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On X11 and the Fascists Maggots (blogs.gnome.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a truly WTF moment about messed up responses to X11 session removal in Gnome.

2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with the following, and I am not exaggerating one bit:

Fascists and Nazis
Wild Conspiracy Theories that make Qanon jealous
“Concerned” Trolling about the Accessibility of the Wayland session
A culture war where Wayland is Gay, and X11 is the glorious past they stole from you

In my wildest dreams I could have never made this shit up. You all need mandatory supervised access to the Internet from now on.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly that sounds like a security nightmare and its probably a good thing that doesn't work anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly if pressing some buttons to get the computer to do something you programmed it to do is a "security nightmare" I think we should probably just give up, tear down the electric grid and go back to dying of smallpox at 17 like nature intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not problematic part. The reading all my inputs is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's software on the computer that does that anyway, otherwise the keyboard won't work. Feels like an arbitrary line to draw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Keyboards send commands through drivers. There is no 3rd party software reading it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Autokey is software written by someone.

Drivers are software written by someone.

Have you vetted every line of code running on your computer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Not sure if you understand threat models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Condescend further to me. Explain it to me like I'm a woman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm sorry miss but I'm not sure if you understand threat models.