Bundespreis Ecodesign 2025 – Wir sind nominiert!

Der Bundespreis Ecodesign ist die höchste staatliche Auszeichnung für ökologisches Design in Deutschland.🏅

🟢 149 Beiträge haben es in die Jurysitzung geschafft.
✅ 30 davon wurden nun für den Bundespreis Ecodesign 2025 nominiert!

Die Preisverleihung findet am 1. Dezember im Bundesumweltministerium in Berlin statt. Bis dahin heißt es: Daumen drücken!👍

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #ecodesignpreis #nachhaltigkeit #designaward

Comme maire du plateau il n'a même pas pietonnisé av Mont Royal à l'année.

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With #Framework shouting from the rooftops that they prefer to have no values at all, maybe it's time to look into alternative computer vendors with values similar to those originally ascribed to Framework.

There's, of course, @mntmn (crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform…) based in Germany which is probably the only one that's in the same league (and probably well beyond) in terms of modularity and hackability. It's a bit of a hacker boutique, though: unusual hardware at rather steep prices - partially _because_ it's so unusual.

A bit more "standard" and with that more affordable, too, there's @slimbook@linuxrocks.online in Spain (slimbook.com/en/upgrade-repair), @starlabssystems in the UK (de.starlabs.systems/collection…), and @novacustom in the Netherlands (novacustom.com/cat/spare-parts…).

While they don't bring that "replace everything" ethos, they're small laptop vendors that ramped up from "resell China white label laptops" to doing more and more design and production on their own.

In terms of modularity, they pass the bar that the big vendors fail: they don't solder and glue everything into a single blob that becomes an all-or-nothing deal when components break. Instead, they even sell individual parts on their store.

They're not quite at the Framework-level of modularity, but I think they all deserve a shoutout for moving the needle in the right direction when it comes to sustainability.

(honorable mention for @system76, who at least mention keeping your device useful for longer at system76.com/laptops, encouraging battery replacements and other maintenance, even if they don't have a spare parts section in their shop)

Of what use is #DigitalSovereignty when you need an Apple or Android device to install the App that implements your Digitally Sovereign solution? Always make sure there is a device-independent (or more flashy: technology-neutral :) way for citizens to use your solution without being forced to share data with Apple or Google.
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bizarre flight to have roaring overhead just now. who's going from Sault Ste Marie to Zurich on a chartered Dassault Falcon 7X? 🤔 #TheSoo #CYAM

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White “progressives” and “liberals” exercising their First Amendment rights by protesting at Kamala Harris’s book tour events isn’t the flex you think it is or having the impact you claim to want.

What it actually demonstrates is that you’re still not ready to have the “revolution” you keep screaming for.

Because yelling at a Black woman who currently holds no executive power doesn’t make you radical…it makes you reckless.

Do you stream a lot of content but don't want to deal with modern electron apps for everything? Yeah, me either. Meet flux, an accessible media center for both Windows and Mac, coming soon! ims-productions.com/flux

Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for MS’s own purposes. MS tried to shift all responsibility to comply with privacy laws onto schools noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-…

My day in brief:
9-12: Lead religious service, sermon, after-service chat
12-1: Car starts shaking violently around highway speed. Take it to one garage to find out my dealership rotated the tires, but didn’t rebalance them.
1-3: wait
3pm: they send me off with rebalanced fronts
3:05pm: you’ll never guess what the rears are doing
3:30pm: get to second garage
3:30-6: wait
6pm: continue original 2.5hr journey
6:05pm: goddammit
7pm: return home, slowly
8pm: order 4 new tires

#ChatControl must never come back. 💪

❌ Breaks encryption
❌ Destroys privacy

This would make free discussion online impossible, create a backdoor for abusers and authoritarian regimes, and endanger journalists & activists.

Privacy is not a crime. #StopChatControl

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The App Store Was Always Authoritarian infrequently.org/2025/10/the-a… - "Apple is loaning its monopoly on iOS software to yet another authoritarian regime without a fight, painting a stark contrast: when profits are on the line, Cupertino will gaslight democratic regulators and defy pro-user laws with all the $1600/hr lawyers Harvard can graduate" says Big Al, absolutely correctly and with fancier words and less swearing than I would use to make the same points.

mr @joshbressers talked to Joshua about his work on using AI to find flaws on his latest episode: opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…

Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. - Ronald Reagan, Jan 5, 1967.