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The Book of Mormon (Audio Described, Glasgow King’s Theatre, May 31, 2025)
Published: June 5, 2025 00:00
My Blog, My Rules, My Vulgar Musical Breakdown of the Fucking Year You know what? Fuck it. I don’t usually post musical reviews here. This blog was supposed to be about Linux, and broken drivers, and the relentless masochism of accessibility hacking in a…
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access
Published: May 30, 2025 00:00
The Console Is a Lie — Braille on Linux Is a Lovecraftian Joke Welcome back to "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back." In this post, we’re stepping into the part of Linux that everyone says “just works” — the console. The raw, text-only interface…
HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/
Published: May 29, 2025 00:00
hCaptcha's "Accessibility" Mode Is a Fucking Cookie And it's wrapped in a maze of broken promises, bad design, and outright user hostility You've probably heard of hCaptcha — the CAPTCHA alternative that brags about privacy, security, and accessibility.…
matchctl: The First Dating App for Linux Users (Because You've Already Mounted /dev/sad)
Published: May 26, 2025 00:00
⚠️ Disclaimer This post is a satire. It is entirely a work of humor and parody. Any resemblance to real software, platforms, people (alive, dead, or emotionally sandboxed), projects, distributions, or systemd maintainers is purely coincidental. If you…
GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/
Published: May 25, 2025 00:00
When "Open Source Purity" Becomes a Barrier to Accessibility There’s a special kind of contempt that some developers reserve for the disabled. It’s rarely loud. It’s never overt. It hides behind jargon, behind policy, behind the smug excuse of “technical…
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Interlude – A Thank You, Where It’s Due
Published: May 13, 2025 00:00
This Is What It Looks Like When People Care This blog series has been a lot of yelling. Rightfully so—because a lot of Linux is broken. But this post? This one's different. Because while the failures need to be called out, the people trying to fix it…
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 2 – The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene
Published: May 12, 2025 00:00
You Can’t Hear Anything—and It’s Not Your Fault You plug in headphones. Nothing. You unplug them again. Still nothing. The speakers are muted. The system says they aren’t. You check volumes. You restart Pulse. You restart PipeWire. You restart your whole…
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People
Published: May 10, 2025 00:00
Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start I love Linux. I use Linux. It has its advantages. It’s responsive—sometimes. Some things just work plain better. Settings being stored in actual config files instead of opaque registries? That’s an…