🔥 Here's a great video! In less than 4 minutes, the talented @_elena highlights (as it deserves) the #Fediverse, how it works, and its virtues… as opposed to the well-known hegemonic social networks.

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#️⃣ #OpenSource#FreeSoftware#GAFAM

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

My complete setup is currently as follows:

Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Mail
Simple fitness tracker with watch, Pedometer, sleep tracker and calorie counter without Bluetooth and app connection instead of spying smartwatch and "health apps" such as Fitbit, Apple or Samsung Health
Manual recording of my health data such as blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep, steps and more in a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet, can be easily converted into a PDF for my doctors to evaluate

Am I missing anything? Absolutely not! This setup works just as smoothly and conveniently as previous ecosystem solutions from Apple, Google or Samsung. Only with significantly more privacy, without tracking and surveillance by US Big Tech

#linux #unix #freebsd #linuxmint #opensource #freesoftware #nextcloud #privacy #grapheneos#murena #fairphone #eos #libreoffice #protonmail #tutanota #firefox #kdeconnect #ecosia #google #newpipe #youtube

So the @osi has blocked me for asking why they aren't publishing their election results. @bkuhn @webmink @richardfontana @iank

Remember https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

Remeber that the whole community has signed this, and are asking for unredracted results, and the @osi and @ed are ghosting people and the community.

#FreeSoftware for the win #FOSS#FLOSS#OpenSource Misses the point

I would be curious if this is a board decision, and how got through ..

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."

#contributing #linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware

Hackers needed!

Are you a developer who has requested, or plans to request, interoperability under the #DMA?

Help us make sure the law empowers users and #FreeSoftware.

📊 Take the FSFE’s Interoperability Survey and share your experience. It’s time gatekeepers respect our rights.

👉 https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en

#SoftwareFreedom

We've come a long, long way... (Top screenshot is StarOffice from the mid-'90s, and bottom is LibreOffice today.) Learn more about the software's roots, with Stefan Soyka: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/18/before-libreoffice-there-was-openoffice-and-before-openoffice-there-was-staroffice/ #foss#OpenSource #freesoftware

open source libraries aren't just free code you can gobble up without investment.

Who uses Open Document Format, the native format of #LibreOffice? Well, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and Uruguay for starters: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/14/odf-analysis-of-adoption/ #foss#OpenSource #freesoftware #openstandards

Consider using JShelter to mitigate potential threats such as browser fingerprinting.

WARNING

New research provides evidence of online tracking via browser fingerprints.

Source: https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

Website: https://jshelter.org

#JShelter#Browser#Fingerprinting#NLnet #FSF#FreeSoftware#Privacy#InfoSec#CyberSecurity #Tracking#Firefox#GNU#JavaScript#BrowserFingerprint#BrowserFingerprinting#Fingerprint#GDPR

#plasma6#OpenSource#FreeSoftware #desktop