Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson

Why not just run a hypervisor and use containers?

Right, but what I’m saying the design to need these things was likely based on Deepin running their own distro. They don’t have to consider the security guidelines of other distros like KDE or Gnome, XFCE or Enlightenment would.

This is what vertical integration between distros and GUIs often leads to. This could be completely innocuous from Deepin’s end, because that’s just how they made it work in Deepin because they have vertical integration on their own stack. However, It’s completely bad form.

In general Deepin seems to adopt a lot of commercial software industry practices in building its tools, which I’m sympathetic to on some level, but it’s very obvious that the Linux community is not going to accept default-on telemetry. They should have known better after the CNZZ incident.

Vaxry is not a very smart guy. He originally got a wrist slap by FDO saying don’t do your toxic shit here. Then he followed it up by going postal on the FDO mailing list. Then he put up a blog post where he was like like “SJWs are coming for me”.

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

The entire argument is that you can’t make an exclusionary space for people (no definition of what that means) but you should be able to call them slurs. Who would want anything to do with him? He should have gone full tilt and made a list of slurs you should be allowed to say beyond just arguing for the R-slur. That would have really convinced people he’s not an extremely toxic right wing weirdo.

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

This was his non-apology where he says “lets be real” a lot which is a common way of just ignoring a criticism and then he follows it up with, I should have banned that user instead of doing what I did.

Asking for professionalism in the OSS community is not a huge deal. It’s also quite literally not even about the code AFAIR Drew Devault is still taking Vaxry’s patches. He just doesn’t want him in the community starting shit with people.

• Janitor
• Babysitter
• Contortionist

The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

If only there was a tool that allowed you to host an instance on a federated network that allowed you to make your own community and control how the rest of the network can interact with it. Why has nobody built this???

come around on social programs.

Wat.

Anarchists are the ones who are consistently making social programs from scratch. Direct action is and has always been about feeding people as well as sabotaging bulldozers.

https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/