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There is no reasonable scenario in which Ukraine or European nations should consent to this surrender demand. None. Additionally, it undermines the United States' position in Europe and, by extension its global standing.

US 7-point “peace plan” presented in London:
1 Crimea give to invaders
2 End hostilities at front line
3 🇺🇸 lifts all sanctions against terrorist invaders
4 Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will be transferred to 🇺🇸. 🇺🇸 begins energy cooperation with war criminal regime
5 No sec guarantees from 🇺🇸
6 🇺🇦 will not join NATO
7 Minerals deal to be signed

#Ukraine #eu #europe #UK #France #Baltics #nato #usa

ptn Dickhead Fuck Off
#EU #Ukraine #uk #NATO #USA #france #europe #baltics

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#france #bureaucratie

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#france #politique #rn

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#france #politique #rn

#debian #france #debconf25 #brest

This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany

Docs is an web-based collaborative text editor that is the result of a joint effort led by the French 🇫🇷🥖 (DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).

It's a good alternative to popular services like Notion, Google Docs and Outline.

The platform offers real-time collaboration capabilities, a sleek minimalist interface, and all the essential features you could possibly need.

Best of all, Docs is open-source on GitHub and can be self-hosted, making it a viable option for local agencies and companies.

You can test Docs on your browser by visiting this page:

impress-preprod.beta.numerique…

using the login:

email: test.docs@yopmail.com
password: I'd<3ToTestDocs

howtogeek.com/docs-alternative…

You can also volunteer to help translating Docs to other languages here: crowdin.com/project/lasuite-do…

#europe #europeanalternatives #germany #france #opensource #BuyFromEU

An illustration of a baguette, a cheese and a pretzel with an object with the flag of the European Union

This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany

Real-time editing and collaboration, with a European twist.
Corbin Davenport (How-To Geek)
#opensource #Germany #france #europe #europeanalternatives #buyfromeu

Left-wing coalition wins French elections so King Macron forms right-wing government.

Such democracy.

(In case you needed yet another reminder that fucking neoliberals will always choose fascism over social justice when they feel their wallets are threatened.)

bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd52zl…

#France #Macron #democracy

#Macron #democracy #france

Looks like France dodged a bullet.

All major French outlets are showing early projections of a victory for the left-wing alliance, New Popular Front (NFP).

France's far-right National Rally (RN) has failed to win a majority in the parliamentary elections.

Voter turnout was the highest in decades at 67.1%, and official results are expected early Monday.

NFP and Macron's Ensemble alliance are expected to form a coalition govt.

bbc.com/news/live/ck7gydwgvy8t
nbcnews.com/news/world/france-…
#France
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Exit poll results

France’s left-wing parties projected to finish first in parliamentary elections, keep far right at bay

A tense alliance between France’s centrist and leftist parties has kept the far-right National Rally party at bay, according to exit polls, with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal set to resign.
Freddie Clayton (NBC News)
#france

French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel

> Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the #EnglishChannel. But, after months of investigation, Le Monde and its partners, Lighthouse Reports, the Observer and Der Spiegel, have documented many situations in which officers attempted to destabilize, or even sink, the small boats.
lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2… #France #migration #immigration


French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel

Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the English Channel.
Julia Pascual (Le Monde)
#france #migration #immigration #englishchannel

#france #libregraphics #meeting #lgm #lgm2024

#xmpp #privacy #france #conference #meetup #capitoledulibre2023

#smartphones #france #surveillance #cops

Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/202…
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance


France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet - Open Policy & Advocacy

Article 3 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.
Udbhav Tiwari (Open Policy & Advocacy)
#mozilla #browser #security #france #cybersecurity #surveillance

Criminalization Of Encryption : The 8 December Case
- laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05… this is really bad stuff :

"practices that are being misused as evidence of terrorist behavior6:

– the use of applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Wire, Silence or ProtonMail to encrypt communications ;

– using Internet privacy tools such as VPN, Tor or Tails7 ;

– protecting ourselves against the exploitation of our personal data by GAFAM via services such as /e/OS, LineageOS, F-Droid ;

#france


Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case

This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called "8 December" caseFor a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following su…
La Quadrature du Net
#france

#Putin #russian #Poland #News #Russia #EU #Ukraine #uk #NATO #Germany #USA #france #war #finland #Turkey #Moscow #zelensky

Staying in the spirit of ticket machines accessibility, France is doing it right, at least in the city of Metz, not sure about other places.
Have a recording of a ticket machine that speaks three languages: French, English and German. Upon pressing a dedicated button above the card read we activate the speech component. Everything that is displayed on screen is read back to us. On starting, the machine greets us in the language of our choice, tells us to insert our travel pass if we have one and reads the minimum and maximum amounts for card and cash payments. The upper part of the touchscreen acts as a navi pad with the left corner taking us to the previous option and the right one to the next. In the lower part, the left corner is "Cancel", while the right is "Confirm". This way we can choose our desired ticket, the preferred payment method and complete our transaction.
The recording is a montage of different clips from the machine indicating a chosen ticket in English, through its welcome message in French and German with the latter going through some ticket options, coming back to the full welcome message in English. The recording is peppered with occasional Polish from me as it was originally recorded for our Polish podcast. It was taken using the built-in mikes of my Motorola One smartphone. Now that I listen back, it sounds kinda condensed.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Metz #PublicTransport #Audio #recording #FieldRecording

#Accessibility #blind #audio #france #metz #publictransport #adventcalendar #fieldrecording #recording

Since some time I have been drawn to research Minitel, a French Videotex-based system for accessing information that predates the Internet. It was a revolution in terms of digitalization which made activities such as buying train and plane tickets, signing up for classes and reading newspapers digitalized as early as the 80's. You can read more about it in the following Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
There were many devices invented to make Minitel accessible to the blind, although the system itself wasn't designed with this target group in mind. Mostly, they were external speech synthesizers like in the case of Lectel:
lemonde.fr/archives/article/19…
or the Valentine text-to-speech card for the Apple II:
blog.atalan.fr/valentine-carte…
The history of the Eurobraille company, the makers of the popular Esys, Esytime and B.Note Braille displays, starts also with a speech synthesizer for the Minitel terminals.
eurobraille.fr/notre-histoire/
As I found out, however, most of France's blind community at that time did not have access to this kind of technology and Minitel only became accessible on a global scale in the 90's when regular PC's did but then it was almost the time of the Internet so it never gained the same momentum as it did with the society at large. Pity as this could have been an opportunity to push the inclusion of blind and partially sighted people to whole new levels.
Always design with accessibility from the start!
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Internet #Minitel #Videotex #RetroTech

Les ordinateurs ont la parole

Un Salon vient d'être consacré aux machines parlantes et aux innovations techniques destinées aux aveugles. Le matériel existe, pas encore le marché !
CHRISTIAN TORTEL (Le Monde)
#Accessibility #blind #france #Internet #adventcalendar #minitel #videotex #retrotech

The 6th of December is traditionally the day when Santa comes and brings small gifts to children in Poland and several other countries (not to be confused with the 24th of December which is also when gifts, bigger ones, are distributed). Obviously somebody's got to pay for all these nice things so how to do it in an accessible way?
I thought of including Handsome, a French fintech dedicated to serving customers with visual impairments, as a part of this calendar, as it offers an accessible voice payment card; a dedicated concierge service, insurance in case of damage to assistive devices or stranding with no immediate mobility options. They can be found at:
howtobehandsome.fr/
Imagine my shock this morning when I discovered that through cooperation with the Tales Group, Handsome's voice card has become global so it's a matter of time before banks start introducing it.
The card is equipped with a Bluetooth LE chip, connects to the customer's smartphone either through their banking app or a specially designed one; then, once its inserted into the terminal, it delivers all of the status messages to the app E.G. the amount to be paid or the current state of the payment process. This way it is possible to avoid being scammed on the amount and we can make sure all is well with our transaction.
I'm curious if any banks are going to introduce this any time soon.
thalesgroup.com/en/markets/dig…
#Accessibility #Blind #France #Banking #AdventCalendar

Thales Gemalto Voice Payment Card

Discover how visually impaired people can make each payment transaction more secured and trusted.
Thales Group
#Accessibility #blind #france #adventcalendar #banking

In France, TIER Mobility is piloting wheelchair-accessible electric scooters in partnership with Omni, a French startup that has developed an electric scooter attachment compatible with most wheelchairs.

#Mobility #Accessibility #wheelchair #Disability #Axschat #France

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Women in a wheelchair attached to a scooter, wearing a safety helmet
Women in a wheelchair attaching the wheelchair to a scooter, wearing a safety helmet

TIER And Omni Push For Inclusivity With Wheelchair-Compatible E-Scooters

TIER has joined forces with Omni, a French startup, to provide wheelchair-compatible e-scooter rentals in France, with plans to expand to other countries soon.
inkl
#Accessibility #france #Disability #wheelchair #axschat #mobility

“‘I’m very proud’ – French president Emmanuel Macron bites back at criticism after ‘Uber files’ revelations”

That’s because you’re a neoliberal cunt of the first degree, Monsieur le Président.

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#macron #uber #neoliberalism #institutionalCorruption #france #siliconValley


‘I’m very proud’ – French president Emmanuel Macron bites back at criticism after ‘Uber files’ revelations

French president Emmanuel Macron has said he would not change a thing in the approach he took to US ride-hailing…
inkl
#Macron #france #siliconvalley #institutionalcorruption #uber #neoliberalism

Modi, Macron put Ukraine rift aside to take Indo-French ties to next level

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“Forget about Ukrainians getting tortured, raped and murdered,” said Macron to Modi, “let’s focus on what we both really care about: money.”

#EuropeanValuesAreMeasuredInEuros #Ukraine #france #india #macron #modi


Modi, Macron put Ukraine rift aside to take Indo-French ties to next level

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes the first world leader to have a face-to-face meeting with his frequently cited “friend”…
inkl
#India #Ukraine #Macron #france #modi #EuropeanValuesAreMeasuredInEuros

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