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Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net)
Seeking compliance with Linux's new Code of Conduct, Intel software engineer Jarkko Sakkinen recently requested comments on a set of changes to kernel code comments which Neowin described as "replacing the F-word with 'hug'. "
80 comments quickly followed on the Linux Kernel Maintainer's List: Several contributors responded to the alterations calling them insane. One wondered if Sakkinen was just trying to make a joke, and another called it censorship and said he'd refuse to apply any sort of patches like this to the code he's in charge of...
Some of the post-change comments read "Some Athlon laptops have really hugged PST tables", "If you don't see why, please stay the hug away from my code", and "Only Sun can take such nice parts and hug up the programming interface".
Eventually LWN.net publisher Jonathan Corbet deflated most of the controversy by pointing out that Linux's new Code of Conduct applies to future comments but clearly indicates that it does not apply explicitly to past comments.
And Jarkko Sakkinen acknowledged that he had missed that part of the discussion.
80 comments quickly followed on the Linux Kernel Maintainer's List: Several contributors responded to the alterations calling them insane. One wondered if Sakkinen was just trying to make a joke, and another called it censorship and said he'd refuse to apply any sort of patches like this to the code he's in charge of...
Some of the post-change comments read "Some Athlon laptops have really hugged PST tables", "If you don't see why, please stay the hug away from my code", and "Only Sun can take such nice parts and hug up the programming interface".
Eventually LWN.net publisher Jonathan Corbet deflated most of the controversy by pointing out that Linux's new Code of Conduct applies to future comments but clearly indicates that it does not apply explicitly to past comments.
And Jarkko Sakkinen acknowledged that he had missed that part of the discussion.
What's a PST table used for, and why is it a problem with Athlon laptops?
There is already plenty of working space where you cucks can work. Go to IBM work on AIX in a safe female controlled environment.
In fact Linux source code should be deliberately spiced up with gender racial and sexual slurs to keep cucks away.
Word police cannot change the way people think.
The result will be that more and more people, when using "hug" in the normal way, will associate it with todays use of the f-word. So they will seek and find a replacement, use a synonym, when really wanting to express "hug".
It is a pointless excercise, only making the language a bit poorer or distorted.
I know you meant it as a joke, but language can change exactly like this. When I was at school, a popular insult was to call people a "spaz" (spastic). Because of its use as a generic insult, some do-gooders required everyone to refer to disabled people as "special". Result: "special" becomes a generic insult. Like: "You're a bit special, aren't you" is equivalent to "you're a spaz" or "you're a retard". More recently, the charity the Spastic Society renamed themselves to "Scope". Result: spastic children are now insultingly referred to as "scopers". So the word "scope" is now also an insult in its own right. The point being, no matter how much do-gooders and SJWs clamp down on acceptable language use, the remaining "permitted" words will be adapted to replace them, turning the "new inclusive terminology" on its own head. This isn't a battle they can win, because human nature, at its nastiest best, will always be creative enough to come up with new "bad" language! And while I don't condone bullying or insulting, it does make me happy to see people sticking their fingers up at the SJW-enforced norms.