"A utility to detect problematic software and configurations," such as Omarchy Linux, Hyprland, & Ladybird, was developed by an account with a Russian Milita...

I would say, finally, in an era of bitter political struggle even in the free software world, finally we see a good humoured hacker joke again

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    318·
    2 days ago

    Lmao there’s actually something kind of hilarious about a person trying to push gender neutral terms into documentation for a program called “Ladybird”.

    Did they want the project to be renamed to “Lady/Man/Thembird” too? /S

      • brax@sh.itjust.works
        311·
        2 days ago

        For some, sure. For me, no… I genuinely feel bad for anybody who’s head is so far up their ass that they fail to see the humour around the irony here.

        I am also genuinely confused as to how there can be documentation for a web browser that has gendered terms in it in the first place… Aside from the browser name, what other gendered terms would there be?

        • Chais@sh.itjust.works
          23·
          1 day ago

          For example developers or users could be referred to with a default male pronoun (if the user wants … he can …) when, and that might surprise you, women and queer people do exist and might even use browsers or develop software. There’s no need to be exclusive.

          • brax@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 day ago

            Why would it surprise me in even the slightest? It surprises me that people would default to a specific gender when all there is to go by is a username - I would expect they/them/[username] to be the typical reference.

            What surprises me more is how judgmental and hostile people are here in the absolutely horrible assumptions they’re making about me, because of a very obviously sarcastic remark I made about changing the only thing I could think of having a gendered term to a gender neutral term in the documentation for an application… My bad for mistaking “documentation” for manpages, and for somehow thinking a thread about Ladybird would be about the project’s previous name and a myriad of other projects. How foolish of me not to be psychic in a thread calling out people for trying to be psychics in commits and code comments, right?