Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

#Fedora #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y #Linux #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487

Mozilla has updated Firefox to have some new data collection silliness. It seems OK, but if like me, you're skeptic, chose the hamburger menu, go to settings, type "firefox da" and the setting will pop up. Uncheck stuff and you're good to go.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help-improve-firefox

#Mozilla #firefox #privacy

A brand new Oxford University analysis has debunked #NHS privatisation.

Oxford researchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation and found they agreed on one thing: privatisation leads to poorer quality care for patients.

https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=sA1GK65J1x8

#SaveOurNHS #WeOwnIt #healthcare #OurNHS #PrivatisationFails #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateTerrorism #video #research #hospital

Since 1853, France has been occupying the islands of New Caledonia against the wishes of the Indigenous Kanak people. In the 1870s, the French government exiled the anarchist Louise Michel and many other participants in the Paris Commune uprising there.

In 1878, the Kanaks revolted against French oppression. Ataï, one of the leaders of the revolt, achieved several victories against the occupiers. After he was finally betrayed, the French colonizers cut off his head and brought it back to Paris. They refused to return it until 2014.

Today, colonialism continues in New Caledonia. The French government has just sent 1200 more police officers there from Paris to suppress the latest uprising.

Like Louise Michel, we support Indigenous struggles against colonialism. Get France out of New Caledonia.

Both Labour & the Tories are focussing on the Financial Conduct Authority & its regulatory remit/practice as being a key impediment to economic growth in the UK.

This requires one to believe a less regulated financial services sector would deliver investment & revive areas of economic activity across the country.

But, this reflects the City of London's propaganda that they are key to the UK economic well-being... very little about the history of financialisation suggests that's true!

#banking

The business sector has woken up to the fact that the Tories various policies to wreck the university sector is actually bad for business;

a group of international firms have written to Rise Sunak warning that further curtailing student visas & the resulting (deepening) funding crisis for universities will reduce inwards investment.

The problem is the economic madness of wrecking higher education has been clear for ages; the Tories just don't care about the economics

#universities #investment