linuxmemes

Go read the first few paragraphs of the XLibre repo. For additional context, the gux was roasted by Linus for spreading anti-vax and other shot years ago.

Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/17894908

The lead maintainer is an anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, historical revisionist, and general nutjob. Links in the comments: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38376251

The entire "non-ideological" thing is just him not wanting to be challenged for being a shitter.

In the US, "anti-DEI" is nothing but thinly-veiled discrimination. It is used primarily by people with the skills, personality, and sociability of a slice microwaved Wonderbread who need something to hide behind to avoid taking responsibility for their failings as well as by literal neo-nazis to try out a facade of legitimacy for their discriminatory actions while signalling their socio-political stance to their fellow neo-nazis.

DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It's meaning is approximately:

Diversity - Efforts should be made to ensure diverse representation in the workplace, especially for groups that have historically suffered from discrimination. To this end, when skills and capabilities are approximately equal, those from groups that have suffered oppression should be favored. This both strengthens the workplace by adding different perspectives and helps to "rebalance" to correct for centuries of discrimination that have robbed these groups of opportunities.

A diverse workplace is stronger and more effective than a homogenous one, as proven by extensive sociological research.

Equity - People are different and may need assistance to put them on equal footing when they are otherwise equally capable to those who have greater societal representation. This could be as simple as ensuring that someone who needs glasses to read without eye strain is able to readily able to get them. Or it could mean ensuring that someone who has gender dysphoria (which can cause extraordinary mental health problems like anxiety and treatment-resistant major depression) is able to get the treatment that they need.

Inclusion - This is about the simplest of the three. Everyone should feel safe and valid in the workplace, regardless of their immutable characteristics.

When people say that they are "anti-DEI" in the US, they mean that they want a society where the only people with power are white, protestant men. They want a society where white, protestant men are favored over other all other groups and considered the "default" choice for anything. And they want a society where people who are different from them are afraid to participate because they may be arbitrarily punished and/or lynched.

When they claim that DEI is discriminatory and that they oppose discrimination, they are lying. Being forced to actually compete with others on even ground is terrifying to them and not being held above everyone else makes them think they are being oppressed.

I don't know if the creators are nazis, however, there was an issue questioning the inclusion of the DEI statement, and in that thread there were several uses of antisemitic dog whistles, including (((echoes))). These had a positive like/dislike ratio.

Edit: After looking through their repo these comments have been removed.

I question whether the people hollering that "X11 is held together with duct tape" have actually tried using X11 in the recent years. It's surprisingly stable. You never have to fiddle with Xorg.conf anymore, it's all automatic. The only parts where it really shits the bed, in my experience, is either if you're trying some extremely non-standard setup like mixing and matching wildly different generations of graphics cards, or in cases of deliberate sabotage by gn*me devs like client-side decorations and shadows. I really wished that the X11 -> wayland transition would be just like the pulseaudio -> pipewire transition where a desperately broken system that was causing issues for users got replaced -- in a matter of months -- with a successor that was not only 100% compatible but offered cool new features on top of stability improvements. But this has just not been the case so far. Wayland has been "the future of the linux desktop" for nearly twenty years, and it's still not quite there yet. X11 mostly just works, it isn't abandoned, it's finished. And what exactly are the new features we should be looking forward to in wayland? Isolation between clients is very cool I must confess, but did it really necessitate an entire protocol overhaul? QubesOS has had that feature working under X11 for over a decade. This guy on github managed to get it working with off-the-shelf X11 tunneling tools. Nevertheless, I'm still optimistic for wayland. The already existing backwards compatibility with X11 is impressive, and I think with enough work it might just be viable as the successor.