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We have to get a bit more independent from Big Tech IT – now everyone seems to agree. The German Heise Verlag, which thankfully now produce most of their content in both German *and* in English, reports about Palantir and openCode for instance, which deal with that topic. I’ve recently seen a two-hour-long discussion and expert hearing about it, which I can recommend in case you understand German and have those two hours for the topic. The Linke party even invited an expert from FSFE, the Free Software Foundation Europe (.org), who deal with that since long before someone started a topic like #UnplugTrump on Mastodon.

Another more or less important topic from IT: Google just stopped support for Android 12, see the heise topic here, so think about changing your OS which is mentioned in the comments – or better, get something like GrapheneOS on a still supported device. I’m still happy with that on my Pixel 6a as long as it will be supported; too bad that I can’t change to the now deceased DivestOS after that period…

As always, thanks for reading.

Update, same day:

Seems like the EU Commission is extra careful regarding the US by now – and maybe we all should be.

I first noticed it in this article at heise online (also in English), but Google has a document about it as well (switch languages at the bottom of that page if necessary).

I became curious about my Pixel 6a and looked up its battery status in GrapheneOS. Looks like this:

100% after 226 cycles looks okay to me…

And it comes from Stephen Colbert on his late show:

“Thanks to Donald Trump, America is finally free from the tyranny of being able to buy stuff from other countries,” Colbert told the studio audience. “Who’s ready to learn how to make their own iPad from scratch?”

found in The Independent. Oh, and he has a great band as well, look out for them.

Side note: our ARD/ZDF Mittagsmagazin asked people whether they’d now consider to buy fewer American products. Result: 96% yes, 4% no. Number of answers: 7,075. See here.

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Read it here. And FCKNZS…

Thanks for listening 🙂

There goes the security on our old Nexus 10 tablet for instance… sigh…

Today I’ve read an interesting thread about iPhones in a musician’s board, and much of it reminded me of the time when my last employer bought us all iPhones (SE 2020), just in case the internet would be down (that was during the pandemic).

One comment was:

“Kluge Menschen kaufen Apple Aktien statt Apple Geräte.“

which, translated by myself, means as much as:

“Wise men buy Apple shares instead of Apple devices.”

I had to smile a bit, but then I found this TechCrunch article, where someone calculated it (or rather, had it calculated with the use of ChatGPT).

Turns out that if you had bought Apple shares in the amount of what each consecutive Apple iPhone would have cost you, today you would have $147,000. Plus you would have done something good for Mother Nature… See also: here… 😉

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Took this on the first day, some 5 and a half hours after she arrived at our home, in Zuleikha’s room. Cropped it into a 4:5 aspect ratio:

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Our new little family member has arrived safe & sound, eats well, and is a real explorer. This is her after her first night with us, yesterday morning:

In yesterday’s late afternoon, Mitchie was out to work, and Zuleikha out to driving school:

And I took this one this morning with my phone, corrected the white balance with The Gimp on Linux:

Waiting on a cat tree which we ordered for her… and like always, thanks for viewing, and for reading.

Update: here are three more photos from today, short before lunch. And as you can see on the second of them, she not only has a chip but also a tattoo in her left ear…

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