I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.
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I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.
I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.
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I wasn't expecting @aral to take this into a moment to play victim: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112661498565879805. And at this point, I'm more annoyed than disappointed.
But whatever.
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@jalcine I've had Aral muted for years because of various reasons but the full context paints a completely different story https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/
This whole drama contributes and supports a "patches welcome" culture that is pervasive in GNU/universe a lot. As a random internet stranger that doesn't know anything about you, I invite you to reflect.
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@astrojuanlu @jalcine As the person mentioned as nothing more than the "patches welcome" guy, let me assure you that it's not a patches welcome culture, it's just him.
I gave him that response after dealing with their ragebaiting for months, constantly trying to understand what issues exactly they were facing, and helping them by either opening issues myself or by guiding them to the right place to open them.
All I ever got in return was a "things are broken, this issue you found isn't what I'm talking about, you need to fix my issue" without any effort to actually help get those fixed. Eventually one gets sick and tired of it, specially when they spend this entire time attacking the projects and the people that are actually working on fixing it, some of which are my friends.