If this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
is indeed a comment by the person who lost his job, then it does not seem to be.
> While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking. My friends and I had decided forking someone's repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said "I would fork that guys repo" The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us.
That is my reading too. Still misunderstanding does not make something a lie.
Re:The PyCon Incident
by andrewflnr on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:03PM
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I don't recall exactly, but did she actually claim they said that, or just implicitly link the two guys with "other people" who make forking jokes?
The linked pastebin says "the "forking" reference turned out to be a fabrication".