Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting

• SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Or we could ask the question in the opposite direction - why would you use language which excluded anybody who doesn’t identify as male from the documentation for an open-source project, to the point where when someone offers to update the language for you your response is to rant about “personal politics” and write a contribution policy which forbids the use of gender-neutral language?

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  • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can you provide an example of this non-inclusive language? I honestly can’t even come up with an example for web browser documentation that would refer to any gender at all.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “In case of browser crash, the male, white, cis user should submit a bug report”

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If the user is female, a report should be submitted by her closest male relative.

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    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and he will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.

      As opposed to

      To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and they will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.

      github.com/…/beb448fc248f1cbd82a4c68ddf72687203d4…

      That’s the example linked to from the thread which started the controversy off: github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

      [Tunas1337]

      It’s a minor nitpick, but I think it’s important; assuming the user and/or developer of the operating system is male isn’t exactly the best.

      [awesomekling]

      |> This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know the actual thing that happened but I’m assuming “the user [something] <his/him/he> [something]”

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• A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Whether or not the inclusion controversy is “overblown” (it’s not; single word change would have made more people feel welcome, but Kling decided to put his for down) Kling has down himself to be Nazi adjacent.

  hyperborea.org/reviews/…/ladybird-inclusivity/

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  • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Apparently Kling was against using “they” instead of “he”. While I do agree that it’s wrong and gender neutral terms should be used, I wouldn’t “cancel” the guy over it. Afaik they are using gender neutral terms now.

    The other stuff about Kling mentioned at the bottom of your link is worrying though. It’s a shame a project as important and necessary as Ladybird was created by a person like him :(

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  • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good thing it’s an open source project so it doesn’t really matter at all what you think of someone working on it imo

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