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Steve
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I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
Iāve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesnāt even test. I didnāt "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didnāt call it GNU/Linuxā¢ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, Iām lazy. Iām weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isnāt just about one comment. This is about every time someoneās been told they donāt belong because they couldnāt learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. Itās about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isnāt freedom. Itās abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
Iāve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesnāt even test. I didnāt "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didnāt call it GNU/Linuxā¢ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, Iām lazy. Iām weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isnāt just about one comment. This is about every time someoneās been told they donāt belong because they couldnāt learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. Itās about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isnāt freedom. Itās abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
#AudioMo day 25:
On August 12, 2007, my partner, her parents, and I took a day-trip to visit Korea town in Chicago. While there, we came upon a couple of locals performing what I presume to be some kind of traditional Korean drumming. I don't know what the speaker is saying, so forgive the vagueness of this description. Enjoy.
Randahl FinkBrief summary of the Trump presidency:
Trumpās Israel-Iran peace deal will be a huge successā¦ right after Trumpās Ukraine-Russia peace deal is reachedā¦ which happens right after Gaza becomes the āRiviera of The Middle Eastāā¦ which comes right after Trump does 90 trade deals in 90 daysā¦ which will happen right after Elon Musk finds 2 trillion dollars of waste in the federal budgetā¦ which will happen right after Canada becomes the 51st state.
And it will all happenā¦
In two weeks.
@FreakyFwoof Room temperature clams.
#AudioMo day 24:
Revisiting a performance given by the Irish musician Seamus Kennedy from June 6, 2010, in which he performs a song about living in Chicago.
Augie Ray"In 2022, undocumented immigrants contributed around $96.7 billion worth of taxes. But that is something that the Trump administration doesnāt want you to know.
"There are a lot of lies flying around about immigrants, but Iām sure you have more than one story that can attest to the contrary. Talk about it, share it. That helps. Today, they need to know that theyāre not alone.
"Immigrants need to know that their struggle is yours as well.ā (3/3)
