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"Together we'll make X great again!" (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Context: X11Libre is a fork of X11 aiming at preserving the X Server (fair enough, right?). One of the creators got permanently banned from freedesktop.org for apparently violating the Code of Conduct (no info on that, they just blame Red Hat), see themselves as hunted by both Big Tech and "toxic elements" who "took over the X11 project" They want to "make X great again".

The issue about their highly political README (which they wrote due to the original project "becoming too political", lol) also contains the usual red flags like transphobia. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

Old photograph of top US politicians and economical heavyweights laughing their asses off. Caption text: "The evil deep state cancelling X11Libre specifically".
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[–] [S] 128 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Found more context, for who is now curious:

  • Apparently threatening violence with guns is okay (just got marked as "off-topic").
  • The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

The more I read into X11Libre, the more I'm laughing. Now the freedesktop ban also makes perfect sense.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The maintainer of X11Libre, Enrico Weigelt, is an anti-vaxer who already got scolded by Torvalds for writing bullshit on the kernel mailing list

    Oh, so it's him. Dude got absolutely lucky Linus is on mild mode nowadays. On his prime the scold would've been of such epic proportions all the viruses he could have on his body would've leave him out of pure cringe.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Linus has good values, by he's also a toxic asshole that surrounded himself with other toxic assholes. And that's why both immoral people and nice people eventually get shown the door / leave the Linux project.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He used to be, but he has become surprisingly chill from what I've seen. Maybe it's just coincidence, but I'm under the impression that "no compiler warnings" thing, as well as the introduction of C11 and Rust played a role in that. In all three instances he made an open minded decision, all of them after he realised he was wrong on numbers one and two

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    He absolutely admits when he's wrong (as soon as he realizes anyway). I think it's part of his "no bullshit" value extending to himself.

    His outbursts were always with good reason. But you don't need to belittle and scorn people to enforce values in a community. You don't need to be an ass. He was, and attracted people like him, and now it's darn near impossible to turn that culture around. At last not until a lot of the assholes like Ted retire.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly, I'm fully on board of this development. It might be useful for those distros that can't move to Wayland and, more importantly, can keep the developers far from everything else.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lol, how will they get any contributions if they explicitly say that trans girls are not welcome? You know who run the internet?

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 year ago

    The project will either die through lack of interest or over-availability of cringe. There's no way for it to succeed with this MAGA nonsense and threats plastered all over it, they'd have a hard time finding enough devs even without alienating everyone except Fox News viewers. Meanwhile they'll feel confirmed in their worldview due to all the rightful criticism flooding in.

    If the project survives this initial phase of antipathy we'll probably get years of cringe from it.

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