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Highlights from 2025

pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025

It’s been a few years since I did an end-of-year “highlights in KDE” post, but hopefully better late than never! 2025 was a big year for KDE — bigger than me or any of us individually. My focus these days tends to be on Plasma, so that’s mostly what I’ll…

Highlights from 2025

It’s been a few years since I did an end-of-year “highlights in KDE” post, but hopefully better late than never! 2025 was a big year for KDE — bigger than me or any of us individu…

Adventures in Linux and KDE

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy ... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Harry Beard Oct 31

Ars Technica Oct 30

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they're running GrapheneOS.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Harry Beard Oct 31

Andrea Junker

Oct 30

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

Harry Beard Oct 22

elle Oct 22

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Harry Beard Oct 22

Laura Cochran Oct 22

#photography #fotografía #fotografie #ChangingWeather #drama #Nature #naturephotography #meermittwoch
#LauraCochranPhotography

Harry Beard Oct 9

Andrea Junker

Oct 9

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Harry Beard Feb 10, 2025

Greenpeace International Feb 7, 2025

⚠️ ALL IS NOT LOST ⚠️

The news cycle is tremendously disheartening. Wildfires, the spread of climate disinformation in real time, genocides, the rise of the far right, removing fact checking and supports that protect vulnerable communities - it’s heavy.

We have a formidable amount of obstacles in our way.

But don’t lose sight of the fact that it isn’t too late.

Every fraction of action matters - and it’s not over yet.

#ClimateAction