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Is it true that Brotli wanted the .bro file extension and moved away from it, because it was deemed offensive?
by sremani 11y ago
Is it true that Brotli wanted the .bro file extension and moved away from it, because it was deemed offensive?
- return0 11y agoInteresting. Is it also middle-out?
- Bud 11y agoYes, that's confirmed. "In late September, Google released a compression algorithm called Brotli and gave files it makes the extension “.bro”. But last week the extension was changed to “.br”. The reason for the change is threads like this one, in which posters suggest that “'bro' has a gender problem” and “comes of[f] misogynistic and unprofessional due to the world it lives in.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/googles_bro_file_format_changed_to_br_after_gender_politics_worries/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/googles_bro_file_for...
- ant6n 11y agoI would've preferred .brot
- oftenwrong 11y agoor just ".brotli" modern filesystems can handle a few extra characters
- chocolatebunny 11y agobut we don't want to type them. when was the last time you typed chdir instead of cd?
- ctrl-j 11y agowhen was the last time you were in a shell that didn't have tab completion? .br<tab> is the same number of characters as .bro
- akx 11y agoFilename autocompletion is a thing though, and especially for .brotli files, which would likely be generated by something like `brotli uncompressed.thing`, the length matters very little.
- ant6n 11y agoThe -li Ending, basically just the diminutive, is not necessary to convey the meaning. -br is "cold", -brot is "bread", -brotli is also "bread". I kind of like the whole archive.bread thing, but with the German sound to it.
- plugnburn 11y agoSymbian app installation files have ".sis" extension. Why can't we have ".bro" for parity?
- SwellJoe 11y agoBecause no one has used Symbian in 10 years and the vast majority of us have never seen or heard of a .sis file? Not really parity if .sis is extraordinarily obscure and .bro becomes pervasive.
- plugnburn 11y agoDon't speak for the entire world ("no one"), I personally know two guys that still use Symbian-powered smartphones and don't plan to change them to anything.
- SwellJoe 11y agoI know more people than that who still use a Commodore 64 on the regular. But, it doesn't make it a viable platform.
- emsy 11y agoNewspeak, doublethink and thoughtcrimes
- ant6n 11y agoBecause context.
- butbroski 11y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=br http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=br So, instead of using a word which is mostly used as a friendly term of familiarity/endearment, they decided to go with a word which has connotations of racism. I... can't even.
- ifdefdebug 11y agoWhile that is true, I have another question: is it really necessary to pull that topic off here again?
- sremani 11y agoit was not necessary, only to satiate my curiosity.
- pja 11y agoWell, someone picked .bro as the initial extension by simply shortening .brotli, and someone else pointed out that .brt might be less potentially controversial. You can find the exchange on (I think) the chrome bugtracker somewhere (or maybe it was the mozilla one?). No-one actually took offense at .bro though.
- CJefferson 11y agoOffensive is far too strong. Controversial would be much better, and it clearly (in my opinion) was, and would have continued to be. Why choose a name which is going to cause such issues, when there wasn't (yet) any reason not to change it?
- d0lph 11y agoControversial is a bit much, I really don't see how this could be offensive at all.
- brink 11y agoIt's much less "is it offensive", and more "can people find a reason for it to be offensive" these days.
- efuquen 11y agoHow about just unprofessional then?
- EdHominem 11y agoNope. Everything can be offensive to someone if they try hard enough. Just pick something that doesn't intend to be rude and ignore the few haters who have to make everything about them.
- CJefferson 11y agoTo be fair, you don't have to try very hard to find 'bro' offensive. The definition of bro I'm familar with (quoting wikipedia here) is 'a type of "fratty masculinity", predominantly "if not exclusively" white'. See also the phrase 'bros before hoes'. This isn't the most serious thing in the world, but there are definitely people who find it excluding, and that seems reasonable to me.
- d0lph 11y ago
- 13thLetter 11y ago"Deemed" by whom?