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An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Odds on this is a false flag "AsABlackMan" article & everyone responding to it has been had. Lobste.rs pulled it for this reason & the comments on r/programming are pretty direct.
I'm out of the loop: what's wrong with Daily Stormer?
As mentioned elsewhere, the prose doesn't read British, this is the only post from an anonymous account and there is a link to Daily Stormer. Flagging this.
I want to share my own reactions to the name change since this is a really interesting topic. For context, I'm an African American, so many of my ancestors were slaves. - The first time it occurred to me that "master" in this context could offend anyone was when GitHub changed the name (and broke my workflow). - My immediate reaction was, "this change is by white people for white people," where "white" means anyone w…
Black SWE here as well, highly disagree with this. If Microsoft/Github wanted to issue "a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech", they could've founded an non-profit dedicated to training and job placement for BIPOC and underrepresented white women, they could've kept a continuous banner on their site that linked to relevant legislation, initiatives, causes, etc. They…
An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Odds on this is a false flag "AsABlackMan" article & everyone responding to it has been had. Lobste.rs pulled it for this reason & the comments on r/programming are pretty direct.
> An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Maybe the author simply isn't "ordinary"? Does it matter? (I'm fully aware that a site that has "stormer" in its name is likely far-right but I appreciate diversity of opinion)
"I appreciate diversity of opinion" - sorry, but you don't let Nazis take up space in your online discourse because that's how you end up with your space being full of Nazis.
Black people make up 3% of the UK population according to a quick Google search. If there are 7 black people in his company of ~250, that's almost 3%. This is just one data point but it's the one he's using in his post and getting upset over the lack of black representation, when it's proportionate with the overall ratio of ethnicities in the wider population.
44% of London is black.
As mentioned elsewhere, the prose doesn't read British, this is the only post from an anonymous account and there is a link to Daily Stormer. Flagging this.
He does not say anywhere he is British. He only says he works in central London.
An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Odds on this is a false flag "AsABlackMan" article & everyone responding to it has been had. Lobste.rs pulled it for this reason & the comments on r/programming are pretty direct.
That is extremely odd. The previous times I looked at this thread, I skimmed the article once or twice and mostly focused on the comments. Inevitably there was flamewar, trolling, and other dreck, but large parts of the discussion are worthwhile [1], even compared to the throng of threads HN has already had about this. I think that the comments from black software engineers on this issue are particularly worth readin…
"It has come to my attention that at the time of writing one of the links used points to a site with views I don’t identify with and has since been removed."
An ordinary writer on a topic like this does not bury a link to Daily Stormer in the middle of the text. Odds on this is a false flag "AsABlackMan" article & everyone responding to it has been had. Lobste.rs pulled it for this reason & the comments on r/programming are pretty direct.
That is extremely odd. The previous times I looked at this thread, I skimmed the article once or twice and mostly focused on the comments. Inevitably there was flamewar, trolling, and other dreck, but large parts of the discussion are worthwhile [1], even compared to the throng of threads HN has already had about this. I think that the comments from black software engineers on this issue are particularly worth readin…
Of course we can't tell anything for sure, but in my experience, this kind of thing is usually authentic. For me it changes the balance of probability enough to justify guessing differently again, so I'm going to take [flagged] off the thread now.
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Hey,
I recently wrote an article which was posted on HN and is now flagged for the use of a link to a website called Daily Stormer (article title is, “GitHub, f*ck your name change”). Obvs this is you guys community and I didn’t mean for a post I wrote to seem trolly. I just wanted to clarify the situation.
I had genuinely never heard of Daily Stormer or ever been on the website until the time I was writing the post. I use DuckDuckGo, which evidently doesn’t ban gnarly websites the way that Google does. I was looking for articles written about the misidentification of black people as gorillas in facial recognition systems. The DS article came up as one of the top results, I read the first paragraph and it seemed on topic so I used it. I have since removed the link from the post.
I’m not trying to justify the use of the website, it 100% my fault for not doing better due diligence. I just wanted to say I’m sorry as I didn’t mean for the post to come across as trolling.
For what its worth, I am black, I live (born and raised) in London and work as a SWE. Nothing in the post was a lie.
Thanks for reading,
Moosey
The biggest thing that annoys me is now I have multiple repos with different branches that are main/master.
You can setup whatever name you want as default branch, both in git and github.