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Michael Larabel over at Phoronix brings us news of a stealth Social Justice coup over at FreeDesktop.org:
X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct.
The Contributor Covenant for those unfamiliar with it is trying to promote a code of conduct for open-source projects that is trying to promote diversity and equality of contributors to libre software projects. From the covenant's website, "Part of this problem [of "free, libre, and open source projects suffer from a startling lack of diversity, with dramatically low representation by women, people of color, and other marginalized populations"] lies with the very structure of some projects: the use of insensitive language, thoughtless use of pronouns, assumptions of gender, and even sexualized or culturally insensitive names."
The covenant states in part that those contributing should use welcoming and inclusive language, be respectful to others, showing empathy towards others, avoid insulting comments, and avoid inappropriate conduct. For the most part, it's basically common sense.
Now it seems this Contributor Covenant is being forced onto all FreeDesktop.org-hosted projects.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:54AM (4 children)
But I posted essentially this earlier: They can suck their CoC, and Xorg and company should be forked, because they've spent quite a while messing up features of Xorg while at the same time pushing how much better wayland is (even when lacking features considered necessary before it can replace X11.)
Given some of the other questionable projects Xorg has been pushing (dbus integration? libinput?) I would daresay it is long past time to fork FDO/X.org, much like xfree86 was forked before it, and start focusing on what's required to bring X11 into the future. Notably splitting it into a legacy server (for keeping support for pre-KMS display drivers.) and a 'future' server, focused on kms/framebuffer based display technologies with all the legacy cruft removed, and protocol specific acceleration/compatibility added back on top of that design as needed for keeping old software running. Along with this, the security complaints made about allowing out of focus apps snarf input device events should be handled, perhaps with an extension passing it to either the WM, or an 'input device compositor' which can act as a sort of firewall application for who input events should be passed to and under what conditions. It is not like the X protocol itself REQUIRES the other behavior to happen, it's just that nobody bothered to examine the behavior as implemented and compared it to the behavior as intended.
Besides that, the GPU performance losses have mostly been mitigated by the fact that everything just dumps to a framebuffer nowadays, making the performance loss due to X11 protocol overhead miniscule in comparison to other layers of abstraction. If it was good enough for a 68k/386/SPARCv7, it is good enough for our multi-ghz current gen hardware. And if it ISN'T fast enough, should you really be using a GUI for whatever your application is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @12:12PM (2 children)
Saw it dude. My concerns here are not so much the code, simply the relentless march of the marxist thought crime brigade and their offensive doublethink.
Seems innocuous enough?
The truth is that identity politics is narcissism. An individual who bases their entire personality around their race, gender or sexuality will deem every criticism a personal attack and play the victim card. Worse, they themselves are usually intolerant bullies with fragile egos that they protect by projecting blame onto those they are attacking. Let's have some recent IRL examples:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:46PM (1 child)
Unbeatable.. Crazy SJW triggered [youtube.com] ;-)
The truth is that identity politics is narcissism. An individual who bases their entire personality around their race, gender or sexuality will deem every criticism a personal attack and play the victim card. Worse, they themselves are usually intolerant bullies with fragile egos that they protect by projecting blame onto those they are attacking.
They use their own identity as a attack vector. Instead of basing their value on what they do, it's what they are which is usually quite irrelevant. At least in STEM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:11PM
Ha, No shortage of these bigots. [youtube.com] They're neo-puritans and even more obnoxious and deluded than the conservative Christian groups who used to crusade against pop music, movies and video games.
It's irrelevant in the personal context in which they attempt use it, but not, as Bill Maher points out [youtube.com] in the grand scheme of things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:58PM
Xpra already enhances the security when combined with firejail. Now all those attacks "because we can read the socket" are useless. Demostration that the protocol only requires people to use the brain to improve or completly fix the situation.