GitHub, the git repository hosting service, recently disabled access to the repository of the video converter "WebM for Retards".
This tool, allowing a user to easily convert portions of a video to the increasingly supported WebM format, is mostly used on image-boards and image sharing websites. Despite its name, the project is a fully working tool.
Even the forks hosted on GitHub have been affected by this ban.
At the time of writing, the GitHub staff hasn't offered any form of explanation as to why access to the repo has been limited. However it is not hard to imagine that this may have to do with the name of the project. The recent news regarding DICCS come to mind.
takyon: From GitHub's Terms of Service:
We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:07PM
This is the problem with relying on humorless, faceless fools for hosting, like the retarded GitHub admins who removed it. Host it yourself. That's a good idea even if it wasn't removed for the name.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:35PM
Those cocksucking kike nigger-faggots. They will censor a legitimate project with a quirky but non-obscene name, but they will illegally keep stolen proprietary source code up? [github.com]
What's wrong with those fucking wop zipperhead knuckle-dragging ching-chongs?
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(Score: 2) by timbim on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:39AM
Loooooooooollhoolyshit!
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:58PM
GitHub acts on notices of claimed infringement that meet the requirements set forth in OCILLA (17 USC 512), such as a notice that a particular repository contains "stolen proprietary source code". These requirements include having been sent by someone acting on the express behalf of the owner of copyright in the allegedly infringed work. This is because copyright law does not require licensees to disclose having taken an unattributed (or "white-label") nonexclusive license from the copyright owner. Because GitHub has no way to know whether or not such a license is in effect, GitHub has no way to evaluate the merit of such a notice from a third party.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:29AM
Although many of us might use github for our projects, we aren't the people paying for it. GitHub offer a commercial service and that has to be their primary interest - it pays the money. So, if they discover that the adults who run businesses don't particularly like the way that some individuals behave or use certain words, and this action has the potential to affect their profitability, they would be stupid not to take action to correct it. That doesn't make them 'retarded GitHub admins', but people who realise that to succeed in business, or any other venture for that matter, you have to meet certain societal norms. We have no 'rights' in this matter, they have published the terms and conditions that must be complied with in order to use the service that they provide. That they choose to enforce them should come as no surprise nor is it a reason for any of us to be indignant or offended by it. As you correctly pointed out, individuals can always host their projects themselves.
One should use the appropriate vocabulary for the occasion. If you go to a job interview and start inappropriately using terms such as dude, bro or retard, you shouldn't be surprised if your success rate at finding a job is disappointingly low. If people cannot see or understand this, then maybe they really deserve to be called 'retard'. Perhaps it is a sign of a failing education system. The fact that much of the initial indignation regarding the disabling of these projects originated at 4chan, a community not known for its adult attitude, comes as no great revelation to me whatsoever.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:20AM
I don't have to read the rest of your shit. The answer is "Don't Use Github" if you thing your code is worth anything.
The End.
I know it's not dramatic but....
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:00PM
What about: https://github.com/torvalds/linux [github.com]
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:47PM
One should use the appropriate vocabulary for the occasion.
What is and is not appropriate is completely subjective. What is and is not professional is completely subjective.
If you go to a job interview and start inappropriately using terms such as dude, bro or retard, you shouldn't be surprised if your success rate at finding a job is disappointingly low.
Because society is full of shallow fools.
Perhaps it is a sign of a failing education system.
The mere fact that some people aren't oversensitive, shallow, and realize that many of things we deem 'bad' are in fact subjective matters, is not a sign of bad education; it's a sign of logical thinking.
But my point was that these services are inherently untrustworthy and you shouldn't rely on them. You just help demonstrate why; thanks.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:33AM
The problem is that Github is such a popular site they should have some responsibility to not run a dictatorship. For example, if Google were to deny service to all IPs coming from Yahoo/Apple, in a sense they have that right as they provide a commercial, private search service, but on the other hand they've grown to a size that rivals public services, they can't just cause public disorder for the hell of it. Shouldn't the same apply to Github as well?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:06AM
No - it's a business not a government. If you don't like their T&Cs, go elsewhere. Now whether acting in such a manner would be good for business is another discussion ...
It's always my fault...
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday July 27 2015, @10:04AM
Last I checked, physical stores, which are also businesses, aren't allowed to kick out people without reason. Water and electric companies, which are also businesses, cannot deny you service without reason. Storage companies, which are also businesses, aren't allowed to damage your property even if you miss a payment.
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday July 27 2015, @12:23PM
Who said they haven't got a reason? If the owner/maintainer of the GitHub repository in question has broken the T&Cs, then GitHub have every reason the shut that repo down.
So, here at least, if a tramp/hobo walks into a story, he can expect to be escorted out very quickly. Stores do not have to grant everyone access, and the reason can be nothing more than your appearance. Similarly, if you have broken contracts with previous companies, then utility companies do not have to rush to meet your needs either, they are quite entitled to get assurances that you will not do the same again before they start providing a service to you. But I suppose breaking contracts is the same as breaking T&Cs.
And, as for missing payments, I must have been mistaken when I heard of houses being repossessed a year or two back. Damage is sometimes occasioned during the eviction of householders who have failed to keep up their mortgage payments.
It's always my fault...
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:08PM
But retard is a legitimate medical term indicating someone that had their development limited against their original potential.
See here [youtube.com] for details about its current derisive use.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:20PM
> But retard is a legitimate medical term indicating someone that had their development limited against their original potential.
And fag means cigarette. That words can have more than one meaning doesn't exonerate someone who is clearly using the derogatory meaning. That is developmentally limited thinking.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:53PM
But what of those who self identify as fag or retard. In the former case in the form of reclaiming a word for a community whilst removing it from pejorative usage. In the latter those that merely doubt their skills in a significant way.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:03PM
> In the former case in the form of reclaiming a word for a community
Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage.
> In the latter those that merely doubt their skills in a significant way.
That's derogatory usage since they medical definition doesn't actually apply.
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:53PM
You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:45AM
> You're a derogatory moron simpleton idiot fool retard dope cocksucker.
And since you are a member of all those groups it is OK for you to use those terms.
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:49PM
Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage.
Even if you aren't part of that community, that doesn't mean the usage is "derogatory". There's no such thing as a word that is inherently "bad." Whether they meant it in a "derogatory" way depends on their intent.
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:36PM
There's no such thing as a word that is inherently "bad." Whether they meant it in a "derogatory" way depends on their intent.
Perhaps a word is deemed "bad" if a supermajority of its recent uses have carried derogatory intent.
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:45PM
But that's still subjective. Furthermore, even a supermajority use it in a way that people deem derogatory, it's still possible to use it without that intent.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:08AM
What is your goal in making this argument?
Are you just nit-picking or is there a meaningful point to stating the obvious fact that nothing that humans do is 100% black and white?
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday July 27 2015, @11:30AM
There is a meaningful point when a great number of people don't realize that. And I can't tell the difference between people who truly believe it's an objective matter and people who realize it's a subjective matter but frame the matter as if it's an objective matter; I have to ask or make some comment to find out.
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(Score: 2) by Francis on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:14PM
Since they're a part of the community, they should know where the precise line lies. The problem isn't so much the words themselves, it's when people using them inccorectly. For words like nigger, there's very few contexts in which it's OK for anybody to say them. Other words like fag have contexts in which it's OK for pretty much anybody to say and contexts in which it's not OK for anybody to say.
I personally think it's foolish for people to continue to use such words as it just serves to give cover to bigots, but I don't really get to tell other people that they can't use those words.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by No Respect on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:28PM
What I find most offensive is efforts to legislate morality. It cannot be effectively done, yet so many people persist in trying to do it. Next they'll try to make it illegal to even think the bad words in one's mind, even while never giving them voice. I don't use a lot of so-called offensive words in my day-to-day life mainly because I try to be considerate of others. That doesn't mean if I let a few slip now and then that I should be ostracized or forever afterward be looked down at as a thought-criminal. Fuck that.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Francis on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:42PM
This isn't an effort to legislate morality. This is a private business that chooses not to endorse offensive language. Unless they're picking and choosing to suit themselves, I don't see a problem here. It's hard to say why they're just doing it now, it might well be that nobody had complained. Automating searches for offensive words is not something that works out very well. Sometimes people don't even notice it until it's pointed out. I can't imagine that the Penis-land people really meant to name their website that rather than the more likely Pen-island.
And it's all well and good to be offended by efforts to get people to have a bit more sensitivity when you're not the one that the language is being targeted at.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:30AM
Don't think anybody would argue against the notion that as a private entity they are free to toss anyone off they feel like... unless they are a government protected minority of course. Doublethink at its finest.
What should be going through the mind of everyone who hosts content there or depends on content hosted there is this: Github is not under the control of the suits and any remaining geeks are out of power. The only rational response is RUN! See Slashdot, Sourceforge, etc. for examples of what is going to happen soon.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Francis on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:13AM
This should have happened long ago. Or really somebody should have pointed out how it looks. Same goes for Gimp, it's a harmless acronym, but as a name it probably doesn't send the kind of message they intend to send.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:43AM
> Github is not under the control of the suits and any remaining geeks are out of power.
You don't get to speak for all geeks. There are tons of bigotted suits and tons of respectful geeks. Just because you are kind of an asshole geek doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:52PM
I don't think that someone is an "asshole" merely for using certain words or not being oversensitive.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:58PM
> I don't think that someone is an "asshole" merely for using certain words or not being oversensitive.
Aren't you a clever little asshole, trying to define away what it means to be an asshole in order to avoid facing uncomfortable truths.
Yay for being an ostrich!
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:33PM
Aren't you a clever little asshole, trying to define away what it means to be an asshole in order to avoid facing uncomfortable truths.
Funny how it can be so easily turned against you. As far as I'm aware, there's no scientific and objective definition of "asshole" in this context. I was merely giving my opinion about this subjective matter.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:10AM
> I was merely giving my opinion about this subjective matter.
To what end? As they say opinions are like assholes...
If your point is that context matters, congratulations captain obvious!
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday July 27 2015, @11:27AM
And yet many people don't realize that simple fact, getting offended by mere words no matter how they're used, and denouncing certain words as objectively "bad". Furthermore, the word "asshole" was used above as if it had an objective meaning; it wasn't stated as an opinion.
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(Score: 1) by goose on Monday July 27 2015, @10:08AM
This isn't an effort to legislate morality. This is a private business that chooses not to endorse offensive language.
Maybe - or maybe it is a (stupid) attempt from github to spread their own particular ideology. If it was really about offensive words then they shouldn't have allowed people to use the 'git' source control software, or allow them to host gimp plugins. Allowing 'git', 'gimp' (and others) while denying retard is just plain stupid. For crying out loud, do a search for "government idiots" on github and see what you come up with.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:57PM
For words like nigger, there's very few contexts in which it's OK for anybody to say them.
Whether it's okay or not is subjective. There is no such thing as a word that is objectively bad.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by curunir_wolf on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:59PM
I am a crackpot
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:15AM
> And the most popular series of books ever is the "... For Dummies" series.
So what? This isn't about using generic insults, it's about using words that have implications against people who do not deserve those implications.
There isn't a group of dummies out there who are unfairly invoked by reference when someone uses the word dummy.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:12AM
Frankly this whole thing is entirely dishonest coming from an entity called a hub for gits.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:17PM
They should consider banning git, [wikipedia.org] as well. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:46PM
I propose we rename it to FagHub.
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:43PM
What? San Francisco?
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:02PM
That wouldn't work so well for developers who don't want to be associated with tobacco use.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:52PM
Yeah but the irony is so great this way. Plus they teach git like a religion in college these days. Well, like most of what they teach.
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(Score: 1) by Berky on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:28PM
I suppose I should reconsider my ".. for dumbasses" line of products.
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(Score: 2) by TheB on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:33PM
They should rename the project "WebM for GitHub admins"
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Gravis on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:33PM
seriously, if you are going to offensive then you should make sure you are in a place where that is ok. of course a simple google search [google.com] shows that it has a fork without the offensiveness [github.com] and a fork that is more advanced [github.com].
nothing of value was lost.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ken_g6 on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:42PM
I don't see any evidence that those particular projects are forks of "WebM for Retards". They seem to be independent projects. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:46PM
Only complete retards would find this offensive. Did anyone actually get offended, or is this another case where busybodies got offended for some group of people they thought would be offended and so they complained?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:18PM
They had a mom calling saying "three year old johnny here is not retarded. He's intellectually challenged. And while he is to retarded^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H challenged to actually understand this name, I think that I have the right to force you to take down this insulting project"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:50PM
We had a black guy at a tech place, his name was mickey. When we hired him, it was improper to use the term "n***er rigged" anymore, so we used the term "mickey rigged" instead.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:40AM
Did his momma name him after Mickey's? [warrenbeer.com]
Well, at least you still have your Chinese fire-drills, right?
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:04PM
I'm surprised that they didn't try to honor the memory of famous Black inventors by promoting the term "Afro-engineered".
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:56PM
> Did anyone actually get offended,
Does it really matter to you? If someone had been insulted would that change your opinion or would you just switch to a new tact like telling them toughen up?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:54PM
It does matter, because I want to know the truth about this. If it turned out people were offended, I would indeed tell them to toughen up.
GitHub can do what it wants, but it's not immune from criticism. My comment was no troll; people who criticize oversensitivity are not automatically trolls.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:45PM
Maybe the people at Git need some desensitizing training. Far to many people have submitted to politically correct "sensitivity" training. We need to start reversing that crap.
I really don't give a damn that your big brother is a retard, and it offends you to hear the word. Get over yourself. I don't even care if YOU are the family's retard, and it hurts everyone's feelings to be reminded that you're a retard. It_just_does_not_matter.
This little self improvement site may help you to grow a pair.
http://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-Emotional-Sensitivity [wikihow.com]
Just don't take it to seriously. Remember: You_just_don't_matter.
#Hillarygropedme
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:59PM
"People at Git"? Please, git is software: there is no one at it. GitHub is a company that uses said software. GitHub did not create git, they are simply one rather popular web service that is compatible with it.
Car analogy: if you said people at transmission, when you meant Ford employees, you would look like an idiot.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:23PM
> I really don't give a damn that your big brother is a retard, and it offends you to hear the word. Get over yourself.
Such irony.
You are obviously offended that someone does not want to offend people you have no connection with. Give over yourself indeed. As far as you are concerned It_just_does_not_matter. And yet you are taking it all so seriously.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by GungnirSniper on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:30PM
Retard used to be a specific term for the slow or Down Syndrome people, before that imbecile was the term used. So society went through this same linguistic struggle to replace imbecile with retard since imbecile meant what retard now does today; basically a general insult. So at some point the new term, intellectual disability, will get the same connotations attached to it and we'll again need a new term for an old idea. Our society is on a permanent euphemism treadmill.
On a related note, Nordic peoples with retarded babies used to believe that trolls kidnapped their real children and replaced them. So the negative connotation is going to exist no matter what term is used.
Tips for better submissions to help our site grow. [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:54PM
> Our society is on a permanent euphemism treadmill.
That all presumes society won't just use a term that has no clinical meaning - like "stupid." There is nothing inherent in clinical terminology that requires society to adopt it for an insult. We have plenty of linguistic variety to choose from.
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(Score: 2) by _NSAKEY on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:13PM
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:50PM
while george could make a good joke, he didn't explore why the name changed for that condition. the truth is that the name for PTSD changed because we didn't understand what caused it. it's likely the name will remain the same until we figure out how to reverse it.
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:17PM
PTSD can already be reversed with abreaction therapy [wikipedia.org]. Replaying the engrams, or strong memories of trauma, in a safe environment helps the sufferer extinguish the associations [wikipedia.org]. This is part of why Dianetics took off: L. Ron Hubbard put his own spin on abreaction and used it to treat people who probably had undiagnosed PTSD. Other organizations outside of Scientology, such as Traumatic Incident Reduction Association [tir.org], are also applying abreaction therapy.
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Monday July 27 2015, @06:34AM
PTSD can already be reversed with abreaction therapy.
PTSD can be treated to effectively reverse it but this actually rewires your synapses to a third state. to truly reverse it you need nanotech that actually rewires your synapses to a previous state before the trauma. i think when we have this technology, we will understand the persistent cause of the problem which will be some sort of synaptic pattern that forms in the brain. the new name will describe the synaptic pattern found instead of what caused the pattern to occur.
clarify my previous post, not splitting hairs.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:29AM
Actually it isn't that cut and dry, because for at least the 40+ years I've been here in the south retard is no different than dumbass or moron, a general term for dipshits. For those that had an actual disability like Down's? You would use "slow" as in "its okay, he's a little slow" and would be used to give extra consideration to the person.
Its no different than how every soft drink is a "coke" down here, you'll say "get me a coke" and folks will say "What kind?" because that is a generic term for soft drink, down here retard is just another general term for somebody doing stupid shit.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by gman003 on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:06PM
to "WebM for Gits [wiktionary.org]"
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:42PM
Historically, "idiot" was clinical terminology for the most extreme form of what is now referred to by varying degrees of "retardation", it represented an IQ of 0-25, compared to 26-50 for an imbecile and 51-70 for a moron, e.g. calling someone an idiot is actually more offensive than referring to them as an imbecile, or a mere moron. So, given that DK gets away with calling people by a deprecated term that is worse than "imbecile" or "moron", why should the GitHub admins have a problem with someone using a currently accepted term that encompassed the entire IQ spectrum? Are they idiots, or something? :)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:05PM
> Historically, "idiot" was clinical terminology
That all depends on where your history starts. That particular clinical usage only began in the late 1800s, predated by well over a millennia of explicitly unflattering usage. That's on the people who tried to co-opt it for clinical usage, not on the people who have used its original meaning before, during and after that misguided adoption by clinicians.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Katastic on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:52PM
I think "WebM for Github owners" would be a more telling level of stupidity.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @10:57PM
WebM for police [nytimes.com]?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:21PM
Adults who insist on acting like snotty 8 year olds and then justifying it by saying things like "dude, lighten up" shouldn't be surprised when they're not invited back.
I realize that's a tough concept for the /. - SN crowd to master.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:15PM
I call bullshit.
If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him.
If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him?
It's not like the people who own the servers are actually required to sit down and read all the transactions. They don't have to interact with the patrons, like a wait staff in a restaurant do. There are no "guests" on the internet. Arrogant bastards choosing to impose their "moral" standards on other people are quick to censor shit they don't like. That is what it boils down to.
#Hillarygropedme
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:12PM
> If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him.
Yes, gay people are a group with a history of being discriminated against for doing nothing to hurt anyone.
> If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him?
Yes, asshole people are not a group with a history of being discriminated against for doing nothing to hurt anyone. In fact, doing something to hurt someone else is pretty much the definition of 'asshole.'
My question for you is did you understand the difference and chose to ignore it because it offends you, or did you really not understand the difference until it was explained to you?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:19AM
On the contrary, assholes are being discriminated against everywhere. No other kind of person faces such universal loathing everywhere across the world.
But I guess it's okay to discriminate against people, as long as we don't like them.
My question for you is did you understand the difference and chose to ignore it because it offends you, or did you really not understand the difference until it was explained to you?
And my question to you is do you understand what double dichotomy is, or are you just being a dishonest twat?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:09PM
>> doing something to hurt someone else is pretty much the definition of 'asshole.'
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> I guess it's okay to discriminate against people, as long as we don't like them.
Woooosh!
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:31PM
And my question to you is do you understand what double dichotomy is
No. DuckDuckGo and Google appear not to return relevant results for "double dichotomy" definition.
Let me rephrase how I understood the comment: "If you do not understand the difference between the situation surrounding gay people and that surrounding inconsiderate people, your comment appears reasonable and I'd be glad to help explain. But if you do understand this difference, your comment appears to me as if you are choosing to ignore it because it offends you."
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:33PM
While I still use gmail I will set up my own mailserver after I read the fine manual.
How much is any one user worth to a cloud provider? If you have a free github account then your value is the money github might make by selling a paid account to one of your codebase's users.
Also the organic links. If I link to your github then it is github which benefits from the SEO.
Every man, woman and child should register their own domain name then use it for the kinds of things that we presently have facebook, linkedin, github and soylentnews.
Lots of folks think kuro5hin is a dead site yet its alexa rank is 300,000. This because of all the inlinks to fifteen year old stories on corpse disposal.
127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com # I Am Absolutely Serious
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:06PM
This is the most outrageous act GitHub has committed since they banned Linux for Niggers http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=144462 [vnnforum.com]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by rigrig on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:52AM
This seems to be a problem at github: Any removed repository should show the reason why.
For all I know, someone got hold of the developers credentials, locked them out and committed a virus-ridden last version, but right now the bit of the internet that noticed this is just agreeing with each other that the reasons they assumed for the ban are 'wrong'. This is not something you should let happen if you are running a serious business.
Aside from that: it's their site, /they're free to host/ban/mutilate whatever repositories they feel like, I use it because of convenience, but people that use any free service as their main website always strike me as silly...
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:50AM
This may have been perfect for them! Geez.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Marneus68 on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:03PM
I contacted github regarding the lock-down, inquiring as to what the reason was and if I could find the sources. Here's the response I got:
> For privacy reasons, we can only discuss specifics about this repository with the repo's owner. If you have questions, I'd suggest that you reach out to the user for more information.