cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32868516

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Screenshot of a Mastodon toot by @ebassi@mastodon.social:

The whole open source community loves Milkshake Laptops, a lovely laptop company that has ethical values! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the laptop company stans fascists

  • TaterTot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sooo… I guess I was outta the loop pretty hard. I just spun up Omarchy on account of all the hype surrounding it, and had just enough time with it to fall in love with the workflow before stumbling on this post.

    So does anyone have a recommendation for a good tiling window manager that isn’t created by racists, transphobes, mysogonists, or any other kind of bigots? Or is this just a… time to run back to base Arch with KDE sorta day?

    Edit: And if you are going to inform me that Arch or KDE is run by or support bigots… can you wait until the weekend? Please?

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Everyone I know in KDE-land (granted quite a few have moved onto other things now) was always welcoming and inclusive.

      And despite Miguel de Icaza (Gnome) being an absolute douche, Ive never known him to be problematic in a right-wing way either.

      But thats just what I know, and I don’t know everything. But I think youre OK with KDE and Arch.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      i’ve linked to more context in the original post

      but the TL;DR is:

      • framework has started to financially support open-source project
      • among those projects are hyprland and omarchy, both having ties to the far-right (hyprland’s community is a toxic nazi bar and omarchy is maintained by a loud and proud racist)
      • people were understandably upset at framework for this
      • framework’s response was “nooo you guys, we are apolitical! we are trying to make a big tent! and that includes fascists too, stop being meanies!”
        • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Overreaction is the only tool that works to stop enshittification before it starts.

          Lean on Framework. Insist they vet projects before giving them money. There’s nothing here that can’t be undone.

            • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              1 month ago

              It’s not one comment from hyperland, it’s an harasement campain that led them to be baned from freedesktop.org and rightfully so.

              And the blog post you liked is a rant that there not enough white people in london while supporting the tommy robinson march ( a nazi event ).