lyra

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

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

wow

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!

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.

as a former linux distro package maintainer, ty

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

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

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

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

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.

surely this will be handled swiftly and with grace

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

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

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.

the Venn diagram of people who will defend this software package being in Ubuntu's repos and people who will defend Richard Stallman is a circle.

Congrats on seeing them pulled :) now we get to see self-identifying folks come outta the woodwork