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PeerTube even has nice features such as being able to share a clip with a start and end time and send it as a url. This is super handy when one wants to share a specific segment of a video without people feeling overwhelmed if the video is long. Open source once again actually making features and not anti-features.

I hope to run a personal PeerTube instance someday in the near future.

To be honest, I may not have the best answer for this. One thing to consider is that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and that boycotting products, companies, and individuals is not going to solve the problem of capitalism and its symptoms. We have to do what we can to survive. I am not going to condemn people who still want to use Hyprland. In a socialist society, I believe my earlier statement would be applicable. However, I would consider the open source community as antagonistic to the capitalist system, and it is a part of our society that is need of rooting out its reactionary elements where possible and most effective. Just as a party needs to have its members accountable for their reactionary actions, the open source community must collectively do likewise. I believe FDO made the appropriate choice of removing this individual from their community. I believe the Hyprland project may likely suffer through this alone as the dev cannot contribute to the important projects Hyprland depends on. People using Hyprland don’t need to immediately abandon it for now, but I suspect a fork of Hyprland with a better team may be necessary at some point in the future depending on if and how the original project devolves.

PolyMC’s hostile takeover lead to the fork of Prism Launcher, which has become the surviving project as the majority of devs were kicked out and moved to the new project. In the case of Hyprland, a protest fork would require a separate team dedicated to the project, which of course would be less certain to succeed, but may be feasible as it isn’t a large project such as the Linux kernel.

I believe efforts to such a fork would be beneficial, but resolving these issues with forks to isolate from reactionary devs will not actually solve the actual source of the problem, which is the far-right propaganda, media, culture, etc. enabled and enforced by capitalism. So yes, exclusion of reactionaries is a band-aid solution (sometimes more harmful than helpful in some cases), and people should use the tools that help them survive in this capitalist society. I just personally like to boycott some of the most abusive and dangerous companies and individuals when I can, and I believe we should condemn reactionaries for dangerous and bigoted behavior (and have them face the consequences of their actions) as it important for unifying the working class and protecting minorities. We need to root out racism, sexism, etc. as it inhibits the working class from working together and realizing their true enemy.

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.

Lol, even the stock market sucks. We are in a bust cycle and the stock market has been relatively stagnant unless you are in the elite club profitting off of insider trading and shorting. Stocks have been going down recently due to reduced rate hikes. Most people lose money on the stock market. Biden, his fellow ghouls, and the media are smoking some heavy load of baloney. This is just hella cope.

“Stock market goes up” they win, “housing prices skyrocket” we (the working class) lose

It’s all the same to Biden. Genocide means nothing to his bloodthirsty eyes. Protecting America’s interest in the Middle East at all costs is all he and the rest of the ruling class care about.

And yet liberals are shocked when people are repulsed and don’t want to vote for this demonic warlord.

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.

Ugh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.

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.

Propaganda is helluva drug. I believe there’s so many layers of brainwash to clean off before most people see the cracks behind CIA lies of China. Though I think people can skip this process of unlearning if they visited China, watch videos of people having a good time in China (and what an absolutely beautiful, majestic country it is, looking like something from a science fiction/fantasy with so many wholesome and wonderful people), or read a non-Western book about China. When I began reading Socialist Reconstruction, my wife was skeptical of how China was being portrayed very positively, but I was slightly more willing to accept the book as being truthful and not “overly-biased” (not that I care about bias, as long as the message is honest). Only recently after, my wife and I began freeing our Western conditioned minds.

I believe people like Fellow Traveler and such should know better by now. Maybe they are being used as controlled opposition, idk.

Crackers: Who taught you how to do this stuff?

AI: I learned it by watching YOU!

Yeah, an actual collapse of socialism looks like US committing genocide via shock therapy during the overthrow and balkanization of the Soviet Union, which was magnitudes worse than the COVID pandemic. Yet we don’t see Russia being called “well ackshually they are a capitalist state pretending to be socialist” in the same vain as China. That’s because they did have a capitalist takeover, and they don’t pretend to be socialist nor have a reason to. I totally agree with your statement here. I just didn’t have the words to dismantle the other ultra-leftist arguments, which you helped greatly.

We also don’t see capitalist, cracker politicians hiding their primitiveness, surely some socialist theory, let alone merely reading a book, would have helped:

These are pretty solid answers. This helped me connect the dots to what I have been having trouble articulating and formulating in my mind regarding this topic. Thank you very much, comrade.

This is what I am interested in hearing other people answer first. All I can say is that it is difficult for socialism to succeed in a capitalist dominated world. While I am also curious about the argument regarding class struggle, I believe each country’s path to socialism will be different in different nations. China at this time is serving a massive role in maintaining peace as much as possible and to prevent another capitalist takeover of their country. This is necessary, especially with their 100 year plan and goal toward US dedollarization via becoming a world leading centralized nation mutually benefitting in trade with Eurasia and Africa. While people were hurt in the process, I believe the emancipation of the proletariat has an improved chance of succeeding across the world than if China had the same fate as the Soviet Union.

I suspect most people would have wanted the Cultural Revolution to succeed if it would have yielded better results, but that is not what happened. What is important is understanding the material reality and how it was impacted by Dengist policies, which brought China to its current stage today. Perhaps in the future we can see other countries have revolutions and manage to stick to the socialist only road, though I believe it is likely the case that China essentially took one for the team and allowed other countries to not have to go through the same struggles and risks.