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> I'm not offended, and I doubt anyone is (despite your prediction). I just don't see the point. Well, unfortunately, you'd be wrong: https://bugs.debian.org/c

by dvt 6y ago

> I'm not offended, and I doubt anyone is (despite your prediction). I just don't see the point. Well, unfortunately, you'd be wrong: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907199 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907199 I feel that this is going to turn into my daily HN post in defense of free speech. There's nothing that the name adds, it's stupid, it's silly, and it's juvenile. The authors themselves, in fact, seem to be racist shitbags[1]. But Debian essentially deplatforming it is absolutely not the right move here. I think protecting speech is a hill worth dying on, and even a despicable Neo-Nazi should have the same right to speech as me or you. [1] https://github.com/laurentb/weboob/blob/0ac4885ad8c2127465840271676c911afd15918a/weboob/backends/aum/pages/search.py https://github.com/laurentb/weboob/blob/0ac4885ad8c212746584...

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hydragit 6y ago
You seem to be pointing at a specific revision and the file doesn't seem to exist anymore in the current version of the repository. I confess I didn't check more than this though.
- jgwil2 6y ago
  Does that really make it any better? It's in the commit history and now it's there for all of us to see. Why on earth anybody would write something like that is beyond me, but doing it in public is mind-bogglingly fucked up and stupid.
  - s9w 6y ago
    It's also legal, at least in some countries
  - froasty 6y ago
    "I was digging through your garbage from fifteen years ago and found a swastika doodle on a takeout napkin!" "Why were you digging around in my garbage at the dump?! Don't you have anything better to do?!" "The dump is public, anti-semite!"
    - jgwil2 6y ago
      This isn't a dump, this is a forum specifically meant for sharing code publicly.
dleslie 6y ago
If I were to fork it and remove offensive names and comments, it seems I would be best to obliterate/ignore the revision history. It's kind of an interesting new problem: when disagreeable people make useful FOSS, the revision control system becomes a liability even to those with good intentions.

by dvt 6y ago

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hydragit 6y ago

You seem to be pointing at a specific revision and the file doesn't seem to exist anymore in the current version of the repository. I confess I didn't check more than this though.

jgwil2 6y ago
Does that really make it any better? It's in the commit history and now it's there for all of us to see. Why on earth anybody would write something like that is beyond me, but doing it in public is mind-bogglingly fucked up and stupid.
- s9w 6y ago
  It's also legal, at least in some countries
- froasty 6y ago
  "I was digging through your garbage from fifteen years ago and found a swastika doodle on a takeout napkin!" "Why were you digging around in my garbage at the dump?! Don't you have anything better to do?!" "The dump is public, anti-semite!"
  - jgwil2 6y ago
    This isn't a dump, this is a forum specifically meant for sharing code publicly.

dleslie 6y ago

If I were to fork it and remove offensive names and comments, it seems I would be best to obliterate/ignore the revision history. It's kind of an interesting new problem: when disagreeable people make useful FOSS, the revision control system becomes a liability even to those with good intentions.