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

[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'.

[nabdad@lemmy.world]

To be fair, when the poem was written we were getting our asses kicked and survival was not assured.

If you look at the events of the moment, the significant part is the "not getting killed" part.

If things had gone differently, we could all be speaking English today!

[refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org]

for f in $(find .); do sed -i 's/wokeness//g' $f; done

[p1nkman@lemmy.world]

Since people can drown in water, we must ban water!

[callouscomic@lemm.ee]

To be fair, it wasn't even adopted as the national anthem until 1931in the middle of decades of nationalism, and hateful "patriotism" designed to force a very specific image of America that is NOT inclusive to others.

Today there are far too many morons who think so many of these oppressive things were instituted by the founders and therefore it should remain as is forever. The same assholes who think some past heyday was "better" than today.

It's up there with the pledge of allegiance, in god we trust, and various statues and shit.

Fuck these people.

[towerful@programming.dev]

I don't think the argument is worth having.

Only thing I will say is that the audio world has no common meaning for a slave.
Programming does.

[aatube@kbin.melroy.org]

The server does not necessarily control the client though. Looking at the list of alternatives, I like boss/controller–worker the most.

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

Someone smart tell me how to take advantage of this to make the IRS forget I exist.

[ogler@lemmynsfw.com]

change your name to Diversity E. Inclusion

[peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world]

What a waste of human endeavor.

[elros@lemmy.world]

I am too. And I can't help thinking I'm in some dystopian society.

[weker01@sh.itjust.works]

This will break if the filename has spaces in it iirc.

[evil_shrubbery@lemm.ee]

*how to make IRS forgetn't to tax the rich

[_carmin@lemm.ee]

Witch sistahs, what are we gonna do!! Im literally shaking uncontrollably, my transphibian body is levitating.

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

Most of these pages probably don't change for years. And maybe not explicitly "revert"ing the change, but they'd know where to go back and find the text used for DEI stuff.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

The author got backstabbed and almost killed by Stalinists, who turned on them instead of fighting the fascists.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Some parts of some DEI initiatives were dumb during the BLM protests, therefore we must do digital nazi bookburnings.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

They usually don't care, they just claim some imaginary East-Asian country banned any kind of self-expression to the point all people are wearing the same clothes, which made crime disappear over night or some similar bullshit. They want to claim humans are not different by nature.

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

It'd take extra effort to remove the Git diff history, and I don't think higher ups would know or the lower downs would care, lol

[mattgolsen@lemmy.ml]

Don't worry, they're working on the IRS too. I saw an anecdote where the Elongated Muskrat said he deleted E-file.