The fact that private companies work on public infrastructure must be one of the wildest cultural shock to anyone who is a non-American.

Cast:

• Vaxry: Hypr, Hyprland creator, contributes to wlroots and Freedesktop
• Lyude: member of X.org board, Freedesktop.org, Red Hat employee
• Drew DeVault: Sway and Hare creator, self-proclaimed Zig hater
• FDO: FreeDesktop Organisation(?)

Warning: Not lore accurate

TL:DR;

Vaxry’s Discord server for Hyprland was filled with edgy kids, calling each other LGBTQ+ related slurs - maybe they were from the community themselves, maybe it was a boy’s locker room. It was toxic.

From what Vaxry said, a trans user was misgendering his mod staff, so their pronoun was changed to “who/cares”. That was two years ago. Drew DeVault wrote a blog about it, Vaxry was pissed, shit happened. They discuss but could not come to an agreement; however there were a few changes. Vaxry apologized later about the incident, but he was not in agreement with political correctness.

Vaxry’s policy according to him is that he does not discriminate PR on the basis of people. He also created a CoC (mentioned earlier), but not many were happy about it being vague. But then, he also made a blog against inclusivity in FOSS, and calls them SJWs as a pejorative.

Vaxry lost his marbles when he got a mail from Lyude. Lyude used a Redhat mail, which was seen as unprofessional, and tried enforcing FDO’s CoC on Hyprland and other related project.

He sent back a passive-aggressive mail, which said “fuck off” in short. He also share Lyude’s toots in the blog about how Lyude supports bullying people for missing T in LGB, as a justification that Lyude tried bringing their past unnecessarily. Lyude sent another mail. Vaxry said that they don’t care, basically another formal “fuck off”. Finally, FDO yeeted Vaxry.

That’s it. Maybe I’ve missed a few details here and there. I did not read other’s blog, but Vaxrys’. And it isn’t looking good. In a way, this is also the abuse of power by Lyude, but looking at Vaxrys’ indifference, yeah, I wouldn’t have a positive attitude about that.

Source:

• How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission
• Freedesktop/RedHat’s CoC team is worse than you thought
• Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS

Extras:

• FDO’s conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry
• Hyprland is a toxic community

Edit: After watching Nico’s video, I’m convinced that Vaxry is a living, breathing turd. He crossed every limit. Good on him for getting banned.

> be blond, white guy.

> muh 'murica, crappy economic situation.

> lots of student and medical debt.

> wants to ease pain and suffering, addicted to drugs and alcohol.

> depression.exe, wants enlightenment, nirvana, zen, etc.

> ends up in the wrong Asia.

> can’t afford another air ticket.

> fuck it, I’m going to the beach.

Let him have his break.

Selling illegal lotteries to kids, in the form of T-shirts. Then spending 0.001% of it to show how much of a “saint” he is. Also accepting donations from Gates foundation and similar organisation to peddle climate-change optimism propaganda through shell NGOs, getting huge tax writeoffs? Skipping out on organisations/unions related to game fairness and stage safety to cut costs over OSHA guidelines? Make certain incidents on CGI to cut costs again? Rinse, repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat again? Sukkseccs!

I read the post thrice, and I’m still not sure what the fuck I’ve read.

Nintendo screwed big time. Now there’s going to be multiple forks of Yuzu all over the internet. And on every self-hosted Git forge.