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

[Errinwright]

I wish I could somehow add all the complaining white boys with small egos here to a list and somehow ensure I will never, ever, work with any of you.

Misandry at its finest, can't make this up if I wanted to

[TheMightyBuzzard]

I wish I could somehow add all the complaining white boys with small egos here to a list and somehow ensure I will never, ever, work with any of you.

I'm sure they wish exactly the same.

[TheMightyBuzzard]

Like people using "snowflake" as a hate term when it originated as a loving, peaceful symbology that shows how all people are made from the same things while they can be different, beautiful, and unique, like snowflakes made from water.

Changing the meaning of words is the same ole, same ole. It's history repeating itself. It doesn't matter if it's "snowflake" being morphed into acceptable hate speech or if it's no longer using words like "master" and "slave" to describe relationships between inanimate objects. Creating new words and reusing old ones just to keep on keeping on with existing thought patterns and inherent bigotries is just more of the same.

Yes, "snowflake" is acceptable hate speech. You can take any post in this thread except this one and replace "snowflake" with "faggot", "nigger", or any other hate term and the meaning won't change.

Oh but it will. Being gay or $ethnicity is not a choice but being a fragile little whiner who gets PTSD from inoffensive words is.

[TheMightyBuzzard]

Wokepocalypse. The LadyBird browser CoC was godsent in this new theater of cultural warfare.

Now that's a legit CoC.

[stormcrow]

Imagine getting offended by words that could mean bad things (in specific context) but clearly aren't meant to offend even my cat that I don't possess.

Wait, I said "possess", I wanted to say "have the priviledge to have in the house that I currently live in".

How about realizing the words are a product of imprecise use of language that never should have been applied in context to begin with. No one is saying people can't talk about historical injustices. People are correcting imprecise, perpetuation of destructive concepts that should have died out a century ago. A hundred years from now people are going to look back on these words and react the same way we do to the language of our two generation removed predecessors throwing out the "n word" or other racist slurs every other sentence. Language evolves. They never stand still. Words matter. Preciseness matters. Context matters. People's reactions to words matter. This is something a lot of geeks just don't get but should. It's about not being a jerk. There is no such thing as an absolute right to being a jerk to people without consequence.

[thomasjkenney]

What about the recording industry? Will they no longer be allowed to master or re-master recordings? Must they now be 're-primaried' instead? Is a Masters' Degree now completely worthless? Worse, are those with Masters' Degrees now irredeemably stigmatized?

I'm glad my wife, Java born, was allowed to read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn before they are erased. I'm glad I'm still allowed to call her 'wife.'

[eltomito]

"Slave" and "master" could be replaced with "hoe" and "pimp" to respect people's sensitivities.

[TheMightyBuzzard]

People's reactions to words matter.

No, they don't. You choose how you're going to react to anything. Nobody can offend you unless you choose to take offense. And you nimrods are out looking for new and exciting ways to take offense, especially where none was intended. Well, this is my good deed for the day then. Offense was absolutely intended here, so feel free to take all you like.

[NotMine999]

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

And since it looks like a hand, and one of my hands is partially disabled, then I AM OFFENDED and WokeHat MUST remove it.

I wonder if there are any applicable EU rules and-or laws I can leverage in this matter? Maybe some unknown EU commission or Court?

[NotMine999]

Imagine and build a better world in which language evolves to correct the inherent bigotries and biases over centuries of incorrect and destructive thought patterns so ingrained people don't even notice them in said language until they're directed at oneself and people like oneself... then one reads Phoronix's forums and realizes just how very very long we have to go.

If you are so offended by what you read in Moronix Forums ... you can go elsewhere, right?