Open Rights Group generally have campaigns and actions you can take. Most the average person can do is raise awareness and write hopeful letters to MPs. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

Quite the switch over. Nice work.

Reminds me of this related article about why unions have a tricky time supporting migrant workers. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/an-indictment-of-the-trade-union-movement-why-no-one-is-organising-seasonal-workers/

tl;dr seasonal workers don’t become members and so the union can’t/won’t support them.

A nation’s engineering sector mostly built on military doesn’t inspire much confidence in me.

Not quite sure what a “new VPN architecture” means. As long as it’s not new protocols, security is not something you should usually re-invent yourself. Hopefully these new aspects are open source too.

Also, if you need wired you can get USB-C headphones.

I tried suggesting to school staff I knew, was shot down. Fear of change and general no care attitude etc etc. I’m sure each school has different reasons.

Aye. Long been a thing: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28536706M/Awkward_Partner

There was a “the Onion” headline for this kind of criticism: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the damage they have been inflicting carte blanche for months on end,” said Bass, adding that Trump and his team are just looking for a reason to respond with violence, as they would have done whether or not any of this happened

Time for another public app to not be open source and cost millions of £s in development again I imagine.

It hasn’t been updated since to allow for “voluntary” abortions either. It’s just “de facto” allowed under the reasoning of “mother’s mental health”.

Declassified UK and other investigate journals have argued otherwise.

This website can sometimes help with working out whether something works without Google Play Services https://plexus.techlore.tech/ | https://github.com/techlore/Plexus-app?tab=readme-ov-file