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Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by flir on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:06PM (#42940483)
It's Microsoft. If they were serious they would have, say, refused to sell Office licenses to the worst-offending police departments. Instead they renamed master to main. If it was me (it's not, I'm a pasty white guy) I'd find it condescending. But it's also harmless, and shorter to type. It's not a hill I'm going to die on, and the false equivalency smacks of bad faith.
Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by Cornbilly on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:51PM (#42942482)
I agree. There is no way people being annoying about some possibly inconsiderate naming conventions is the same as malicious actors going out of their way to delete information.

I was just pointing out that the companies that changed terminology due to “wokeness” only did it for a PR. It was never an actual endorsement of progressive politics or whatever these dorks try to sell it as.

Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by flir on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:07AM (#42946406)
Sorry if it came off like I wasn't agreeing. Whatever the progressive equivalent of greenwashing is. That.