Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[Ledian]

I wish it was more commonplace that the only people who can contribute major changes to a project have to at least work their way up to it, making minor contributions of their own and clawing their place in the community instead of walking inside and immediately making demands.
Why the fuck should I or anyone else ever listen to Joe Chucklefuck, someone who never made any contributions other than demanding we change language and add some stupid code of conduct that oh so happens to also sneak in language that they be an arbiter of its enforcement? If you haven't made at least 5 to 10 hard contributions to a project, you can fuck off.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

How much longer before GitHub changes the default branch name from ‘master’ to something else?

You fucking jinxed it:

(Friedman is the CEO of Github)

 

[Least Concern]

You can already change the default branch in GitHub, though. Create a new branch with whatever name you want, set it as the default, there you go.

I guess he just needed to play along for virtue points?

 

[Dick Justice]

Eh, I can't get that fed up about getting rid of "master/slave" anymore. If it makes people happy, call it "parent/child" or "active/passive" or whatever. It's fine. I can meet the wokerati halfway on this.

There seem to be a lot of people who think that a project dropping the word "slave" from its documentation is worth getting mad on the internet about, I guess I've got too many more important things to be stressed about nowadays.

Just don't write a wank-filled post about how doing a s/slave/dependents/g on the code base of a FOSS project few normies will ever hear of is having this monumental impact on society.

No one really cares about master/slave beyond the hassle of having to learn new terminology. The issue is every meter you give to the cultural memory holers (memory holeists? memory holeistas?) they take a mile. We've seen this thousands of times now, so many I can add LITERALLY to that.

 

[AnOminous]

- Orbiters who generally have little other to 'offer' to the project will use these 'issues' to legitimize their presence and contribution to the project, when in fact they have no other contribution to offer. The more wins these people get, the more they attract others with just as little to offer.

The guy who did it is a founding developer. Why can't he call it whatever he likes?

 

[Pee Cola]

Eh, I can't get that fed up about getting rid of "master/slave" anymore. If it makes people happy, call it "parent/child" or "active/passive" or whatever. It's fine. I can meet the wokerati halfway on this.

Yeah nah ... fuck those woketards. The terminology 'master/slave' has been in use in computing since at least the '80s, referring to one device acting as the first device on a bus, with the other being second (I'm thinking of disk drive controllers here).

These are the same kind of dumb cunts who'd be triggered over a mechanic making reference to retarding an engine's timing, despite the fact that the latter word has been used for over 100 years to describe the process of slowing engine timing down. Anyone that's ever wrenched on a car can tell you about advancing and retarding engine timing as part of a tune.

As for 'parent/child' and 'active/passive', those two terms could also be deemed problematic if one is really serious about their recreational outrage. The former could be seen as paternalistic; the latter could be seen as encouraging rape culture. Probably.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

Someone RPing as a black disabled tranny needs to submit an inflammatory PR to one of these projects, something like replacing master/slave with dom/sub or thot/simp. But you'd better do it quick, while you get the free TWOC pass.

 

[TitanWest]

You fucking jinxed it:
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(Friedman is the CEO of Github)

(((Nat Friedman)))
(((Una Kravets)))

The "Culture of Critique" does shit like this at an instinctive level.

Spoiler: I AM THEREFORE I MUST SUBVERT

 

[clownworld]

The guy who did it is a founding developer. Why can't he call it whatever he likes?

He of course can. Speaking generally about the pattern. Usually productive, capable individuals, founders and contributors, tend to focus on actually interesting and productive problems that will improve the project and provide actual vale for themselves and those around them.

Sometimes valuable contributors burn out or get caught up in this mind virus.

Essentially, if someone is capable of contributing more to a project than “this word used in this project that lacks any offensive or racist context, is in fact racist and you are all complicit, let’s codify this admission of guilt and if you challenge me on this, you will be forever marked a heretic “ they would. Someone putting energy into that kind of initiative really has lost interest in positivity moving a project forward or looking out for the contributors around them.

More often it seems to go like this: low value or totally external contributor comes in and forces a hostile suggesting onto a project. Valuable contributors or founders, knowing how high a risk and low value it is to be the one to push back on the suggestion take the position of “it’s not that big a deal to just change this one word” while failing to recognize the broader implications of the change as well as the massive power leak you just gave a to terrible group of of people and ideas.

 

[byuu]

e.g. master/slave hard drives. sorry when did hard drives have a race?

I always made sure that any IDE Samsung HDD was set as slave and Toshiba HDDs set as master.
Just like Hirohito would have wanted.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Yeah nah ... fuck those woketards. The terminology 'master/slave' has been in use in computing since at least the '80s, referring to one device acting as the first device on a bus, with the other being second (I'm thinking of disk drive controllers here).

These are the same kind of dumb cunts who'd be triggered over a mechanic making reference to retarding an engine's timing, despite the fact that the latter word has been used for over 100 years to describe the process of slowing engine timing down. Anyone that's ever wrenched on a car can tell you about advancing and retarding engine timing as part of a tune.

As for 'parent/child' and 'active/passive', those two terms could also be deemed problematic if one is really serious about their recreational outrage. The former could be seen as paternalistic; the latter could be seen as encouraging rape culture. Probably.

Master/Slave terminology has been used since way before the 80s, dipshit.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

Facebook fired an employee who criticized a coworker on Twitter for not issuing a public statement supporting Black Lives Matter on a project they worked on

The fired employee had also publicly spoken out about Mark Zuckerberg's inaction on controversial Trump posts earlier this month.

www.businessinsider.com

Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle, said on Twitter that he had asked a coworker who oversees Recoil, one of Facebook's open-source projects, to "add a #BlackLivesMatter banner" like React, another Facebook open-source project, had supposedly done.

When the coworker refused, Dail dragged them on Twitter, prompting Facebook to terminate him, he said.

 

[Least Concern]

Out of the lot of them, who would have figured it’d be Facebook showing the most spine about not forcing every goddamn thing to be woke.

 

[Mooger Meng]

Facebook fired an employee who criticized a coworker on Twitter for not issuing a public statement supporting Black Lives Matter on a project they worked on

The fired employee had also publicly spoken out about Mark Zuckerberg's inaction on controversial Trump posts earlier this month.

www.businessinsider.com

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When the Lizard King himself has better awareness than his peers, you know you've hit a high point on the roller coaster that is Clown World.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Out of the lot of them, who would have figured it’d be Facebook showing the most spine about not forcing every goddamn thing to be woke.

My theory is that it's because of who owns Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is incredibly autistic and also Jewish. His autism means he hates when people try to adulterate his corporate strategy and products, and his Jewishness means he's essentially immune to criticism from wokescolds.

 

[D.Va]

GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references
GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

The code-hosting portal is just the latest in a long line of tech companies and open source projects that have expressed support for removing terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community.

This includes dropping terms like "master" and "slave" for alternatives like "main/default/primary" and "secondary;" but also terms like "blacklist" and "whitelist" for "allow list" and "deny/exclude list."

The concern is that continued use of these racially-loaded terms could prolong racial stereotypes.

"Such terminology not only reflects racist culture, but also serves to reinforce, legitimize, and perpetuate it," wrote academics in a 2018 journal.

http://archive.md/oNv9C

 

[OwO What's This?]

calling it the master branch never made much sense to me in the first place since there's no such thing as a slave branch

 

[D.Va]

calling it the master branch never made much sense to me in the first place since there's no such thing as a slave branch

"master" in git probably comes from the idea of having a "master record" from which to make changes, and not from owning a fucking cotton plantation. But at least we'll never confuse these usages ever again!

 

[OwO What's This?]

"master" in git probably comes from the idea of having a "master record" from which to make changes, and not from owning a fucking cotton plantation. But at least we'll never confuse these usages ever again!

there's already the tree terminology (trunk/branch), master was just a default branch title

I don't like why they're changing it, but I still think it makes more sense to call it 'main', politics aside.

 

[DumbDude42]

calling it the master branch never made much sense to me in the first place since there's no such thing as a slave branch

its just a generic term that says "im in charge"
could have instead been called the boss branch, the chief branch, the main branch, the primary branch, no problem. nobody cares about the specific terminology here, what people care about is organisations cucking to internet lynch mobs