahrer*innen doof ist, weil man an obere Fächer nicht rankommt.

Einwand: "Es gibt auch Rollstühle mit Lift-Funktion"

Ich: "Joah, das ist keine Barrierefreiheit. Dann brauchen wir auch keine Treppen. Es gibt zusammenklappbare Leitern, die können alle mitschleppen."

Seufz. Das ist manchmal echt frustrierend.

#barrierefreiheit

#barrierefreiheit
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RE: mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11…

people are not making the connection that this is Palantir bullshit. remember when Trump gave them free reign of ICE during their first coup? remember how Biden bent over and did nothing about it?

it’s one thing to announce this bullshit. it’s another to not to, immediately, make the connections.

which, reminds me: start mentioning Palantir, Thiel and his “liberal” poniboi every time y’all mention ICE.

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)

Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.
Dan Gillmor (Mastodon)
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* @marcprux caught on video
* Schedule your #39C3 #CCC visit
* Switching relays in #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat
* #Thunderbird drops #MaterialDesign3 🤯
+ 8 new apps
& 156 updates
- 1 app archived

Click play: f-droid.org/2025/12/11/twif.ht…


Keeping it open (video version) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Dec...
f-droid.org
#fdroid #thunderbird #deltachat #CCC #arcanechat #39c3 #materialdesign3 @Marc Prud'hommeaux

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Yup. Millions of people with no basic background or formal understanding of terrorism studies being duped by the ultra-sophisticated tentacled Hamas propaganda machine that mainstream media and global outlets lack resources and integrity to discern and expose. Including terrorist journalists.

Gaza journalist deaths linked to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, study finds | The Jerusalem Post

jpost.com/middle-east/article-…

#Hamas #terrorists #Gaza #propaganda #media #journalism #Israel #Oct7 #press

Illustrative (photo credit: TPS-IL)

Gaza journalist deaths linked to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, study finds | The Jerusalem Post

“The issue of Hamas’s propaganda is a high priority, and it uses a lot of media outlets abroad to talk about it,” said Shlomo Mofaz.
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
#propaganda #journalism #israel #media #press #Hamas #Gaza #terrorists #oct7
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#Molly app has a socks5 option but only #Orbot "VPN" mode will work. What if #Arti from @torproject could bind with Molly on socks5 via #Termux?

would be nice to have #systemd like @postmarketOS

*Termux @termux
pkg update (possible to plug in keyboard and display to #android #mobile app)
then proot-distro login --isolated debian
su - user because Arti will complain eventhough phone is not really rooted, change etc/resolv.conf to cloudflare, add dependencies needed for #rust rustup and cargo on #debian #trixie, chmod g-w ~/.config

* #Oniux --> E0560

* Arti --> Linux Scaffolding Log_Connections

* apkeep #EFF eff.org/pages/apkeep --> shared storage path, package manager chokepoint won't install

* network monitoring like Nyx with #tokio-console

In a way, like passwordless root in QubesOS. Some good customizations can be made in Dom0, though, unlike GrapheneOS.
#UbuntuTouch #Brax #Mobian #deGoogle #Tor #Linux #AOSP #GuardianProject #Calyx #Phone #Development

apkeep

To track state-sponsored malware and combat the stalkerware of abusive partners, you need tools. Safe, reliable, and fast tools. That’s why EFF’s Threat Lab is proud to announce our very own tool to download Android APK files, apkeep.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#android #linux #aosp #debian #mobian #mobile #eff #development #rust #Tor #phone #degoogle #UbuntuTouch #systemd #termux #molly #trixie #calyx #orbot #arti #tokio #brax #oniux #guardianproject @The Tor Project @Termux @postmarketOS
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Termux

#arti does work on Termux natively without the need for proot. Its not packaged as it is still under active development and we would want to provide such security critical package only when we believe we can do so without any anti-effects.

github.com/termux/termux-packa… for Arti on Termux (not recommended for use, only considered a proof of concept)


addpkg(main/arti): 1.8.0 by thunder-coding · Pull Request #21993 · termux/termux-packages

GitHub
#arti

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I am probably getting old, but the idea to cram in lots of events in Brussels the entire week before FOSDEM is not getting my thumbs up. Or well, you can have them but I won't be there.

A regular FOSDEM already wears me out on its own. Being at the European Open Source Awards on the Thursday before FOSDEM is stretching it but I will do it.

Adding *more* events to my agenda that week would probably kill me.

Did I mention I'm old? Leave me alone.

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Joe Brockmeier

@zipkid In many cases it's just the least-bad option if you want to hold an event and get maximum attendance... the side-events are things that, in all likelihood, just aren't going to attract as many people if they had to travel for that one event.

It is exhausting, no doubt. I mostly got off the travel train in 2018... I do miss seeing people in person sometimes, but I do not miss the flights, hotels, etc. Major kudos to confs that do a good job putting up streaming sessions and videos shortly after the event. FOSDEM in particular is excellent about this.

source: have planned post/pre-FOSDEM events in the past.

@zipkid - Breaker of Systems

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My vocational school class is going to the cinema next Friday, actually, not even just the class, several other classes from the school. Our English teacher was (apparently) able to select a movie from the catalog. But, guess what, oh no how sad, the film has no audio description, but but, we even asked the cinema, so sorry, we need to find an alternative for you. The alternative is that while my classmates to whom I already am separated thanks to several other factors of my disability enjoy themselves next Friday, I'll be sitting at the office (being given the time to work on school stuff), and of course I don't have to stay the full time. You know I'm not even angry, this was totally no surprise to me but it's so fucking ridiculous.

André Polykanine reshared this.

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Tech Singer

You are correct, I think, this is a personal thing. All that matters is your workflow, if it's the best keyboard in the world according to everyone else, but doesn't work for you, then it's a waste and should be returned. You may also want to have a look at the folding keyboards, which are quite interesting. Microsoft had a universal folding one but I believe it's discontinued. There's always the Keys2Go 2 from Logitech, it's very thin but doesn't fold. It does, though, support multiple devices. There are also the ones from IClever and Protoarc. As I said, other peoples' views aren't too important, what matters is what you think after having seen them.

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Our next major release is coming up – help us to test it! #LibreOffice 26.2 is due in February, and now the first beta is available: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 26.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2026 ( Check the Release Plan ). LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is the second pre-release since development of version 26.2 started at the beginning of June, 2025.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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#Ageverification must not become mandatory. In general, the effect and implementation of age verification are still unclear, and the risks outweigh the benefits. There is no law worldwide that enforces mandatory AV for messengers. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/afte…

After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know

After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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