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posted by martyb on Thursday September 05 2019, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the blacklisting-"blacklist" dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft's adoption of the Google-developed Chromium browser engine for Edge has resulted in a proposal to cleanse the open-source code of "potentially offensive terms."

Issue 981129 in the Chromium bug log lists a suggestion by Microsoft to “cleanup of potentially offensive terms in codebase” aims to rid the software blueprints of language such as whitelist (change to allowlist), blacklist (change to blocklist), “offensive terms using ‘wtf’ as protocol messages,” and other infelicities.

This bug report was raised by a Microsoft contributor, who stated: “We are just sharing a subset of what PoliCheck scanned for us,” Policheck being “a machine-learned model that another team manages that does context based scanning on hundreds of file formats.”

Googler Rick Byers, a Chromium engineer, gave the issue a cautious welcome, saying: "This sounds like a good strategy to me, thanks for doing this! We certainly have never intended for anything in the codebase to be potentially offensive, but I'm also not aware of anyone making an effort to find them all." He added:

I don't expect Chrome teams to necessarily make these bugs a priority (we haven't seen this pose a problem for us in practice as far as I know), but if cleaning this up is valuable for Microsoft (or any another Chromium contributor) then we should have no trouble getting the necessary code reviews (at least in the platform code). And yeah there are folks who look for GoodFirstBug and may want to pick up some easy commits.

Although changing comments or variable names in the source code is generally invisible to the user, this kind of revision can be problematic if it wrecks things like names in preferences and policies.


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  • (Score: 2) by cellocgw on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:42PM (11 children)

    by cellocgw (4190) on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:42PM (#889992)

    What are we going to name the two colors in chess?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by KritonK on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:50PM

    by KritonK (465) on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:50PM (#889997)

    Light and less light. ("Dark" is a no-no.)

  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:02PM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:02PM (#890002)

    Aladeen.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:06PM (#890004)

    Green and purple

    • (Score: 2) by GeminiDomino on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:38AM

      by GeminiDomino (661) on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:38AM (#890795)

      Commander Ivanova? Is that you?

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:02PM (5 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:02PM (#890052) Journal

    Chess is the epitome of the POLITICALLY INCORRECT INSUFFICIENTLY ILLUMINATED AGES, you should stop even thinking about it.

    RACISM: Identical pieces are distributed and moved according to their color, and THE HORROR, white always moves first, black last.
    MILITARISM: The game is about forcing the opposite king to capitulate, which reminds us of
    SEXISM: The queen counts nothing in terms of winning or losing the game, and it roams around everywhere, while the king barely moves.
    CLASSISM: Pieces have restricted movement depending on class.
    RELIGIOUS INGERENCE: 4 BISHOPS for a handful of pieces, equally distributed, they cannot lose.

    The Monster who invented this "game" should be drawn and quartered.

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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:22PM (1 child)

      by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:22PM (#890062)

      SEXISM: The queen counts nothing in terms of winning or losing the game, and it roams around everywhere, while the king barely moves.

      I mean, this kind of cuts both ways: the queen is also generally the most flexible and powerful piece for attacking your opponent.

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      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:39PM

        by Bot (3902) on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:39PM (#890073) Journal

        Implying the female is more toxic? Wew lad you won't last long in the unicorns and rainbows government.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Nuke on Thursday September 05 2019, @04:25PM (2 children)

      by Nuke (3162) on Thursday September 05 2019, @04:25PM (#890104)

      You forgot the HOMOPHOBIA ingrained in chess. The pawns are gay because if they reach the far side they become kweens, Meanwhile they are treated as expendible, and between games they can be used as butt plugs.

      Yellow people are unrepresented in chess, as are Indians (both brown and "red" ones). We need chess to be played on at least a pentagonal board to represent all the main races, and have an area in the centre for LGBT pieces in rainbow colours. No pieces are allowed to be taken because that is violence, unless they are white ones of course.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @08:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @08:26PM (#890229)

        Yellow people are unrepresented in chess, as are Indians (both brown and "red" ones). We need chess to be played on at least a pentagonal board to represent all the main races, and have an area in the centre for LGBT pieces in rainbow colours.

        I think you just unintentionally created Chinese checkers.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 05 2019, @08:28PM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday September 05 2019, @08:28PM (#890233) Journal

        Pawns can also become knights.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday September 05 2019, @10:04PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday September 05 2019, @10:04PM (#890266) Journal

    I guess the sides in Chess, Checkers, or Go could be called "1P" and "2P" after the video game terminology that emerged in the 1980s.