Karl Voit  

@publicvoit@graz.social
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The PIMfluencer

https://karl-voit.at/about/

Influencing myself all the time. Rabbit-hole investigator.

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I don't fav read toots.

Mutes accounts that misuse CWs.

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#PIM #FOSS #Emacs  #orgmode   #Orgdown #bicycle #decentralization #security #privacy #Austria #Graz 

Joined Mastodon 2017-11

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NOT political correct!

Blog "Public Voit"https://karl-voit.at/
Mastodon Manifestohttps://karl-voit.at/mastodon
Don't mis-use CWs (or I'll mute you)https://karl-voit.at/2022/06/05/mastodon-cw-misuse
Githubhttps://github.com/novoid/

This is a *really* good interview by @arminwolf.at with #TimothySnyder about #Trump and #USA and his analysis of the current situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhMkgH8JeM

It's not as alarming as some headlines but also not as positive as others might think.

And no, Timothy did *not* flee from US to Canada.

#MAGA #Republicans #fascism

Exklusiv-Interview: US-Historiker Timothy Snyder bei Armin Wolf | ZIB2 vom 29.4.2025

YouTube

#Contekt – Technik Verein #Graz
https://www.contekt.at/

Scheint sowas wie ein permanentes #RapairCafé zu sein. Nähe XXX Lutz. #DIY #Werkstatt mit Know-How-Transfer.

Klingt interessant!

#Reparatur #geplanteObsoleszenz #repaircafe

C O N T E K T – Technikverein

Die #DB ist nicht so gut im Verstecken. 😜
Repositioning tech in my life

For a few years I've been embracing FOSS at more and more parts of my life. I've replaced significant part of personal technology with open

Michał Sapka
Convincing people and organizations to join the #Fediverse can be a frustrating undertaking.
Soll er halt Viagra nehmen

My mother used to #photograph with film rolls for #slides. And the fun thing about slides is, that colours are kept relatively well. Recently I found this photo (that I scanned) of the Kaiser Franz Josef Höhe and the Gross Glockner. It's from the late 1960s. I recognised that building. I've been there on my #cycling trip last year.

Spot the differences..
#climatechange

@evdelen @Lassielmr

Allow me to present two ways of framing the same issue.

"World would save $5 trillion a year by switching to renewable energy"

"Oil and gas companies to lose $5 trillion a year by switching to renewable energy"

Oil and Gas is how much of our economy? How many jobs depend on it? How much do they make up of political donations.

I do not doubt a technocrats ability to analyze data and optimize a solution based on it. What I doubt is who he will optimize a solution for.

Is it right to go up the stairs like that?
Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/
Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - The Document Foundation Blog

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]

The Document Foundation Blog