While I use Nix, I don’t really keep up with the community, though even I’ve started to notice fash creeping in. The guy who started the “Ekala project^[1]” has absolutely lost it based on his blog posts. In this case, the user was banned from the forums (and possibly more?) but still, it didn’t leave a good taste in my mouth. (At least one other Ekala contributor also works for Anduril.) I spent some time reading his posts in amazement because they were just such garbage.

He’s a libertarian type chud who also works for Anduril:

On a cheerful note, before we begin, I’m pleased to share that I’ve recently joined Anduril Industries; likely to the chagrin of my political adversaries. This new role offers a technical platform and workload to reengage with interesting new problems, which, I’m sure, will inform my future efforts on Ekala. If I may add, contesting State corruption doesn’t diminish my pride in contributing, however modestly, to the defense of its people, and as I hope to show by the end of this piece, it might actually be the duty of every Citizen. After all, there can be no platform to reform Corrupt Laws or States if there’s no State left to amend.^[2]

Case #2: Chud opinions on gender and “I hate my wife” posting

After pondering most of my life at the roots of modern societal woes, I can now pinpoint no issue more pivotal than this one. It underpins so much decay: from widespread debauchery and moral apathy to fiendish sexual deviancy and the largest-scale global child-trafficking networks in history. Consider, for example, the modern “battle of the sexes”; that perplexing tension between men and women fueling endless cultural wars, from #MeToo backlash to incel movements and declining birth rates. Nobody can seem to agree what lay at the root cause of all this chaos, but I’m now forced to conclude that this isn’t organic; it’s engineered by the corrupt state apparatus for profit and dominion. If you don’t believe it, I challenge you to make it to the end of this document while retaining that skepticism.

By pitting genders against each other through biased and (as shown) illegal laws that largely demonize men, reward manipulation, and extract wealth from broken families, the system ensures perpetual conflict. No sane, informed modern man would risk marriage or fatherhood in this horrific meat grinder, contributing to plummeting birth rates as families crumble and society weakens, all while the racketeers count their billions and power consolidates further and further away from the people.^[3]

Denying the existence of fascism in the first few paragraphs discussing the Anduril/NixCon fallout:

During the second Anduril sponsorship controversy in early 2024, it became clear to us that a certain subsection of the community is heavily leaning into what might be termed the myth of marginalization as a strategic device to gain special powers over others.

Simultaneously, this group, still upset about the failure of RFC 98, is using the myth of fascism combined with an abusive extension of the paradox of tolerance (originally formulated by Karl Popper with a very different intent) to portray their opponents as bad-faith actors, or even as outright evil. They themselves, of course, do everything they can to appear justified in exercising power with absolutely no accountability, and with a clear sense of their own privileged entitlement to do so.^[4][5]

I’d rather just stay away as far as possible, regardless of the technical merits of Nix. The code is open source so there’s no reason it couldn’t be forked. Now Guix has my eye as something that would actually be worth using (and perhaps contributing).