

Ew, thinking leftists are a bad thing and using the r-slur as a joke.
Ew, thinking leftists are a bad thing and using the r-slur as a joke.
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Oh no, people using free software for free - mon dieu!
It really is hard to rewire when you’ve been brought up in a world that didn’t care - and like, honestly good on you for even reflecting in this way. Thanks for learning things and having empathy and compassion ;P
So like, its not necessarily about offense. Some folks who have suffered abuse and aggression because of their minority status have visceral, trauma responses to certain things. When I hear the t-slur used, for example, it invokes a deep anxiety and panic. That doesn’t mean that I think that anyone who says it is a transphobe (like the car guy in your example might be talking about his transmission or some silly thing like that) and I’m not going to rage and scream at him. But I’m not weird or wrong for asking him not to say it because it triggers me. This isn’t a discussion about how we should cancel people for using words, its a discussion about how we can accommodate our fellow people.
The OP shows some folks making a change that is so minor we shouldn’t even be talking about it, so that they can be just a touch more likely not to affect someone negatively. Even if its performative, who cares, they did it and it affects nobody negatively.
More concerning, I think, is the people jumping in this thread acting like this is woke cancel culture gone wild and we can’t use normal words anymore.
I have realised, upon reflection, what I take issue with with your argument.
It places the onus on the intention, as opposed to the result.
If the result of me doing something particularly mundane, that I could do another way with zero extra effort, is that some people are offended or othered or hurt, then it seems blatantly obvious to me that the action to take is to change what I’m doing. Theres nuance in the wider discussion but you can’t judge intentions, since nobody can know what someone else’s intentions are. You can judge actions and outcomes.
The action in this case is mundane, and I don’t place any blame or hate toward the people who took the action (made the Tycoon joke). The outcome is potentially negative, and I would argue demonstrably negative since people felt compelled to comment about it. It still doesn’t mean that the folks who wrote the joke are massive racists or fascists or whatever, but the outcome related to their action is negative. Hence they chose to change the action to change the outcome.
Seems pretty cut and dry that this was a wholly positive thing, no?
Doesn’t seem like anyone was calling them out in that. They’re pointing out that it might be a good idea to change it, but I digress, I’ll stand corrected here.
Sure, but unless you’re talking about a Maine coon then its not really an apples to apples comparison is it? All the words you’ve mentioned have very commonplace uses but this does not, and it is not being used in a context that is “usual” for it.
This discussion is meaningless anyway because nobody was like, calling them out for it, or at least I haven’t seen evidence for that being the case. They decided they felt uncomfortable and changed it.
A massive reach of it being literally the same word? Like obviously they didn’t mean it in a racist way but clearly they decided that having a racial slur in the docs there was not something they felt good about.
Oh, for sure. It depends what you need it for. A lot of people just want a pi for something like a pihole or a stats dashboard of some kind (that’s my use case, anyway). You get what you pay for and sometimes you’ve gotta pay for what you wanna get.
Not super familiar with the gpio side of things, and I also haven’t dug that deep into the space lately since I already own my rpi and it works for me so take all this with a pinch of salt, but I found some options that seem reasonable
Yeah, my pi sips energy very sparingly. Even an old laptop is going to be drawing more just to power itself, never mind what I run on it.
That said, pis are a poor value proposition nowadays and there are better options for the same use case
I must say, missing the opportunity for “CO-mpass” is devastating.
Source? All I’ve seen from them recently is going in harder on AI
“We are pivoting harder into AI and as such detecting AI content is against our business model”
Not sure, but if you’re interested to know I’m sure the information is out there :)
Edit after your edit:
Its impossible to know everything perfectly, but you can know some things to some degree and take action based on what you do know. Some will choose to not bother, and that is their decision to make, but it is a decision.
Anyway I think we’re talking around in circles at this point. Have a good one.
I try to know where my software (and hardware and everything else) comes from for this exact reason, but I understand a lot of people don’t
100%. Fuck people that do that shit.