Notices by Freya (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 (freya@chaosfem.tw)

@hellomiakoda wait, what? removal of 32-bit, as in, what, no longer doing Linux/i386?

@hellomiakoda where we come from, removal of the MD_LINEAR target would be announced, loudly, years in advance, overt warnings about using it across every kernel version following that anouncement, documentation on how to convert MD_LINEAR arrays to some other format without data loss, offers to externalise that target into a best-effort support module, and then, maby 8-10 years after the announcement, *then* it gets removed. As far as we could tell, the Linux removal of that target went like this:

LKML dev 1: should we remove MD_LINEAR?
LKML dev 2: yeah, fuck it! *yank*

@hellomiakoda not so much the userland, but the kernel as well. it feels.... shaky? the fact that they just hard-yanked the MD_LINEAR target, no warning, no nothing was.... kind of a wakeup call for us, we were trying to get some data off a Synology's disks and were this close to thinking the raid array was lost.... it wasn't, it's just that modern Linux yanked support for that target for......reasons? and it just gave us this sense of "holy shit. in the past 10 years, we've seen an incredibly janky init system become the default, more network managers than there are german transfems, 271.5 new desktop environments per minute, 3 or 4 incompatible and potentially conflicting audio servers, a switch away from *the* *standard* Unix display model to something very.......... app-y, and then... unfortunately what made us drop out of the Linux thing was, sadly, NixOS. Very cool idea............. as a research paper. as a proof of concept. Brutal violations of Unix traditions going back a very, very, very, very long time, and at that point we had to just drop out. We couldn't, anymore, with the constant adding and changing of features and the seeming need to change things for the sake of change

@hellomiakoda it.... is.... kinda. this one is increasingly of the opinion that Linux is... kind of like plan 9. a research OS, constantly having people poke at it and fuck with it, very much a moving target. rather the reason this one ceased entirely to use Linux in its infrastructure

@hellomiakoda no. no it is not. Is why this one gets really annoyed at the "there is no excuse not to switch to linux" folks. yall aren't that, but gods, some people are

@hellomiakoda yup, because every single speech output request is going to trigger that error. killall orca

@hellomiakoda oo, probably not. We don't think there's a QT Terminal element specifically. Same reason tihs one can't use Termius; there's no accessible terminal control in Electron

@hellomiakoda oh you don't have SpeechDispatcher and/or the espeak module installed probably

@hellomiakoda well, assuming it's mate-terminal, no idea about other ones

@hellomiakoda most distros come with the accessibility software built-in, but it's not just the software. Is your app QT? GTK2,3,4? some new UI toolkit? is your distro using Wayland? Well done, there goes a good chunk of your accessibility. Oops, did pipewire just crash? Did you try and login as root on a text console? oops, your audio server is running as your user, not root, and modern Linux audio servers, for the sake of security, don't run across user boundaries. no speech for you! Does your app even have labeled buttons? Hell, the Ubuntu Mate installer, if you tab around it, you hear something like:

Button.
Button.
Panel.
Button
Layered pane.
Text. New York selected.
Button.
Button

@hellomiakoda it says something that OpenSolaris 2008.11 has better accessibility than.... uh, any Linux distro currently available

@hellomiakoda we're only stuck on windows due to Linux accessibility being somewhere in the realm of "nope". Heavily stripped down windows though, no AI or cloud bullshit here

@max @authen honey, we take seriously bullshit like this, fedi is intended to not have stupid assholes on it, and, uh, yeah. we're not playing that game, friend. We're not just going to block someone doing this kind of stupid, we're going to call it the fuck out

@max hi! Don't tell people to kill themselves if you don't want to be met with authentication requests, friend

@authen @max er........ no, no you don't. Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (Massachusetts, 2017) set precedent that telling someone to kill themselves can carry criminal liability. So no, actually, friend. no you don't.

@max @authen if yall can actually define what woke *is*........ which you can't, because you're both doing dumbass edgelord shit. The only reason we're even engaging is because dumbasses aughta be laughed at. We got all the kindness in the world for folks who got mental health fuckery going on but that does fuckin not extend to this kinda teenage channer edgelord bullshit.

@authen @max lol what!

@max how about you don't tell people to kill themselves literally ever again. it is not funny, it is not cute, and it is absolutely not acceptable. You wanna do that shit, uh, go to twitter. Not having that on fedi, if you can at-all manage it

this one is running #Tribblix on the tiniest, dinkiest Intel NUC knockoff, it's adorable. Solaris on this tiny cheap machine, the contrast is delightful

@terra fucking correct. Ubuntu putting ads in their shit and enshittifying Linux (and encouraging other distros to do similarly) is why we jumped over to NetBSD and Solaris