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posted by martyb on Wednesday June 10 2020, @01:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the setting-a-breakpoint-so-humans-can-try-to-debug-a-code-(of-conduct) dept.

FreeBSD has announced a new LLVM-derived code of conduct.

According to a 2018 survey "35% were dissatisfied with the code of conduct adopted in 2018, 34% were neutral, and 30% were satisfied." So, they held another survey at the start start of June:

Which code of conduct should FreeBSD adopt?

Retain the current code of conduct:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200108075747/https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html

RESULTS

  • 4% favoured keeping the current code of conduct
  • 33% favoured the Go-derived code of conduct
  • 63% favoured the LLVM-derived code of conduct.

Thus, the Core Team, following the preference of a majority of active
FreeBSD developers, adopted the LLVM-derived code of conduct.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by meustrus on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:46PM (42 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:46PM (#1005815)

    Can you explain to me what the police and BLM have to do with BSD engineering? Any such discussions in the development communication channels, including issues, pull requests, IRC, code comments, and commit messages, are irrelevant and likely to distract from the quality of the engineering.

    It sounds to me like you're the one who wants to enforce politics on everyone.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:01PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:01PM (#1005822) Journal

    If an engineering group needs a CoC, then the problems may already be too big to fix. Maybe.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:57PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:57PM (#1005941)

      Huge societal problems don't prevent good engineering.

      Proof: existence of good engineering in this world.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:51PM (1 child)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:51PM (#1006280) Journal

        Disagree.

        Proof.

        Huge societal problems cause Codes of Conduct.

        Codes of Conduct prevent good engineering.

        Thus.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:55PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:55PM (#1006344)

          Good. Now all you have to have are facts that back them up. Oops, fail.

  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:22PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:22PM (#1005831)

    You are correct.
    It all has nothing to do with engineering which is my point.
    However, the CoC enforcers have repeatedly shown that any opinions that don't match their hard Left political opinions no matter where expressed will get you "cancelled." Recall Mozilla and their former CEO Brendan Eich who was fired once it was discovered he spent his own money to exercise his political rights to donate to a group that was against the gay marriage referendum in California. Oh, he wasn't kicked out based on a CoC, you'll say. But he would be under FreeBSD's CoC, no doubt using the same logic Mozilla used. But I don't support that political position, you say, so he ought to be punished. That is not inclusion. That is mandating that only your viewpoint is allowed. This is just further politicization and intrusion of the Left in a place that used to (maybe a decade ago) not be under their thumb.

    How on earth did engineering organizations get along CoC free before?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by meustrus on Wednesday June 10 2020, @04:43PM (1 child)

      by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @04:43PM (#1005864)

      Oh, he wasn't kicked out based on a CoC, you'll say. But he would be under FreeBSD's CoC, no doubt using the same logic Mozilla used.

      The logic Mozilla used is that their former CEO's political leanings was a bad look for the company. He was a prominent representative of the company, and they decided that their market would punish the company for the politics of its representative.

      Not saying it's impossible for a lowly coder to be kicked out for the same politics. It's possible, though unlikely, for a prominent enough coder to create a similar PR problem. I don't think it would be covered by CoC, though, since everything is outside of development communication channels.

      But I don't support that political position, you say, so he ought to be punished.

      I can't speak for everyone, but I personally don't believe people ought to be punished for their beliefs. Punished for creating unnecessary arguments about politics in development communication channels, absolutely. But not for anything a person believes or says outside the project. Up to and including allowing contributions from convicted serial killers, as long as they aren't going around talking about the importance of culling the weak or whatever batshit craziness they believe.

      How on earth did engineering organizations get along CoC free before?

      Well, the assholes brought their asshole ideology to the project, and anybody that didn't like it left. Not a whole lot of people like it, though, so the project would then belong solely to the assholes.

      This could work for a project with solid requirements. Throw it over the fence, get back good code. But it doesn't work so well when you have to communicate with users. Nobody wants to deal with the assholes. It's a great way for a project to die in obscurity.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:58PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:58PM (#1007751)

        He hadn't merely donated to anti-Gay Marriage. He'd donated enough that it had to be reported as a political contribution (I forget if it was 1k or 10k, but it was a LOT OF MONEY), which is what lead to the internal politicking when it came out. This wasn't merely having a differing opinion, this was paying a donation sufficient to pay any of their developers for 2-3 months, and was about to increase his salary into the 6 figures. Mozilla's pay scales are insane for middle and upper management compared to the people actually producing the code. And if we want to talk about HIS code contributions: Javascript. If that isn't reason enough to fire him, I don't know what is!)

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:38PM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:38PM (#1005893) Homepage Journal

      How on earth did engineering organizations get along CoC free before?

      Straight males generally don't go out looking for CoC, so they got on just fine.

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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:08PM (#1005910)

        Whooosh!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:49PM (#1005987)

        How would you know?? Judging by your penis obsession there is a bit to unpack there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:45PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:45PM (#1006010)

      the CoC enforcers have repeatedly shown

      To whom, *exactly*, are you referring?

      And "Radical Leftists" or "Pink-haired SJWs" are not exact answers.

      Names please. With links to the *specific* statements which informs your assessment of *those specific individuals*.

      I'm not playing gotcha with you here either. Provide references to specific individuals and their involvement in specific acts of intolerance/censorship/general malicious jackassery and I will happily condemn those pieces of shit for what they are.

      Please. Do tell.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:25AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @12:25AM (#1006079)

        Disingenuous. Look at the cases of David Bucci [prcg.com] or Alex Holowka. [nichegamer.com] From Brendan Eich through the guys fired for making a private dongle joke at a Python conference, the wordpress developer dumped for having a sex fetish, James Damore and recently the New York Times editor. All out of a job for violating the "safe space" of narcissists.

        How many examples do you need? Just as with #MeToo [detroitnews.com] people have wised up. In the UK they even made "unfriendliness" [barristermagazine.com] a "non crime hate crime" [lbcnews.co.uk] so you'd not be able to tell crazies to get lost despite having freedom of association and the fact a large number of so called "hate crimes" are hoaxes. [usatoday.com] Nobody here can be unaware of such events and nobody should support empowering sociopaths to play victim and bully people.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:42PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:42PM (#1006327)

          And what do any of those folks or issues have to do with, *in your words* "CoC Enforcers"?

          You moved the goalposts. Why would you do that? ISTR there are a number of folks that have created controversy WRT FOSS codes of conduct, yet you don't mention any of those folks.

          Rather, you bring up several things that are completely unrelated to FOSS, or to Codes of Conduct.

          Is that a reading comprehension failure on your part (odd, especially given that this whole topic is about the FreeBSD Coc), or do you have some sort of agenda that requires you to ignore the subject at hand? What a shame.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @06:18AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @06:18AM (#1006779)

            Angry, white, heterosexual, protestant male, most likely, not getting enough CoC. Creating toxic environment. Unsafe at any peed. Would not hire again. One and 1/2 stars.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:35PM (25 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:35PM (#1005837)

    Don't you see your argument is why this whole thing is so absurd to begin with? All of the crap they're mentioning has nothing to do with anything related to coding. People want to bring all their bullshit politics into coding and then get butthurt when it doesn't work out however they hoped talking about they really wish they had a pussy instead of a dick was supposed to work out.

    The whole thing is so damned stupid. It's the internet. If you're a transracial transgender one armed blind illegal immigrant gay depressed retard and want to take on the identity of 'normal healthy guy John Smith' then you can do it with 0 effort. 'Hi. I'm John Smith. Fuck off with everything else, let's get to coding.' You can even attend conferences without need to 'out' yourself. It's no big deal, unless you make it one. So people basically want to eat their cake, puke it out on everybody else, and have it still. Fuck 'em.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:52PM (#1005844)

      Naaah. It just creates a management class who can rise by learning the process and not the necessary skill.

      Identical to what has happened to all universities I've worked at. The "skill" class is at the bottom - that's trivial work stuff that you hire Chinese 21 year olds to do. The trick is to convert everything to "process" about which you become an expert.

      Get the worker bees to document how to do stuff, then assemble these into rules that all worker bees must adhere to. Your job is to ensure correct process, i.e. make new hires read the rules (aka training). Then you hire at the bottom level and "train" them up. We're pretty much at that point with 3rd world applicants only applying.

    • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @04:37PM (10 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @04:37PM (#1005860)

      Actually, the main points [github.com] seem more like something your mother should (but apparently didn't -- bad on her) have taught you:

      be friendly and patient,
              be welcoming,
              be considerate,
              be respectful,
              be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others,
              when we disagree, try to understand why.

      I didn't realize that being "friendly and patient" or any of those others were "hard Left" positions.

      Or are you referencing stuff that isn't, in fact, in the CoC [github.com]? If so, you're either ignorant or being deliberately disingenuous.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:47PM (9 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:47PM (#1005898)

        This [archive.org] is the crap they had. The current version is rolling back most of the shit they puked out initially without having the balls to admit that this entire code of conduct stuff is complete nonsense that only exists because of virtue signaling and the fear of being seen as 'bad'.

        There's a major problem with any avenue that drives a motivation to virtue signal. When people virtue signal they always want to push the envelope of unacceptability because it emphasizes their own righteousness. Historically religions were the obvious example. Christianity was a derivative of Judaism. And one way they chose to push the edge of virtue signaling was celibacy. Christian priests were so devout and devoted that they cast aside even sex. Of course, like with all virtue signaling, it's mostly bullshit. Behind the scenes the priests were of course getting off like everybody else to the extremes of modern times where diddling kids became a trend. What virtue! And the trend continues with the numerous modern 'secular religions'.

        Virtue signaling is not a virtue, it's a fucking stain on this world. If you want to be a good person, be a good person. When somebody is trying to flaunt their virtue, or even worse impose it on others, they're likely playing the exact same role we've had with the ultra homophobic politicians who were deep throating more sausages on the weekends than vegans do when they think nobody's looking.

        • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:59PM (6 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:59PM (#1005905)

          This [archive.org] is the crap they had. The current version is rolling back most of the shit they puked out initially without having the balls to admit that this entire code of conduct stuff is complete nonsense that only exists because of virtue signaling and the fear of being seen as 'bad'.

          And now they don't. Your point?

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:24PM (5 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:24PM (#1005926)

            The point is, the more shit you shovel into the gears of society, the faster it grinds to a halt.
            Take note that when it does, all those nice things you now expect to be given you for "being good", will only be available in exchange for something tangible. If at all.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:43PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:43PM (#1005933)

              Non-sequitur much?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:32PM (3 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:32PM (#1005973)

                Feeling smart today?

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:47PM (2 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:47PM (#1006012)

                  Feeling smart today?

                  I feel much the same as I do every day. Why do you ask?

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:04AM (1 child)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:04AM (#1006094)

                    Why do you ask?

                    To confirm the diagnosis, why else?

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:28PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:28PM (#1006438)

                      I'm going to assume you're an ESL sort, as you appear to be unable to communicate clearly in English.

                      Please continue.

        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:41PM (1 child)

          by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:41PM (#1006398)

          Christianity was a derivative of Judaism. And one way they chose to push the edge of virtue signaling was celibacy. Christian priests were so devout and devoted that they cast aside even sex.

          Er...are you sure about this? It's the Catholic priests who aren't allowed to marry; I assure you that there are plenty of Protestant pastors who are. There was a running joke in the denomination that I grew up in that the pastors couldn't wait until they graduated from seminary school before popping out their third or fourth kid already.

          Or was this one of those dumb things that Paul said "well, I personally do this" in a letter and then everybody took it way too seriously for a couple hundred years

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          • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:46PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:46PM (#1006404)

            The belief that religious figures should be celibate began long before the birth of Christianity. Ancient Druid priests were thought to have been celibate and Aztec temple priests were expected to remain sexually abstinent. Other pre-Christian sects mandated that the people chosen for their sacrificial offerings must be pure, meaning that they had never engaged in sex.[*]

            Jesus lived a chaste life and never married and at one point in the Bible is referred to as a eunuch (Matthew 19:12), though most scholars believe that this was intended metaphorically. The implication was that Jesus lived a celibate life like a eunuch. Many of his disciples were also chaste and celibate. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, recommends celibacy for women: "To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion." (1 Cor. 7:8-9) But the early Christian church had no hard and fast rule against clergy marrying and having children. Peter, a Galilee fisherman, whom the Catholic Church considers the first Pope, was married. Some Popes were the sons of Popes.

            The first written mandate requiring priests to be chaste came in AD 304. Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira stated that all"bishops, presbyters, and deacons and all other clerics" were to"abstain completely from their wives and not to have children." A short time later, in 325, the Council of Nicea, convened by Constantine, rejected a ban on priests marrying requested by Spanish clerics.

            https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/696 [historynewsnetwork.org]

            *Hmm...when were the Vestal Virgins a thing?

            Livy, Plutarch, and Aulus Gellius attribute the creation of the Vestals as a state-supported priestesshood to king Numa Pompilius, who reigned circa 717–673 BC.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by meustrus on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:08PM (12 children)

      by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:08PM (#1005878)

      'Hi. I'm John Smith. Fuck off with everything else, let's get to coding.'

      Let's say Adam is an asshole.

      Let's say an issue is getting informal, and John feels comfortable letting slip that he's trans. Adam says some unkind things about that. Everybody gets into an argument about trans identity. Who is causing the issue in this situation? Adam, for attacking a fellow developer, or John, for bringing it up in the first place?

      It's no big deal, unless you make it one.

      Let's say John never said anything. What if Adam looks into John Smith's Twitter history and finds out he was born a girl? Does more internet research, finds his dead name? Starts insisting on calling John Smith "Sally" and calling him a she in the issue tracker? Everyone else is confused. John experiences emotional pain just logging onto the issue tracker. Everybody gets into an argument about trans identity.

      Who is causing the issue in this situation? Adam, for attacking a fellow developer, or John, for merely existing?

      I too like the idea of a pseudonymous internet, where everybody is just a bit stream and we don't have to worry about the petty bigotry that divides us in the real world. I think most developers like that idea. The problem is that we don't live in that internet anymore. It's not hard to find out who someone is in real life. And the assholes out there, the ones who actually hate the meritocracy because they don't like the idea that some "transracial transgender one armed blind illegal immigrant gay depressed retard" might actually write better code than they do, those assholes will find out. Those assholes will bring that petty bigotry into every situation they can.

      You can even attend conferences without need to 'out' yourself.

      Yeah, as long as you can look like John Smith the white man.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:23PM (8 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:23PM (#1005924)

        Okay. So let's get this straight. I have something that I don't want anybody to know or talk about. And I decide to (1) put it on the internet and (2) talk about it. Did you know people are getting more stupid? Quite literally [sciencealert.com].

        Beyond this, people need to stop lying to themselves so much. In general there's no real 'outting' of trannies (whom invariably are the source of this stupidity). It's just a collective game of The Emperor's New Clothes where finally the dumb little kid says, 'But mama - that's a dude in a wig!' to the gasps of the crowd who also know the exact same thing. This is true even in places like Thailand where they not only start boys on all sorts of drugs way early in life but where they also generally have a much more effeminate natural musculature and bone structure. Almost none of them pass or come even remotely close to it really, and they never will.

        If somebody wants to dress up and pretend to be a girl, even cut off their dick and get some silicon stitched on your chest - okay, people have the right to do whatever they want so long as they're not hurting anybody else. But trying to force other people to play in the delusion is dumb. And just man up to your own decisions. If somebody maliciously calls you Adam instead of Glamorous Gloria then you call them an ass and get on with your life.

        Yeah, as long as you can look like John Smith the white man.

        No. Once again what people choose to connect on the internet to their own persona is entirely up to them. See: Satoshi Nakamoto. Guy created, distributed, and led a world changing product. And nobody has any clue who he is in spite of *immense* effort at finding out simply because he chose to not mix real life and internet life. Clearly he's a wise man.

        • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:24PM (2 children)

          by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:24PM (#1005970) Journal

          Clearly he's a wise man.

          Yes, I agree. But a high degree of wisdom is even rarer than a high degree of intelligence, because you almost always need the latter to obtain the former, and most highly intelligent people just never get there regardless.

          So what we actually have to deal with is a world of only moderately thoughtful, usually only first-level thinking people who are repeatedly surprised by the consequences of their own actions, and the actions of others, and the consequences of those other's actions as well.

          In such a world, ingrained manners and respect would go a very long way towards insulating the vulnerable from such consequences, and the surprises delivered courtesy thereof, but... yeah, that's not the world we live in.

          In fact, the Internet at large (and real life) is expanding a bumper crop of deeper penetrations of social tactics in the vein of ostracism and discrimination [both based variously on age, race, color, gender, sexuality, superstition or lack thereof, tattoos, piercings, place of residence, country of origin, native language, accent, credit, legal issues, weight, body odor, politics, number of parents, number of spouses... and probably a whole lot more that don't come immediately to mind].

          These come in every flavor from silent elimination from consideration, to verbal/posted abuse, to sabotage, to outings, to assault, to murder and... really, everywhere in between. That's the reality of it all.

          So while yeah, it'd be faaaabulous if everyone was smart, and wise, and close-mouthed about their particular characteristics... and if the other side of the equation was peopled by those who didn't feel any need to abuse those who aren't perfect candidate members for their preferred clique... however, the world doesn't work that way and is moving further away from such things all the time. Sad to say.

          Hence codes of conduct. Because some (quite a few, actually) people behave poorly and without much — or any — concern for the people they are treating to their oh-so-correct points of view. Codes of conduct can, if done moderately well (perfection isn't going to happen, so it's pointless to even try to assert that only perfection will do), keep the nastiness down to a dull roar.

          In the end, it makes no sense to let things go further into the shitter because they "ought" to be some other way, when [A] clearly they aren't that way, and [B] there's no perceptible chance they're going to go that way in either the short or the relatively long term.

          If you don't want a code of conduct to bite you, don't be an asshole. Politeness and respect are their own rewards. They're always worth the candle, barring a pre-existing state of conflict. Sometimes, even then.

          For those who can't manage that... yep, that's why codes of conduct come into being. And no, it's almost certainly not because these codes of conduct are mechanisms to discriminate against anything other than discrimination itself.

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          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:47PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:47PM (#1006045)

            Not sure intelligence is prequisite to wisdom.

            • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:20PM

              by meustrus (4961) on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:20PM (#1006600)

              Either intelligence or the good luck to follow only the right prophets.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by meustrus on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:34PM (3 children)

          by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:34PM (#1005976)

          I have something that I don't want anybody to know or talk about. And I decide to (1) put it on the internet and (2) talk about it.

          Do you? Do you know what it is like to have a secret about yourself, something shameful that doesn't hurt anybody, something you can't change and you can't tell anyone about? Wouldn't it be so much better if you could just be honest with the world about who you are, and continue not hurting anybody?

          Don't think of trans people here, think of gay people. You're asking them to completely hide their sexuality at the same time you are defending your right to say sexualizing things about women. Isn't that a double standard?

          Or think of women. Are they supposed to hide that they are women? Do you seriously expect half the population to deep hide their identity on the scale of Satoshi Nakamoto?

          Almost none of them pass or come even remotely close to it really, and they never will.

          Well, I can't say that I've looked at all that many pictures of Thai trans girls, so I guess I'll have to take your word for it. It's the internet, though. Are we talking about trans women using their face as an avatar? Again, I can't say I've seen that, so I guess I'll have to take your word for it again.

          So I suppose that in the hypothetical situation where somebody is using for their avatar a photo of themselves in which you can clearly tell they are not a Woman™. Are you justified in saying what you see? Well, it's an avatar. When's the last time anyone said anything about anyone's avatar? And there's no reason to be uploading personal photos in any of these communication channels, ever, for any reason. So I really can't think of when would be an appropriate time to comment on a person's appearance.

          So maybe you call the trans woman "he". This one's situational. What pronoun is everyone else using? If the answer is "she", then you're being deliberately confusing. Even if you don't care that it hurts the trans person, surely you care that everyone else knows who you are talking about.

          Because if just one person is late to this group and doesn't have the amazing power you do to see a person's gender 100% accurately in tiny avatar photos, that person will have no idea who the fuck you are talking about. Someone will have to explain it, and there we go again, being an asshole has derailed the engineering discussion because we have to talk about gender politics again.

          I believe we have a word for being deliberately confusing so that we have to talk about something completely off topic and controversial. It's called trolling. It's destructive to communities. It has no place in any meritocratic system.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:29PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:29PM (#1006031)

            I hide the fact that I vaporize some ayrlcyclohexylamine (mostly Methoxieticyclidine, sometime Eticyclidone, use to do diphenidine but it's now as illegal as the grandaddy of ayrlcyclohexylamine: PCP) on Friday night and I am somewhat ashamed of this.

            But drug use is a core part of my identity equal in importance to my sexuality, yet I won't meltdown in tears if someone tell me something like: you are a crazy fryed brain drug powered zombie junky. I would just shrug it off.

            Maybe it's because I have a well paying job with gold plated working conditions, a house and a wife, but I have all that in spite of my drug use. I don't insist that people refer to me as the ayrlcyclohexylamine disciple, I don't require a special pronoun. I just do my "shameful" thing privately...

          • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:37PM

            by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:37PM (#1006393)

            Don't think of trans people here, think of gay people. You're asking them to completely hide their sexuality at the same time you are defending your right to say sexualizing things about women. Isn't that a double standard?

            No, because this is a software project, and nobody needs to talk about any sexuality in the first place, either straight, gay, queer, up, down, strange, quark, or peppermint.

            --
            "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:37PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @06:37PM (#1006490)

            You are aware of the Shia Labeouf flag incident?
            https://country105.com/news/4184230/how-4chan-defeated-shia-labeouf/ [country105.com]

            Given the drive many have to cause pain to those different from themselves, and how someone with specific differences might wish to show these things about themselves to one group, but not to another, it isn't hard to see that someone might present themselves in a potentially hostile environment differently then they would in another environment. They perhaps felt they could keep these two guises separate.

            That is, until someone feels the need to dig, and if the digger is better at their craft than the person that chose to present themselves differently to different groups is at separating those personas, then comes the uncalled-for attacks on a person's identity. Even the Army had "don't ask, don't tell," which while it instilled on people that things they do might be shameful, it also came down on those that attempted to hurt people by outing them.

            I think it is reasonable to have a CoC, that basically says treat people in a respectful fashion. We should be able to keep politics (and name calling) out of code writing.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @06:35AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @06:35AM (#1006783)

          Almost none of them pass or come even remotely close to it really, and they never will.

          Looks like somebody has had a "Crying Game" experience!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:34PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:34PM (#1005975)

        finds his dead name

        Reminds me of the recent election I worked at. Some guy named "Bjorn" wanted to vote but wasn't a major party member.
        Me to coworker: "He isn't a major party member."
        Bjorn: "She."
        Coworker to me: "He'll need to fill out this form then."
        Bjorn: "She."

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:05PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @09:05PM (#1005992)

          Was he Bjorn again?

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:32PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:32PM (#1006385)

        Let's say an issue is getting informal, and John feels comfortable letting slip that he's trans. Adam says some unkind things about that. Everybody gets into an argument about trans identity. Who is causing the issue in this situation? Adam, for attacking a fellow developer, or John, for bringing it up in the first place?

        Yes.

        --
        "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:03PM (#1005874)

    Can you explain to me what the police and BLM have to do with BSD engineering?

    A Marxist organization exploiting the death of a black man to exert coercive political power without democratic accountability has more to do with everyone than individual racial or sexual characteristics. The irony that you could be prevented from making a disparaging aside in discussion, commits or code comments of an ideologically permissive, freedom orientated project is too much for many people. It would have been banned by the old CoC under the mere claim of "systematic oppression" which is ridiculous and unsupported by actual evidence.

    People were not widely judged on racial or sexual characteristics until sociopathic, intersectional idiots opened Pandora's Box, rubbed everyone's face in their "identity" and created one-sided rules to effectively ban dissent or criticism. People have been warning about this nonsense since the ousting of Brendan Eich from Mozilla, the procedure has since been refined into something reminiscent of Soviet specialist baiting. [wikipedia.org] When "peaceful protestors" take to the streets and cause over $500 million of damage (in Minnesota alone) and the city then has the tenacity to ask for Federal assistance, people have more than a right to criticize the bullshit. People have a moral obligation to do so.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @05:33PM (#1005889)

    well, to be fair, the new CoC says stupid shit like "egregious (subjective) violations outside of FreeBSD channels" (paraphrasing). So the OP could be in a political forum and still get the boot if FreeBSD were sufficiently Bolshevized.