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 It's not just in Debian, it's part of the moreutils package, which is available in many distros/repos.
@ilmari @davidgerard moreutils, of sponge(1) fame? that moreutils? Wow I hardly even considered it would have other tools, which seems silly in retrospect. But really sponge is both indispensable and a scathing indictment of the whole concept of bash pipes.
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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
Holy fuck.
I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a version. There is no universe in which it makes any sense even for an awful racist piece of shit.
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good news, instead of GNU Parallel, use the Debian replacement
https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/moreutils/parallel.1.en.html
by Tollef Fog Heen as part of Joey Hess's moreutils
also doesn't nag you to cite it in the research you're not doing
also not distributed primarily via LBRY, the video site on the blockchain run by the out and proud white supremacist
ht @ilmari
It took me awhile to find the actual release name in question: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/
Wow that's actually a lot worse than I was expecting. And the release names going back for as long as I checked were basically as bad
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It took me awhile to find the actual release name in question: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/
Wow that's actually a lot worse than I was expecting. And the release names going back for as long as I checked were basically as bad
@samzvr @davidgerard @ilmari wow... right wing media events?? Who is this person??
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@nickzoic @ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard and curly braces!
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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 I simply can't imagine a real human typing in that name and thinking it was fine to use. Absolute insanity.
I know an alternative to gnu parallel exists, but maybe making another would be a good exercise
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@davidgerard @zzt need a new gnu by and for freaks [laudatory] instead of by freaks [derogatory]. no more "oh we named it after a dogwhistle", only "oh we named this after something my polycule did in the hotel rooms last Anthrocon".
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@EndlessMason @zzt @nickzoic @ilmari @scy oh god
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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 what is "gnu parallels". I know what gnu is. Dont know what this is tho.
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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 While I think you’re absolutely right in calling this out, they have named releases Manning, Floyd and Friday for Future, too. Which one might count against the extremism/dog whistling theory. I’d assume good faith and tone deafness.
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@aral @usernameswift @ajn142 yeah, he works on tools to determine ancestry from DNA https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116875247155386900
@davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 Bloody hell.
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@davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 Bloody hell.
@aral @davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 what the hell? really horrible thing to wake up to today
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@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
@froztbyte @davidgerard @aral @usernameswift @ajn142 @fasterandworse
He is @prosaole here. He works for 'Prosa' - one of the bigger IT-specific employee unions in Denmark and has done for like more than a decade.
It is 15years since I worked with him, but maybe he changed over the years; I'm at least a bit surprised. I also think it is a decade since I last met him.
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@froztbyte @davidgerard @aral @usernameswift @ajn142 @fasterandworse
He is @prosaole here. He works for 'Prosa' - one of the bigger IT-specific employee unions in Denmark and has done for like more than a decade.
It is 15years since I worked with him, but maybe he changed over the years; I'm at least a bit surprised. I also think it is a decade since I last met him.
@svuorela @froztbyte @davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 @fasterandworse So, @prosaole, what the fuck, dude?
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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
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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 I initially thought it would be something similar to the Epstein files, so shocked to learn this is actually from nazis. I asked about it on the FSF member forum.
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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 WTF. Who the hell thought this could be even vaguely appropriate? Also, when K8S 1.30 was released codename "uwubernetes" there was a public uproar, while I found about this from your post...
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@froztbyte @davidgerard @aral @usernameswift @ajn142 @fasterandworse
He is @prosaole here. He works for 'Prosa' - one of the bigger IT-specific employee unions in Denmark and has done for like more than a decade.
It is 15years since I worked with him, but maybe he changed over the years; I'm at least a bit surprised. I also think it is a decade since I last met him.
@svuorela ah ty, I read their about page and seem to have parsed the org the wrong way
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@svuorela @froztbyte @davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 @fasterandworse So, @prosaole, what the fuck, dude?
@aral @svuorela @davidgerard @prosaole
Did you read https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/20th-birthday.html
> Each version also carries a code name. The name is inspired by current events. https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=parallel
The list includes Mamdani, Støjberg, Al-Aqsa Deluge, Arrest Warrant, Aylan Kurdi, Friday for Future, Boko Haram, Bataclan, Roe vs Wade.
In other words, events that received international attention that month, without me taking a position on them.
I believe this month's name also lives up to that standard.
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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 just because it's mainstream doesn't mean it can't be based in white supremacy (especially in situations like this where an obvious white supremacist was involved). White supremacy is about as mainstream as it gets
