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the suckless.org devs seem to like posting Nazi dogwhistles (oldbytes.space)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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[–] corbin@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're cryptofascists. Here is my favorite example; note that he replies to everybody else but not directly to me, because he is a coward.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

they seem to be particularly bad at the crypto part — their posts reek like nazi, and they use all the standard fash “debate” tactics (including ignoring anything too difficult to reply to, as you’ve pointed out)