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the /r/linux subreddit thread about this is as awful as you would imagine.

The SJW’s are coming for your toothbrush!!!-

  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The /r/linux thread has been brigaded by his groupies. This seems to be a trend when some racist transphobe cybercracker comes under fire.

    It’s also true that thar subreddit is trash. So maybe the thread would not have looked much different without brigading.

    Also I don’t understand the deal with Hyprland. For some reason the distro I use (void linux) can’t or won’t package it. Never looked into why.

  • Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Every option other than banning Vaxry has been exhausted over the past year and a half. I personally spent several weeks following my last blog post on the matter discussing Vaxry’s behavior in confidence and helping him understand how to improve, and at my suggestion he joined a private community of positive male role models to discuss these issues in a private and empathetic space. After a few weeks of these private discussions, the last thing he said to me was “I do believe there could be arguments to sway my opinion towards genocide”.

    Wow, the Hyprland dev is a total POS. Glad I use sway (at least I hope there’s not fascists running it, too). I eventually want to migrate to river once I figure out how to extend it to my needs (probably need to learn Zig first, which is on my bucket list), but I really like sway’s tiling capabilities now.

    Hopefully Hyprland is forked with a better dev/team

    Honestly, I wish there was an alternative to Wayland, given the number of toxic devs in that sphere and the drama that occurs over the most basic features that never get implemented for many years because the team wants to essentially dictate how people should run their computers, while ignoring all of the special use cases, such as multi-window layouts for scientific programs. (This statement is a bit hyperbolic.)

    Though it’s not just Wayland, the open source community in general can be extremely toxic.

    • CCCP Enjoyer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Honestly, I wish there was an alternative to Wayland

      I’ve been happily using the alternative for more than 25 years so far

      Edit: Choosing to stan Poettering is a weird choice. You know he works for microsoft, right? The gigantic fascist software monopoly place that has been openly destroying human rights for decades, collaborates with the CIA/NSA/FBI and US state as a mass surveillance apparatus. He’s also always been an arrogant child, picking fights with principled engineers and working against the efforts of unix philosophy to insert awful windowisms into our ecosystem. Poettering is a disease on FOSS and his legacy is using RedHat/IBM to insert systemd (which is basically CIA bloatware with a massive pid-zero attack surface) into Linux will never be forgiven.

      • Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I did not know much, if anything, about Poettering. That’s good to know. My goal is to use OpenRC with s6, and I like how the s6 dev wants to create an init system to compete against systemd. I don’t like systemd for its bloat and flawed design, and some recent features of systemd have been sus.

        I don’t pay much attention to dev manchildren, so forgive me if I am not aware of their histories.

        • CCCP Enjoyer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Apologies if my Poettering rant was worded too strongly. I guess I just mean that there are very good reasons people dislike him so much. He’s earned far less animosity than he deserves imo.

          s6 is cool, though I’ve not played around with it too much. I’ve mostly stuck with runit on my Linux systems since it’s simple, fast and I’m happy with it. You might take a look at dinit, too, if you haven’t already. It’s still maturing, but dinit is probably the most syntactically similar to systemd. Both are very fast.