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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.
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.
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!
Maybe we need to ban most of these dirty commands too!
Next up is probably removing man pages for being sexist.
And engrampa for making fun of the elderly.
I'm at work. I don't know if I should google it. WTF does 'weboob' mean? Why should I be offended by it?
Weboob is offensive to the developers who worked on the project by suggesting that all male developers all have man-boobs.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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.
So called man pages are being exploited and forced into gender stereotypes.
Worse, referring to them as pages harkens back to feudal times and reinforces the patriarchy.
All documentation not only must be referred to in a gender non specific manner until said documentation can declare its own gender or genders, but needs to be empowered to decide on its own what it will document.
Anything less is exploitive and regressive.
We must do better.
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.
You must absolutely loathe your second name by now.
Hmm...
As i Debian user i do feel offended by this word ... "systemd"
Better notify the anti-harassment team they have one more package to forever purge ...
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