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  1. HP, a fine instrument* and then computer and then printer manufacturer. Then they decided that ink and services were the route to board enrichment.

    Happy to say I have not lost a minutes sleep to never buying one after I left the company many moons ago (but my LaserJet 5 is still going strong — a different era)

    theregister.com/legal/2026/07/

    *yes I know that went off to Agilent

    #HP #Printers #Ink #Extortion #Shoddy #Avoid

  2. The European Commission has postponed announcing a fine against the tech giant Google in an ongoing case under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). According to the n... news.osna.fm/?p=54565 | #news #avoid #delays #donald #eu

  3. A Free Tool [DeFlock] Maps The License Plate Readers On Your Route [Flock, Etc], Then Lets You Slide Right Past Them
    (Drivers can compare standard routes against camera-free alternatives with DeFlock’s growing surveillance database)
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    carscoops.com/2026/06/deflock- <-- shared technical media article
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    maps.deflock.org <-- shared (free) DeFlock webmap/resource
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    deflock.org/ <-- shared DeFlock overview web page, avoiding Flock Automated License Plate Readers
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    youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?si=zXeNzw <-- shared YouTube video. “This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers”, including lack of security and ready exposure of private & personal data
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    kunc.org/news/2026-06-19/fort- <-- shared media article, example, City Of Fort Collins, CO dropping contract and getting Flock cameras removed
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    “…
    • DeFlock can generate routes that avoid known [Automated License Plate Readers] ALPR cameras entirely.
    • Users can choose how far they want to stay from surveillance cameras.
    • The tool arrives as scrutiny of license plate readers continues to grow.
    For years, automated license plate readers have quietly spread across America. They sit on utility poles, at intersections, near shopping centers, and along roads most drivers use every day. The overwhelming majority of motorists never notice them. A free website called DeFlock changes that by showing where many of those cameras are located and, more importantly, helping users avoid them if they choose. In a world where surveillance is often invisible, that’s a surprisingly powerful feature…”
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    “Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, colour, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.
    These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant…”
    #DeFlock #PII #monitoring #automated #LicensePlateReaders #ALPR #LPR #cameras #avoid #camerafree #opendata # #invasionofprivacy #stalking #security #datasecurity #data #routing #webmap #free
    #tracking #surveillance #surveillancestate #licenseplate #police #ICE #lawenforcement #warrantless #warrantlessSurveillance #warrantless_surveillance #flock #dystopia

  4. #avoid : to keep away from

    - French: éviter

    - German: vermeiden

    - Italian: evitare

    - Portuguese: evitar

    - Spanish: evita

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  5. Metris Arts
    Bloomberg Philanthropies
    Create Today

    These folks don't care about your privacy and are actively paying other companies to steal and sell your data.

    #Avoid #evaluation #Privacy

  6. I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

    Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

    This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

    #extremism

    To all #people I #pray that:
    You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

    #awareness

    I pray that:
    As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

    #sovereignty
    I pray that:
    You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

    #CommonSense
    I pray that:
    We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

    #battles
    I pray that:
    We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

    And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

    All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

    For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

    To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

    #posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

    youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

    In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

    I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

    Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

  7. #avoid : to emit or throw out

    - French: éviter

    - German: vermeiden

    - Italian: evitare

    - Portuguese: evitar

    - Spanish: evita

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  8. Climate Protection Minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) pressed for a swift agreement on new regulations for heating replacement and urged corrections in the subsid... news.osna.fm/?p=32467 | #news #action #avoid #chaos #climate

  9. Self Paced #Sustainability #book focuses on the mantra #AVOID #REUSE #REPURPOSE #COMPOST #RECYCLE and landfill last. Making an impact one step at a time at your pace. I spent over 20 years researching and experimenting, all my experiences are included in this book! Written in a conversational style, I share my successes and failures and provide a handy resource list of products I have tried that really work. #sustainabilityeducation #living #green #bookstadon

    a.co/d/5htcHgY

  10. by Chris Stein of The Guardian,
    Dec. 31st
    On-going legacy of a Federal Judge’s dismissal of and hiding facts about a federal indictment 🤮:

    Judiciary Committee testimony
    “The #ClassifiedDocuments case was hampered by rulings from Florida judge #AileenCannon who at one point dismissed Smith’s indictment.

    “[Jack] Smith authored a report into his prosecutions, and the portion covering the election interference case was released prior to Biden leaving office. However, Cannon has barred the chapter discussing the classified-documents charges from being made public, though Democrats on the judiciary committee have asked her to reverse her decision.

    “At the outset of the hearing, an attorney for Smith, Peter Koski, told the committee the former special counsel had received an email from the #Justice Department advising him to #avoid talking about his evidence in the case because of Cannon’s ruling.”