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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@zzt return to good wholesome names like GNU Lemonparty
@davidgerard
Gnu only advances the slickest environmentsFor more information, search for "goatse"
@zzt -
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
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@davidgerard Hey, so. What the fuck!
@davidgerard There are approximately infinity other things to name a release.
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@davidgerard That's the non-euphemistic way of saying it, yeah
@scy one run by a straight up out and proud white supremacist!
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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 @davidgerard how in the fuck does it keep getting worse
how in the fuck is gnu parallel of all fucking things fashtech
all I want to do is fucking run shit in parallel from my fucking shell!
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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 JFC! some idiots never grow up!
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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 is this the one with the silly citation nag baked in?
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@zzt @davidgerard
KDE media player/game launcher/etc. named Krokodil, that defaults to pulling from the dodgiest media repositories known to man@moses_izumi @davidgerard @zzt pirates your music from a sketchy Russian website run by a Russian mob boss
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@scy @davidgerard how in the fuck does it keep getting worse
how in the fuck is gnu parallel of all fucking things fashtech
all I want to do is fucking run shit in parallel from my fucking shell!
I fear it's possible the rot is deeper than parallels....
