[Content Warning: Transphobia] From the very same people who tell us to "boycott Wayland"

Lol, if we start excluding tech based on the inventors mental illnesses we are gonna end up bashing rocks together to make fire.

Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that being trans is a mental illness, only refuting that mental illness is not a reason to discard ones contributions. Apologies for any offence.

sigh, people suck.

This is actually something that bugs me about GitHub - I'm a Professional Software Developer, and we use GitHub enterprise internally at work (don't @ me, we don't have the budget to run our own infrastructure, BitBucket is crap and the sales person at GitLab ghosted me on 3 consecutive calls that we set up to discuss our needs). I'm also in charge of a team, and actively encourage the team to contribute to open source - find a bug? Draw up reproduction steps, report it upstream, and Fridays after lunch are dedicated to getting those bugs fixed. One of these days one of my team is going to run across one of these assholes, and I'm going to have a proper HR incident on my hands because that is a hostile work environment. Doesn't matter that it is a member of the public being a dick, I've got an obligation to ensure that my staff have a workplace free of harassment, and I've got absolutely no recourse against this other than to say "cool, we don't contribute to this repo anymore".

What a charming person, I would love to run him over with a steamroller.

Transphobia and such aside (which are shitty and unnecessary in their own right), how on earth can you realistically boycott Wayland when nearly every last Xorg dev has moved to Wayland permanently?

X11 is simply end of life, and there are no display server technologies or protocols that exist to challenge Wayland because no one cares enough to bother with the immesnse work it entails? At best you'll be stuck on a legacy distro for a few years until your display drivers become too out of date for whatever apps you use.

You want give some context here? We don't even know who is speaking in these screenshots, and to what end. Why would this even be a conversation?

I've filed a report to GitHub on this guy, I assume you did the same but ugh, people suck.

I remember back when I thought all FOSS was part of the FSF, and that itself was formed of hippie liberal progressives. Had a rude awakening when I found about the MIT vs GPL rift, and then another on HN when I realised half the people in software were just there to make money.

Unsurprising. I've seen a fair amount of people in the Linux community like this.

It's also quite hilarious to see them frothing at the mouth so much over Gnome getting some money to aid in accessibility improvements lol. Can't be having the less abled using computers now, can we?

[Completely unrelated to the content] How the heck is this post managing to crash two out of my three lemmy clients?

Wayland fixes VRR, mixed refresh rate display setups, screen tearing, X11 security bugs AND makes bigots mad? Sign me up! :-)

tl;dr?

Sorry for the Windows emojis lol, I'm on a computer shop as I post this on lunch break

There are many people like this, who hate Firefox and love Brave/Chromium, hate GNOME, hate Rust, hate Systemd and so on. It is easy to identify these chuds once you talk to them for a little while, or sometimes even observing their internet commentary.

I dont understand, give context, who is binex-dsk and why should I care?

I'm actually pro LGTB and hate Wayland. Don't make us all look as conservative scumbags. Some of use just hate Red Hat (IBM) because of their big corp nature.

I dream of a future when people are not hostile to change.

If you're going to start a moral support thread for every neckbeard you run into online, you're going to be busy. What are you hoping to accomplish with this thread?

Ah, the James Damore archetype of an engineer. I bet they get wet dreams imagining themselves as the Howard Roark of programming (and just as delusional).

Can we please stop making anything about how people feel about their selves?

Holy shit that is bad. I don't use wayland, but that's only because it freezes randomly on my 1650. (It's probably bc it's on an optimus laptop). I hope this person gets their github account banned.

I only read the first comment and the use of a slur and deep transphobic talking points made me stop reading the rest.

As a trans woman myself... thanks for all this non transphobia in this comment thread <333

It is not nice to generalize.

He has a point, but it's not really limited to trans people.

Mental illness in general seems to be revered among this generation, for some reason. I had to make some decisions about what sexes to include in my app, and I just went with 'male, female, and other.' I know that's going to piss some people off, but they can just deal with it.

The amount of additional work required to add and maintain a list of genders just isn't worth it. Thankfully this is mostly an issue in Western culture, and my app is worldwide.

People with an agenda expect you to bend over backwards to support that agenda because they care more about their agenda than what you're actually doing.

If you're against Wayland, you are against peace freedom and democracy !! Also probably anti-Semite communist antilgbt brexiter , oh and racist of course !!