who messes with my post? someone put a link to ycombinator in it. Atleast ask me.

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    2 months ago

    This is the childish actions of a whiny technofascists that’s gotten himself banned for cause. Note the open bigotry right in the README. For some odd reason he feels the need to make an anti-DEI statement. Treat it like the far-right dog whistle it is.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah that’s a bunch of red flags right off the bat.

      Isn’t X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?

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        It’s not just effectively dead. A lot of people, who were core contributors to the project, declared it impossible to maintain, in modern scenarios. Does it still work? Most of the time. But it comes at a massive cost of having to deal with 40 years of tech debt, and band-aid decisions.

        But even if you forget about that, this readme is a sign of major mental illness

  • Ok. This is interesting, if a bit conspiracy-theory-ish:

    moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics.

    Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder’s gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc,

    I wonder what the story behind this is. Why would anyone want to hinder progress on X11?

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        2 months ago

        They wouldn’t get harassed if they minded their own business and stopped harassing others.

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          Well I’m sure there are a lot of right wing movements and some of them are aggressive but I personally only mind people who don’t respect others and I haven’t found a difference between left wing and right wing people in terms of that. However left leaning ones do it in disguise and lie about themselves so my choice was obvious. I value honesty too after all.

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    2 months ago

    DEI is a discriminatory policy for a repo? Granted I’m no programmer, but that feels like a made up “problem” to be solving for something like X.org. The README looks like the ravings of a spurned ex employee or someone that may need some professional help.