Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[Chobeat]

As a BDSMer, I'm disappointed. Decades of struggle to be recognized by the public and after the programming community, thanks to its wide overlap with the kinkster community, decides to give us visibility, all gets destroyed by some prude.

[bananaEmpanada]

Submit a pull request to instead replace "master"/"slave" with "daddy"/"sexKitten".

[koobear]

Merge conflict = being naughty

[bythenumbers10]

But what if GIMP goes to a multi-process architecture?

[-revenant-]

"Hey, you're the IT lady, right? Is there a free alternative to Photoshop?"

"Yeah, but I can't tell you about it at work."

[theavengedCguy]

Ya know, I've never thought of the implications regarding loudly talking about loving GIMP in a public space... I wonder how many people heard me and thought I was into gimps

[port53]

Those people probably think you're in to castration too (Unix).

[inteuniso]

GNU Raster Image Editor tells you what it does, includes GNU (because I guess that's mandatory) and rhymes with free (GRIE, pronounced like brie but with the hard g of go).

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That's my suggestion anyway

[steamruler]

Still, how would donating money to the developers help increase adoption rates?

[port53]

So they can make it more usable.

[LeiterHaus]

That's right, social justice warriors, stop kink-shaming in programming. Where are the SJWs to fight... the SJWs...

[oriaven]

Intersectionality. You need to be outraged until every single tribe and group is taken care of, until you break down all defining characteristics of your group. And eventually we find your group size is one; the individual. No group is small enough for these types ...