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GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser (github.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (25 children)

I can't see anything about this on DuckDuckGo. Do you have a link?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2024/07/03/serenityos-and-ladybird

This was a little „write-up“ back when everything became more public.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (8 children)

I'm surprised this got any kind of attention.

Here's the turn of events from my perspective:

  1. Someone submits a 1-line PR changing the gender used in a code comment
  2. PR rejected on the grounds that the change is "politically motivated"
  3. Submitter got mad, and proposed removing the rule against "politically motivated" changes, calling it "white supremacist," which is closed
  4. Someone wrote a blog post about it

Here's my analysis:

  1. Stupid change - don't make PRs that simply correct an irrelevant typo in a comment somewhere; some people do this to put stuff on a resume (look at how much FOSS work I do!), and it just wastes everyone's time
  2. Stupid response - it should've been rejected because it's a useless change, not because it's "politically motivated"
  3. Stupid proposal - do you really want to waste a bunch of time fighting over wording in a comment? Because that's the kind of crap you get without a rule like this.
  4. This is all about an irrelevant change to a comment? Why is this getting so much attention?
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I should be an idiot. I dont see a direct relationship between race and sexual orientation. Even if the PR was rejected because a pronounce how the hell this is white supremacist?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Well, didn't the Nazis also discriminate against gay people?

That said, it's a massive leap to go from "rejects 1 line PR that only changes gender in a comment" to literal Nazi...

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