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SerenityOS and LadyBirds: Because These Things Shouldn't Hide in Closed Git Conversations - ░ Nova Online (cmdr-nova.online)

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Found this blog post and found it had more insight into the issues around the dev and the toxicity in FOSS

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look... I certainly (particularly verbally) will probably use "he" a lot more than I should... And no one cares.

But if someone makes a PR changing these into "they", I would reply with "shit, you're right, this is objectively better, thanks for your work".

Instead, these contributors get their PR shut down with the most terrible, supremacist excuse. That's the problem. There's the true idiot.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Obviously. It was a nice small PR to fix a typo and a pronoun in a readme file. This is the kind of change where you just press Accept, Merge, and go on with your life.