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Why the 'Git'? Linus: I‘m an egotistical bastard...

24 points by tvvocold 11y ago

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ngoldbaum 11y ago
I've never seen qinghuai.org. It seems to be a Chinese-language HN. Is that correct?
- jmduke 11y ago
  Specifically, it appears to be a fork of Lobsters (https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/).
- cremno 11y ago
  It looks like a Lobsters installation: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters Oh, and don't click on 常见问题(慎入).
nindalf 11y ago
I think this submission is related to yesterday's discussion on Github's banning of the word "retard". Some people pointed out that git is a "bad word" and they should censor projects that use the word, such as http://github.com/git/git http://github.com/git/git The word as its used today means a person who is “pig headed, thinks they are always correct, argumentative”. The original meaning was "a person of illegitimate parentage". If we applied Github's logic to this, it is clear that people born out of wedlock feel unwelcome in the open source community.
- aaron695 11y ago
  Link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 [edit] Comment of note from the repo owner in the github conservation - https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67#commitcomment-12417836 https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa... Search on Github for retard - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard&type=Code&...
  - anon3_ 11y ago
    > [edit] Comment of note from the repo owner in the github conservation - https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa.. https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa.... Funny find: there are people in that thread from China who are laughing at the censorship we face in USA due to political correctness.
- anon3_ 11y ago
  The problem is it's not the business of GH to take a political side - but with arbitrary censorship - you end up having to. If you make a satire of feminism (C+=, ToleranUX) you get banned. It's ok to harass https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker/blob/master/sourcelist.txt https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker/blob/master/sou... in the open, because it's a girl running the project.
  - anonymousab 11y ago
    I think automatically terminating downstream forks from the 'problem' without contact and taking several days to respond to support emails is more concerning. Companies imposing their morality on their customers isn't really unexpected nor surprising. But the way in which they went about this seemed exceptionally sloppy.
    - anon3_ 11y ago
      > I think automatically terminating downstream forks from the 'problem' without contact and taking several days to respond to support emails is more concerning. They are safe harbors for them, they shouldn't be playing priest / police period. If you look up GGAutoBlocker's author, she claims to be an anti-harassment advocate, yet the first two pages of her on Google are about her meth addiction and her provoking fights with people she doesn't know. BTW, I never heard of this lady until she linked my HN profile on twitter. https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/613273053930229760 https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/613273053930229760 It's none of their business for their moderators to impose their politics.
  - tzs 11y ago
    Be careful when you talk about that blocker. Roberto Rosario criticized it, calling it's algorithm the most idiotic algorithm he's seen in 29 years of programming. He later apologized for that wording, but said he still disagrees with the algorithm. This, and a tweet where he said that while he takes no stance on #gamergate, as Chairman of IDGA Puerto Rico he has to denounce someone who said everybody who is pro #gamergate should be sent to Nazi gas chambers, got him labeled a harasser, and a leader of gamergate. In the 9 months since then, he and his family have been harassed. Much of that is linked to in the discussion here [1]. He has since been forced to stepped down as Chair of the Python Cuba working group due to the harassers contacting his employer and his employers clients [2]. [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-June/000071.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-June/0000... [2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-July/000106.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-July/0001...
Yhippa 11y ago
As an aside Google Translate has come a long way. I was able to figure out what people were saying despite never learned any Mandarin ever.

24 points by tvvocold 11y ago

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ngoldbaum 11y ago

I've never seen qinghuai.org. It seems to be a Chinese-language HN. Is that correct?

jmduke 11y ago
Specifically, it appears to be a fork of Lobsters (https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/).
cremno 11y ago
It looks like a Lobsters installation: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters Oh, and don't click on 常见问题(慎入).

nindalf 11y ago

I think this submission is related to yesterday's discussion on Github's banning of the word "retard". Some people pointed out that git is a "bad word" and they should censor projects that use the word, such as http://github.com/git/git http://github.com/git/git The word as its used today means a person who is “pig headed, thinks they are always correct, argumentative”. The original meaning was "a person of illegitimate parentage". If we applied Github's logic to this, it is clear that people born out of wedlock feel unwelcome in the open source community.

aaron695 11y ago
Link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118 [edit] Comment of note from the repo owner in the github conservation - https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67#commitcomment-12417836 https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa... Search on Github for retard - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard&type=Code&...
- anon3_ 11y ago
  > [edit] Comment of note from the repo owner in the github conservation - https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa.. https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baa.... Funny find: there are people in that thread from China who are laughing at the censorship we face in USA due to political correctness.
anon3_ 11y ago
The problem is it's not the business of GH to take a political side - but with arbitrary censorship - you end up having to. If you make a satire of feminism (C+=, ToleranUX) you get banned. It's ok to harass https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker/blob/master/sourcelist.txt https://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker/blob/master/sou... in the open, because it's a girl running the project.
- anonymousab 11y ago
  I think automatically terminating downstream forks from the 'problem' without contact and taking several days to respond to support emails is more concerning. Companies imposing their morality on their customers isn't really unexpected nor surprising. But the way in which they went about this seemed exceptionally sloppy.
  - anon3_ 11y ago
    > I think automatically terminating downstream forks from the 'problem' without contact and taking several days to respond to support emails is more concerning. They are safe harbors for them, they shouldn't be playing priest / police period. If you look up GGAutoBlocker's author, she claims to be an anti-harassment advocate, yet the first two pages of her on Google are about her meth addiction and her provoking fights with people she doesn't know. BTW, I never heard of this lady until she linked my HN profile on twitter. https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/613273053930229760 https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/613273053930229760 It's none of their business for their moderators to impose their politics.
- tzs 11y ago
  Be careful when you talk about that blocker. Roberto Rosario criticized it, calling it's algorithm the most idiotic algorithm he's seen in 29 years of programming. He later apologized for that wording, but said he still disagrees with the algorithm. This, and a tweet where he said that while he takes no stance on #gamergate, as Chairman of IDGA Puerto Rico he has to denounce someone who said everybody who is pro #gamergate should be sent to Nazi gas chambers, got him labeled a harasser, and a leader of gamergate. In the 9 months since then, he and his family have been harassed. Much of that is linked to in the discussion here [1]. He has since been forced to stepped down as Chair of the Python Cuba working group due to the harassers contacting his employer and his employers clients [2]. [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-June/000071.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-June/0000... [2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-July/000106.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-July/0001...

Yhippa 11y ago

As an aside Google Translate has come a long way. I was able to figure out what people were saying despite never learned any Mandarin ever.