<p>GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People</p><p>GrapheneOS could have shipped real accessibility support. They had a screen reader. They had a libre speech engine — one they requested a feature from. They got that feature.</p><p>And then they said no.<br>Because the license was GPLv3.</p><p>They’ll ship sandboxed Google Play Services.<br>They’ll let you install GPLv3 software from their app store.<br>But a working screen reader for blind users?<br>Blocked. On principle.</p><p>This isn’t a technical limitation.<br>This is not a matter of priorities.<br>This is cruelty by ideology — and they’re proud of it.</p><p>So here it is. My full public dissection of the excuses, the hypocrisy, and the sheer contempt they’ve shown to the people who need privacy and security most: the disabled.</p><p>They chose licensing purity over basic humanity.<br>I chose to write this.</p><p><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/gra</span><span class="invisible">pheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/grapheneos/" rel="tag">#GrapheneOS</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#Accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#Blind</a> <a href="/tags/disabilitytech/" rel="tag">#DisabilityTech</a> <a href="/tags/inclusion/" rel="tag">#Inclusion</a> <a href="/tags/gplv3/" rel="tag">#GPLv3</a> <a href="/tags/espeak/" rel="tag">#espeak</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#Security</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/disabilityrights/" rel="tag">#DisabilityRights</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#Rant</a> <a href="/tags/techshame/" rel="tag">#TechShame</a></p>
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<p>> Unfortunately, after careful consideration, we've decided to move<br>forward with other candidates who more closely match our requirements for<br>this role</p><p>How I resent this idiotic piece of text, which is put into every damn rejection mail I receive since a year. More than 100 job applications sent out and no damn job afterwards. For fucks sake I was a senior <a href="/tags/developer/" rel="tag">#developer</a>, a master of <a href="/tags/ruby/" rel="tag">#ruby</a> who did the last two years at the job <a href="/tags/elixir/" rel="tag">#elixir</a> and guess what did all the other <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> backend related bullshit. Like administering <a href="/tags/postgresql/" rel="tag">#postgresql</a> doing the schema, designing the whole architecture of a legacy backend system written in ruby, writing backends, frontends with <a href="/tags/javascript/" rel="tag">#javascript</a> and guess what nothing. </p><p>I maintained so called <a href="/tags/microservices/" rel="tag">#microservices</a> on <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> with fucking <a href="/tags/docker/" rel="tag">#docker</a> which ran on <a href="/tags/openshift/" rel="tag">#openshift</a> or in the pedestrian terms "<a href="/tags/kubernetes/" rel="tag">#kubernetes</a>". Nothing! </p><p>I started into being a <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/developer/" rel="tag">#developer</a> through the damn <a href="/tags/hacker/" rel="tag">#hacker</a> scene and was a "founding member" (whatever that means) of a <a href="/tags/hackerspace/" rel="tag">#hackerspace</a> out of which I was kicked out and still suffering the emotional scars. But yeah, fuck that I see. And probably I'm at fault 100% because that's what this shitty <a href="/tags/shame/" rel="tag">#shame</a> based society wants to tell everybody.</p><p>In my free-time I dabbled with <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/smalltalk/" rel="tag">#smalltalk</a> and <a href="/tags/cpp/" rel="tag">#cpp</a> and <a href="/tags/clang/" rel="tag">#clang</a> and <a href="/tags/perl/" rel="tag">#perl</a> and I wrote <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#python</a> a little for money too and for extending a little <a href="/tags/django/" rel="tag">#django</a> app at a hackerspace. Yeah, sure this is also worth nothing.</p><p>I tried to do <a href="/tags/freelancing/" rel="tag">#freelancing</a> for 6 months, but guess what the current project market in <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> is shit and therefore nothing on the table for me either. While I find thousands of dimwits on reddits and everywhere, who are telling me that "I'm not an entrepreneur" or that "I deserve X", because they simply don't like what I write or my face.</p><p>Yeah sure, I'm 39 and I have no idea to go to, no damn <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> and for fucks sake seem to be now going to join team long-term unemployed... because... yeah absolutely no damn fucking idea why I'm in this mess. What I'm supposed to do and obviously nobody fucking cares anyway.</p><p>I once dreamed of being "my own man", being that independent developer, coding happy <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> projects and contributing to <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> and getting paid for that. But no. World says no to that. World says "go and die".</p><p><a href="/tags/job/" rel="tag">#job</a> <a href="/tags/hiring/" rel="tag">#hiring</a> <a href="/tags/getfedihired/" rel="tag">#getfedihired</a> <a href="/tags/gethired/" rel="tag">#gethired</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a></p>
[rant]<br>Looking for nice software to selfhost on very moderate hardware these days is like:<br>"add this to your kubernetes cluster // terraform something....// This is your docker compose file..."<br><br>I just want an efficient program, bare metal, also not three reverse proxys in a row.<br>And also I'm not running some supercluster in the "cloud".<br>Seems everyone virtualizes everything and abstracts everything, containers in containers in VMs. Even "normal" mastodon hosters, I mean I understand if people use it for running something like running Instagram, OK.<br>And then many still have quite often some downtime because (I guess?) in all this complexity, that exists to add reliability, there are config errors or incompatibilities.<br>[/rant]<br>I Love I've found snac and the prosody xmpp server, they run on a potato, snac only since this year, prosody since 10y, started on a raspberrypi1b. And they have no downtime. I want more like that. I don't know the right Hashtags. Is this <a href="/tags/permacomputing/" rel="tag">#permacomputing</a>? I guess that's even much more basic and closer to the hardware?<br><a href="/tags/keepitsimple/" rel="tag">#keepitsimple</a><br><br><a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/prosody/" rel="tag">#prosody</a> <a href="/tags/xmpp/" rel="tag">#xmpp</a> <a href="/tags/tinyweb/" rel="tag">#tinyweb</a> <a href="/tags/tinyfedi/" rel="tag">#tinyfedi</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a> <a href="/tags/shitpost/" rel="tag">#shitpost</a><br>
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<p>Why on earth do publishers do this? It drives me nuts!</p><p>Why not just pick a book size and keep it consistent for the whole series?</p><p>*eye twitches*<br><a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#publishing</a> <a href="/tags/publishers/" rel="tag">#publishers</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a></p>
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<p>最近从 Spotify 迁移到了 YouTube music，结果发现把 playlist 全加入 liked music 里这么基础的操作竟然没有原生支持，还要在 reddit 上找 AI script 操作 ( <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/18s50uo/comment/n6ojg33/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/comments/18s50uo/comment/n6ojg33/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/</span><span class="invisible">comments/18s50uo/comment/n6ojg33/</span></a> )。真是离谱…… 还有官方迁移工具明明有歌手和歌名信息一般搜出来首个就是还能 match 错好多歌（基本都是同名但完全不同的歌）相比之下都是小问题了。</p><p>终于下决心迁出用了好多年的 Spotify 的原因是随机算法实在是差到离谱。平时开 local 几十分钟的路还勉强能忍，前阵子 road trip 开了十天车我库里 500 多首歌它竟然来来回回就只播那么几首，是怎么能烂到这种程度的，是故意做得超烂好让你用加推荐功能的吗？真是烂到家了。</p><p>也算是 tech 市场现状了。就是比烂</p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a></p>
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<p>Jeszcze raz zobaczę kolejną alternatywę dla twittera to wysadzę serwery Internetowe, poważnie, ILE MOŻNA? MAMY ICH ZA DUŻO</p><p>Mastodon istnieje, ma masę serwerów, na co więcej kopi twittera? Po co nam platforma "W"? </p><p>Dosłownie toniemy w mikroblogach i mam dosyć...</p><p><a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#Rant</a> <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#Twitter</a> <a href="/tags/bluesky/" rel="tag">#Bluesky</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/problem/" rel="tag">#Problem</a> <a href="/tags/stopplease/" rel="tag">#Stopplease</a> <a href="/tags/x/" rel="tag">#X</a> <a href="/tags/w/" rel="tag">#W</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/til/" rel="tag">#TIL</a> that HDD prices also increased (because of "AI") like the SSD/memory prices before. I was slowly building my home NAS, thinking that if I use HDD, not SSD, then I should race only with the possibility of Internet shutdown in my country and hope that I'll build the machine before the Internet will become unusable or completely turned off, and I will be able to preserve at least something from human knowledge and creativity. But … looks like for now I should race not only with censorship, but also with fucking "AI" corporations <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/bsd.cafe/drgn_knife_angry.png" class="emoji" alt=":drgn_knife_angry:" title=":drgn_knife_angry:"></p><p>The worst timeline ever, I never saw how the price of something was decreased in my life. When I moved to my city at 2008, the bus fare was near 18 roubles. For now it is 88 roubles — the 389% rise. Fuck this shit.</p><p>I think, one time the novel "Walkaway" from Cory Doctorow will become not a novel but a real-life. Because there are no mass-adopted solution for now — you could choose only in between "you own nothing and be happy" and "you own nothing and welcome to GULAG" <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/bsd.cafe/drgn_roar_angry.png" class="emoji" alt=":drgn_roar_angry:" title=":drgn_roar_angry:">. So the good enough solution — not to participate in that circus at all and walk away.</p><p><a href="/tags/rant/" rel="tag">#rant</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/hdd/" rel="tag">#HDD</a></p>