#Sweden's public sector says goodbye to #BigTech

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/swedens-public-sector-says-goodbye-to-big-tech

#privacy #cybersecurity #Tele2Collaborate #Matrix #Element #politics

Sweden's public sector says goodbye to Big Tech

Tele2 Collaborate is a new secure collaboration hub

^{Chiara Castro (TechRadar pro)}

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Huge clashes reportedly taking place in Tel Aviv as police use water cannon to attack anti-government protesters demanding Netanyahu’s resignation

#Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes #Palestine #Palestina #Gaza #Rafah #ICJ #TelAviv #Netanyahu #news #press #politics

🤡 The wrong way to use aria-roledescription to call out someone as a fascist:

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2020/10/06/micro-note-on-aria-roledescription/

#a11y #webDev #politics #ARIA

stevef

2020-10-06 13:28:50

aria-roledescription is not a label

It is an alternative expression of the Aural UI of the role of an element.

inappropriately using aria-roledescription may inhibit users’ ability to understand or interact with an element.
ARIA 1.1

The wrong way to use aria-roledescription and call out someone as a fascist:

code

<img aria-roledescription="fascist" src="dt.PNG"
alt="Donald Trump">

This is wrong because you are not identifying the subject of the image as a fascist, you are overwriting the <img> element role so it effectively becomes a <fascist> element. Also, there is no explicit text identification of the subject as a fascist.

A much better way to achieve the aim of identifying a fascist (and not misusing aria-roledescription):
Example of a fascist
code
<figure>
<figcaption>Example of a fascist</figcaption>
<img src="dt.PNG" alt="Donald Trump">
</figure>

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2020/10/06/micro-note-on-aria-roledescription/

THUS SPOKE HTML - TPGi

For sighted users, HTML is visual, for screen reader users, HTML is spoken. For example is read out loud as “text content of heading, Heading level 1.″

^{Steve Faulkner (TPGi)}

#Nevada Republicans’ Caucus Adds Chaos and Confusion to the State’s Presidential Primary
==

While legal, the party’s decision to host a competing contest to the Feb. 6 primary election has angered #GOP voters and provided fertile ground for #misinformation to take hold, experts say, undermining voters’ trust in the process.

#Republicans #Elections #News #Politics #Voting #Voters

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevada-republicans-caucus-chaos-confusion-presidential-primary?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Nevada Republicans’ Caucus Adds Chaos and Confusion to the State’s Presidential Primary

While legal, the party’s decision to host a competing contest to the Feb. 6 primary election has angered GOP voters and provided fertile ground for misinformation to take hold, experts say, undermining voters’ trust in the process.

^ProPublica

CNA discusses why Indonesian politicians switch parties easily and frequently.

Short answer: most political parties have no strong ideological differences. There’s no such thing as left vs right, progressive vs conservative.

Almost all are nationalist conservative and try to carry the religious votes, so in most cases it doesn’t matter which party politicians are affiliated with. What matters is to which party leader do their loyalties lie. It’s hero worship and group identity, not political ideologies, that define the majority of Indonesian political parties.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-election-party-hopping-politicians-3877516

#Indonesia #Politics

Why political party-hopping is rampant in Indonesia and can anything be done about it

Internal conflicts, schisms, and opaque mechanisms in nominating legislative and executive candidates are some of the reasons why politicians switch political parties to contest elections.

^{Nivell Rayda (CNA)}

📢 The EU Parliament will not be moving forward with chat control! The indiscriminate mass surveillance measures have been removed and secure end-to-end encryption will not be compromised! 🥳

💪Let's keep pushing for strong privacy rights!👇
https://tutanota.com/blog/chat-control
#chatcontrol #eu #privacy #datenschutz #encryption #politics #goodnews

Trump Says His Hand-Picked Chief of Staff Was ‘Born With a Very Small Brain’
The former president is appealing to voters by explaining how he appointed a bunch of incompetent losers the last time he was in the White House
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-john-kelly-chief-of-staff-small-brain-1234773043/

.@w3c WCAG should not be developed/designed for the benefit of #accessibility testing vendors. It is there to improve the user experience of disabled people.

#web #a11y #politics #WCAG

We can have one of two things — but not both.

We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.

This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”...
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Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.

The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.

Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.

READ THE PAPER --https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666791622000252

#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

Content warning: USpol, privacy Click to open/close

We're in a horrible situation in the US, but I guess one silver lining is that some politicians are finally taking #privacy more seriously

#Congress
#Politics
#RoeVsWade
#SupremeCourt
#USpol

https://therecord.media/dems-want-ftc-to-investigate-apple-and-google-for-privacy-harms-made-worse-post-roe/

Dems want FTC to investigate Apple and Google for privacy harms made worse Post-Roe

Both companies use unique tracking identifiers in their popular Android and iOS mobile operating systems for advertising purposes.

^{Andrea Peterson (The Record by Recorded Future)}