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.

[lunemercove@eldritch.cafe]

@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".

[claudegohier@mastodon.xyz]

@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.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@davidgerard @claudegohier could have been "Cold weather coming tomorrow" or "Sports victory excites populace"

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@zzt @davidgerard
KDE media player/game launcher/etc. named Krokodil, that defaults to pulling from the dodgiest media repositories known to man

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@usernameswift @ajn142 @davidgerard Is there a human being in the loop? I don’t know which is worse, to be honest.

[claudegohier@mastodon.xyz]

@evan @davidgerard

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.

[angry_drunk@union.place]

@zzt @davidgerard "But we just pull our release names from random newspaper headlines…you see how our hands are tied here"

[hatemainstreetsm@mastodon.social]

@evan @davidgerard @claudegohier

Yeah, but it f'n wasn't. You have to wonder about decisions some people make.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

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

[kiloku@burnthis.town]

@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"

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@aral @usernameswift @ajn142 yeah, he works on tools to determine ancestry from DNA https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116875247155386900

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@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

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@davidgerard
Gnu only advances the slickest environments

For more information, search for "goatse"
@zzt

[kawa@mas.to]

@davidgerard Oh this is getting worse by the hour isn't it?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@kawa Tange also signed the RMS Did Nothing Wrong letter

[kawa@mas.to]

@davidgerard Y'know what? I don't know what that is and at this point I don't want to know. For real.

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Bloody hell… At which point do we collectively just yeet everything that’s GNU into deep space?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@schrotthaufen when they let RMS back in

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard

[ryanteck@fosstodon.org]

@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.