FTA: "Nonetheless, GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code"
This links to a gizmodo article linking to random open source code on Github written by random people on the internet containing slurs. How is that Github's fault exactly? Should they censor "git push" with anti-slurs filters? This even links to a repo containing a list of words that should not be used by the user https://github.com/hhzl/Cuis-Smalltalk-StyledTextEditor/tree...
Ridiculous. No idea about the rest of the accusations though.
Oh, cool. I just realized I am lucky to not be listed in Leslie Horn’s terrible "article" [1]. I forked a URL shortener a few years ago. One feature I added was to avoid auto-generating offensive short URLs, which is on GitHub [2]. (In the early days of URL shorteners, TinyURL used a simple increment function to generate URLs (aa, ab, ac, …), and someone waited until "the C word" was up next and pointed it at the then-First Lady's website, apparently as a joke. Okay, that's easy enough to learn from.)
This links to a gizmodo article linking to random open source code on Github written by random people on the internet containing slurs. How is that Github's fault exactly? Should they censor "git push" with anti-slurs filters? This even links to a repo containing a list of words that should not be used by the user https://github.com/hhzl/Cuis-Smalltalk-StyledTextEditor/tree...
Ridiculous. No idea about the rest of the accusations though.