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I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations.

I beg you, please keep writing banger posts like fireborn’s I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back series and their interluding post. We need more people with disabilities to keep reminding developers that you exist and your conditions and disabilities are a spectrum and not absolute.

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

metux is Enrico Weigelt, the dev behind Xlibre, the new fork of X11. He's quite controversial, partly due to claiming to want to keep politics out of development by filling his posts with alt-right dog whistles, as well as being an antivaxer and having some... er... revisionist views of history.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 6 points 1 week ago

Ah, so worse. Cool.

In my experience, devs who want to "keep politics out of it," typically don't want their politics challenged.