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Per the Linux Foundation it is inappropriate to speak of programs as "hung" due to the political and social history associated with hanging. What makes you thin

Per the Linux Foundation it is inappropriate to speak of programs as "hung" due to the political and social history associated with hanging. What makes you think "ricing" would be considered acceptable language in today's context?

ants_everywhere 1y ago
huh, the past tense of the violent "hang" is "hanged" not "hung". https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hung https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hung "hung" means to "suspend", so the process is suspended
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
  It also means … ahem … a well-endowed gentleman. I’m not sure that AI would necessarily make that mistake, but a semilterate mod, very much could. I think the real issue is the absolute impossibility of appeal. This is a big problem, for outfits like Google or Microsoft, where stories of businesses being shut down for false positive bans are fairly common. In my experience, on the other hand, Apple has always been responsive to appeal. I have released a lot of apps, and have had fairly frequent rejections. The process is annoying, because they seldom tell you exactly what caused the rejection, but I usually figure it out, after one or two exchanges. They are almost always word-choice issues, but not bad words. Rather, they don’t like stuff that can step on their brands. I once had an app rejected, because it had the word “Finder” in its name (it was an app for finding things). The annoying thing, was that the first rejection said it was because it was a simple re-skinning of a Web site. I’m positive that what happened, was that a human assessor accidentally tapped the wrong button on their dashboard.
blibble 1y ago
I don't remember voting the Linux Foundation into power as global word police
- trod1234 1y ago
  I also don't remember voting to allow doublespeak to be the dominant form of definition.
wkat4242 1y ago
The Linux Foundation is a bunch of business suits trying to tell the grassroots FOSS community to follow corporate interests. I don't take them seriously. Just look at their list of directors. It's the fortune 500 right there.

ants_everywhere 1y ago

huh, the past tense of the violent "hang" is "hanged" not "hung". https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hung https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hung "hung" means to "suspend", so the process is suspended

ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
It also means … ahem … a well-endowed gentleman. I’m not sure that AI would necessarily make that mistake, but a semilterate mod, very much could. I think the real issue is the absolute impossibility of appeal. This is a big problem, for outfits like Google or Microsoft, where stories of businesses being shut down for false positive bans are fairly common. In my experience, on the other hand, Apple has always been responsive to appeal. I have released a lot of apps, and have had fairly frequent rejections. The process is annoying, because they seldom tell you exactly what caused the rejection, but I usually figure it out, after one or two exchanges. They are almost always word-choice issues, but not bad words. Rather, they don’t like stuff that can step on their brands. I once had an app rejected, because it had the word “Finder” in its name (it was an app for finding things). The annoying thing, was that the first rejection said it was because it was a simple re-skinning of a Web site. I’m positive that what happened, was that a human assessor accidentally tapped the wrong button on their dashboard.

blibble 1y ago

I don't remember voting the Linux Foundation into power as global word police

trod1234 1y ago
I also don't remember voting to allow doublespeak to be the dominant form of definition.

wkat4242 1y ago

The Linux Foundation is a bunch of business suits trying to tell the grassroots FOSS community to follow corporate interests. I don't take them seriously. Just look at their list of directors. It's the fortune 500 right there.