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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
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.
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#Linux #Accessibility
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[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
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Noooooooo I want the original Taco Bell edition
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A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K.Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)
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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,”
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Sorry, it feels pathetic that you are trying to sell in2025 a phone that was mid range in 2017.
Partner with Fairphone and come with some new specs
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!
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If so, that’s a good thing.
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SEPTA's board Thursday made a decision on its new budget that includes the elimination of Regional Rail lines and more service cuts.Max Bennett (Patch)
#AudioMo day 26:
I've been seeing a lot about Linux in my timeline today...
"What, really? It's the fediverse!"
Yeah, yeah, I know. More than usual.
To that end, I present this silly thing I made on October 23, 2016, called "Annie Linux."
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in reply to Jens Bannmann • • •Also **GNU**/linux is not the only community
Sorry about your problems to login
I hope you'll find a workaround 🤞❤️