Hyprland is now fully independent! (hyprland.org)
from Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 18:28
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/19377028

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[…] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

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ogeist@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 18:45 next collapse

I’ve got a track for that:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUdyuKaGQd4

krolden@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 18:47 next collapse

Neat

deathmetal27@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:32 next collapse

Does this have something to do with the author being banned from freedesktop?

Kanedias@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 19:44 next collapse

Yes

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:40 collapse

Partially, it also had strong technical motivations.

cornshark@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:38 next collapse

But why?

Badabinski@kbin.earth on 24 Jul 2024 19:57 next collapse

Because Vaxry (the lead dev) got banned from contributing to wlroots or any other FDO projects.

As for why he was banned, this is the only thing I've read about the whole thing: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Basically, he violated the FDO Code of Conduct when being told that a particular thing he said/enabled in a Discord community would not be acceptable if it was seen in spaces covered by said CoC.

This appears to be his response.

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:43 collapse

violated their code of conduct in places where the code of conduct explicitly does not apply is extremely important here. He never once violated code of conduct anywhere that it did apply, and in public spaces was quite respectful, You could for sure find faults with him, but you could find way more faults with most other developers who still actively contribute to projects hosted on FDO.

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:44 collapse

Wlroots has a slow development time for features hyprland wants, as well as hyprland having a different release cycle then sway, often causing packaging nightmares.

dannoffs@hexbear.net on 24 Jul 2024 19:44 next collapse

Imagine having to rebase your entire project because you’re a piece of shit.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 24 Jul 2024 19:51 collapse

This is the first I’ve heard of it. What’s the deal?

dannoffs@hexbear.net on 24 Jul 2024 20:16 collapse

Vaxry, the main dev of Hyprland, got banned from all aspects of freedesktop.org for multiple CoC violations.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 24 Jul 2024 21:00 collapse

Yikes. Thanks for the summary. I’ll look into the details when I’m at my desktop.

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:50 next collapse

Fuck Hyprland, its developers, and its asshole community. Context: drewdevault.com/…/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcem…

vikingtons@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 19:57 next collapse

Damn, had no idea about this.

oneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 2024 20:14 next collapse

Any recommendations for a Hyprland refugee? Thinking of trying out niri

billgamesh@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 21:16 next collapse

That looks awesome! Having used fvwm, I’m a fan of the scrollable desktop

kelvie@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 2024 23:24 next collapse

After this news I switched to using KDE with Karousel, an animation plugin, and a rounded corners plugin (kwin scripts).

I also use a command runner plasmoid to somewhat replicate waybar from shell scripts.

taaz@biglemmowski.win on 25 Jul 2024 01:21 next collapse

I’ve been eyeing codeberg.org/river/river

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 10:44 collapse

river is great. It’s far more stable than any other wayland compositor I’ve used.

wispydust@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 02:31 next collapse

I’ve been using swayfx, a fork of Sway with a little more eye candy.

Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 2024 04:08 next collapse

I like niri, but I’ll be damned if I can get any kind of stability out of it. I’ll have myself a flawless time at home testing, but as soon as my laptop enters University Grounds it stops launching apps, or crashes, or whatever else.

Right now I’m using Gnome/PaperWM since Infinite horizontal has changed my workflow so dramatically, and Gnome is more stable for me.

Lrobie@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 04:27 next collapse

I’m a fan of qtile. Used it when it was x11 only and use it on Wayland now.

Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 04:58 next collapse

None of the suggestions are even close to how good hyprland is. Like not even a little close.

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 10:44 collapse

river

Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip on 26 Jul 2024 05:36 collapse

Hyprland has special workspaces, plugins which became part of my worksapace. I don’t think river can replace it. i3 has features like these but i couldn’t find anything similar in river.

freijon@lemmings.world on 25 Jul 2024 09:11 next collapse

I can only recommend niri!

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 10:42 collapse
tetchey@aussie.zone on 24 Jul 2024 20:57 next collapse

Damn. I only discovered this project a few weeks ago and just started building a config.

Time to yay -Rcs hyprland.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 21:02 next collapse

My opinion: let’s separate the software and the people making it. If it’s great tool and FOSS why not use it? You use software, not people.

EDIT: I know that FOSS heavily relies on community but also that’s the point. I don’t see how toxic comminity can progress further while more open minded and kind fork will be a better choice of the same software base.

thejevans@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 21:23 next collapse

Since this change is entirely a result of the bad behavior of the maintainer and would not have happened otherwise, this a perfect example of why we fundamentally cannot separate the work from the people who make it.

Even if you do not agree with the social backlash this person is getting, that backlash has real effects on the work.

I, for one, no longer trust that hyprland will remain a well-maintained piece of software given that the maintainer would rather increase their maintenance burden and diverge from using common tools instead of cooperating with the community.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:11 collapse

Yeah the “organisation” stuff behind… To be honest anything can show negative or positive effects on the end product. I see it in my job, college and even the Unity or CrowdStrike can make such examples.

Badabinski@kbin.earth on 24 Jul 2024 21:24 next collapse

What if you need to file a bug? What if you have a question on the config that's not easily answered by the docs? If you never, ever find bugs and never, ever have questions, then sure, separate the two. There are genuinely people like that, but they're not common. If you're one of them, then I'm genuinely glad for you.

My opinion is this: You use software. You don't use people, but you sure as hell rely on them.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:05 next collapse

Yeah that’s a better opinion than mine.

Ferk@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 11:34 next collapse

Which is why you should only care about the personal opinion of those people when it actually relates to that reliability.

I don’t care whether Linus Torvalds likes disrespecting whichever company or people he might want to give the middle finger to, or throw rants in the mailing list or mastodon to attack any particular individual, so long as he continues doing a good job maintaining the kernel and accepting contributions from those same people when they provide quality code, regardless of whatever feelings he might have about whatever opinions they might hold.

You rely on the performance of the software, the clarity of the docs, the efficiency of their bug tracking… but the opinions of the people running those things don’t matter so long as they keep being reliable.

quick@thelemmy.club on 26 Jul 2024 06:04 collapse

Just do them how you would do with any other project. You really acting like it’s some alt right group. It’s just a edgy chronically online 20 yr old dude lol. The community is pretty normal. Only weird things you would see is edgy messages in announcements channel.

nmtake@lemm.ee on 24 Jul 2024 21:25 next collapse

Please note that many users of FOSS are also developers or contributors. Who wants to report a bug or send a patch if the community is worse?

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 21:52 next collapse

If it’s great tool and FOSS why not use it? You use software, not people.

I didn’t write about its user base, I wrote about its community – the cesspool that engages among each other. That said, the moment someone opens a bug report, there’s a real chance that person gets harassed.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:12 collapse

That’s absolutely sucks I agree…

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 24 Jul 2024 22:58 next collapse

Would be great, but some people are really strange. Especially bad if you have to let go of the work of some people, because you cant do it on your own.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:33 collapse

Yeah true

bear@slrpnk.net on 25 Jul 2024 03:47 next collapse

“Let’s remove the social element of our social movement”

Great so what’s left at that point, the free value FOSS provides to corporations?

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:16 collapse

Having a tool that can be used greatly without restrictions without any additional bullshit. For me that’s FOSS but I know that when comes to maturity and development community is the main component of great end product.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 04:04 collapse

The thing about Foss is that it’s typically community oriented. You are not only able to contribute and participate, but you’re invited to do so.

And if you’re an asshole and your community is toxic then who cares if your code is good? There are other projects I’d rather participate in. Cuz you’re not that good.

Psyhackological@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 10:07 next collapse

That’s correct, but sometimes in that sense you don’t engage with anyone and just read the docs. Also there are some cases when main contributors were toxic or unhelpful in a long run that community decided to create independent fork that’s more FOSS driven, not by elitism driven.

Ferk@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 11:08 collapse

I have contributed to other projects without really needing to get involved in their community in any personal/parasocial level, though.

I just make a pull request and when the code was good it was accepted, when not it got rejected. Sometimes I’ve had to make changes before it getting merged, but I had no need to engage in discussions on discord or anything like that. I’ve been in some mailing lists to keep track on some projects, but never really engaged deeply, specially if it goes off-topic.

If I find that a good code contribution is rejected for whatever toxic reason, then the consequence of that is the code would stop being as good as it could have (because of the contributions being rejected/slowed down), so it’s then that forking might be in order. Of course the code matters.

Stiltonfondu@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 2024 21:16 next collapse

This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

Hyprland is incredible and hopefully there won’t be any more trouble like this

Burghler@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 2024 21:41 next collapse

I also frequent the discord server often for help with configuring, I have not seen/experienced any of this hatred talked about so much. The worst I’ve seen is bluntness in delivering a solution or just being ignored because I someone didn’t RTFM.

Hyprland is a wonderful piece of technology and I hope it continues to persist.

quick@thelemmy.club on 26 Jul 2024 06:02 collapse

All of these people are just reaching lol. I also don’t understand how any of this would do benefit. Most of the people here cheering have not contributed 1℅ of what varxy did.

That drewvault guy lectures all day instead of maintaining his own projects. Why are we acting as if we are in abundance of open source devs/maintainers.

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 22:05 next collapse

This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

Because Vaxry didn’t like the public backlash, not because he had any moral problems with the conduct. In fact, he doesn’t mind genocide:

<img alt="" src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/363/540/657/156/602/original/02f62df0c03cb8b6.png">

Burghler@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 2024 22:46 next collapse

I think he was trying to have a philosophical point here but took the headass approach to it.

20 years ish old, living in Poland, and perma online does things to a man. Weird though to have a take like that when Polish people in particular were significant victims in Auschwitz

Ferk@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 09:16 collapse

To his point: if not “discuss”, what is the correct approach against fascism? war and murder? dismiss it, try to “cancel it” without giving any arguments so it can continue to fester on its own and keep growing in opposition?

To me, fascism is a stupid position that doesn’t make much sense, to the point that it falls on itself the moment you “discuss” it.

I would have expected that it would be the fascists the ones unable/unwilling to discuss their position, since it’s the least rational one. So it’s certainly very jarring whenever I hear people jumping to defend against fascism while at the same time stopping in their tracks when it comes to discussing it. Even if those unable to reason might not be convinced by our arguments, anyone with reason would. Rejecting discussion does a disservice, because it does put off those willing to listen and strengthens those who didn’t really want an argument anyway.

Like flat-earthers, they should be challenged with reason, with discussion. Not dismissed as if it were true that there’s a huge conspiracy against them. Whether they listen or not to that reason, dehumanizing them and rejecting civil and rational discourse would play in favor of their movement.

Stating “genocide is bad” should NOT be a statement of faith. Faith is the shakiest of the grounds, if we are unable to articulate the specific reasons that make genocide be bad, then we are condemned to see it repeat itself. So, I’d argue it’s for the sake of the victims in Auschwitz that antifascism should not be turned into a religion, but into a solid and rational position that’s not distorted nor used willy-nilly.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 10:55 collapse

Aw, man. I think Vaxry’s got entrapped here.

He is saying that if nothing can sway you from an opinion, then it is a belief, including being 100% opposed to genocide.

(Please note: I don’t side with genocide!!! But I understand his point. Read on.)

I think he’s the positions armchair arguing type, not necessarily the evil type.

I can totally see him say “If a group of people’s solely reason to exist is to exterminate the rest of the human race, if that’s all they think about, if all they do is to accomplish that - induce terror, kill babies, spew propaganda, castrate humans of all races; then it’s safe to say that that group of people should not exist and it should be exterminated.”

That’s an extremely wild scenario, of course! But I think that’s what this guy is saying. We may find genocide in general heinous, but he won’t say that all genocides are bad because of thought examples like the above one.

Then the other party takes that personally, and extrapolates that Vaxry is in favor of exterminating all trans people - something he didn’t say or mean.

My two cents.

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 16:00 collapse

That discussion didn’t come out of the blue, though. It was in the aftermath of behavior on his Discord where his position was “I didn’t say the things and I can’t moderate”. Also, as a person of Polish descent who follows Polish politics probably a bit closer than the average person, I see a pattern of PiS party ideology / common behavior by PiS supporters of being at the far right and the claiming ignorance when their behavior leads to bad press.

patatahooligan@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 08:41 collapse

This was a Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago.

Right, but the original mail from FDO basically said “we know about these examples of bad behavior, we want to notify you that they are definitely unacceptable and we expect to never see something like it again”. And Vaxry had a meltdown over that. Among other things, he doesn’t get why he should be held accountable for behaviors outside FDO. He has also rejected and commented negatively on the idea of any code of conduct at all for his project. Vaxry is making it as clear as possible that he will make zero commitment to oppose toxicity in his community and people took his word for it. The idea that he was punished solely for a couple of comments that happened years ago and are definitely “fixed” is Vaxry’s own misleading interpretation.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 10:47 collapse

I don’t know, man. I read Vaxry’s response and I think that he has a point. There was an incident, and it was dealt with.

Then someone from redhat (because they e-mailed him with from RedHat address) told him “hey we saw improvements on you moderating your community. Great! But if you break our CoC again, we’ll ban you!” To which he replied “Uh, we don’t have a CoC, we don’t belong to your organization, what’s is this about?” And the person replied “This is not a RedHat position. And again, we’ll ban you!”

He explained this in a blogpost and posted the full e-mail conversation.

He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry’s project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.

patatahooligan@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 12:18 collapse

I’ve also read Vaxry’s response and it’s complete nonsense. It’s even apparent in your condensed version.

Uh, we don’t have a CoC

Exactly. This is more than “an incident” as you put it. It’s a long-lasting pattern of Vaxry refusing to commit to any standards of behavior. He explicitly calls “upholding any value” nothing but an inconvenience. His only reaction to his community ridiculing the concept of a CoC is to say “nice one”.

What’s funny is that the person who opened the issue said “Instead of attacking the post, could you provide some evidence against it? (e.g. say “Trans rights are human rights”)” and it was completely ignored. See, the CoC is not about the text itself. It’s about taking an open stance against bigotry. Vaxry can cry all day about how this one incident is misrepresented and how moderation has become more strict now, but nowhere in this discussion or the FDO emails or his own blog about the issue have I seen him take an actual moral stance on the issue.

we don’t belong to your organization

What does this have to do with anything? FDO, a space that aims to be LGBTQ+ friendly, banned a bigoted person from participating, as they should. It’s such a stupid childish argument to say “but I didn’t out myself as a bigot in a commit message I submitted to you, checkmate!”. No-one cares. You can’t leave your “fuck trans people, lol” sign at the door and walk in, mate. You’re still a toxic asshole and you’re still a threat to the LBGTQ+ people we want to participate in our community.

He also said that the misrepresentation got to such point that a another transgender coder made a contribution to Vaxry’s project, expecting that it would be rejected, and got surprised that her PR got merged.

This is just so funny to hear from Vaxry himself. After people have repeatedly tried to explain to him that not enforcing any code of conduct on a toxic community is going to make it an unsafe space for LGBTQ+ people, Vaxry is shocked to find that LGBTQ+ people are afraid of being discriminated against!

Oh, but no, you see it’s because of the “misrepresentation”! Vaxry’s had made it so clear through his words and actions that trans rights are human rights and that bigotry is unacceptable, so it can’t possibly be on him. Even as he’s posting pictures this conversation where he’s accused of being a transphobe, and a trans person is expecting to get rejected, does he point out how he’s not a transphobe and how he respects all human rights? Nope, he only says that he only cares about the code.

But that’s just me picking apart his comments in a few specific discussions. What if he has in fact taken a moral stance, but just not in these particular discussions where’s he’s felt attacked and pressured into making a statement?

He did post this in one of his blog posts:

With that, I believe that every human’s opinion is valuable and important, and most crucially, equal. There is no point in having some people’s opinions be more important than others. That is the essence of discrimination.

Hey, that’s not bad. There’s mention of equality here and he seems against discrimination! Now let’s read the rest of this Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS blog post and see what it’s really about! Oh no, the above statement was only to set the stage for accusing SJWs of not understanding that not everyone agrees with them and how they shouldn’t “cancel” us for “saying bad words”. So he does think to talk about equality and discrimination, just not in any of the above discussions. But he’ll do it here to defense people acting like assholes on the internet!

And then he says this:

if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server

that is inclusivity

So there you have it. Vaxry will literally accept Hilter into his community, just casually interacting with Jewish people (presumably he doesn’t ban them from participating). It’s all fine, just as long as the gassing happens outside his own platform. Gosh, I wonder why people are feeling unwelcome in his community. Surely it is the misrepresentation of his views.

Here’s an archive link for the above article just in case:

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 13:49 collapse

I think you’re attributing malice to something else. Bear with me while I point out these two things:

First, The tomatoes quote is a consequence of something he mentioned later:

I firmly believe that FOSS is literally for everyone.

And second, he goes on to write this:

It’s important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other. For whatever reasons they may, we still should not ostracize them as long as they can interact with the FOSS community in a respectful manner, without arguing about those issues in places not meant for such discussions.

Here’s what I think: The dude is dogmatically dense. Not a literal nazi or transphobe. His response about moderation is part of that. “Ugh, I just want to code, not to babysit. If no one is spewing hate in my turf, they are welcome.” And even though I don’t agree with his stance, I still think he has a point: extremes are bad. And if the far-right is bad (“you’re either with us or against us; death to you!”), the far-left is bad too (“you’re either with us or against us; cancelled!”)

I’ve been there. Even after explaining that I was a transgender rights ally and supporter, and asked a question about sports - a question, as in I was trying to get myself informed, this one mod lashed out at me as if I was the devil, simply because my views didn’t perfectly align with hers before getting answers. It really caught me off guard. And she wouldn’t budge. It’s either her view or “pure unadulterated transphobia,” which I found ridiculous. That’s extreme.

But I’m capable of trying to reach to a middleground, whereas Vaxry stays firm - and that’s fine. Don’t like it? Don’t participate in his community! But don’t demonize him for some imaginary intentions you’re placing on him.

patatahooligan@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 15:10 collapse

There are only so many ways “I don’t care if Hitler is active in my community as long as he doesn’t talk about the gassing in my discord” can be interpreted and “I just want to code” is not one of them. For starters, the practical issues of moderation and whether he wants to do it are never relevant to his argument throughout the blog post. He’s saying that “we should not care about people’s political views on a community unrelated to politics, as long as they do not use it to spread their agenda”. The words “we”, “should”, and “care” are pretty clear. This is a moral statement.

There are many more quotes that make it clear he is not talking about moderating his own community. His point about Hitler is clearly used to demonstrate his thoughts on how communities in general should be run, and why FOSS communities are getting it wrong.

Inclusive communities, in the eyes of such advocates, are often the opposite of inclusive. They will try and find things that you do outside of your proffessional persona, or often infer, guess, meddle with, or lie about what you say and stand for. Then, once they have the “ammo”, they will ostracize you. Ban, kick, call for removal, censorship.

Unlike those people, I stand by my stance that even if you are something that the country I live in disagrees with, you still are free to use, contribute to, and be a part of the greater FOSS community.

It’s also sad to see that the inclusive communities for which such people “fight for”, are accepting this type of, ultimately hateful and bigoted, behavior

Bonus points for explicitly listing LGBT issues as a topic one might disagree with.

It’s important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other

It’s all unambiguous. Vaxry is at no point talking about the practicalities of keeping Hitler out of his community. He is explaining why he thinks Hitler should be welcome into his community and the FOSS community in general, just as long as he doesn’t use these communities to further his goal of gassing people. If there was ever any confusion over whether Vaxry doesn’t care about the toxicity or just can’t deal with it, this blog post definitely clears it up. He doesn’t care. He’s welcoming evil and harmful people in his community and in all communities and he takes a stance against the people who have an issue with this.

Your interpretation doesn’t work unless you ignore all the words he uses, the logic of his arguments, and even the fucking title. Not to mention all the other times he’s talked about these issues. In so many blog posts about how his community is unfairly represented and how his ban was unwarranted, Vaxry has not once just simply stated in any terms that he is not okay with evil and harmful people in his community, or that he even acknowledges trans rights. The only thing I’ve seen him say on the incident of harassing a trans person by editing their profile to change their pronouns is that it was “unprofessional”. No mention of ethics or possible harm done.

And if the far-right is bad (“you’re either with us or against us; death to you!”), the far-left is bad too (“you’re either with us or against us; cancelled!”)

Ah yes, seeking people to harm because of their race and innate characteristics and banning people from your platform because of their morals and behavior. Equally bad things. I see the rights and wrongs of both sides now.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 2024 07:58 collapse

There are only so many ways “I don’t care if Hitler is active in my community as long as he doesn’t talk about the gassing in my discord” can be interpreted

That’s exactly what he is saying. I don’t agree with it, but if you read his stuff, you can tell that it’s pedantry rather than hate what makes him say that.

and “I just want to code” is not one of them.

That’s your opinion, and we’re going in circles.

For starters, the practical issues of moderation and whether he wants to do it are never relevant to his argument throughout the blog post.

But they are, though.

He’s saying that “we should not care about people’s political views on a community unrelated to politics, as long as they do not use it to spread their agenda”. The words “we”, “should”, and “care” are pretty clear. This is a moral statement.

Moral or pragmatic, sure, whatever you say. But the base is not standing on hate. Just… Apathetic practicality? Laziness?

There are many more quotes that make it clear he is not talking about moderating his own community. His point about Hitler is clearly used to demonstrate his thoughts on how communities in general should be run, and why FOSS communities are getting it wrong.

We don’t disagree here. But so what? You could also say “fascist shouldn’t exist,” and someone somewhere will say that you’re condoning genocide.

Bonus points for explicitly listing LGBT issues as a topic one might disagree with.

You’re not saying anything we haven’t discussed already - we’ve the term transphobia several times already.

It’s all unambiguous. Vaxry is at no point talking about the practicalities of keeping Hitler out of his community. He is explaining why he thinks Hitler should be welcome into his community and the FOSS community in general, just as long as he doesn’t use these communities to further his goal of gassing people.

Exactly. We’re going in circles here. You’re attributing malice to this sentence. You’re saying that he is secretly saying “hurr hurr I am a nazi and this is how I get away with it.” He isn’t. I don’t like it, I fucking hate nazis. But I don’t think he is one. He’s probably autistic before being a nazi.

If there was ever any confusion over whether Vaxry doesn’t care about the toxicity or just can’t deal with it, this blog post definitely clears it up. He doesn’t care. He’s welcoming evil and harmful people in his community and in all communities and he takes a stance against the people who have an issue with this.

Correct. More of the same.

Your interpretation doesn’t work unless you ignore all the words he uses, the logic of his arguments, and even the fucking title.

It does work.

The only thing I’ve seen him say on the incident of harassing a trans person by editing their profile to change their pronouns is that it was “unprofessional”.

Because it was unprofessional from his point of view. He’s not secretly and deliberately condoning transphobia.

Ah yes, seeking people to harm because of their race and innate characteristics and banning people from your platform because of their morals and behavior. Equally bad things. I see the rights and wrongs of both sides now.

Again, we don’t disagree. I should have that phrase stored somewhere, ready to be pasted when discussing with you.

Look, show me a picture of him doing the nazi salute or protesting a pride parade, and we’ll talk.

Otherwise, I stand by what I said. The dude is a dense moron. Not evil.

patatahooligan@lemmy.world on 30 Jul 2024 17:08 collapse

What are you on about? Nothing you say has any relevance to what I said or to what Vaxry said. Go back and read my comments. I said this:

Vaxry is making it as clear as possible that he will make zero commitment to oppose toxicity in his community and people took his word for it. The idea that he was punished solely for a couple of comments that happened years ago and are definitely “fixed” is Vaxry’s own misleading interpretation.

And then I quoted Vaxry’s own posts showing exactly that. I didn’t claim that he is a nazi and I don’t have to prove to you that he is. No one cares. Welcoming nazis into his community and advocating that we should all be doing the same is the problem. Whether he is a nazi or a “dense idiot” is a question only you posed. By his stance alone he is creating exactly the type of unsafe and toxic community other people want nothing to do with. That’s all that needs to be said. Your statement that this was only a “Discord dumpster fire that was thankfully put out months ago” is plain false. My comment was a statement of fact. Nazi salutes and proof of malice are irrelevant to any of this.

Seriously, what even is this level of strawmaning?

You’re saying that he is secretly saying “hurr hurr I am a nazi and this is how I get away with it.”

You need to work on yourself if this is how you react to people online simply saying a fact that annoys you.

Also, don’t bother writing another long meaningless comment. I don’t care to convince you. It’s clearly impossible, anyway. My previous comments were to bring Vaxry’s actual quotes and political stance into this thread because I knew people would either lie or genuinely not know about it. And now this one was to point out the dishonest debate tactics that most pro-Vaxry comments use, where they try to “win” the argument by moving the goal posts, misrepresenting the facts (deliberately or not), and twisting other people’s arguments. Now that all of this is in the open (in this thread at least), there’s nothing to talk about.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 31 Jul 2024 07:40 collapse

Alright, bro. Let’s leave it at this point, then.

I’ll just add that I do agree with you in many aspects. Welcoming nazis to a community, closeted or not, is bullshit. I would never do that. I would uproot those motherfuckers and kick them out for good.

I just don’t think that Vaxry is one of them - maybe he is one by association, as in “you welcome nazis? Then you’re one!” But from where I am standing, he’s just a privileged moron who thinks that life is simpler than what it really is.

Burghler@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 2024 21:25 next collapse

Vaxry (head honcho of hyprland) responds here to Drew’s referenced shoutout. Sharing for completeness sake. blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

And his response to the FreeDesktop stuff. blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 10:35 collapse

It seems like the guy is being genuine here. Or was that pure PR?

sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Jul 2024 07:11 collapse

He is some sort of a sociopath. I remember having the same feelings reading his Blogposts. But after rethinking and checking the facts it came to me how awful his own reaction was.

If you use an infrastructure as the project did, the host is allowed to define rules. In his reaction everything was framed like she as a woman would just fire against his project because of she likes to have power. The mailing list told a totally different story. After I realised his framing was again hateful and misleading, I stepped away from the project and till now all news about that.

The development of a dedicated backend is most probably because of technical reasons since wlroots caused some problems, though.

germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 2024 21:31 next collapse

The bread and butter for anyone wanting a TLDR:

The FDO team is right that Hyprland’s community reflects poorly on the Linux desktop community as a whole. Vaxry [the Hyprland Dev] has created a foothold for hate, transphobia, homophobia, bullying, and harassment in the Linux desktop community. We are right to take action to correct this problem.

Salix@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 05:33 collapse

And on that note, I condemn in the harshest terms the response from communities like /r/linux on the subject. The vile harassment and hate directed at the FDO officer in question is obscene and completely unjustifiable. I don’t care what window manager or desktop environment you use – this kind of behavior is completely uncalled for. I expect better.

Oh wow. That community is just hateful

patatahooligan@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 09:44 collapse

And now in the r/linux thread about these news people are defending Vaxry, misrepresenting what the ban was about, and hating FDO.

Indicatively, this blatantly wrong comment chain is upvoted:

Is this the project where some red Hat dev started dropping legal threats from their corporate account over offline activities by third parties in unrelated communities years past?

Sort of. You got some details wrong but essentially, yes.

But this is downvoted and has replies telling them they’re wrong:

Congratulations to the hyprland project, but I definitely will not be using or contributing to the project as long as it’s an exclusionary and intolerant space.

geoff@lemm.ee on 24 Jul 2024 21:50 next collapse

Well I was going to try Hyprland this weekend, but I think instead I will very much not do that.

I hope someone forks it from a good commit just before they replaced wlroots. I don’t know the specifics of compositor code at all, but I bet It’s going to cost them quite a bit of velocity to maintain their replacement.

Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 04:50 next collapse

Then you might as well not use linux cause if you don’t know, you will be in a shock

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 10:37 collapse

I’d say, read Hyprland’s responses linked elsewhere in this thread before making any hasty decisions.

It seems (but I’m not sure, to be clear), that it was a situation that got solved, and people are still hung up on it.

It’s like that “but you fuck one sheep” joke.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 17:12 collapse

what joke?

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 2024 10:21 collapse

You’ll find many variations of it if you search for that phrase on the internet.

But at this point, eh, it’s not as fitting as I thought it would be.

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 22:06 next collapse

Imagine letting yourself get emotional about ghe “asshole community” of a “tiling compositor”.

Anything can get to you if that can.

JustMarkov@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 01:29 next collapse

Fuck stupid idiots, who can’t separate developers from their software.
Aside from pointless agression: I don’t use Hyprland and never had, it’s too bleeding-edge for me, but if you think that every developer is an angel, then you are sadly mistaken. Being a good dev doesn’t mean being a good person or a good community manager. You should probably stop using almost every piece of software you already use, because assholes are everywhere.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 03:57 collapse

Being a good dev doesn’t mean being a good person

Being a good dev doesn’t justify being a bad person either.

This wm is dead to me.

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 10:40 next collapse

I’d recommend river to anyone looking for an alternative wayland dynamic tiling wm.

pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jul 2024 11:54 next collapse

While I use river as daily driver and am very happy with it, I feel people who like Hyprland will find river to be rather limited and barren in terms of looks and availability of plugins.

porl@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 12:04 collapse

I’d be happy to find an alternative to Hyprland, but it was the first tiling manager that really clicked for me and (before the community issues came to light) I spent quite some time getting it set to the way I like it. I’d love for a competent fork or similar but it is well beyond my skill level to do that.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 25 Jul 2024 16:28 collapse

I’m SO excited for river 0.4.0 as it will bring a massive architectural change which will basically allow people to build their own Window Manager on top of River. Currently, River is a Wayland Compositor with an extensible Layout Generator Process support via a custom protocol. This change will essentially make River into a hyper-extensible Window manager building system which will make it immensely powerful.

SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl on 25 Jul 2024 10:57 next collapse

I whole-heartedly agree with this one and I am genuinely not surprised about the behaviour of Vaxry.

To give some context around this, ThatOneCalculator (aka Kainoa, the person behind Firefish) and I maintained the AUR package for hyprland-git back in 2022. When I initially made the AUR package file, it wasn’t great (and there were a lot of points to improve these packages) but it worked mostly. Of course there were edge cases where building broke, especially this was my first bigger AUR package to maintain. With it being a -git package in the AUR, breakage is to be expected.

Fast forward about a month, a month and a half. Hyprland rolled out some big changes which caused some build errors. But because my personal life got in the way, Kainoa got sick (IIRC) and I had troubles getting the build scripts working again, so it took a few days to get this resolved.

Vaxry came complaining to comment section of the AUR package “when are you gonna get of your lazy ass and fix this shit” (or something similar to that meaning, I can’t find the original comment anymore). After that, I promptly disowned the package and let Vaxry handle it himself.

Because fuck that shit, as package maintainer, I refused to be treated like this. If you think it takes too long, sure, fine, ask if I need help, offer support, anything. But just don’t be an asshole towards people, that offer your software to a wider audience.

dario@feddit.it on 25 Jul 2024 18:50 collapse

I went through every comment left in the AUR for hyprland-git, but I failed to find a single rude comment from anyone. Was the comment deleted by an administrator?

SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl on 25 Jul 2024 19:33 collapse

Yeah I think so… I couldn’t find myself as well because I wanted to get the wording correct for my post.

dario@feddit.it on 25 Jul 2024 22:34 collapse

You know, it seems pretty rude even for him.

SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl on 26 Jul 2024 07:54 collapse

To be completely fair, without the “receipts” (ie, screenshots or something else point towards proof) my comments shouldn’t be considered anything more than hearsay.

Personally, this experience is something that’s sticking out like a sore thumb. Most people I interact with online, even people I haven’t interacted with before, I start out with the assumption that they come from a place with good intentions. And then there is a person, that immediately goes against that, especially on a platform where I didn’t expect it.

Edit: grammar

ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social on 25 Jul 2024 12:40 next collapse

Damn why does all the software I want to use end up being developed by bigoted assholes. First nix now this.

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jul 2024 12:26 collapse

People should learn to separate technically impressive projects from the people running them. I’m not going to contribute or financially support the project, but I’m not going to stop using Hyprland because of its creator’s views and conduct. With that said, this stuff certainly doesn’t spark enthusiasm…

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 2024 17:58 collapse

I wrote community, not user base.

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jul 2024 18:18 collapse

I wasn’t criticising your comment, sorry if that’s what it looked like. It was just what came to mind reading a bunch of comments saying they’re abandoning Hyprland because of the controversies. Probably should have just replied to the post itself instead of your comment…

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 2024 18:37 collapse

I wasn’t criticising your comment, sorry if that’s what it looked like.

No, I was merely clarifying.

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jul 2024 18:44 collapse

Sure, no worries :3

forkbomb9@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 23:13 next collapse

For everyone shitting about Vaxry, I recommend reading both sides of the equation, not only FDO/Drew’s.

[deleted] on 24 Jul 2024 23:18 next collapse

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GustavoM@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2024 23:25 next collapse

Nice job on not adding nothing relevant other than “(Folks that doesn’t like the same stuff as I do) are (buzzwords).” – you are not better than em.

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Kanedias@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 00:43 collapse

Vaxry is not English-speaking, I think i read somewhere that they’re from Poland

zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev on 25 Jul 2024 05:30 collapse

Well he speaks english so in that sense he’s english speaking

Cube6392@beehaw.org on 25 Jul 2024 12:24 collapse

Just looked into this drama because I had no idea what the fuck was going on, and MAJOR YIKES

dannoffs@hexbear.net on 25 Jul 2024 03:04 next collapse

The only defense of Vaxry ever presented was that he was a bigot on his own discord and not freedesktop’s. He’s a shit bag and he can take his i3 for fascists elsewhere.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 04:14 next collapse

Reading his side of it only made me dislike him him more…

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:41 next collapse

Exactly, vaxry apologized for the lack of moderation and took changes that prevented the incident. to which FDO said, “he we are onto something, we can push our divisive politics here” then got angry when he rightfully told them to fuck off

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 21:04 collapse

The mail threads and chat screenshots show his side.

Treeniks@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 2024 23:50 next collapse

People keep saying this happened only because vaxry got banned from the FDO, completely forgetting the fact that hyprland has used their own modified fork of wlroots for ages now. They’ve wanted to get away from wlroots even before this whole fiasco, it really just tipped the needle for them to finally pull the trigger.

Mind you also, the ban in no way prevents hyprland from using wlroots still. The only thing the ban did was prevent vaxry from contributing to wlroots upstream, which is damn unfortunate if you ask me.

dannoffs@hexbear.net on 25 Jul 2024 03:07 collapse

You believe his “fuck you guys, wlroots sucks anyway” blog post? In that case I have a wonderful bridge for sale that you might be interested in.

Treeniks@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 04:20 collapse

I don’t need a blog post to know this, considering I’ve been closely following hyprland since vaxry’s first posts about it on reddit over 2 years ago.

earth_walker@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 00:07 next collapse

In other words, Vaxry is so unwilling to compromise or learn from others that he would rather isolate his project from the broader FOSS community. That says a lot about him and the people who support him, especially since this conflict with freedesktop.org started over Vaxry condoning hateful trolling of trans people within the Hyprland community.

This is a problem for me as a Hyprland user because if I share some rice I made or make suggestions for other users, I’m leading people into a community that may be actively hateful towards them. It utterly extinguishes any enthusiasm I have for the project. I like the software but I’d rather be part of a project and a community that I can feel good and excited about. Maybe time to find a new tiling Wayland compositor.

drspod@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 00:52 next collapse

if I share some rice I made

FYI: rice is derived from a racist pejorative term. A lot of people in the desktop theming community have stopped using it.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 02:06 next collapse

I feel that like idiot, “ricing” is far enough removed from its roots that its fine. Thats just my opinion though

uhN0id@programming.dev on 25 Jul 2024 06:51 next collapse

And at least in the Unix context it’s a positive term.

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jul 2024 06:51 collapse

As someone who found out it’s origin by casually using it in reference to my asian buddy’s PC, I’m here to let you know it’s not.

laughterlaughter@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 10:18 collapse

its* origin

earth_walker@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 04:17 next collapse

Fair enough

tatterdemalion@programming.dev on 25 Jul 2024 10:20 next collapse

It’s so ironic how many downvotes this is getting in the context of this thread.

GustavoM@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 13:17 collapse

Mostly because the “reddit mentality” has already established in this community, where the downvote exists solely as a self-validation/“dopamine fix” feature rather than flagging a post as bad and irrelevant.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 18:50 collapse

You’re right that felt good

Zozano@lemy.lol on 25 Jul 2024 14:07 next collapse

My partner is Korean, and I asked her if she thought this was racist. She said “it is (technically), but who is getting offended by that?”

I never used the term in the first place, but if I did, I wouldn’t stop saying it because I know about its past.

I’m fully convinced that anyone who is sincerely offended by that term is looking for something to be offended by.

I don’t waste my time thinking about how “smooth brain” is offensive to people who literally have a smooth brain.

I don’t waste my time dictating to the English; their colloquial term for a “cigarette” is inappropriate nowadays.

And I don’t waste my time replying to comments on Lemmy regarding semantics.

Oh, wait…

[deleted] on 25 Jul 2024 14:14 collapse

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blitzed@noauthority.social on 25 Jul 2024 14:15 next collapse

@drspod @earth_walker

Nevermind Southeast Asia is powered by their staple rice. USA is powered by corn, gasoline is goosed with corn alcohol so we have corn burners *LOL*

krolden@lemmy.ml on 27 Jul 2024 14:23 collapse

I’m gonna corn my ford f150

blitzed@noauthority.social on 27 Jul 2024 15:25 collapse

@krolden Cool I know some corn racers, or folks with cars which do e85 flex fuel.

When I road tripped thru Arizona I was tripping out on some gas stations that actually have pumps with various racing fuel blends...never ever saw such a thing in Southern California heh

TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 08:25 collapse

Languages evolve over time. The term “to serve” is derived from the Latin word for “slave”. That does not mean it’s somehow offensive to use the term to describe the job of soldiers.

The modern day “riced” comes from “R.I.C.E” which stands for “race inspired car enhancement”. If you rice a car, it means you put components that look like race car components but are actually just cosmetic. Fake vents, huge spoilers on family cars, exhausts that are optically bigger, etc. The orange Japanese car in the linked article is an example of that. 70s Japan had renown ricing culture so I guess that’s where the R.I.C.E and the racist “rice burner” split.

Nowadays people who use the term “riced” don’t even know that at some point in time it had something to do with Asian cars or bikes. It’s even common to jokingly associate it with the food with the same name to spite other car nerds because you can “um actually” bait someone to correct you that it has nothing to do with food. Which is obviously not true according to the article but if 99 % of people don’t know the racist origin, it’s not an issue at all to use the word.

Zozano@lemy.lol on 26 Jul 2024 10:50 next collapse

I can’t find any source to indicate Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement was ever a term that existed as anything other than the Japanese version of an N-word-pass.

That is to say: the acronym only exists as a means to explain why I should be allowed to continue calling your car a RICEr.

The problem here is that someone fabricated an explanation for why they should be allowed to continue to say RICE, in response to a fallacious argument for why they shouldn’t be allowed to.

The term is so far removed from any malicious origin, that some people wouldn’t even know they should feel offended, unless someone told them they should be.

TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 2024 06:39 collapse

I cannot give you any source, unless you want to waste hours of your time watching some car videos. The difference between an n-word pass and rice-pass is what you mean with that. Some secret way of saying the n-word does not change its racist connotation but a ricer by default has nothing to do with race. If you want to be racist, you would have to explicitly specify that you are talking about the owner’s race or the car’s origin or whatever.

The term is so far removed from any malicious origin, that some people wouldn’t even know they should feel offended, unless someone told them they should be.

That’s not normal human behavior. Try to imagine it. 3 people are going down the street. One of them points out that a car on the street is “riced”. Second one tells the third who is of Japanese origin, that he should get offended because of the word’s origin. It would be weird to get offended because someone told you to.

Zozano@lemy.lol on 29 Jul 2024 13:43 collapse

“It would be weird to get offended because someone told you to”

Right, but it happens. The post which triggered this reply chain is essentially a litmas test for what I’m describing.

The acronym of RICE was made after the racist connotations were already established. It’s an attempt to rewrite history so people could continue saying it.

It is documented to have come from racial origins in the 1960’s. Yet, I can’t find anything about the acronym from more than twenty years ago.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 27 Jul 2024 14:20 collapse

Well thats not true

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:40 collapse

Wrong. This was originally technically motivated as hyprland had been limited by wlroots in the past and often had different update cycles from sway causing packaging issues.

Vaxry never condoned hateful trolling of trans people. In fact, he publicly acknowledged, and apologized for the lack of moderation that lead to the incident, said he would do better, DID better, and THEN after everything had blown over FDO tried to ego butt into his server even more.

earth_walker@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 13:45 collapse

I’ll quote Vaxry from his blog:

“Obviously, the fact that I am banned from contributing to Freedesktop - and by extension wlroots, is another big factor, and probably the one that finally tipped the scales, because I am no longer allowed to participate in discussion or contribute code to wlroots.”

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-wlrootsRewrite

“I definitely am not a fan of how seemingly weak people online, especially teenagers, have become. Words are just words. Someone calling another person a “retard” shouldn’t really be a big deal.”

“I said:

if I run a discord server around cultivating tomatoes, I should not exclude people based on their political beliefs, unless they use my discord server to spread those views. which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server

that is inclusivity

Which I definitely stand by.”

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 16:22 next collapse

is another big factor, and probably the one that finally tipped the scales

means that it is not the sole motivating factor.

which means even if they are literally adolf hitler, I shouldn’t care, as long as they don’t post about gassing people on my server

Literally means that if they go around spewing crap, they get dealt with. This is not condoning hateful trolling at all. He is on the free speech side of things, but that doesn’t mean he condones it at all. If you start posting bad crap, you get dealt with. Minor slights, are as the name implies, minor. Those are allowed but within strict limitations, if you start going full blown idiot, you get dealt with.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 16:30 next collapse

He’s completely right about everything there.

Unless he is selectively banning trans people, not making a tech discord server about those discussions is perfectly fine.

hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jul 2024 20:27 collapse

Thanks for sharing this. I will install hyperland.

devraza@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 00:11 next collapse

Very nice, this comes with a lot of advantages for Hyprland, and I wholeheartedly congratulate Vaxry on separating from the rubbish that is FDO’s management.

wargreymon@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 02:14 next collapse

It’s free software guys, who gives a fuck about personalities🥱? GFY with pronouns, anger issues, egoistic management…etc

It’s the fucking code that determines which makes better software.💪

Hyprland looks cool af🔥, but having a fork of wlroots tied to a wm is not cool.🙄

shekau@lemmy.today on 25 Jul 2024 12:50 collapse

So segma 🙏🏻🙏🏻😈😈😈

azron@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 03:35 next collapse

Wow. Too bad people can’t get past themselves and grow together over preferring to hold on to a situation to be enraged about forever. Sorry no apologies accepted ever. I’ve established a pattern as victim, jury, and judge and my position is rational and not emotional and I will sound off to squash the bigotry as the only way to defeat it is to never move past it.

dannoffs@hexbear.net on 25 Jul 2024 04:06 collapse

Pound sand nerd. The chief operating bigot of hyprland never apologized and chose to rebase their entire wm instead of being normal.

azron@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 04:21 next collapse

If you bother to read any of the posts you’ll see he claims he apologized already and then re-appologized in the post. But that doesn’t fit the narrative and since we’ve all forgotten how to make mistakes and grow from them together why bother even reading the links people share, they just way down your snap judgements that lead to your outrage fix.

But don’t mind me I’m just a random internet person who saw a cool project being posted noticed a bunch of controversy, wanted to see what was reasonable so I waded in and was met with a bunch of people getting high on their outrage.

Still not decided but certainly not as clear as one side is acting like it is and they seem to just want to stay mad.

quick@thelemmy.club on 26 Jul 2024 06:09 collapse

He also did create one of the best wayland wm’s. So he was never normal.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 25 Jul 2024 08:07 next collapse

Well done to Vaxry and co for achieving such a feat! I still think it’s completely pointless but at least it will mean that it can now be more easily packaged for other distros, as it avoids the issue with using tagged wlroots.

sunglocto@lemmy.zip on 25 Jul 2024 08:26 next collapse

Ngl this will blow over in like 2 weeks, FOSS drama has the lifespan of a moth

737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 10:31 next collapse

Seems like a very bad decision

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:36 next collapse

Why? Hyprland has been limited by wlroots multiple times in the past.

porl@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 11:59 next collapse

Do you have examples of this? Not being contrarian, I actually run Hyprland myself. I’m just curious where the limitations of wlroots have been.

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 12:08 next collapse

the blog post inside the linked blog post goes over some points. each point is copy and pasted more or less.

  • like for example the multiple times I’ve spent dozens of hours debugging a single issue only for it to turn out a small typo or a careless mistake that any language would catch at compile time, except for C
  • Memory safety issues arising from the absolute lack of any documentation whatsoever of wlroots have also been quite the annoyance
  • The development of a display server is very complicated, as they are very broad and complex pieces of software. Mixing a C library with 0 documentation is basically asking for trouble.
  • new wayland features that require changes in wlroots tend to take ages to get merged into wlroots, like for example tearing, where a basically ready MR took 9 months to merge
  • explicit sync still not being a thing, despite KDE and Gnome having implementations already (I believe it is now, but not at the time of the blog post)
Samueru@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 12:17 collapse
737@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jul 2024 22:40 collapse

competing standards

Quackdoc@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 00:31 collapse

this doesn’t apply here. hyprland has announced that “all your wlroots programs will still work”. so they are keeping support for wlr protcols

Baleine@jlai.lu on 25 Jul 2024 11:45 collapse

I think its a good idea not having wlroots everywhere, its important so that people dont just assume every wlroot extension is available

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 20:57 collapse

People advocating for Xorg make exactly the opposite argument and wlroots got a home at FDO for a reason. Also, this is not a move away from wlroots on technological grounds, it’s because the Hyprland developer got banned because of his behavior.

quick@thelemmy.club on 26 Jul 2024 06:07 collapse

Hyprland never used wlroots itself. It always used a fork of it.

shekau@lemmy.today on 25 Jul 2024 12:41 next collapse

I use Mutter

witx@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Jul 2024 16:16 next collapse

What would be the advantages of using this over, say i3? (Does it summarize to X vs Wayland)

Cube6392@beehaw.org on 25 Jul 2024 16:35 next collapse

Yes. Also plus eye candy with hyprland. Sway is the i3 experience on Wayland. The official roadmap for i3 is to fall into obscurity as Xorg goes away. They explicitly call out that other things exist for Wayland and adjusting i3 would distract resources from those projects

k4j8@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 03:08 next collapse

Mostly, yes, X vs Wayland. Hyprland also has a lot more eye candy in the way of window animations for snapping, dragging, etc. I find the Hyprland config file simpler too, but that’s just me.

featured@lemmygrad.ml on 26 Jul 2024 05:48 collapse

The equivalent of i3 on Wayland is Sway; it’s even compatible with i3 config files, it’s a true successor. Hyprland is popular because of the eye candy and its rapid adoption of features which patch over some of the gaps in Wayland functionality. However I think those advantages have become fewer and farther, I personally use sway and if I wanted the visuals I’d use the swayfx fork

VinesNFluff@pawb.social on 25 Jul 2024 21:05 next collapse

Watching the discussion here I finally get how it feels like to be a centrist. And it feels dirty.

Anyway, good for them, or whatever. Hyprland was a’ight when I tested it, even if it ain’t my thing. Still hoping for a Wayland Compositor that gives an XFCE-type experience (that is to say, UX without Gnome’s ‘opinionated’ weirdness, and without all the fancy effects that Plasma has. Relatively lighter, also looks a bit retro)

flying_sheep@lemmy.ml on 26 Jul 2024 05:58 next collapse

You can theme plasma and turn the effects off. Why isn’t that exactly what you want?

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 26 Jul 2024 08:30 next collapse

A Wayland Compositor with an XFCE-type experience

XFCE is working on Wayland support!

Link: wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

Persi@lemm.ee on 26 Jul 2024 09:02 collapse

You may want to look into gnome classic, it comes default with gnome.

It’s not fancy or even popular, but it was made specifically for people like you.

dario@feddit.it on 25 Jul 2024 23:32 next collapse

I lost some faith in humanity upon reading that such drama over attitude that I would consider juvenile at best and mildly inappropriate at worst is still sparking debate.

I regained some faith in humanity upon reading many people trying to put things into perspective - this guy is not evil incarnate.

Also - and this is catered to American audiences - do not forget that this guy is from Poland. American left-wing values do not stretch all over the world.

qck@lemmy.wtf on 26 Jul 2024 06:22 next collapse

This is just far left acting like how they always act, isolating folks to satisfy their reaching arguments. This does no benefit to FDO. If you ask all these people for any source they will share a 2yr old drew vaults blogpost. They can just go to discord or github and screenshot the alleged “bigoted fascist pos owner and community” but for now they will just stick to making hypothetical scenarios of how they will get harassed for contributing.

dario@feddit.it on 26 Jul 2024 18:25 collapse

I agree with you.

Urist@lemmy.ml on 26 Jul 2024 09:34 collapse

American left-wing values

Hold up, what? The Overton window of US politics is so skewed to the right that what is usually considered left-wing there is right-wing elsewhere. US left-wing (read right-wing for much of the rest of the world) values are definitely common globally due to American cultural export (read military hegemony and neocolonialism).

dario@feddit.it on 26 Jul 2024 18:25 collapse

The so called woke ideology is in fact spreading all over the world although I believe the layman is somewhat unaware of what is really going on. I am from Europe. In recent years, in my country it has become a common saying that “we are not allowed to say anything”. Common people have become aware of this trend, though they have yet to pinpoint it to a political argument or even to the country of origin.

Urist@lemmy.ml on 26 Jul 2024 22:48 collapse

woke ideology

Like basic respect for others?

not allowed to say anything

Yeah, this is just not true. Unlike those who are actually marginalized, these people say nasty shit and claim that being called a dickhead for it is a violation of their freedom of speech. The reality is that they actually want some sort of immunity to backlash for their own words and actions, effectively limiting other people’s freedom of expression.

dario@feddit.it on 27 Jul 2024 12:06 collapse

If everyone can say nasty shit, freedom of expression is guaranteed to everybody. I think that basic respect for others is advisable and being friendly goes a long way but I still want to have the possibility to say nasty shit, if a polite feedback is not enough to state my point. Or even for humorous purposes, if that is what I want.

Urist@lemmy.ml on 27 Jul 2024 13:54 collapse

You misunderstand what I am saying: They are mostly (save where hate speech laws apply) allowed to say nasty stuff. They just do not enjoy the privilege of everyone else shutting up about it. I.e., other people react to it and say unkind, possibly nasty stuff back, which the original people in question get butt hurt by and subsequently whine about “the woke mob cancelling them”.

dario@feddit.it on 27 Jul 2024 15:04 collapse

It does not stop to being called out for a wrong pronoun. The consequences for using words not approved by the woke mob can be very real, like losing a job and being effectively cancelled. When interacting with a transsexual person, I address said person by the pronouns that match the sex that they purport to show off. Doing otherwise would be impolite. On a serious note, though, a man who underwent procedures to appear as a woman is not a woman: said person is still a man who underwent procedures to appear as a woman. The woke mob wants me to affirm that a transsexual woman is, in fact, a real woman. I will not say that. I would be a lying. I tend to pursue truth. Truth does not care about people’s feelings.

Urist@lemmy.ml on 27 Jul 2024 20:19 collapse

The woke mob wants me to affirm that a transsexual woman is, in fact, a real woman. I will not say that. I would be a lying. I tend to pursue truth. Truth does not care about people’s feelings.

Ok. Seems to me that you just want a free pass at being an ass.

She is a real woman even though she does not conform to your expectations of what gender is. Here is the thing though: She does not need your affirmation to

  1. be real
  2. look like a woman
  3. live like a woman
  4. feel like a woman.

What reason do you have to claim that she is not a “real woman” (whatever that means, I can guarantee that it is not well defined)? Most importantly, if she feels like a woman, even if you disagree on some metaphysical level of nonsense of what is a woman, why would you have the need to tell her what you think? Lastly, why do you think your opinion about her body is important?

dario@feddit.it on 27 Jul 2024 20:58 collapse

Much of what you are claiming is not grounded in truth, but I tend to pursue truth. Transsexual “women” fail to meet one basic requirement to be considered women: they are not female. A woman is an adult human female. I can guarantee that this word is well defined. Look it up on a dictionary, if you do not believe me. People can make statements about themselves that are untrue, but it is up to me if I want to keep up with their perception of themselves. They need not care about what I say the same way I do not want a law in place that forces me to keep up with their different perception of themselves. In parts of North America you can face harsh penalties for “misgendering”. When the left stretches things up to the point you can face legal consequences for truthful speech, we digress into totalitarianism.

Urist@lemmy.ml on 27 Jul 2024 22:01 next collapse

Transsexual “women” fail to meet one basic requirement to be considered women: they are not female.

Ok.

When the left stretches things up to the point you can face legal consequences for truthful speech, we digress into totalitarianism.

This is not at all what totalitarianism means, look it up in a dictionary or something.

dario@feddit.it on 27 Jul 2024 22:21 collapse

From Dictionary.com: exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others (emphasis mine).

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jul 2024 12:05 collapse

Look up intersex people and marvel at how loose the definition of being female is. People are born without a womb, mixed genitalia, any combination you can imagine. They’re still considered women. If one can get to such a state, or further, they should too.

Look up the various studies performed on transgender patients showing how their brain is more aligned to that of females (or males, whichever way they swing), at a biological level.

Look up how hormonal imbalances during pregnancy can cause such discrepancies. It’s not just a psychological thing, it’s a biological phenomenon that does appear in nature.

Or don’t. You’re free to remain ignorant, just like you’re free to say whatever you like, but don’t act like the victim when you knowingly say something that’s considered out of line and face consequences.

Facing consequences for your actions is nothing new, don’t act like it is. Work places and public spaces have had rules of conduct since the dawn of time; what is considered acceptable has shifted as society evolved. You may not like it, but that’s not going to change just because calling someone by their chosen name makes you uncomfortable. Would you consider being disallowed to call black people slurs totalitarianism?

You are free to say whatever you want, just like people and employers are free to not want to associate with you for the things you say.

dario@feddit.it on 28 Jul 2024 14:49 collapse

Less than six hundred intersex people are known to have ever existed. It is an extremely rare occurrence. There is no single human being known to have both reproductive organs in a fertile state. Fertile intersex people can have at most one reproductive organ that can generate offspring. Truly bisexual living beings have been observed in the animal kingdom: amphibians, molluscs and reptiles, but no human case is known to science. Moreover, most of the few intersex people known to have ever existed show physical and mental features that belong to one of two sexes. Contrary to popular belief, such people are mostly not some sort of hermaphrodites. They look and think as either men or women. Human beings are born either male or female and even if some rare occurrences exist, that tells us that something went wrong during pregnancy. For example, human beings are born with four limbs, but sometimes, something goes wrong and a baby with three limbs is born. This rare occurrence does not invalidate the fact that human beings have four limbs just like the fact that human beings are born either male or female.

In my country you can face consequences for calling racial slurs at a societal level or in specific settings, such as the workplace, but there is no law in place that directly tackles hate speech. In public, yelling racial slurs may upset someone and you can face consequences from people who oppose your manners, though in general no legal penalty can be levied for such behavior. I think this is the way it is supposed to be. It is a free country, after all. If people do not like you, society at large may isolate you. I do not want a government to take control of my mouth with laws limiting free speech the way they are doing in some parts of North America.

As I stated in a previous comment, when interacting with a transsexual person, I address said person by the pronouns that match the “gender” that they purport to show off. That is, when dealing with a man who transitioned to look like a woman, I use feminine declensions. I believe that doing otherwise would be impolite. I think that basic respect for others is advisable and being friendly goes a long way but I still want to have the possibility to say nasty things, if a polite feedback is not enough to state my point - or even for humorous purposes, if that is what I want.

The issue at stake is not to address men who appear as women or women who appear as men with the desired pronouns. This ideology is stretching things as far as making up an “inclusive” grammar with invented pronouns. My native language is highly inflected - we have nouns that are either feminine or masculine. Here we have marginalized left-wing organizations promoting a made up grammar that is so convoluted that even those who promote it can not manage to get acquainted with it. I do not dream of a government prescribing me to remember a made-up pronoun to refer to a specific person. There are laws in place that prevent the hiring process to selectively hire on the basis of sex and ethnicity, yet these groups are striving to push “diversity” at all costs, sometimes not on the basis of merit, but because they want spaces that look less heterosexual and less white.

We do not know yet if this unfortunate societal shift is going to reverse. History has taught us that reversal is possible. I am an outspoken opponent of this whole woke ideology and there are sensible like-minded people out there who oppose this American-born ideology.

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jul 2024 17:32 collapse

Less than six hundred intersex people are known to have ever existed. Fertile intersex people can have at most one reproductive organ that can generate offspring. Truly bisexual living beings have been observed in the animal kingdom […]

You… you didn’t seriously believe I was thinking of human hermaphrodites when talking about intersex people, did you…? -_-
There are FAR more intersex people than 600. It is estimated than 1.5% to 2% of the world’s population is born intersex, to varying degrees.

Now, about laws targeted at protecting marginalized communities:
They mostly focus on businesses, forbidding them from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and the like. That is it.
There are penal consequences for citizens when it comes to hate speech, but those only apply when such remarks incite violence against individuals, or result in extremely negative outcomes, like suicide.
No one’s gonna arrest you for calling someone a slur on the street. Jails would be full if that were the case.
This is once again an overreaction to make it appear like people are out to get you.

My native language is highly inflected - we have nouns that are either feminine or masculine. Here we have marginalized left-wing organizations promoting a made up grammar that is so convoluted that even those who promote it can not manage to get acquainted with it.

Languages evolve.
I am familiar with the perils of gendered languages, being a speaker of one myself. They can be adapted, it undoubtedly takes effort.
Nobody in their right mind is arguing in favour of supporting every single made up pronoun. I myself am not a fan of neopronouns, some of them are pure madness in my opinion, but a simple they/them can be incorporated into a language. I’ve seen and heard languages being butchered in worse ways, and at least this one is useful. We can leave those who want to be referred to with “starself”, whatever that’s supposed to mean, to worry about explaining everything to everyone they know, to themselves. It would be utterly inpractical to appease everyone, but they/them is manageable.

because they want spaces that look less heterosexual and less white

You kinda gave yourself away if you have an issue with that. I agree that people should be hired on the base of expertise, not ethnicity or identity, but a more diverse environment is not just some whimsical idea “the woke mob” came up with. It fosters exchange of ideas, societal acceptance, and generally improves work environments for everyone who isn’t xenophobic, all things that are generally desirable in a well integrated society.

The “woke mob”, " woke ideology " or whatever you want to call it doesn’t exist. It is an invention of right wing groups to categorise everything they don’t like with, which in most cases just boils down to being decent human beings and not spreading hate. There are zealots, there’s no denying it, but if you just log off of social media and actually get out, you’ll find that no one is after you, no one is implementing all those crazy ideas an extremely small but vocal minority comes up with. So go live your life and relax. The woke mob won’t get you, Italian will still be the same language as it is now, and you’ll still be able to cuss at anyone you don’t like. You’ll be fine.

dario@feddit.it on 28 Jul 2024 22:53 collapse

I was wrong about the number of intersex people known to exist. There are less than six hundred known cases of people with ovotesticular syndrome, a condition that was also referred to as “true hermaphroditism”, where an individual is born with both ovarian and testicular tissue. As per strict definition of intersex, statistics are in the range of 0.02%–0.05% of the world population. A more lax definition wants this figure as high as 1.7%. This is an atypical condition that may or may not require medical attention. The existence of this condition does not undermine the fact that the sex of human beings is binary.

I had seen languages butchered in bad ways and I am not a fan of it. Sometimes I make mistakes in writing and speech, but I try avoid it. Even when it comes to pronunciation, I strive for a neutral accent devoid of regional inflections. Personally I aspire to language purism, though I concede that this concept is vague because languages naturally evolve over time, they always have. Nevertheless, I do not want a government putting “neopronouns” in my mouth. At the moment this is not the case and you are inferring that things are going to be okay and there is nothing to worry about. Of course I want you to be right, though at the moment only speculations can be made. You may not be an advocate of such hard to manage grammar, but there are people out there who are.

Regarding your suggestion about logging off of social media, if you mean Facebook, Instagram, X and the like, I am not a fan of them. I have never signed up to those platforms and never will. I have never had a Google account, not even for a brief time. I signed up to Lemmy and in the past I was also on reddit for a couple of years. I was also on IRC back when it was popular. For most of my life, I have been doing most of my online interactions via instant messaging technology with people I know in person.

Diversity in the workplace the way we know it is a concept inherently discriminatory. If there are laws in place that prevent the exclusion of marginalized people, everybody should be free to compete in the job market regardless of their sex, ethnicity, religious belief or whatever. If we concede that these laws are enforced, diversity can naturally occur. Pushing diversity in spite of existing laws means that people should be hired based on some specific inherent traits that have nothing to do with expertise and fit for the purpose. It is like racism, sexism or other “-isms”, but in reverse. People who are not white, heterosexual and male are supposed to enjoy special attention based on their “diversity”. This is unjust. Are we supposed to abide by a non-heterosexual quota? And what about dwarves? Romani people? Inuit? What if people who identify as two-spirit penguins are underrepresented?

The so called “woke ideology”, whatever name you want to call it, is very real, is an American concept and has started to creep to this side of the world. I speak about the situation of my country not because I am proud of my nation, but because you may give for granted something that may not reflect a worldwide view on a given subject. I prefer artists who are free to represent people with the skin of the color they want in their entertainment with no political agenda pushing them to do otherwise. I want comedians to be free to entertain with jokes involving all types of slurs and stereotypes, if they wish to do so. I am witnessing a chilling effect in entertainment with people walking on a thin line. I hope this is a fad that will crumble under the weight of its own lunacy. Until then, I will oppose every bit of it.

shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Jul 2024 07:36 collapse

You keep making up extreme scenarios, none of which have materialized, even in North America, because again: most people are reasonable when it comes to that stuff.

No matter how much right wing groups insist on it, it’s a made up reality meant to spread disdain. Queer visibility has increased in the last few years, but just like anything, it will plateau, much like left-handedness has plateaued after a while after people stopped being forced to be right-handed.

The worst offender, and the only real/relevant example I can find when it comes to forced inclusivity, is Disney, and nearly everybody hates it because… well… it’s forced, including minorities. But they do it to avoid backlash from very few but vocal people on Twitter that have nothing better to do.That, and it generates media coverage, which is free publicity.

I believe you’re just being paranoid, but you do you. I feel like trying to convince you otherwise would be a waste of time at this point.
Good luck with your endeavours…

dario@feddit.it on 29 Jul 2024 19:26 collapse

Good luck to you.

magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Jul 2024 05:25 next collapse

Wow! Just like how I moved away from Hyprland. :)

quick@thelemmy.club on 26 Jul 2024 06:11 collapse

Your loss lol

Gacrux@lemm.ee on 26 Jul 2024 08:43 next collapse

i was here for systemd round 2

dino@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Jul 2024 13:22 next collapse

aiaiaia wasn’t fully aware didn’t really care, because I don’t need #eyecandy but this seems like problem: blog.vaxry.net/resource/articleFDO/RHMails.pdf Make up your own mind, folks.

Edit: invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=Lm3gLwyjawQ

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Aug 2024 18:01 collapse

i don’t have any stake in this, i’m a fucking xfce user lmao, but man “hyprland” is not a very great name since it immediately makes me think it’s a crypto bullshit project…