Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced (www.theregister.com)

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.

Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.

Edit: added some words

Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago

How the fuck you gonna enforce "no dei"? You gonna demand every contributer is white, male, Christian and cishet?

[-] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

Probably by not having initiatives to include diversity.

[-] jonathan@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

see him also here https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20181010.191925.ee1331b6.en.html

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago

Damn. As a German! That's shameful. And of course utterly nuts.

I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone's interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/

Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you'd think. Or rather Libertarian.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago

FWIW, X.org is Libre already.

And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

For the person that diehard refuses to switch development to Wayland

[-] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

X11 is dead, stop wasting time on it

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

It's not dead if people are still developing and using it.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You are right, it's more like zombieware. No noteworthy DE wants to support it anymore, yet is has not been dropped completely

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

No noteworthy DE

You mean, Gnome or KDE? KDE hasn't announced they're dropping X, AFAIK.

There are a great many window managers that don't support Wayland. If herbstluftwm ran on Wayland, I'd try switching again. But it doesn't, and the project has stated they have no intention of adding support.

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in -2 points 1 day ago

Good to know some people are still working on X.

Git repo for those who're interested

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is it though?

Hmm

Welp

Seriously though, fuck this guy and his project. Refuse to support it. In fact, use an alt account to introduce subtle bugs and flaws to the codebase if you can. It’s always a good day to fuck with Nazis. And this right here is a project run by a Nazi.

Edit: if anyone dares to whinge about “getting political” with my comment in this community: this is a screencap of the fucking README.MD. It’s an inherently, overtly political commentary in the project that’s clearly friendly to an authoritarian regime. Fuck all that noise.

[+] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe -7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly, fuck everyone who is hating on this project because the owner has different views than them.

It just shows how you people always try to strong-arm those who disagree with you into doing your fucking bidding.

You're making things worse without even realizing it.

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

What? You might want to think about what you said for like 2 more seconds. Why on earth would I not hate or even help someone who aligns themselves with a Nazi? You can absolutely hate the creation of a tool based on the political reasons it is being created.

[-] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe -2 points 17 hours ago

You can do whatever you want and people can criticize you for it.

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't need a project to explicitly say they are DEI inclusive, I generally don't care who is contributing, but when you explicitly state you are against it in the README of your project that is just wild. The only divide I'm increasing by saying I don't support or respect people who choose to, and makes it very clear they are, excluding people based on diversity is a divide they've created for themselves. Especially when it's a fucking open source software project, like wtf does DEI have to do with it that the owner has to bring it up to begin with if not to intentionally hurt someone.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

but when you explicitly state you are against it in the README of your project that is just wild

It's called a dogwhistle: they're letting other racist scumbags know that they are also racist scumbags and that their racist scumbag views are welcome, without saying anything overtly racist scumbag-y.

[-] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe -2 points 17 hours ago

It's not wild and you're just too reddit-brained to ignore it.

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