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

[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.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

That's old news.

[thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world]

You what the master terminology comes from? Master and slave. USB devices do this day use this terminology master device and slave device. There’s no reason to be perpetuating the terms sever and client work fine. Main branch also works fine.

[splashjackson@lemmy.ca]

Main branch sounds like it's pro-tree and therefore anti-mushroom! Get him, everyone!!!!

[mountingsuspicion@reddthat.com]

But, it is unlike that. Companies were changing the name of an existing feature to be more inclusive. Trump is more REMOVING data sets or data fields entirely. It's not renaming "gender" to "sex" because they believe there is no difference, it's completely removing climate change information from websites.

[theoctonaut@mander.xyz]

Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven't all stopped saying "remaster" or "masterpiece".

As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It's Gulf of America stuff, but for the 'good guys'.