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I've seen an interesting politically motivated one. It didn't appear to be a bot, just a user from China: https://github.com/umami-software/umami/pull/3678 htt

by ddxv 11mo ago

I've seen an interesting politically motivated one. It didn't appear to be a bot, just a user from China: https://github.com/umami-software/umami/pull/3678 https://github.com/umami-software/umami/pull/3678 The goal is "Taiwan" -> "Taiwan, Province of China" but via the premise of updating to UN ISO standards, which of course does not allow Taiwan. The comment after was interesting with how reasonable it sounds: "This is the technical specification of the ISO 3166-1 international standard, just like we follow other ISO standards. As an open-source project, it follows international technical standards to ensure data interoperability and professionalism." The politics of the intent of the PR was masked. Luckily, it was still a bit hamfisted. The PR incorrectly changed many things and the user stated their political intention in the original PR (the above is from a later comment).

nl 11mo ago
Doubly interesting (and relevant to this discussion) is that it was an AI code review tool that detected the issues with the PR
komali2 11mo ago
One of these days I need to make a bot that scans FOSS repos for this kind of little pink nonsense behavior. The insecurity of wanting to call a place "country name, province of different country name" should alone be mocked. Imagine, "Ukraine, province of Russia," or "India, colony of The United Kingdom." Absurd on its face.
- theshrike79 11mo ago
  It's just information warfare, sign of the times. Every little thing counts, even if it's just changing names in an open source app like that.
- maxbiggaveli 11mo ago
  The problem with this is that, for some folks, its not absurd or nonsense because that is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. So the inverse (calling a province a country) is considered absurd/nonsense.
  - komali2 11mo ago
    > is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. Some people think calling the earth a globe is absurd. Those people are wrong. Is there any particular reason I should entertain their, hm, "opinion?"

by ddxv 11mo ago

nl 11mo ago

Doubly interesting (and relevant to this discussion) is that it was an AI code review tool that detected the issues with the PR

komali2 11mo ago

One of these days I need to make a bot that scans FOSS repos for this kind of little pink nonsense behavior. The insecurity of wanting to call a place "country name, province of different country name" should alone be mocked. Imagine, "Ukraine, province of Russia," or "India, colony of The United Kingdom." Absurd on its face.

theshrike79 11mo ago
It's just information warfare, sign of the times. Every little thing counts, even if it's just changing names in an open source app like that.
maxbiggaveli 11mo ago
The problem with this is that, for some folks, its not absurd or nonsense because that is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. So the inverse (calling a province a country) is considered absurd/nonsense.
- komali2 11mo ago
  > is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. Some people think calling the earth a globe is absurd. Those people are wrong. Is there any particular reason I should entertain their, hm, "opinion?"