‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

[tja@sh.itjust.works]

The people that are discussing it are exposing it and showing what is happening. And the tools provided by GitHub are helping.

So your original comment was celebrating Microsoft?

[nevemsenki@lemmy.world]

This level of pettiness could be funny if it wasn't in control of thr world's largest army and nuclear arsenal.

[maeve@kbin.earth]

Maybe, I'll reread, I've something to do shortly that will take most of my day but I'll come back tonight to this. Thank you

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

Does anyone have a list of words that the new administration is now allowing that the previous administration had blocked?

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

To add, GitHub is actually a great place to be making these changes, because with GitHub you retain history of the edits and prior versions. So after Trump changes his mind or loses power, the missing information can be brought back in fairly easily. Nothing is permanently lost.

[elros@lemmy.world]

Looking for an advanced copy of the Newspeak Dictionary?

[dudedudenson@lemmings.world]

It's not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they're not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

No, I'm curious to know which words or phrases the last administration wasn't allowing. My guess is that there isn't such a list.

[saleh@feddit.org]

I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.

# Adjust text color to very very dark grey

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

I recently took a critical eye to the lyrics of the USA national anthem and was surprised to realize that it's basically about killing people all night long and not getting killed yourself.

[sreudianflip@sh.itjust.works]

I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

[0x0@programming.dev]

Same with the master branch.

[0x0@programming.dev]

Missing information being brought back?
Assuming they don't destroy backups.
Assuming there are backups.

[0x0@programming.dev]

The irony that the author was red scared... all this authoritarianism... certainly Trump's a commie.

[0x0@programming.dev]

Let's hope that jarheads have some common sense.

Wasn't there some top brass saying during first term that it's not that clear-cut "obey bitch" if Mango Mussolini says "fire"?

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

I think you're missing the point - Democrats failed to pass UBI and M4A because they love the genocides.

[railcar8095@lemm.ee]

Revert a 4 year old commit without dealing with conflict hell? I sure wish them luck

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Just call it the zero color wink wink

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Internals of state structures being mandated some terminology is not really a violation of free speech.

In theory there are two approaches to discrimination - the neutral and the compensatory. The neutral one is that eventually discrimination will dissolve if the structure is built truly neutrally. The compensatory one is to detect kinds of discrimination and compensate for them specifically. I can imagine both the former and the latter feeling nicer in theory. The former - well, no special cases, just prevent the structure itself from reinforcing injustice. The latter - well, everything in life is a special case, you'll never have a perfect structure, so it's better to work with what you have.

It's like different kinds of interference in radio, requiring different solutions. In fact they are not contradictory and both have their place in a working system (I haven't heard of such).

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

The author was that after getting a look at how Stalin's USSR worked.

I think we can agree that even a marxist-themed totalitarianism in an English-speaking country is extremely unlikely to be Stalinist, thus similar to 1984.