Shadow Hog

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Shadow Hog @ShadowHog11/16/2022, 8:08 PM

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walking mirage @atomicthumbs11/15/2022, 8:54 PM

watch atomicthumbs start a fucking war

i've just set off an incendiary device in the FOSS community. let's see how big the fire gets

edit: the post on twitter and mastodon for those so inclined to spread visibility of such things

edit 2: update here

#linux

walking mirage @atomicthumbs11/16/2022, 6:07 PM

so apparently it's within my power to get a package removed from debian and ubuntu and arch

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roy @corhocysen11/15/2022, 9:00 PM

tbf i think you gotta do it on mastodon if you really wanna see some sparks fly

walking mirage @atomicthumbs11/15/2022, 9:26 PM

can do https://tacobelllabs.net/@atomicthumbs/109349923317496233

Luisf @Loosf11/16/2022, 3:32 PM

All things considered, that is one of the best instance names I have seen, lmao

in tuft we trust @tit11/16/2022, 8:31 AM

orange website would have fun with it, too

Sherliz Holmes @JhoiraArtificer11/15/2022, 9:06 PM

some packages hopefully won't survive the conflagration and that's Good

Luisf @Loosf11/15/2022, 9:24 PM

wow

Michaela Sue @beige-alert11/15/2022, 9:47 PM

I'm sure someone will let us know the "off" fortune file is not hate, it's an important part of our open source heritage!

Misty @dog11/15/2022, 10:33 PM

Hope this time gets some attention. I've seen people talking about this one every now and then for years without anyone actually dropping it.

iliana @iliana11/15/2022, 10:36 PM

as a former linux distro package maintainer, ty

Chamomile🐑@chamomile11/15/2022, 11:58 PM

Considering how the WebOOB debacle went a few years ago, I'm sure everyone will treat this in a very calm, respectful manner.

Irenes (many)@ireneista11/16/2022, 12:02 AM

thanks for highlighting this. it would indeed be nice to see action on it.

Starra @Starra11/16/2022, 12:55 AM

a) holy fuck that's absolutely vile b) ohhh this is gonna be a shitshow isn't it

V !@vallerie11/16/2022, 1:04 AM

the fucking dude who's listed as a maintainer for this package has "European" in his bio and RTs uncle fucking bob. what's even going on in OSS land

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF11/16/2022, 2:52 AM

My favorite little factoid here is that the freebsd project made multiple rounds, first excising the -o fortunes (which I will say again, I do not recall having so much Hitler in them back in the late 90s/early 00's) in 2013 and finally ditching the whole thing in 2016 to make people stop whining about the offensive fortunes.

And so some jackass immediately added it to ports with the stuff that was excised in 2013 added back in.

dataphract @dataphract11/16/2022, 2:56 AM

surely this will be handled swiftly and with grace

kyle @-pegasus11/16/2022, 2:58 AM

so you're saying a white south african's emotional support distro has racism in it

-3dB engineer @abby11/16/2022, 3:23 AM

void linux got rid of those real quick once someone pointed it out. If I had known of its existence earlier I probably would've PR'd the removal earlier because yikes

@Random83211/16/2022, 6:15 AM

so! important data point!

not a single goddamn one of the Hitler quotes featured in your original post (nor the ascii art swastika) appears in the fortunes-off package as it existed in Debian 2.2 "potato", circa 2000. They're all later additions.

[There are a handful of Hitler quotes in the original database, though their motivation seems mostly more along the lines of 'isn't it ridiculously ironic that the greatest monster in history claimed never to have persecuted his enemies' than waves hand whatever the fuck this is]

the point being, this is not some Hacker Legacy passed down from Time Immemorial. This is something that was added deliberately by a maintainer who is probably still active in the community.