I'm pretty ignorant beyond they're software devs who write stuff I like. I understand if you don't want to bring up their politics here and potentially ruin this thread too, but if it can be done tastefully I'd be curious about their politics.
I would like to see this thread stay true to Suckless itself (for a change).
- One dude once blamed post-WWI treatment of Germany for the rise in nationalism that led to Hitler
- They once hiked using torches instead of flashlights. Only they're German so this was near Nuremberg.
- They named a mail server "Wolf's Lair." Only they're German so this was in German.
Is there a public record anywhere of any of them defending the Holocaust or making anti-Semitic statements?
A single developer associated with suckles has a private machine with the "wolfsschanze" hostname. This is a big difference with "suckless has a mail server named wolfsschanze".
Laslo is the first chair of the board, not just "a single developer".
Obviously, you still have to interpret that yourself, but these are the facts about the people behind suckless.
Which site is that?
And?
> they send emails through relays with hostnames like "Wolfsschanze"
A single developer has a private machine named this. There is no plural "they" here.
> devs with official suckless flair post on [website that's basically a clone of HN] complaining about "cultural marxism".
I believe the flair is kind of "sticky" on Lobsters, so that's probably more of an accident than anything else. Regardless, it's a single developer voicing their personal opinion (the same as the one with the "Wolfsschanze" hostname) and there is no plural "they" here either.
Plus, "Vaguely right-wing" or even "extreme right-wing" is not identical to "Nazi".
There is no single person who can speak "for" suckless in the same way some rep can speak "for" Microsoft or Y Combinator or whatnot, so that description doesn't really apply in the first place.