I managed to move to #AwesomeWM from #dwm, after discovering that #suckless folks are a bunch of nazis.
Also, I had some stability issues that with all the C patching were hard to debug.
I gotta say dwm's workflow and defaults are just great, though, and I HAD to replicate most of it in Awesome.
It's not a minimalistic wm, it has so many features by default but such a great documentation though.
The problem is that I'm definitely not a fan of #lua, but I'll take it over nazis anytime. #linux
@mauro hmm, I can’t say I am too surprised to learn about the Suckless team being a bunch of Neo-Nazis, though that is still disappointing. (Where did you hear about that, by the way?)
Since switching to Emacs I have lost all interest in Suckless-like tool sets which attempt to all be minimal and written in C. I started to realize that the idea of trying to write “minimal” apps in C according to the Unix philosophy which are then composed together with some amalgam of scripting languages like Bash and Lua (or Python) was something of a fool’s errand. Really if you want tools that are minimal, easy to understand, and easy to compose into new workflows, what you should be using is a programming language with a good interactive programming environment all licensed under the GPL. So Emacs Lisp and the Emacs editor, or maybe Smalltalk running the Glamorous IDE, although that one is MIT licensed.
In my experience, most Emacs folk are staunchly anti-fascist.
@ramin_hal9001 @mauro Now I remember RMS had an open Emacs session in the TTY (Trisquel's KMS framebuffer actually) and he didn't care so much.
I see Emacs as a tool to give freedoms to Unix before security. Altough I see GNU/Linux as 'handicapped' as a platform. True freedom for the users comes from Hurd, were the user can do tons of now-root-restricted-hacks tasks without issues. Mounting devices, internet connections a la FUSE...
Now I remember RMS had an open Emacs session in the TTY (Trisquel’s KMS framebuffer actually) and he didn’t care so much. I see Emacs as a tool to give freedoms to Unix before security. … True freedom for the users comes from Hurd…
@anthk yeah, I am a little wary of RMS’s, his philosophy is more libertarian than anarchist, and this is starting to be a problem for me.
Both libertarian and anarchists agree that freedom is a fundamental right, but anarchists have a much better sense of morality in that they understand that people cannot be fully be free unless they live they have full self-determination free from exploitation. Libertarians like RMS seem to be OK with free software being used by exploitative landlords and rent-seekers, OK with using free software for war and mass murder. Libertarians seem to believe that restricting freedom of criminals (e.g. war criminals) is antithetical to allowing all people equal software freedom.
Free software is not enough for me anymore: https://anticapitalist.software/
@ramin_hal9001 @anthk Stallman openly supports free healthcare, taxing the rich, and expanding the welfare state. How is that libertarian?
How is that libertarian?
@xianc78 I said Stallman is “more libertarian than anarchist,” as in leaning libertarian. I agree with him on other political issues (like the issues you just mentioned here).
I disagree with him in that we should not restrict software freedom to people who break international law, such as anyone who acts in the interests of the state of Israeli who are using some free software (along with lots of other proprietary software) to commit a genocide right now. I admit that enforcement of these rules are beyond our ability, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t at least state our intent that our software must not be used to commit mass murder.
@anthk