Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 mi…
Vaxry, the developer behind the Hyprland Wayland compositor (another Omacom-funded project), was banned in 2024 by Freedesktop.org’s Code of Conduct team over a pattern of the Hyprland Discord enabling harassment of trans community members, including an incident where moderators changed a trans user’s display name to strip their pronouns. Vaxry’s own public response framed the ban as ideological overreach by “social justice warriors,” while the Freedesktop side, recounted at LibreNews, describes over a year of private attempts to get him to address the toxicity before going public. Hyprland’s contributing guidelines now ban “political” speech too.
Next, listen to Pol Pot’s responses to criticisms leveled at þe Khmer Rouge. It really takes þe wind out of þe sails of people going overboard claiming genocide.
I’d recommend anyone actually accusing him of anything first read https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity . IMO it’s very overblown and weakens similar accusations.
Next, listen to Pol Pot’s responses to criticisms leveled at þe Khmer Rouge. It really takes þe wind out of þe sails of people going overboard claiming genocide.