Submitted 1 year ago by VitoRobles@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
A project called “Remove-DEI” shows the tweaks used to remove “forbidden words” from a database about childhood school readiness.
I’m a contractor for uscis. We were ordered to change all instances of the word ‘immigrant’ to ‘alien’. We said ok and shrugged because our systems actually use the word ‘person’. They didn’t say anything about that and we didn’t ask
Don’t post stuff like this. They’re actively looking for more things to fuck up.
Will they return the master-slave terminology? It’s actually funny how the Newspeak wheel is turning.
It’s called an euphemism treadmill
Imagine being this fragile
Witch sistahs, what are we gonna do!! Im literally shaking uncontrollably, my transphibian body is levitating.
What a waste of human endeavor.
Literally flushing money down the drain to feed ego. It’s honestly pathetic and disgusting.
Nuh uhn! It’s streamlining the woke removal with maximum efficiency^TM^
Someone smart tell me how to take advantage of this to make the IRS forget I exist.
Don’t worry, they’re working on the IRS too. I saw an anecdote where the Elongated Muskrat said he deleted E-file.
*how to make IRS forgetn’t to tax the rich
No they’ve already figured that out and I’m certainly not rich.
change your name to Diversity E. Inclusion
This made me laugh, it has Wile E. Coyote vibes to it as a solution
for f in \find .`; do sed -i ‘s/wokeness//g’ $f; done`
find -exec my dude
This will break if the filename has spaces in it iirc.
Regex is the real deep state
I think you’re missing the point - Democrats failed to pass UBI and M4A because they love the genocides.
It’s not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they’re not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code
Blocklist is way better than blacklist anyway 😇
Some parts of some DEI initiatives were dumb during the BLM protests, therefore we must do digital nazi bookburnings.🤡
But, it is unlike that. Companies were changing the name of an existing feature to be more inclusive. Trump is more REMOVING data sets or data fields entirely. It’s not renaming “gender” to “sex” because they believe there is no difference, it’s completely removing climate change information from websites.
Same with the master branch.
Imo the main branch should be called the trunk.
You what the master terminology comes from? Master and slave. USB devices do this day use this terminology master device and slave device. There’s no reason to be perpetuating the terms sever and client work fine. Main branch also works fine.
I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.
#000000?
Just call it the zero color wink wink
Does anyone have a list of words that the new administration is now allowing that the previous administration had blocked?
Looking for an advanced copy of the Newspeak Dictionary?
No, I’m curious to know which words or phrases the last administration wasn’t allowing. My guess is that there isn’t such a list.
If it’s still in git, then it’s not actually purged. Just don’t tell the fash.
This level of pettiness could be funny if it wasn’t in control of thr world’s largest army and nuclear arsenal.
Let’s hope that jarheads have some common sense.
Wasn’t there some top brass saying during first term that it’s not that clear-cut “obey bitch” if Mango Mussolini says “fire”?
I recently took a critical eye to the lyrics of the USA national anthem and was surprised to realize that it’s basically about killing people all night long and not getting killed yourself.
To be fair, when the poem was written we were getting our asses kicked and survival was not assured.
If you look at the events of the moment, the significant part is the “not getting killed” part.
If things had gone differently, we could all be speaking English today!
Apparently the new slogan is “Vox Populi No DEI”.
The content filtering approach to government, or, if you will, a filterocracy.
That’s old news.
Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
Internals of state structures being mandated some terminology is not really a violation of free speech.
In theory there are two approaches to discrimination - the neutral and the compensatory. The neutral one is that eventually discrimination will dissolve if the structure is built truly neutrally. The compensatory one is to detect kinds of discrimination and compensate for them specifically. I can imagine both the former and the latter feeling nicer in theory. The former - well, no special cases, just prevent the structure itself from reinforcing injustice. The latter - well, everything in life is a special case, you’ll never have a perfect structure, so it’s better to work with what you have.
It’s like different kinds of interference in radio, requiring different solutions. In fact they are not contradictory and both have their place in a working system (I haven’t heard of such).
What the fuck did I just read? This sounds actually a lot like raw unapologetic hate of people that don’t fit [blank] from society. It’s utterly insane. It will hurt you eventually, you know that right?
Oops no such thing as a neutral state structure, thank you come again
Read 1984, if you haven’t already.
This is exactly what The Party does through simplifying the Newspeak dictionary - targeting words to remove from the lexicon to make even communicating against The Party’s narrative impossible.
DEI is being Unpersoned
The irony that the author was red scared… all this authoritarianism… certainly Trump’s a commie.
The author got backstabbed and almost killed by Stalinists, who turned on them instead of fighting the fascists.
The author was that after getting a look at how Stalin’s USSR worked.
I think we can agree that even a marxist-themed totalitarianism in an English-speaking country is extremely unlikely to be Stalinist, thus similar to 1984.
This is why it’s essential, now more than ever, to keep these words and notions alive, let the truth be an act of rebellion in itself.
Life is meaningless without diversity, and it is up to each and every one of us to protect it.
They usually don’t care, they just claim some imaginary East-Asian country banned any kind of self-expression to the point all people are wearing the same clothes, which made crime disappear over night or some similar bullshit. They want to claim humans are not different by nature.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What would happen if someone began adding banned words to important parts of a database?