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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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[–] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] forkbomb9@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I read #bothsides and concluded that Vaxry and his boys club are fascist cunts.

[–] Cube6392 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] quick@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 months ago

Your loss lol

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] dario@feddit.it 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago

Good luck to you.

[–] qck@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 months ago

I agree with you.

[–] devraza@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago
[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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)

[–] Persi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

A Wayland Compositor with an XFCE-type experience

XFCE is working on Wayland support!

Link: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a very bad decision

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] shekau@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

I use Mutter

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cube6392 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Gacrux@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

i was here for systemd round 2

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

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..

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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