[resolved] Finance community unreachable
When trying to access beehaw.org/c/finance it gives a 502 bad gateway – “Worker Bees are busy updating the website”.
Chrome & Firefox are a false duopoly. Do we need another option? Should there be a public option? Should it come from Italy?
Mozilla is ~83% funded by Google. That’s right- the maker of the dominant Chrome browser is mostly behind its own noteworthy “competitor”. When Google holds that much influence over Mozilla, I call it a false duopoly because consumers are duped into thinking the two are strongly competing with each other. In Mozilla’s...
Free software in education will take a step back -- republicans are going after school board positions nationwide in the US (web.archive.org)
Since last year, republicans have launched a campaign to get conservatives on school boards. This is the political party in the US who favors privatization of everything. They are sympathetic to giant corporations and champion #citizensUnited (which elevates corporations above humans). #Ohio has a large number of extremists...
When the FSF Free Software Directory directs people to freedom-lacking places
The #FSD purpose is to help people “find freedom-respecting programs”. Browsing the directory reveals copious freedom-disrespecting resources. For example:...
problem creating a community
I filled out the form and clicked “create”. It turned into a spinner for a few seconds then just went back to the form. No error, but no action either. When I search for the new community, there are no results.