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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    152·
    5 months ago

    Yeah, this is the wrong place to post this. It’s tangential at best to technology as whole.

    That being said, it is an important issue, and I would suggest posting it in the places another user suggested.

    I have a whole mini diatribe about formal english vs colloquial and how formal will eventually catch up on this matter, but this isn’t the C/ for it. So holla at me if/when you post it elsewhere and you’re interested in that take.

      • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
        8·
        5 months ago

        Here is my explanation:

        Situation: User asks for gender inclusive language reasoning not everyone is male. Dev responds saying that the user is trying to advertise their personal politics in the project pull-request, suggesting that by personal politics they mean “inclusive pronouns”.

        Reason it is transphobic: Note the Dev does not mention cis women, they dont mention women at all (but it isn’t like women are accused of pushing an agenda related to inclusive language). It is heavily implied to be trans people because of the dogwhistle language. Trans people are the main targets who are accused by others of pushing an agenda when it relates to personal pronouns. At the very least it is male-centric, which apparently from the context of the PR was making some contributors uncomfortable. If the Dev had said, “I got other more important stuff to do, someone edit the text and request a merge”, no one would be talking about it. It was his immediate 0 to 100 response accusing the user of pushing a political agenda. They dont need to say the words “I am transphobic” to say something transphobic.

          • tb_@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 months ago

            Note that the anon user is able to become root without password by default, as a development convenience.
            (-) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and he will no longer be able to run /bin/su.
            (+) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and they will no longer be able to run /bin/su.

            “It” does seem like the way to go here, as it is referring to a built-in “anon” user account (best as I can tell).

          • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
            1·
            5 months ago

            It seems more nuanced than that. Reading over the pull request I saw that brought up, but the “they” was referring to a developer receiving a feedback from the application in some way.

      • viking@infosec.pub
        42·
        5 months ago

        They can, do, and will keep doing so. Damaging projects and efforts in the process.