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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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!!!
It would seem they name releases according to news: e.g. Hantavirus, Bondi, Maduro, Esptein Files, Have you said thank you, ...
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/Still, this is wild Oo... Surely they could have used something else...
Who wants to use that. Urgh @fsf
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@davidgerard FWIW not by the UK government, by a racist MP pretending to have the power and authority to have a real ‘inquiry’ on his own
@dpk 200% nazi dog whistle
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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 know what’s fucked up though
we mess around, we say shit like oh yeah can I recommend you my new editor for normal people GNU PISSFUCK and we laugh and laugh
the actual names gnu comes up with are so much worse
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They seem to name their releases according to major news headlines.
It can be... problematic.
@claudegohier if only they had any choice in what nazi dog whistle they named their release after and weren't 100% responsible for what they chose
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@ajn142 @davidgerard @aral It's notable headlines from the past month
Which, as one might imagine, tends to be reminders of whatever horrible thing happened since the last release@usernameswift @ajn142 @aral just a notable headline, they had no choice in picking the nazi dog whistle you see
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@ajn142 @usernameswift @davidgerard @aral
They seem to name their releases according to major news headlines.
@claudegohier @ajn142 @usernameswift @aral you've posted this twice in this thread. are you putting this forward as any sort of excuse
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@davidgerard you know what’s fucked up though
we mess around, we say shit like oh yeah can I recommend you my new editor for normal people GNU PISSFUCK and we laugh and laugh
the actual names gnu comes up with are so much worse
@zzt return to good wholesome names like GNU Lemonparty
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@zzt return to good wholesome names like GNU Lemonparty
@davidgerard god damn it
how dare you name my distro lemonparty
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@zzt return to good wholesome names like GNU Lemonparty
@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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@claudegohier @ajn142 @usernameswift @aral you've posted this twice in this thread. are you putting this forward as any sort of excuse
@davidgerard @ajn142 @usernameswift @aral
No, I posted once because I wondered how they picked the names, and said it was problematic.
Then I answered to someone asking the same question.
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@claudegohier if only they had any choice in what nazi dog whistle they named their release after and weren't 100% responsible for what they chose
@davidgerard @claudegohier could have been "Cold weather coming tomorrow" or "Sports victory excites populace"
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@davidgerard you know what’s fucked up though
we mess around, we say shit like oh yeah can I recommend you my new editor for normal people GNU PISSFUCK and we laugh and laugh
the actual names gnu comes up with are so much worse
@zzt @davidgerard
KDE media player/game launcher/etc. named Krokodil, that defaults to pulling from the dodgiest media repositories known to man -
@ajn142 @davidgerard @aral It's notable headlines from the past month
Which, as one might imagine, tends to be reminders of whatever horrible thing happened since the last release@usernameswift @ajn142 @davidgerard Is there a human being in the loop? I don’t know which is worse, to be honest.
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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
