the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists.
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@davidgerard @claudegohier could have been "Cold weather coming tomorrow" or "Sports victory excites populace"
As David said, they are either dumb assholes, or Nazi assholes.
They do not care if the names offend. And it might be their goal. It made me learn about the project today.
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@davidgerard gnu keeps doing this thing where the name is really bad and then you dig in and realize it’s much much worse
@zzt @davidgerard "But we just pull our release names from random newspaper headlines…you see how our hands are tied here"
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@davidgerard @claudegohier could have been "Cold weather coming tomorrow" or "Sports victory excites populace"
@evan @davidgerard @claudegohier
Yeah, but it f'n wasn't. You have to wonder about decisions some people make.
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the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle. well done GNU
Ole Tange, the guy who named the latest version of GNU Parallels "Nazi Dogwhistle Calling Non-Whites Rapists" just happens to have worked on a tool for determining ancestry from DNA
i'm sure it's fine
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/30/20/2962/2422219
EDIT: apparently it is fine - a geneticist friend tells me that ancestry dna software like wot our friend worked on is absolutely mainstream and not a tell of anything malign
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the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle. well done GNU
@davidgerard "you see, they pick from news headlines, and it's the *only* news these days, it's not like there's a quadriennial major sporting event going on right now, or way ahead of schedule increases in solar power in multiple countries, they had no choice, I promise"
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@usernameswift @ajn142 @davidgerard Is there a human being in the loop? I don’t know which is worse, to be honest.
@aral @usernameswift @ajn142 yeah, he works on tools to determine ancestry from DNA https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116875247155386900
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@aral @usernameswift @ajn142 yeah, he works on tools to determine ancestry from DNA https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116875247155386900
@davidgerard @aral @usernameswift @ajn142 he also apparently may be some kind of advisor in a danish public professional IT advisory group: https://bsky.app/profile/prosaole.bsky.social (as found by @fasterandworse )
username under that profile has parallel-posting: https://old.reddit.com/user/prosaole/
skeeter profile pic and google scholar image match pretty closely, although aging appears to be at different epochs
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@zzt return to good wholesome names like GNU Lemonparty
@davidgerard
Gnu only advances the slickest environmentsFor more information, search for "goatse"
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Ole Tange, the guy who named the latest version of GNU Parallels "Nazi Dogwhistle Calling Non-Whites Rapists" just happens to have worked on a tool for determining ancestry from DNA
i'm sure it's fine
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/30/20/2962/2422219
EDIT: apparently it is fine - a geneticist friend tells me that ancestry dna software like wot our friend worked on is absolutely mainstream and not a tell of anything malign
@davidgerard Oh this is getting worse by the hour isn't it?
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@davidgerard Oh this is getting worse by the hour isn't it?
@kawa Tange also signed the RMS Did Nothing Wrong letter
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@kawa Tange also signed the RMS Did Nothing Wrong letter
@davidgerard Y'know what? I don't know what that is and at this point I don't want to know. For real.
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Ole Tange, the guy who named the latest version of GNU Parallels "Nazi Dogwhistle Calling Non-Whites Rapists" just happens to have worked on a tool for determining ancestry from DNA
i'm sure it's fine
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/30/20/2962/2422219
EDIT: apparently it is fine - a geneticist friend tells me that ancestry dna software like wot our friend worked on is absolutely mainstream and not a tell of anything malign
@davidgerard Bloody hell… At which point do we collectively just yeet everything that’s GNU into deep space?
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@davidgerard Bloody hell… At which point do we collectively just yeet everything that’s GNU into deep space?
@schrotthaufen when they let RMS back in
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@schrotthaufen when they let RMS back in
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the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle. well done GNU
@davidgerard It's not actually a UK Government report.
It's an independent thing primarily done / pushed by one very right wing UK MP.
Said MPs policies are rather concerning.
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the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle. well done GNU
@davidgerard Hey, so. What the fuck!
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the new gnu parallel release name does not just have a rape joke in it, it's literally the name of a racist report by one far-right UK MP calling non-whites rapists. it's a straight up Nazi dog whistle. well done GNU
@davidgerard It's also telling that the download location named in the release announcement is not the GNU website, but a libertarian blockchain.
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@davidgerard It's not actually a UK Government report.
It's an independent thing primarily done / pushed by one very right wing UK MP.
Said MPs policies are rather concerning.
@Ryanteck corrected
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@davidgerard It's also telling that the download location named in the release announcement is not the GNU website, but a libertarian blockchain.
@scy a nazi video site
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@scy a nazi video site
@davidgerard That's the non-euphemistic way of saying it, yeah
