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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."
Some programmers suggest a particular extension.
Someone tells them that in North American culture that extension carries a connotation they didn't realize.
The original programmers don't want this connotation so they decide on a different extension.
OMG SJWs are ruining everything!!!!
Is the anti-SJW crowd really this thin skinned?
I stole this Sig
You should watch this: https://youtu.be/pUVhF3jDG08
If you can hold back your instinctive ad-hominem, reserve your judgement until the end and try let let go of your SJW permanently offended attitude it's actually quite insightful and enlightening.
It's not about you. Because you don't experience it or care doesn't mean it can be ignored or dismissed. If I didn't have karma to burn or cared about the inevitable -1 troll mods I'll get for merely arguing that women's experiences might not all be lies, this whole discussion would just be a bunch of SJW bros getting offended and feeling oppressed because someone dared to criticise a decision made by a guy. Basically everything you accuse women of, you are guilty of yourself.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Why are you offended? Someone makes a trivial, well intentioned suggestion that will have zero impact on your life or well being. A simple request to change something because they think it will be an improvement.
Why does this upset you so much? Is it really a threat to you if they don't use .bro as the file extension? What have you lost, how were you injured by this? If you have a genuine argument, I'd love to hear it.
It strikes me as the permanently offended SJW attitude. Anything that threatens the status quo, the existing culture is automatically offensive and sexist and must be resisted.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Now, this gets replaced by feminism, and everybody who doesn't join in the holy movement is an infidel who should be punished.
Who is being punished? As far as I can tell a request to change a file extension was made. Some people got awfully offended by the request, but the people making the requests did not punish anyone.
Sadly, many comments here are like yours. They assume some vast conspiracy and dire consequences for anyone who opposes it, but in reality this was just an innocent suggestion, that did not imply any sexism or bad intent on the part of the person who put forward .bro.
Why are people like you permanently offended and assuming that everyone is out to get them? Why can't someone make a simple suggestion without you turning it into a holy war?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC