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.

[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

[chaoddity@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard what is "gnu parallels". I know what gnu is. Dont know what this is tho.

[claudi@darmstadt.social]

@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.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@davidgerard @usernameswift @ajn142 Bloody hell.