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.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

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

[zzt@mas.to]

@nickzoic @ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard and curly braces!

[checkmite@indieweb.social]

@davidgerard @ilmari My days of appreciating Debian are coming to a middle.

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard It's not just in Debian, it's part of the moreutils package, which is available in many distros/repos.

[draeath@infosec.exchange]

@froztbyte @davidgerard oh, dammit. It's so useful

Why can't we have nice things?

[felipe@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard @ilmari not a 17k line perl script either!

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@ilmari joey hess being right again

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@draeath @froztbyte get moreutils, it's got a better "parallel"

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@davidgerard oh god I searched it to find out what could be getting this much attention and it was so much worse than I could have imagined. WHY.

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

@gildilinie @davidgerard So, I read this and—I swear to you—thought to myself “I do not understand these words in this order”

But I *did* understand because it really is that and I just… I’m sad and tired.

[ilmari@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard tollef wrote it, joey just included it in his bag of tricks.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@ilmari coooorected

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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.

[resuna@ohai.social]

@davidgerard

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.

[samzvr@tech.lgbt]

@davidgerard @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

[jbrownesq@mastodon.social]

@samzvr @davidgerard @ilmari wow... right wing media events?? Who is this person??

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@zzt @nickzoic @ilmari @Bredroll @scy @davidgerard@circumstances.run
It is a large perl program.

[tarix29@tech.lgbt]

@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

[ophis@brain.worm.pink]

@lunemercove @davidgerard @zzt ok but be careful or wizards of the coast might sue

[bredroll@mas.to]

@EndlessMason @zzt @nickzoic @ilmari @scy oh god