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Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com)
quantic_oscillation7 shares a report: The latest notes from the Debian anti-harassment team on Wednesday caught my attention when reading, "We were requested to advice on the appropriateness of a certain package in the Debian archive. Our decision resulted in the package pending removal from the archive." Curiosity got the best of me... What package was deemed too inappropriate for the Debian archive?
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
Just change the name to something like Webob . . . . oh wait, that may be worse.
First Boobs!
I'm at work. I don't know if I should google it. WTF does 'weboob' mean? Why should I be offended by it?
Problem solved - GET BACK TO WORK you neckbearded shirkslags.
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
(...) likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments (...)
That may well be but it's also completely irrational. The only thing "wrong" with the name is that people probably associate it with boobs, which is all in their heads. Even worse, they apparently fear boobs. Which is also in their heads.
So Debian has now banned a package because its combination of letters triggers irrational things in peoples heads. They've gone mad.
Also, on top of that, there's nothing wrong with boobs. On the contrary: they are what feed our babies and they are the most defining body part of our the class of mammals. They are beautiful and shall be honored, for example by naming software after them.
Boobs.
0x or or snor perron?!
It hurts.
And I meant that Debian has an "anti-harassment team" that can remove packages. This is the wrong way to solve _what_ problem?
It is just sad how PC the world has become. If you are offended -- go fuck yourself.
OMG we have some foul language in our source code -- need a PR now!
OMG the name of a package has the word boob in it -- MUST REMOVE NOW!
Fucking ridiculous.
-- http://anonet.org -- The internet the way it was meant to be. Check it out, you may be surprised.
also, i guess systemd is somehow involved when it's about "fixing" a non-problem (as per systemd motto "if its not broken, you're not trying hard enough")...?
Debian's anti-harassment and sugarland fairy team removed the number 8008. This number is just juvenile and inappropriate in corporate environments. This will not affect the size of objects in anyway as infinity will not be affected and calculators will refuse to allow the number to be punched in.
"The missing number doesn't really affect the accuracy of the numbers as, at that size, its little more than a rounding error and the slight inconvenience is inconsequential to affecting the feelings of millions of persons and transgender persons who are offended by the term"
Sometimes guys an an acronym is just that.
It's important to have a team looking out for things like this.
Well I certainly won't be supporting or using Debian when I need a distro to use. These SJW's are fucking crazy.
If anti-harassment is the reason why it was being removed, why was there no mention of who was being harassed and who reported the harassment?
Long signatures suck.
Please remove all forms of humor from your everyday life. Only pre-approved smiles will be permitted.
-- Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
I mean, it's stupid and silly, but don't you see the latent irony in you crying and breathlessly whining about political correctness like this is a big deal? It's not. Dry your tears snowflake.
Maybe we need to ban most of these dirty commands too!
That's right, the only ones doing the harrasment.
Removing cuss-words from source, changing package names. Political "correctness" is bullshit.
Your rights to tell me what to do end at your fucking fingertips. But of course, from Linus down to the usual neckbeards, they're pushing this bullshit. If you need a "safe space", then you can't handle reality.
Fucking wankers.
Um no "Web-Oh-Oh-Bee" is perfectly fine. The name is only juvenile of you yourself are a child and decide to pronounce it a different way.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Read the team notes. The package was not flagged for removal because of the name.
Programming Using Several Scripts Yourself
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Okay, it's "Weboob", not, "We Love Boobs". This is totally overstretching it with the PC.
And how non-juvenile do "Google", "Bing", "Yahoo", "Hadoop" and other IT corporations or services sound?
It's all about the silly juvenile words!
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
If it isn't objectionable when it actually refers to mammary glands on well endowed non- or pre-mastectomy patients, then it isn't objectionable when it refers to the web software.
This is the same kind of stupidity that plagues things like the closed captioning on one specific TV channel -- MeTV -- for example. Watch with CC turned on and you'll see the actors making "xxxxtails", or playing badminton with "shuttlexxxxs". Or our lovely local newspaper with a blog that won't allow anyone to refer directly to a city councilor whose first name is "Richard" but always goes by his nickname.
Sheesh. People think the world hates us because we "meddle". Maybe it's because we make such big stupid stinks over such ridiculous first-world problems.
Now this shit. What's next? No audio without a flaky, unnecessary daemon?
Can't use something silly enough to do such stupid shit.
It's weird how a tiny vocal minority can get through stupid shit like this.
Fuck Debian.
Never believed I would write or say that.
Don't we all boob? Who's the target here?
If anti-harassment is the reason why it was being removed, why was there no mention of who was being harassed and who reported the harassment?
This. I'm normally in favor of going after assholes who abuse and intimidate others. The extreme right would probably label me an SJW for not approving of sexual harassment, or being perfectly OK with Les Moonves being thrown out on his ass without his $120M golden parachute.
But this is ridiculous, and this is why, to paraphrase Bill Maher, "nobody likes you." It's not enough to be enlightened enough to go after dicks, you've got to learn how to not be one yourself. This smacks of the kind of humorless overzealousness that leadds to things like "woody" being banned because these fools can't tell if you're referring to an animated child's toy from a Pixar movie, or an erection, and since it could, possibly, be the latter, better ban it!
Remember the boob tube? It didn't refer to women's breast, it referred to the "boobs" (idiots) who watched it. But I bet that will set the fools off foaming at the mouth, and I say that as one who by and large SUPPORTS anti-harrassment policies.
It's WebOOB, not Weboob, you stupid apes. Oh wait, apes are smarter than you, so I won't want to insult apes. How about cockroaches? Yeah, that's better.
It's WebOOB, not Weboob, you stupid cockroaches.
If anybody had read the Anti-Harassment team recommendation, you would not be posting this click-bait troll-calling piece.
In particular, you should read this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907199#47
Excerpt:
"We believe the next release should not contain the package in question
in its current state; our recommendation would be to either work with
upstream on correcting these issues, forking and/or patching it, or just
removing the package."
The removal was only requested because upstream refused to do any changes and because nobody in Debian did the needed work.
Maybe we need to ban most of these dirty commands too!
And these, lest some git brings out the gimp!
The enemy has clearly managed to get even deeper into Debian.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
At this rate, you may as well prevent the use of language that is inappropriate in EVERY language.
How many languages share words where only one considers it swearing, inappropriate or other such vulgarities?
Here are some.
Get to it, try to trigger as many of these legit retards as you can. Maybe they'll literally have a heart attack and we won't need to deal with their PC bullshit any longer.
Debian, you're put in the shitlist. I'll review your status in a year.
If you washed your hands of these fucktards, I may consider your services again.
Censoring WebOOB. Christ is rolling on his cross.
The double-o construct in this short follows a long engineering tradition of shortening "out of" or "outside of" as "oo".
For example, in safety engineering, a system element which defines safety requirements on the environment in which it is to be integrated is referred to a "Safety element out of context", or "SEooC". Another example is the short hands for the various redundancy design patterns, like "two out of three", or "three out of five", which are usually referred to "2oo3" and "3oo5".
So a piece of software named "Web outside of browsers" could very well be spelled out "weboob" or "woob" without there being any trace of immature or malign intent.
As usual, this tells us more about the minds and anxiety of the anti-harassment team, than the authors of this package.
to watch for dubious package names, that's all. It's not nothing to do with harassment, and if there wasn't a growing anti-SJW community riding a massive overreaction to an overreaction for YouTube videos and Patreon donations (with a healthy dose of money from right wing think tanks) we wouldn't have even noticed.
Keep calm and Debian on. This kind of stuff happens. Middle managers get sticks up their but over this sort of thing. If you've got to blame somebody blame them.
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
While I agree with your statement, it's also reasonable to request that the name be changed. Consider all the trouble GIMP's name has caused, even though originally, I presume, it was just an acronym.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
web-oob would be sufficient a name change.
Allt hey need to do is ad an 'o' and resubmit the package.
Of course, this is like that U.S. state that prohibited a man from getting hs legal last name on a license plate,
I tough it was the UI design underlying concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship - Why don't you familiarize your snowflake ass with the real world for a bit? Crying solves nothing and this isn't a big deal, but if you want to be outraged and cry and whine about it, that's fine too.
Let it all out sweetheart. Cry and cry and cry until the evil Debian dictatorship is overthrown.
When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. This shit will continue until the "Anti-Harassment Team" is disbanded.
Does the name Seahorse offend you? It will after you accidentally save credentials you don't want saved in Gnome/MATE desktop and then have to figure out which program handles them.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I've been running Debian on a hosted virtual machine for the past 15 years or so. I guess it's time to find a new distribution. I don't use Weboob, but I'm not going to support an organization that has given in to terrorists.
Commands are in a global namespace and should be kept short, with minimal non-alpha characters for usability. There simply aren't that many options. This decision is fucking stupid.
Why does a package repo need to be a 'safe space'?
We have lots of natural rights as humans, but 'not being offended' is not a human right.
Sounds worse the Weboob in my opinion...
https://wiki.debian.org/freedi...
BlameBillCosby.com
Will eventually go to far and make themselves in to a perfect copy of what they are there to prevent.
just name it MeToo that should fix it
From http://weboob.org/applications...
.torrent files.
Textual applications, both command-line and REPL.
Boobank - List your bank accounts balances, their expenses, transfer money, etc.
Boobcoming - List events, fill your calendar.
Boobill - List your subscriptions, view and download the bill details.
Booblyrics - Get lyrics of songs.
Boobmsg - Read and post public and private messages.
Boobooks - List your books rented and get your booking history.
Boobsize - Display various gauges status.
Boobtracker - View, edit and create issues on bugtrackers.
Cineoob - Search movies, persons, torrents, subtitles, and get info about them.
Comparoob - Compare prices of products.
Cookboob - Search recipes, find one, and cook.
Flatboob - Search for housings to buy or rent.
Galleroob - Find and download web image galleries.
Geolooc - Geolocalize IP addresses.
Handjoob - Search for a job.
Havedate - Interact with dating websites, and get popular.
Parceloob - Parcel tracking.
Pastoob - Submit and get text (source code, backtraces) to pastebin-like websites.
Radioob - Search for radios, and get direct stream URLs and current playing songs.
Shopoob - Obtain details and status of e-commerce orders.
Suboob - Find and download subtitles.
Translaboob - Translation functions.
Traveloob - View public transportation timetables.
Videoob - Search for videos, get their direct URLs, download them or play them.
WebContentEdit - Manage and edit content on supported collaborative websites like wikis.
weboob-config - Show, install, update and configure backends.
Weboorrents - Search for torrents and download the
Wetboobs - Display current weather and to see forecasts.
(before you mod troll, read the links below)
Good riddance:
1. https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/commit/f65830ba4e8dc46edcf5e895b508f898fa25e969
2. https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/commit/97e417a44924f2fdda8b881c946eacc9af4cc0d3
It is just an acronym and probably not super offensive. If juvenile developers are making a point of saying the name a lot in front of women because they are not comfortable with boobs and creepy behavior is their outlet, then by all means change the name.
systemD would be what would set me off.
Anything that ends in a D should be immediately removed from all debian distros,
libcaca.
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libca...
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Insanity is getting out of hand.
SJW's and Women are going to be the undoing of years of progress that linux has made. Guess what SJWs, linux is open source, if you don't like the way a project is being run fork it and spin up your own SJW snowflake linux distro. Then the general populous can vote with their installs which direction they want to go. But as typical with liberal SJWs, they just want to force their views down your throat.
It is no wonder the MGTOW movement is gaining more traction with the harassment coming from women who like to throw around the word misogynist like a kid that just learned a new cuss word. Might be time for us guys to start throwing the word misandry at them
You what?! Were you thinking when you misspelled thought?
Git has its own meaning in UK English.
Boob? Really? Turn-your-calculator upside-down boob?
"But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments." Ugh....what a disgustingly lame comment -_-
Guys, gals - this is a waste of our preciously limited neuronal capacity.
I've been a debian user, supporter and developer for over 20 years.
I'm the first one to shut down losery assholes when they disrespect others, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or any other immutable trait. Further, I absolutely get that women, in particular, face endless bullshit from loser guys who just can't behave.
But the political correctness thing in general (and this in particular) is like cancer. Once it starts, it spreads, until eventually it kills the host.
Remember, folks: offense is taken, not given.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
what's wrong with boobs? Why should ordinary body parts be stigmatized?
What next, is Debian going to shame mothers for breast feeding in public because someone might be offended? How about in a profile pic. It's puritanical nonsense and belongs in a different century.
We all know about the town of Scunthorpe. I suppose that talking about Dickeybirds is right out? Be sure you don't mishit any balls. And British bird watchers are eagerly awaiting the day that the Great Tit becomes extinct, so they don't have to talk about it any longer.
More seriously, if Debian is removing Weboob, then they also need to remove all of the following packages: Liboobs, Titanion and TitanTools. If they do not, inquiring minds want to know why...
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
It's about time we get Linux politically correct.
"man" pages are a relic of toxic masculinity and the superiority complex of the patriarchy and are now "person" pages.
The "yes" command is considered reaffirming the male belief that the only applicable answer a woman could ever give is actually yes and it will now be complemented by a "no" command. Ignoring this results in a crash of the system, this is not a bug but a feature of the system protecting itself from being overpowered by its (usually male) user.
Likewise, commands are no longer allowed to accept --force parameters.
"mail" shows gender bias and will for now be symlinked to "femail" until a gender neutral replacement can be established.
You are no longer allowed to "touch" files without proper permission.
"more" is no longer available as a relic of the consumer-capitalist ideals of more being always better, the use of "less" is now enforced for all applications.
The environmentally problematic Latex is replaced by the biodegradable Kleenex.
shell commands
"kill" is no longer appropriate and has been replace with the much more acceptable "euthanize". Programs have to agree to being euthanized before their termination.
"abort()" is now "choice()"
"history" has been rewritten. It's now "herstory".
terminology and phrases
Terminals are no longer considered "dumb" or "smart". All are equally valuable.
The word "Daemons" is considered pejorative in some religions, we now speak of "spiritual guides".
X-Window system is now the NC-17 Window System.
I dare not continue. Some idiot will probably take this serious and do it...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I was once given a talking-to for creating a web-based system for tracking customer problems and calling it:
Ticket
Initiation and
Tracking
System.
It was totally worth it.
I have a "Zero Policy" tolerance.
*/
After digging deeper, I've decided to provide links and no commentary
https://translate.google.com/t...
(although some of it is in english)
http://weboob.org/applications...
https://lists.debian.org/debia...
http://laurent.bachelier.name/...
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/...
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/...
Hypocrites.
People can be weeded out based on them knowing how to be mature adults or not. It's Web Oh Oh Bee. If you say "web boob" you're a child and we don't hire children. Sorry kid!
The only reason this hasn't happened to GIMP is because people would revolt if they removed the program.
Seriously, let's get rid of these "anti-harassment" people. It only attracts Frank Burns types, from M*A*S*H*.
debian wasting resource on BS, saving no one and pissing others off
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
Apparently it goes beyond the name and other parts of it include juvenile humor. It's something the developers will regret later. I know I'm kinda embarrassed nowadays about all the tables, columns and functions I've used "Ass" as short hand for words like "Assignment", "Association" etc,etc. I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Oops, forgot they neutered all the capital letters and can't use case to provide further discernment....
Fuck this PC movement! We canâ(TM)t use the term master and slave anymore either? When will the liberal morons realize that just because a word could be interpreted as offensive doesnâ(TM)t mean it needs to banned! Letâ(TM)s ban white hat and black hat terms since it could refer to race while weâ(TM)re at it.
Does the name Seahorse offend you? .
Seahorses are transgender
Hex grep all packages for instances of the hex sequence b00b, and remove all of those packages immediately. I am so offended by b00b that I cannot be associated at all with anything that has b00b or any of its derivatives or likenesses built in.
I DEMAND THIS IN THE NAME OF COMMON DECENCY.
So triggered...
The word "boob" isn't a verb, so the word sequence "We Boob" makes zero sense. This is a perfect example of why these idiots should be not just ignored, but actively shun. Nobody in their right mind sees "weboob" and takes offense, and it is a sad day when they didn't simply immediately reply to the complaintant that they sound stupid making such a ridiculous complaint. Next up .... OMFG Firefox ... That's animal cruelty!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
The idiots have taken control, how is possible that the West (the U.S. more general) have give rise to such weird little people.
I think people need to start learning Chinese or Russian.
Well, if you set up a committee to find offensive stuff, they will find it. Guaranteed. Even if they - as in this case - have to dig exceedingly deep.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Blue-footed booby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
“The name booby comes from the Spanish word bobo ("stupid", "foolish", or "clown") because the blue-footed booby is, like other seabirds, clumsy on land.[3] They are also regarded as foolish for their apparent fearlessness of humans.[2]”
This is also where we get the nickname “boob tube” for television (a.k.a. “idiot box”).
Any would-be objection based on ignorant, juvenile misreadings of this term is itself stupid, foolish & clownish.
Enough with the P.C. B.S.! Time to consider boycotting Debian for their junior high school level of immature oversensitivity. Sheesh!
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I believe it was Gnome Image Manipulation Program, though I don't know if that was the original name or a backronym.
[Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/07/msg00336.html)
>So apart from objectification of women, but without instrumentalization or degrading message, I was not able to find serious consequences. As much as I would prefer things to be different (I already told upstream in the past) I don't feel I have any right or special wisdom allowing me to dictate people to act and think differently. Banning content because it displease me and make people uncomfortable while no direct harm has been found is unlikely to have a positive effect. **Consequently unless harmful content I'm not aware of is discovered in this package I am not going to remove it from the archive.** I would consider adding a neutral warning message in the package description though, so people can individually decide for themselves if this is acceptable from their own point of view.-- Marc Dequènes
WebOoB capitalization should render this whole clownish kerfuffle moot, by the way. ...
So too would renaming it WebDiK or WebKoK or WebKLiT or
The name is not juvenile.
I suspect it got its name for juvenile reasons, like several other packages. It looks unprofessional.
This is a thing now? If you have nothing useful to contribute to open source, just go somewhere else please. Back when I was a participant, things like this would a) not happen or b) be shut down for wasting time.
What about liboobs?
# apt-cache search boob
liboobs-1-5 - GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - shared library
There's also git /t/
git
noun INFORMALBRITISH
noun: git; plural noun: gits
an unpleasant or contemptible person.
Wah, so a package got a name change. If this is the biggest thing in your life to complain about today, you are a RIDICULOUS AND PETTY FAGGOT. Run along now bitches, find real problems or die trying.
Anti-PC is the same thing as PC, you are petty.
jason@raspberrypi3 ~ $ apt search weboob
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
python-weboob/stable 1.2-1 all
Weboob, Web Out Of Browsers - library
python-weboob-core/stable 1.2-1 all
transitional dummy package
weboob/stable 1.2-1 all
CLI applications to interact with websites
weboob-qt/stable 1.2-1 all
Qt applications to interact with websites
jason@raspberrypi3 ~ $
A sandstorm is called a haboob. Will that need a new PC compliant name?
You must absolutely loathe your second name by now.
I still don't get the big deal about Uranus being a Gas Giant. How is that funny?
With fear of unleashing a deluge of PC obsession, the X11 code base has questionable naming of subsystems, dix, privates, etc. Uh-oh, here it comes.
Wah, so a package got a name change. If this is the biggest thing in your life to complain about today, you are a RIDICULOUS AND PETTY FAGGOT. Run along now bitches, find real problems or die trying.
Anti-PC is the same thing as PC, you are petty.
Show me six lines by the most loyal of men, and in them I shall find reason to hang him.
Paraphrased from some very eloquent guy.
-=This sig has nothing to do with my comment. Move along now=-
So a package gets a name change. If this is the biggest thing in your life to complain about today, you are a RIDICULOUS AND PETTY FAGGOT. Run along now bitches, find real problems or die trying.
Anti-PC is the same thing as PC, you are petty snowflake shit complaining about something trivial. Yes, the package will continue to exist and nobody will really care whether it says boobs or not, outside of this group.
Why you picked this hill to cry your eyes out on, it just belies a lack of actual work to do, or some important goal to strive for. Get a life, essentially. Crying solves nothing.
No sarcasm.
for the Puritans of yesteryear. The more things change I guess.
The Great Purge of all WrongSpeak by the Political Correctness Police.
"Boobs are harassment!"
Fucking morons.
Juvenile? That's part and parcel of working in IT - the long hours, sleep deprivation, abuse of alcohol, caffeine, and junk food makes ya a little nutty. But it's all in good fun.
So NERF gun wars in the cubes? banned now?
Twinkies? Offensive to fat people because they're tempted?
Booze? Offensive to alcoholics because they're tempted?
GIMP? Offensive to cripples?
Weboob? Offensive to those with tits?
Whatever. Forget this idiocy with the faux outrage and being offended because someone came up with a name for something that looks like something else.
The group ought to use Corporate Speak in their response: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We take all reports seriously. It's currently under evaluation by our team, when we have a response, we'll get back to you. Have a great day!"
In other news, Debian's Anti-Harassment Team had to remove itself over its name, which contains an 'ASS' in it.
Debian has gone full retard! Fucking PC garbage.
qooq3M
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
I believe it was Gnome Image Manipulation Program, though I don't know if that was the original name or a backronym.
Close, General Image Manipulation Program per the original readme, later GNU Image Manipulation Program.
"Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup." ~ohcrapitssteve
"That the writer could misquote me is curious, since we make it a point to print all our lyrics on the inner sleeve of every album. As the creator of "Under the Blade," I can say categorically that the only sadomasochism, bondage, and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore."
- Dee Snider at the Parents Music Resource Council Senate Hearings, 1985
Web Not on Browser...
1) You never heard of this package until today
2) Um, one of the apps they promote is called handjoob,another boobsize, another wetboobs. So yeah, this is really a bunch of dudes going for cheap laughs.
3) The next items on the change list are the term package and package manager.
My observation is once there is a "team" in place they will look for ways to stay "active". They will keep redefining their charge continually in an effort to remain "relevant". Every so often somebody or something will need to be sacrificed for the cause to insure we can be seen as actively perusing the "cause". It matters not if, in reality, there is any issue.
Please "vote with your feet"! If you don't like the package/store/person/etc then DONT USE IT!!!
Seeing how "weboob" is offensive, they should also remove all products that are made by the organization with the similarly highly offensive name of "apache foundation" as if a people's name is appropriate.
be consistent or fuck off.
I live in the deep south. Tons of fundamentalist Christian schools and universities around. Not a single one has complained about stuff like this, so congratulations you less than human sycophants. You are worse than fundamentalists.
Keep crying snowflake
I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
Why?? I think that's really funny, and I am a 46 year old male. Do I need to grow up, or have you just lost your funny bone?
I used to joke about starting a construction company which I would call Big Cock Construction. On the sides of the trucks it would feature a large, in your face rooster. I still laugh at this. Am I incorrigible?
Where I used to work we had a spreadsheet that would calculate accumulated tonnage. The guy who created it probably didn't get that he made a joke (he also lacked a sense of humor, probably killed it off like you did yours), but he called it CumTons. Again, I still laugh at this. I guess I'm fscked.
Side note: I'm a liberal, but the right is correct on this at least partly - political correctness has gotten out of hand. There has to be more balance and sanity to it.
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another reason to hate on them: they adopted systemd and ruined linux since so many ride on debian, as the foundation for their distro.
pure bullshit.
grow a pair, guys.
(*reported*) ;)
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Who gets to define "scantilly-clad"? Hell, who gets to define "woman"?
If all opinions are valid, then what happens when a Saudi activist says that any "woman" not in a full burkha is "objectifying" and "sexist"? Hmmm?
Captcha: Hypocrites
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Look, the name may or may not be juvenile. The idea is _not_. I've done much the same for years, using textmode `links` as my primary browser, and building shell scripts to do RSS via `wget` and `diff`.
Dang, I fell sorry for you - even my cat
(albeit a black cat, so probably way smarter)
understood my sarcasm.
Who's your snowflake, now...?
CAP === 'biouac'
So, hmmm, is Oracle juvenile with its performance analysis tool, aka perfanal ?!?
Non-Linux Penguins ?
convertlit.com has a program to convert Microsoft Reader format books into other formats.
The name of the executable is.... clit.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
That henceforth, all software package names shall be "--------"
Maybe they need to relocate their servers?
Says the one supporting the idiots complaining about something trivial as a package name that might offend snowflakes. Talking about projection.
We read this and often wonder why more energy is spent on re-classifying naming conventions to appease emotional correctness rather than putting that focus to more feasible use to solving actual problems, and discovering new technological developments to push to better efficacy as a whole.
The fine lines between common sense and social insecurities have most recently become blurred to where the slightest non-acceptance of a term that doesn't fit within an individual, or groups pronoun tolerance has become a center focus of controversy more so to a degree that talk is becoming more important than tech.
One would ask.. have we as society become so enamored in over appropriation of proper language usage to such a degree that it could be more inclined to cause social disarray rather than a problem-solving change for a positive impact to make humanity feel better?
Webtit. Web Totally Inane Terminology.
Have gnu, will travel.
But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
Too fucking bad. They can use something else, then.
I have created a program that will transition the offending package name to a new, un-offensive name. I call this the Universal Name Translator.
Unfortunately no existing compiler was suited to the task of building the UNT software, so I had to create a new one that can only compile the UNT project.
I'm now in the process of submitting to Debian the UNT package and its compiler, CUNT.
It's not funny at all. It STINKS!
mark my words
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We named our Ramping Assistant software RampAss.
Just because you've changed your opinion doesn't necessarily mean that you're correct this time around.
"Find any reason to takedown the scraper."
WHY the fuck should they? This is bullshit.
Every single on of these fuckers should be harassed with hammer to the face until their non-existent brains spill onto the pavement. What fucking useless pieces of garbage. Find who they are. Dox them. Harass them. Run them out of town. Kill them like they've killed the Open Source movement. They are garbage. Burn them with your hatred!
Please, nobody tell them about libass!
You guys want to decide what people can or cannot say about sex?
Geez, now we're having to police acroyms, because someone might read something into one and be snowflake offended?
It's a way of getting people to waste their time and energy trying to come up with other options that don't offend them. The answer with people like this is to put it back on them. If you don't like the acronym "Weboob" come up with one that doesn't offend you and still describes what the project does. Their goal is to frustrate you until you finally tell them to where to go, at which point they can turn around and say you're unwilling to co-operate.
Have no doubt requests like this are a sign of mental illness in the same way Rorschach tests are used to identify anti-social people who only see sexual images in the random patterns. Instead their, quite abused, minds see only sexual connotations in the acronyms in an attempt to be morally superior to those who created the acronym.
The mistake is to allow oneself to be drawn into expending mental energy on their behalf. Simply accept their criticism and ask them to come back with a minimum of five suggestions for you to choose from as an alternative name. Chances are they won't come back, however if they do then simply pick the name you prefer and move on. Under no circumstances should they be engaged in a way that causes you to waste time thinking on their behalf. That is allowing yourself to succumb to their form of psychological abuse.
Feeding into this mentality by attempting to come up with an acronym that won't offend someone who wants to be offended is enabling the behavior and, quite frankly, is as offensive as the original request because it validates and propagates the abuse.
This is what narcissism looks like, it's a loser's mentality. Don't feed it.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
And the PC #metoo crowd strikes open source...
It's inappropriate for everyone except those at the top, right?
Let's remove https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libjs-cocktail and https://packages.debian.org/stretch/autoconf-dickey too
because it has "cock" and "dick" in the name, as a man I find that offensive.
it's not too hard, but you do get some crazy bullshit from folks who do 3-5 anti-SJW videos a week. There's a guy named "Cult of Dusty" on Youtube who calls that phenomenon "peak blue haired college girl" where there's not enough dumb blue haired college girls saying dumb shit on camera to feed the machine so you get crap like a gag story about Rodolph the Red Nose Reindeer being about social justice being picked up by the anti-SJW community when the original story was posted to make fun of how the anti-SJW community will jump on anything. It's Poe's Law in action...
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to create a new boogie man now that the blacks are becoming less and less effective. Without laws to stop it races mix and folks mellow out and you can no longer use race to divide the working class. Religion's on the decline in America too so that's petering out. The ruling class need something to keep us at each other's throats so we don't demand better pay and healthcare. It's always the same patter, what amazes and depresses me is that nobody really talks about it much outside of the occasional lefty complaining about the Southern Strategy or Dog Whistles or the real reason all those "confederate" monuments were erected in the 60s and 70s.
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I still don't get the big deal about Uranus being a Gas Giant. How is that funny?
Because everybody knows it's an ice giant, not a gas giant.
The name "Debian" is a combination of the first names of Ian Murdock and his wife (Debra). By placing the woman's name before the man's, "Debian" is clearly misandristic (hatred of men, counterpart to misogynistic). The name should be replaced with something neutral which doesn't offend anyone.
Shalom brother
If we assume that the name was originally intended to slander those with mobility problems (as some have alleged, without evidence) then the official history of the name can't be truster.
HOWEVER: Even though I believe the name was an innocent acronym, it has caused difficulties in getting it used in work places. This is independent of why it was given that name. (Yes, I've always thought it referred to Gnu Image Manipulation Program. But some people have publicly objected to it as abusive, and many more have been reluctant to use something that could be seen as abusive.) Public image is important here, regardless of historical causality.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I'm boycotting all the linuxes because this crap is absurd... why are we letting people get carried away by PC norms that are just turning everyone into virtue-signalling snowflakes?
Phaid says it best... he likes sexy things, he likes sex, and he likes when sex is used to sell and market things. Who they hell are THEY to tell him what is and is not OK? He said it best when he said, "Especially when it comes to free software, we cannot give political correctness a veto over offensive speech."
He would love my software package LABIA, which cleverly stands for Lab-Integrated ASSistant. Notice the triple-entendre there?
Mashiki knows that everyone who loves tits is NOT a misogynist, they are just not SJW! I love tits so much that I developed a utility called TiTTYFsck, which of course reasonably stands for Time for TTY Fsck. Anyone who has any umbrage about this software package name is just a Nazi who loves to slaughter freedom of speech as much as they love to slaughter Jews!
gweihir knows that Debian is becoming infested with "the enemy", and that the tiny minority can use their outsized voices to force their boring, confined viewpoints upon the world. Even Dog-Cow agrees that he's "not going to support an organization that has given in to terrorists", and he's willing to give up Debian after using it for 15 years or so! nightfire-unique has been a Debian user, supporter, and developer for 20 years, and even he says that SJW censorship is cancer that will kill the host! I hope to persuade all three of them to GIVE UP Debian, and instead adopt my new distro Lesbian! (Where, reasonably, Lesbian stands for "LESs deBIAN".) Join my efforts to make a distro that becomes to strong white cock that invades the pussies of SJW virtue-signalling censorship!
r_naked eloquently states, "If you are offended -- go fuck yourself!" I like the character of this man! After I read his post history, he is giving me energetic erection, and I very much want to find out what his mother looks like so I can bend her over and treat her like r_naked treats SJW! And if he is offended, he can go fuck himself! iCEBaLM even knows that being PC will lead to a white-washed world where no one can whisper the word n1gger without fear of feeling bad about his words!
Even Shotgun knows that people can just ignore bad words... and besides "the rest of us think it is light hearted fun." That's why I purposefully name my GNU utilities with names like "tearcunt" and "rapemore". In fact, I am so strong in my beliefs, I am teaching my little girl to write utilities like "slurpcum". She makes me so proud!
Anyways, do you think I am alone in my desire for freedom? NO, look at the slashdot IDs of Phaid (938), Dog-Cow (21281), Shotgun (30919), iCEBaLM (34905), gweihir (88907), r_naked (150044), Mashiki (184564), nightfire-unique (253895) - these are very respectable heterosexual white men, and if they are not heterosexual white men, they can go fuck themselves into the next holocaust!
nothing but sanctimonious finger wagging fuckwads now....
Social just-us nazis infest all large companies. The only solution is to give them the same treatment they give us: disemployment.
NEVER hire a social just-us nazi. Don't be openly political, just make up a reason to exclude them.
If you work with social just-us nazis, do everything in your power to get them fired. Complain to HR. Make vague #MeToo allegations. Give them horrible scores on their performance review. Complain to management that they are slowing down your project.
Remember - they are trying to do the exact same thing to you. The best defence is a good offense.
"I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe."
Why does it make you cringe? Because you realize that you're too stupid to use a period when you abbreviate things?
I have a "Request Ass" table out there
At least that's more politically correct than getSum(ass).
Weboob is going to be a successful project, just look at the supported modules, especially the last line on their list. Perfect!
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"The internet is for Porn" - Confirmed by Weboob module authors.
A few hundred comments and nobody remembered the fabulous Bloodhound Gang album highly relevant to the issues in question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooray_for_Boobies
You utterly disappoint me, Slashdot.
Actually this is not about what you identify in the pattern and has never been. What the psychiatrist observe, is when he asks you HOW you came to the idea (which part remind you of what) and what RATIONALIZATION you use. In other word they could not care less that you see a particularly salty penis in one picture (or a breast , vagina or anus) in fact the picture could still be very similar to one. No what they care is how you reason your way around it, how consistent you are about it, if you show pattern of pathology in your explanations. The content you assign to the picture does not matter. In fact you could joke about identifying all as sex/murder picture but be perfectly fine mentally, and the next guy only see cuddly tears but be recognized due to its pattern and rationalization, be identified as pathological.
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The name Weboob is clearly a juvenile attempt at humour, which 20 seconds worth of looking at the weboob.org web site would make obvious. It's silly, stupid, juvenile and pathetic... but harrassment? Really? That's going too far.
If Debian wants a policy against juvenile and stupid package names, that's fine, but I don't think over-reach of the anti-harrassment rules is the way to go.
It's Web-oob (Web Out Of Browser), not we-boob. I see no reason to ban a package because someone read the name wrong. That's their fault and the offence they inappropriately take is their problem and their's alone.
Why?? I think that's really funny, and I am a 46 year old male. Do I need to grow up, or have you just lost your funny bone?
Honestly, it would be funny if I encountered it in anyone else's code- but after seeing it my own so many times it's not funny anymore- and it makes me cringe thinking of someone else coming along and discovering it later (that might not find it funny). I've always moved from company to company so leaving little easter eggs have never bit me in the butt. When you stay one place for a long time, juvenile jokes and potty humor could come back as a liability.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
While personally I do not find the name weboob overly offensive, there is a computer language that one of my academic colleagues just could not bare to ask the students to study
Sexless neckbeards see WeBoob instead of WebOOB; poutrage at eleven.
Suggestion REJECTED. The line is to be drawn.
I remember once looking through the Debian packages in a Linux users group meeting in college and seeing a package name 'clit'. It turned out to be a c library for reading Microsoft's .lit format.
Won't someone please think of the children... oh wait, those were aborted...
Won't someone please think of the women? Wait, those are men...
Female-presenting nipples!
"I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe."
Why does it make you cringe? Because you realize that you're too stupid to use a period when you abbreviate things?
Periods are usually not allowed in table and column names.
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
Don't tell them about "The Fuck"
https://packages.debian.org/fr...
It is actually a nice tool: if you mistyped a shell command, just type "fuck" and it will attempt to fix it for you.
which apparently IS a thing....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
It's too bad you got tired of this after only 7 years. I'll probably be laughing about it for the rest of my life.
depenisvanjezus
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
People that want a reliable Debian might/should have switched already to Devuan.