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He/him 🧔🏻 Network Security Engineer, Geek and Arctic Fox 🦊 in eastern Massachusetts, USA. A little bit fuzzy. Snakker litt #norsk. Beer and cocktail aficionado.
Love is love, science is real and transgender people are valid.
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@tilton and no sleep
@sutter Probably not, though I play the same 3d chess game in my head when thinking about asking for anything on the Internet.
@sutter NOT mm mm good.
I've had enough summer I'd like to cancel my subscription
Silent Hunter
A snow white fox on the hunt in the snow. Will he be successful ?
A sculpture I made for the Eurofurence Artshow a few years back.
@janusfox Clouds.
@janusfox They were only a problem for old men in the gravy commercials who ended up catching hell from their wives over not liking the homemade stuff. 🤭
Via unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/NgeO4H0CUQM/ (jonatan pie)
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Own photo
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Just because YOU don't depend on accessibility right now doesn't mean accessibility is not important (and sadly, that's just one example), but this kind of gatekeeping has been around as long as I've been using not-Windows (if not longer) and it's NEVER EVER been right.
It's one reason why people are possibly avoiding things like Linux. They rightfully hate the holier-than-thou dismissals, the gatekeeping, etc.
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.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "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 didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s 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 isn’t freedom. It’s 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
It’s been a while since I’ve felt the “too much caffeine” effect - mild stomach upset, floaty feeling and tinnitus. So the rest of this cold brew sadly must go in the trash.
>5 minutes ago: start corporate laptop; login,
>still not done logging in.
another day at the "hurry up and wait" factory
Photo by @toroidalcore
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