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Weird little guys of FOSS (drewdevault.com)
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There are a few weird guys in there that I wasn't already aware of. I knew that Louis Rossmann was kind of an asshole, but being openly active on kiwifarms is actually fucked up.

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[–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

there's a few names i'd probably add; one is peter simon, known as probono, the appimage maintainer, a professional wayland hater (he's maintaining a ginormous gist that lists the failures of wayland, most of which is not true, not true anymore or at least grossly exaggerated).

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  • [–] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    He's an odd dude, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think he's fash-tinted TBH. Most of his tech opinions are sound, IMHO.

    I don't like Wayland myself – not as much as he hates it, but it brings nothing I want or need, breaks a lot of stuff that I really like, and is so utterly pathetically technologically unambitious it actually angers me. Also, just like GNOME, like Flatpak, like everything to come out of RH, everything about it betrays its developers deep, broad, profound ignorance of all the prior art except the bits they had to work on.

    I am heartily sick of this constant BS dialog of "X is bad, W is the brave new future". It's bollocks, and I am glad someone is standing up and saying no.

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