Posts by sabroni

I too will post a single line

A single line I posted

to post more wouldn't be a single line

so just one for me

Re: Golly. Without Hitler.

Read as a bit of free prose that's actually quite moving, in a "documenting my mental breakdown" way.....

Re: then tell me why the NSDAP has socialist slap bang in the middle of the title

The same reason Social Science has science in the name, to make it sound like something it isn't.

Re: Trump will walk it in November

Only if he gets the military to clear the peaceful protesters out of the way with pepper spray and rubber bullets.

Re: Eugenics - Sometimes a good decision - is what I think.

Well, would you do us a favour and remove yourself from the gene pool then?

thugs from BLM

They didn't turn up, remember? Our thugs protect statues by attacking the police.

Try and keep up.

To its credit, Google is trying to simplify the process of delivering Android updates for vendors.

That's the problem right there. Google launched Android with no thought for updates, originally claiming that it couldn't be done. They've dragged their heels over this for years, allowing billions of flawed devices to be distributed.

Some people will point the finger at the vendors but they didn't create an OS with no update mechanism, they just decided a free OS was too good a deal to miss.

Re: Where will this end....

With black list becoming denylist and master becoming main?

Are there any other genuine suggestions for change that people have seen? The only things reported here have been whitelist/blacklist and master/slave.

This "where will it end" stuff is known as the slipperly slope fallacy.

Re: Master copy

It's making racists angry, that's good!!

Re: the only ones they can master....

Oh please explain how not changing things will end racism you massive brained genius!

Re: Master copy

Where does it stop? Don't you mean "think of the children!!".

It's a slippery slope, this one.....

Re: Fix the problem, and the name won't matter.

That's certainly a better solution, you make it sound simple.

How do we fix institutional racism?

I'm presuming you've got some better ideas, let's hear them!!

Re: Let's go through this point by point

It's not a straw man at all. Look at Marvin Rees, the black mayor of Bristol, being asked why he hadn't removed the statue of colston. If the first thing a black mayor did was remove statues of white slave traders can you imagine the backlash?

That's why white people have to join the fight. You think this change is stupid? Suggest something better!

This isn't people who are offended by the word master. This is people who've been part of a racist system all their lives trying to find ways to change that system.

Black people can't change white society. White people have to change to fix institutional racism. This is little more than tinkering around the edges but it's SOMETHING and people are desperate for some way to help.

So instead of moaning about the loss of your beloved terminology come up with something more constructive we can do to eliminate racism. The current system is broken. Saying that it should work, that it should be a meritocracy, achieves nothing. So what are we going to do to fix it? If changing language doesn't help, what will?

Re: BTW: How did that work out?

Did that original someone *ever* do anything else 'worthwhile' for that open source project? Or any other?

I'd like to seriously know. My guess: No. REAL developers care about programming and functionality and quality. NOT racism and systemic oppression.

Fixed it for you.

Re: Why people are getting so up in arms about this is beyond me.

Duh.

White privilege.

re: We do. But first and foremost.....

Really sounds like "We don't" when you read the rest of your post.

"I want it to be adopted by other people but ONLY ONCE THEY'VE BECOME EXACTLY LIKE ME!"

Re: not the colour of the people doing them.

Asking me not to mention colour after white police killed another black man?

Why not?