RockyC

@RockyC@lemm.ee

Humanist, tinkerer, geek, student of life. Starting a new career journey after 25 years in I.T.

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SerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations - ░ Nova Online (cmdr-nova.online)

Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

RockyC , 1 day ago (edited 1 hour ago)

Are we really complaining about gendered pronouns in source code notes for a web browser?

Is that what we are doing?

There are mountains of bigger fish to fry, y’all. Social change doesn’t happen overnight. It can take decades or longer.

Widespread language changes have historically taken decades or even centuries to occur.

Ask any woman or person of color over the age of 50 about the CONSTANT slights or worse endured every day for most of their lives for some perspective.

Fight the good fight, absolutely, but this isn’t worth getting angry over - at least not from what I’ve read so far.

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