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Cloudflare sponsors Ladybird and Omarchy, techfash workfare
TIL about Omarchy.
Of course it uses Hyprland. Of course the demo video on the website shows using Grok in it.
Still can't believe that choosing a Linux distribution now involves decision-making factors like "what's their take on fascism". But I guess the real problem is that such questions weren't asked for way too long before.
Remind me: why is Hyprland bad? I don't doubt it is, I just need it to add to my mental list of stuff to avoid.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
tl;dr: incredibly toxic transphobic community enabled by the devs
Yep... also: this. To be fair, the project did have a blog post last year about improvements to moderation, and claim that transphobes would not be tolerated, but I don't know how things developed after that.
Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.
has there been more indication of him being a bit fashy since that one github issue? haven't been following it that much.
he keeps hanging out with fascists and receiving money from organizations that support fascists and something about his personal brand in interviews being wearing “Big Tech is gangstalking me” t-shirts also very much rubs me the wrong way
ladybird is a ridiculously unserious project (last I heard they were considering a rewrite in Swift and ignoring everyone who told them why that’s a terrible idea, maybe they’ve given up on that by now) and I frankly have no idea why it’s being hyped over Servo as an independent browser project other than a general willingness in tech to play ball with weird little fascists
e: also this lobste.rs subthread
fucking hell. but in hindsight, the vibes were always just a little bit off in his videos. guess servo is the only hope for a decent browser free from corporate/technofascist garbage.
nice, good collection of links, will help next time I need to find it. couple weeks ago I mentioned it on masto and I had someone Very Huffily reply to me (a situation I resolved by simply blocking them, gfy with that nonsense)
The lobsters thread linked in a sibling comment has more examples, but here's him eulogizing Charlie Kirk in a nazi bar https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1966456391146606806
as a bonus here he does a "i'm not usually political, but the left is evil" https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1967493595545682220 great, just great
real fucking weird tweet from ronacher there too
No way, really? Are you really doubting the professional nazi troll's desire to have his convictions challenged through good faith dialogue?
no, you see, exchange of opinions with charlie kirk was supposed to work like this: you get in with your opinion and leave with his
It is well known that the Marketplace Of Ideas is Zero Sum
I was hoping it was meant as a trollish sort of post (because anybody who didn't realize that soon after ~2016 has not paid any attention), but then he did a bothsides. Really doing a 'lets be open to the idea of gay people being stoned (and that isn't even the correct quote, it is put to death, leviticus is specific (it also seems to only be about people in Israel, or else the land will vomit you out, and old testament. Kirk wasn't even a good bible scholar). and trans people being eradicated'.
dunno, I seem to recall I've seen a couple other stinkers from ronacher lately. dude's also full on the LLM bandwagon iirc
probably need to keep a notes file
Sorry I meant that my hope was wrong, and too generous.
why the hell are they sponsoring omarchy
how is a customized hyprland config "helping the open web"
Maybe more on-purpose obscurantism ala Urbit?
Red site's having a normal one about it
Usual suspects weighing in.
I mean, of course they are. Perfect culture fit, both projects.