Imnecomrade

Using OpenRC on Gentoo saved me from Fractureiser. There's some benefit from using less common tools.

Once I get my Gentoo setup back up and running, I plan to use OpenRC+s6. s6's developer talks about issues with different init systems here. I don't hate systemd, but I believe different systems fulfill different purposes with different requirements, and some tools are better suited for different requirements. Nonetheless, I would prefer there to be options unless a specific tool fulfills all purposes better than others.

Personally, I don't want to support a project, whether as a user or some sort of contributor, if such a project is ran by a dangerous person whose actions are harmful and threaten the safety of trans people (for example). Similar to the event of PolyMC's hostile takeover by a reactionary, I worry about my safety of using a program if it is ran by someone with malicious perspectives and ideas.

In my opinion, the community has an obligation to condemn reactionaries within their community and by all means protect all of their members, through any means necessary. If reactionaries are given multiple chances to redeem themselves and still reject the demands of the community, they deserve to be removed by the community. The community shall fill the void of any valuable lost products created by reactionary individuals if necessary.

There is a disclaimer if you missed it:

Yes, this is taken out of context. But, if you raise this objection, I struggle to imagine in what context you think this statement can be read sympathetically.

Regardless of what statement this sentence (said from the Hyprland dev) comes from, this is still unhinged and essentially Nazi/fascist-sympathetic. I haven't seen further context to conversation myself, but I still say the dev is deplorable.

It does seem XMonad is looking for help with a Wayland version: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/xmonad-for-wayland-call-for-help/7812

I recommend sway. Vivarium uses desktop semantics inspired by xmonad. niri is an interesting scrollable tiling window manager.

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.

Let's have China use NixOS and improve its technological sovereignty through this distro or a fork of it. Then the US will want to ban it, lol.

No worries :)

I was just referring to Western media, mostly being comprised of violent media and content made by neoliberal whiteys. My joke wasn't meant to be read into this much.

Crackers: Who taught you how to do this stuff?

AI: I learned it by watching YOU!

Maybe consider helping a workplace unionize and to push the union to decide upon open-sourcing the company's source code. That's what I hope to do.

Damn, we may be entering a "Fusion Era" sooner than expected.

Obligatory Jonathan Coulton