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Could you expand on what ideology this tool is broadcasting and what virtue is being signalled?


>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please.

Take a wild guess


Well that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?


The proximity with that rough cultural area is only incidental, I think. In fact, I think if you sit around for 10 mlre years, the tide will have entirely turned.

I'm not gonna get into detail, but for me, some defining elements:

- A compulsive need to criticize, demean and replace every piece of code written in C by Rust (rarely, it's another language).

- A willingness and strong activism to separate from figures that created the FOSS landscape, like Richard Stallman.

- A sort of laxism towards non-free software, and a particularly cringy hype towards corporate lip service paid to OSS, or trojan horses.

- Subtle propositions made to consolide FOSS communities around centralized services, and promiting those.

This isn't exhaustive, because it's just off the top of my head.


For lack of a better term one might describe the ideology as "woke"


Please show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.


Also, you do know the

> Please show me on the doll where this stranger hurt you

phrasing is pretty closely associated with child abuse investigations, right? I don't know why you'd associate gender identity with that?


They asked a question about what ideology was being referred to, and you're angry I clarified?


And these Nazis, are they in the room with us now?




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