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

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Excited to share that I've joined #OSSCA (Open Source Software Contribution Academy) as a mentor for the @fedify project!

OSSCA is a national program run by South Korea's NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) through their Open Source Software Support Center, aimed at fostering the next generation of open source contributors.

We're currently in the process of selecting around 20 mentees who will start contributing to #Fedify once the selection is complete. I've been busy preparing good first issues to help them get started on their open source journey.

Looking forward to working with these new contributors and seeing what amazing things we can build together!

#opensource #mentoring #ActivityPub #fedidev

Some background into the creation of #FUTO that you can watch on their #peertube channel :)

An Interview With Eron Wolf

https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/43670e24-ea9b-45c5-9e70-7e5bf58a9e26

#EronWolf #gafam #tech #foss #opensource #freesoftware

https://futo.org/

* "FUTO sponsors multiple generous grant programs to provide funding to great projects and people. See our home page for organizations we’ve funded."

🤝 Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding for joint software development based

「 In addition, by providing executable software modules instead of detailed specifications, standardization and increased development speed are achieved through the so-called code-first approach.
The software development takes place in a transparent and vendor-independent environment of the Eclipse Foundation as part of the S-CORE project 」

https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases/2025/250624_PM_Automotive_industry_signs_Memorandum_of_Understanding

#germany #opensource

From: blenderdumbass . org

I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/clarifying_costs_of_running_the_fediverse_with_jerry_from_infosec.exchange

#infosecExchange #fediverse #funding #donations #freesoftware #libre #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

Fedora 42 RISC-V Released - Builds For SiFive HiFive Premier P550 & Milk-V Megrez • Phoronix

「 Fedora 42 on RISC-V also has experimental support for the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and Milk-V Jupiter M1/K1 boards too. Plus Fedora RISC-V can run within QEMU for a virtualized environment 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-RISC-V-Released

#fedora #riscv #distros #linux #opensource