On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:59:34 +1000
wirelessduck@??? wrote:
> > On 23 Jun 2025, at 09:19, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Enrico , metux IT consult said on Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:01:33
> > +0200
> >
> >
> >
> >> Source code can be found at:
> >> Repo: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
> >> Tag: xlibre-xserver-25.0.0.0
> >
> > In the README file, you *really* need to delete the following string:
> >
> > "any "DEI" or similar"
> >
> > On the face of it, DEI is about politics and nothing else. It's an
> > American slur made by people fondly remembering the times when it was
> > cool to abuse people based on the group they were in.
> >
> > And look at it this way: If you're to use specific examples of
> > discriminatory policies, why not name male geeks grabbing female geeks
> > at industry shows, people calling other project members "faggot", or
> > managers abusing a highly skilled subordinate because he or she is
> > black? Believe me, you're best off eliminating the specificities,
> > rather than getting yourself mired in flawed and silly American
> > politics.
> >
> > By the way, I'm an American from Central Florida, so I see all this
> > dog whistle "DEI" and "woke" stuff on a daily basis.
> >
> > SteveT
>
> I’m getting the impression from other sources that xlibre is mostly a
> political project and best avoided.
>
> The whole “make X great again” tagline is another red flag to me.
>
> https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114716811258737155
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
>
> Also, alpine linux is staying away from xlibre for now:
>
> https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114717467792285512
>
>
> --
> Tom

Hello,

Maybe you guys (in particular, SteveT and Tom) forgot that many
of the best developers have some weird character traits.

For example, The entire reason XEmacs exists appears to be because, after
trying for years to get funding for FLOSS, Rich Stallmen stalled on his
work to improve Emacs thus necessitating the fork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs

Eric S. Raymond seems hellbent on "opensource" having been invented by
Christine Peterson despite evidence to the contrary.
https://rumble.com/v6me7vo-eric-raymond-and-lunduke-argue-about-the-origin-of-open-source.html

And those are just the few examples I have stumbled upon and still
remember...



Regarding Mr. Weigelt's comments about COVID, that was a very common
oversimplification of how the mRNA vaccienes worked.

The longer story, for (Mr. Weigelt's benifit), and I did read actual
papers and doctor's comments on this, is that the vaccine triggers your
cells to produce the spike protein much like the virus would trigger your
cells to produce more virus.
Thus, some of your cells don't act like normal human cells while the
vaccine is present in your system (and the same would be true if the
virus was present in your system). So you don't become a new species, you
don't have your DNA rewritten, you still have 46 chromosomes, etc.
I'd cite all of this, but my filesystem is a mess AND this is just the
simple and concise version. It's really a deep "rabbit hole".

Sincerely,
David