NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings

NetworkManager 1.50 released on Wednesday as the newest version of this software commonly used on the Linux desktop for managing wired and wireless network connections...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-1.50

[fitzie]

I thought it was real offensive words, like someone naming their wifi network something naughty, but it's just normal words that woke hat doesn't like.

[JPFSanders]

Finally I can have a solid night of rest in the confident knowledge that RH and IBM are focusing on what is important for networkmanager.

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[reba]

NetwokeManager

[RedEyed]

For those who are interesting what was offensive word

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/9f6ecbae695caef987490b74d2f3bafc289082dd

I'm sick 🤢 of woke dogmatism

[darkbasic]

I know the white part in the logo is supposed to be an ethernet plug, but it looks like an hand.

[Britoid]

I can sleep easier tonight knowing that a grave injustice has been rectified.

[billyswong]

I thought it was real offensive words, like someone naming their wifi network something naughty, but it's just normal words that woke hat doesn't like.

They silence all words that describe abuses, so that people may no longer point out injustice in clear wordings in future. George Orwell has told us so in 1984. Welcome the newspeak era.

[cynic]

"keyfile: Stop writing offensive terms into keyfiles"

isn't it against the GPL term? shouldn't I be able to write whatever I want into my keyfiles?

[access]

Michael is title engineering 'cause he knows a lot of snowflakes are reeeeally attached to certain outdated words.

That policy change was one of the least significant in the release changelog... but here we are.