Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by beepbooptheory on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:51PM
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The "monkeys" here are clearly refering to those kinds with typewriters.
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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by DANmode on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:07AM
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vs…?
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by lmm on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:52AM
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Apparently there's some specific US cultural history of people calling black people "monkeys" as a racist insult, and so some people from there immediately leap to assume that any use of "monkey" as an insult is that.
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by ekropotin on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:05AM
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What racism has to do with it?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by brabel on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:53AM
(#46066843)
You think that’s an American thing only?? Oh boy, I have bad news.
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by wilg on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:15AM
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Ridiculous to claim this is a "US-specific thing"
https://www.academia.edu/22669911/Comparing_black_people_to_...
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by DANmode on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:53AM
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Oh wow.
Following now.
Sheesh.
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
by blahedo on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:51AM
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Evidently not "clearly", given the number of people who didn't see it, but that was my first interpretation as well: I took it as an "infinite monkeys" reference that, in context, was probably standing in for "some un-tested gen AI output". Which, clicking on the link, seems to be what happened?
Anyway, yes, "infinite monkeys on typewriters" seemed to be the relevant meaning of "monkeys" here.