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Re:The Problem with Perceptual Hashes by feanaro on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:28PM (#28101994)
> The only thing "the SJW crowd" has changed is which words are now seen as offensive.

Well, that, and also bullying thousands of well-meaning projects into doing silly renamings they didn't want or need to spend energy on. Introducing thousands of silly little bugs and problems downstream, wasting thousands of productive hours.

Re:The Problem with Perceptual Hashes by wpietri on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:38AM (#28113063)
Even if that were the case, which I'm skeptical of, you're missing the other side of the productivity question. One of the major shifts in acceptable language relates to inclusion, especially in regards to gender and race. Given open source's ongoing diversity problem [1], you have to reckon with all the labor lost from excluding people.

[1] e.g.: https://www.wired.com/2017/06/diversity-open-source-even-wor...