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Is "metux" a distro, or a bad pun on "Me Too?"
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What?
Sorry, one of the hyperlinks in the article ("pretending to be oblivious") linked to a toot that was preceded by this toot which says:
Emphasis mine
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.
Ah, so worse. Cool.
In my experience, devs who want to "keep politics out of it," typically don't want their politics challenged.