• Nima@leminal.space
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      maybe I’m not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to “can we not do this here in the github please”

      and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about “dehumanization” over it.

      …why is this such a huge deal exactly?

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        Absolutely nothing. The fact that they had to bring up a totally irrelevant 3 year old issue during an event that is supposed to be celebrated tells you a lot. They have been blatantly brigading various communities just for attention, and probably to get the dev cancelled or something. Even this post, the privacy community does not need this whole chain of replies. And yet, they overshadow every legit discussion with this bullshit unprompted.

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          so I don’t understand. why are all these comments yelling the same stuff? did they just decide to harass this one guy for saying “take it somewhere else, please”?

          I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said. I’m finding nothing but a dude working on a browser.

          this kind of behavior scares me greatly. I know individuals who have been victims of real transphobia. this seems to be a simple language difference. and I think targeting this guy is a mistake.

          Flooding and being loud doesn’t make them right. it just means they’re loud.

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            I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said

            They use the “silence is violence” trope to harass and terrorize projects, hiding behind their “protected status” as a transgender. Whenever someone rejects anything that calls for “greater inclusion”, they go nuclear and tell all their friends to do the same. The bullied becomes the bully. It’s very childish. It’s always people that never contribute any meaningful code as well.

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              edit omg I’m sorry I was replying to the wrong comment. they got me fucked up. lol

              I’m with you. i see this a lot in the lgbt community and nobody calls them out on it.

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          Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

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            he hasn’t gone out of his way. he just thinks its irrelevant to make a report about it. and he is correct. thats not what github report is for.

            these commenters are hitting this guy for something so small it’s not worth getting angry over.

            they’re calling this guy a transphobe for saying “please take this somewhere else. this is not the appropriate place” nothing about that is malicious or transphobic. at all.

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              They didn’t make a “report”, I think the word you’re looking for is “issue”. What they did was open a “pull request” that got rejected. So more of a “hey I made a small change to make everything more inclusive that will not affect you in any way” and the dev said “please don’t be political here”.

              The person suggesting the change wasn’t being political but the dev was by rejecting the change

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              Yup, the other side is pretty counterproductive with saying the project is dehumanizing etc. They’re absurdly exaggerating.

              It wasn’t just a report tho, it’s a PR that could’ve been merged with a single click

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                I hope this guy has himself a nice whiskey and a break. and I hope the commenters find some other fixation soon.

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                I agree with that, I read the comments and I agree about exaggeration. At the same time it is not something political to just adjust the documentation to use gender neutral terms as it is a professional thing to do. Where would be the place to discuss it considering that the only way to modify the code is from GitHub and PR?

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              “us/them” mentality doesn’t help much. this is surely a great fuss for a 3 year old pr but you’re misrepresenting the situation:

              • serenityOS (and consequently ladybird) has rather strict rules about wording documentation: they enforce language style and even date formats
              • that wasn’t a report, but a PR: rather than pressing ~50 keys on your keyboard and then a “lock” button he could have just pressed the “merge” button and integrated those ~10 total characters changes
              • github issues are routinely used to fix wording: documentation often lives on git and it’s useful to have it version controlled, even plain documents without attached source are kept on git so that their edit history is accessible and manageable

              folks are making a big fuss but Andreas really set himself up: just say sorry and change 4 words, such a weird horse to die on

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            Don’t use it I guess. At the end of the day not everyone shares the same views. Also it probably didn’t want the Github issue to blow up.

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        Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

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        Changing “he” to “they” isn’t a political change, or shouldn’t be if you’re not a fucking shithead

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      Maybe I’m dumb, but I completely do not understand what the dev did to upset people.

      I read the thread and I’m confused about it.