GDPR is regarding personal data, which includes cookies as well as any other fingerprinting. Even though browser fingerprinting does not persist any data on a device itself, explicit consent must be gathered before it’s used for processing (i.e. tracking) purposes.

What’s more surprising to me, it seems to me that actual human users are also posting on that forum.

Wayfire is a Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire