Free and Open Source Software

17926 readers

40 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

134

don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)

submitted 4 months ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Celestus@lemm.ee 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s pretty stupid of the developer to have that attitude. I think it’s equally as stupid to advocate against using a piece of software because of that, though

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really perfectionism just grammar

I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly I don't even care when humankind is referred to as 'Man'. People don't (want to) get that in this context it is meant inclusively to refer to all humans, and not just physically men. It's 'man' for historical reasons and its interpretation should change with time just like with that of eg. the constitution.