OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."
This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).
But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:45AM (4 children)
It's odd, I am not sure what this posters agenda is.
The Greek reminds of the fake Ari, he would say "parteigenossen." Shitty modern Greek, that's him.
Party member. Ok. But who do you think are my party members?
I've far less connection to the Republican and Democratic party than most of the country. I voted for the Democrat (I actually canvassed for him, and I was afraid my family would disown me for it at the time, it was probably 9 months before they spoke to me again) to get rid of a particularly shitty Republican. I voted for a 'publican to get rid of a really shitty Demonicrat too. Mostly I vote Pirate (1) Libertarian (2) Green (3) NOTA (4=2=1.)
You trying to say antifa are my party members? Now you're closer to the truth but still not close.
I have absolutely zero connection to anybody that assaulted Andy Ngo, or anyone that condoned or defended it. That particular assault turned me more-or-less permanently against Rose City.
Rose City is not the be all and end all. I'm not gonna give up on the movement because a few cells got the wrong Wray-gun.
Years and years back I worked with cells of good people that were trying to prevent this hell. Antifascist action network, antiracist auxiliary, c'lina baldies, that's my blood.
As far as I'm able to trace it, those cells were infected from ~1998 forward with shit-memes. I will not tell you they're all infected; I don't know that, and I desperately hope that's not true. But at the least several very visible ones have been assraped with the borg priapus. When you go out in the streets to fight white supremacism and wind up beating a little American faggot from a Vietnamese ancestry senseless; bro.
Bro.
You been used.
Stop. Don't be a tool.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:35AM (3 children)
Finally, magister, a glimpse of hope.
Keep it on, one word at a time, and maybe we'll see S/N starting to accept submissions in languages that are not English. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:50AM (2 children)
I think it's great to throw in bits of whatever language you actually know; and expect the reader to be able to figure it out. But I feel a bit betrayed when I wind up getting a native speaker to review and confirm that you're just using google translate or a bilingual dictionary without a clue what you're actually saying. And I would feel a main page submission that wasn't in English and did not include a good (human) translation to English was a bit of dirty pool; even if it were a language I am able to read fluently myself.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday June 18 2020, @01:20AM (1 child)
What's a few hundred years when you (aristarchus) already lived for 2300? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday June 19 2020, @02:27AM
I am true Ari'. Ari' ben Yehuda. The Lion of Judah. Shæmshåm Herkulitiriot. The true Samson behind the legends of the Herculean one.
He, or she or nêêêêê omdenvill was probably a slug when I was carving the stars into the pillars at Çatalhöyük.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?