Harry Beard

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Teaching disinterested students how to balance their books since 1989. Part-time tech enthusiast. #RollTide
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Harry BeardDec 29
🦜 Planet KDE | EnglishDec 28

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
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War and Peas 🧿Nov 28
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David Penfold Nov 9
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@briankrebs We live in the stupidest time line.
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@briankrebs I'm having uncomfortable flashbacks to the TV series Person of Interest, which I always thought was over the top.
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Natasha  đź‡Şđź‡şNov 2

“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
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@harrysintonen Every day I feel more inclined to embrace Linux. How odd that most of the motivation is coming from this commercial software company.
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@arstechnica The guy who calls climate change a hoax and wanted to make coal great again didn't follow environmental protocols?!? I'M SHOCKED!
Harry BeardOct 31
Ars TechnicaOct 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 BeardOct 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?