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There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive
theodp writes: Several weeks ago, Google launched Brotli, a new open source compression algorithm for the web. Since then, controversy broke out over the choice of 'bro' as the content encoding type. "We are hoping to establish a file ending .bro for brotli compressed files, a command line tool 'bro' for compressing and uncompressing brotli files, and a accept/content encoding type 'bro'," explained Google software engineer Jyrki Alakuijala. "Can I talk you out of it?," replied Mozilla SW engineer Patrick McManus. "'bro' has a gender problem, even though the dual meaning is unintentional. It comes of[f] misogynistic and unprofessional due to the world it lives in." Despite some pushback from commenters, a GitHub commit made by Google's Zoltan Szabadka shows that there will be no '.bro' in Brotli. "I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro," explained Alakuijala. "We have found a compromise that satisfies us, so we don't need to discuss this further. Even if we don't understand why people are upset from our cultural standpoint, they would be (unnecessarily) upset and this is enough reason not to use it."
Who says that?
Have the claims of victimhood progressed so far that this is considered offensive? Wow.
Fuck those shrieking harpies. /yes, I am being offensive on purpose.
-- Will program for bandwidth
Get a sense of humor
Friend, there is something I've been saying for decades now: The surest way to ruin a Good Thing is to get a bunch of people involved in it. That's what's happening here: There are too many people in the world, and more to the point too many people on the Internet, and it's just ruining everything for everyone because whereas it's actually a small percentage of people who might get offended at something so small, that small percentage represents a huge number of people, who are not going to allow themselves to be ignored. Case in point: I work at a large technology corporation. There is a small software tool that developers use, and a 32-bit hexadecimal value that shows up in one dialog box defaults to the hex value "DEADBEEF". Clever, right? Also harmless and not at all intended to be offensive. But someone got offended and they made them change it. Stupid, isn't it? Get enough people together and collectively they don't have a sense of humor anymore.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
You're too late.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/FreeBSD's_man_page_misogyny
Note the example there with gendered terms... Is being called fucking HATRED OF WOMEN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268.
Bro pages (man pages with example) are raked over the coals
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/
Man pages now have disclaimers to explain that man is short for manual, so please don't be offended
This HOWTO explains what you should bear in mind when you are going to write on-line documentation -- a so-called man page -- that you want to make accessible via the man(1) command. Throughout this HOWTO, a manual entry is simply referred to as a man page, regardless of actual length and without sexist intention.
Yet another example of political-correctness gone insane. People are not upset, some SJWarrier decides to be insulted by 'bro' and therefore it must be changed. Anyone who says different is a misogynist. Enough of the PC bullshit already. If some people decide to be insulted by some aspect of contemporary culture then that's their prerogative. It's got nothing to do with me, I am under no compulsion to adjust my behaviour or opinions to suit them.
A few weeks ago I posted this: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Usually it's nice to have an(other) example to illustrate a point.
In this case, not so much.
American egocentrism - or arrogance - at its best. The guy you called naive (for not knowing the American cultural intricacies) is from Finland. The name in question comes from German name of a Swiss pastry. I am also of European background and for me the only connotation with the "bro" abbreviation would be the word "brother", which I could not imagine to be offensive. I have done a basic google search and the only indication that it may be a bad name is 6th entry in urban dictionary - which I don't consider a reputable knowledge source. I know I would also have to consult an American feminist to understand the cultural ramifications of the name for the Americans. So PLEASE don't expect the whole world to follow what is offensive in the USA this week and what is not.
I remember reading once about a project where somebody from the Netherlands used the word "ghetto" as a synonym for "poor man's" and some idiot from the US jumped on him for supposedly being racist, whereas for the author it had no racist connotations whatsoever - in Europe poverty is generally race-neutral. For me the word "ghetto" bears far more connotations witih WWII and jewish ghettos, and thus I found the name mildly offensive, but I know better to not impose my cultural background onto other nations and cultures and I try to see the words how they are originally meant by the author rather than distorted by my cultural lens.
LOL. Captcha: "pricking" - please tell me this is not sexist :-)
Actually one of the first "better man page browsers" I ever installed on unix systems (around 1990) was called "woman".
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I disagree - we do have a gender problem. To be acceptable to the social justice sector, males must be emasculated and impotent. I've had recent dealings with some silly cunt who occcupies a "human relations" position. She makes it pretty obvious that she doesn't like men very much, and she especially doesn't like men who speak their minds. If there are any men whom she actually approves of, then they are men who are intimidated by her.
To be fair, she doesn't very much like women who aren't intimidated, either. My boss, a female, has had some rounds with the SJW bitch as well.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
It's not about a file extension, it's about people self-censoring out of fear of a backlash. Of you can't see how dangerous this is then think again. This is way more insidious than some overt dictatorship but it's just as destructive to people's (nearly always men's) lives and should be opposed.
That's how culture works. You face social consequences for violating norms. Things have been like this since time immemorial. There are lots of legal things you wouldn't dream of doing because they violate social norms. You already self-censor "out of fear of a backlash". This isn't some new dangerous thing, it's the way the world has always worked.
If you don't like some norm or value, you've got to change the culture. If you don't like a particular change, however, you're in a much more difficult position. Social change is not easy to undo. Once it happens, you're pretty much stuck with it. You'll find plenty of modern examples, but few (if any) successes.
Let's look at a recent example. It wasn't very long ago that homosexuality was so taboo that it was considered a crime. Now, it's almost completely accepted. Those who still hang on to old norms and values are seen as hateful or backward. We vilify people like Kim Davis, who cling to old beliefs that the rest of society has long abandoned. What would you the odds are of people like her rolling society back to a time when it was okay to be anti-gay? I can't even imagine where they'd begin.
I suspect they either think themselves a 'silent majority, oppressed by a tyrannical enemy' or as some sort of 'band of heroes, fighting for what's right in a world gone mad'. How else would they keep up morale? The reality, of course, is that they've simply been left behind. People realized that the mysterious others they once feared were really just regular folks. It won't be easy to turn them back in to monsters.
We're seeing changes now, no different than the many other changes that came before. Misogyny is just the new homophobia/racism/antisemitism/whatever. You can fight against it, but you'll find that outside Slashdot (and a few other tiny corners of the internet) that the tide has already turned. You're on the more difficult side. I've often called this "the losing side of history", for obvious reasons.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Like it or not, tech does have a brogrammer problem.
WTF. I have never encountered a real brogrammer and only heard of them in combination with a limited number of "hip" and "cool" technologies nobody in their right mind would use ( so limited to "hip" and "cool" startups and those following the hype of the week ). Saying we have a brogrammer problem is like claiming the Arctic has a spider problem.
I should probably have qualified that with "anything any SJW ever said with the intent of being funny."
-jcr
If you talk about "SJW"s you are an SJW, just on the other side.