What's not to love about third-party software injecting itself into Firefox and causing crashes in the Rust standard library?

github.com/rust-lang/rust/issu…

remove_dir_all implementation on Windows is incompatible with some third-party hooks for NtOpenFile, leading to Firefox crashes

Third-party software can inject a DLL into firefox.exe that detours calls to NtOpenFile to monitor the use of this system call. Some of these third-party DLLs can assume that in any NtOpenFile call...

^{yjugl (GitHub)}

DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores

Der chinesische KI-Chatbot DeepSeek hat die Tech-Welt aufgemischt. Doch die Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte sagt jetzt, die App sei rechtswidrig. DeepSeek soll aus den Stores von Apple und Google fliegen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/deepseek-…

#DeepSeek #Datenschutz #China

DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores

^{tagesschau.de}

"Flaws in any (#curl) script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities."

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1776…

VULN-DISCLOSURE-POLICY: exclude not installed software by danielgustafsson · Pull Request #17761 · curl/curl

Flaws in any script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities.

^GitHub

Great talk by Hannes Mühleisen of #DuckDB about tables being a fundamental technology to civilization and not dismissing databases, SQL & ACID just because some implementation are getting old in the tooth.

DuckDB sounds awesome and I know @bert_hubert is a big fan.

#JoyOfCoding #JoyOfCoding2025

Great talk at #joyofcoding by @bagder on being a long term OSS maintainer

joyofcoding.org/daniel_stenber…

Purism is leading the charge with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Security-ready devices built on:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in
USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-…

RIP RSA AES: The Immediate Need of Quantum-Resistant Cryptography – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

^{Purism SPC}

Europe’s at a digital crossroads.

Big Tech’s “Sovereign Clouds” are a Trojan Horse - servers in the EU, but still under US law (CLOUD Act, FISA): tuta.com/blog/sovereign-washin…

True digital sovereignty means European tech.

Together with @ecosia #Wire #MeisterTask and @Mastodon we want to empower businesses, governments and administrations to choose technology that protects Europe’s future.

#DigitalSovereignty is just #oneclickaway 👇

fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.

Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.

*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…

> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]

>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.

> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?

#linux #accessibility #gatekeeping

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine

53 comments

^lobste.rs

Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.

Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…

#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

2025-06-26 13:24:00

THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

^{fireborn.mataroa.blog}

Modern streaming.

#entertainment #tv #film #movies #television

Make this End of Financial Year special with an #EOFY donation to NV Access, or as we call it, #NEOFY!

Your gift helps keep the NVDA screen reader free for blind people around the world, helping give EVERYONE access to technology!

Donations over $2 are #tax deductible in Australia.

nvaccess.org/support-us/

#Donation #Technology #Blind #GoodCause #Cause #Philanthropy

[CZ] tož jsem skončila na titulce roota 🙈 … root.cz/clanky/zaucovani-junio…

[EN] ended up in a czech linux online magazine, as a main today's article; machine translation of the interview actually looks quite well so go ahead and read it

Zaučování juniorů trvá roky, ale stojí to za to, říká Maria Matějka z projektu BIRD

Maria je vedoucí týmu BIRD u CZ.NIC a v poslední době se hodně zabývá vedením lidí a rozšiřováním týmu. Proč je těžké sehnat schopné lidi na technickou podporu? V čem selhává české vysoké školství?

^{Petr Krčmář (Internet Info, s.r.o.)}

> Pizza Hut

What no they didn't

> Demolition.Man.1993.Pizza.Hut.Edition.2160p.BluRay.x265.TrueHD.Atmos-Px4KV.mk

Noooooooo I want the original Taco Bell edition

New blog post: How much code does that proc macro generate?

nnethercote.github.io/2025/06/…

"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "

- #SanFrancisco bookstore #Booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author #JKRowling.

nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-cu…

San Francisco bookstore stops selling J.K. Rowling titles due to 'Harry Potter' author's anti-trans views

A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K.

^{Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)}

"The Trudeau government came close to increasing the capital gains inclusion rate, a move I supported and still do."

I’m a Millionaire. Tax Me More, Please. - Macleans.ca
macleans.ca/politics/tax-the-r…

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Dozens of disabled activists arrested protesting medicade cuts in big beautiful bill: “‘We need to kill this bill, before it kills us all.’”

commondreams.org/news/wheelcha…

Medicaid Defenders in Wheelchairs Arrested Ahead of Senate Vote on 'Betrayal of a Bill'

"If you're zip-tying grandmas protesting losing healthcare maybe you're not the good guys in the story?" quipped one critic.

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Purism Featured in Fortune- Secure Phone Made in the USA electronics.

While Big Tech claims U.S. smartphone manufacturing is “impossible” or “too expensive,”

Purism CEO Todd Weaver is proving otherwise.

Purchase here: puri.sm/products/liberty-phone…

Hi @fireborn ! Is this your blogpost?

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

If so, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I love #linux and always have. I have literally made my career with it ever since I first booted the H.J. Lu boot/root floppy set on my 486 DX2/66, but I'm partially #blind, and my vision is getting worse as I age.

And at times the amount of negativity and crap I get when I say that I generally run #WSL on Windows or a Mac? It's huge, pointless, and speaks to some ways in which parts of the Linux community are its own worst enemy.

When screen zoom broke for 2 years in #ubuntu and many of us kept signposting how important this is to us, over and over, and one of the Canonical engineers wrote in the issue saying that, due simply to the very limited number of engineering hours available, this was a low priority fix? That was a wake up call for me.

There's no malice there. It's not that anyone in the Linux community is doing an evil laugh and thrilling to the number of disabled users who can't reliably enjoy Linux on the desktop, it's about the reality that a tiny, rag tag group of engineers working for a handful of companies are doing the vast majority of the work keeping the Linux desktop world moving, and they BARELY have the bandwidth to keep development going at all much less catering to the myriad accessibility needs folks like us (Not comparing the nature of our didabilities, mind you. Everyone's different!).

But people like the guy your post responds to can make us feel not smart enough, not good enough, or not motivated enough to thrive in an environment that throws up HUGE obstacles, and that's just not right.

Pardon the length, I have Strong Feelings about this stuff as you can see, and thanks again for posting!