Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) 521
quantic_oscillation7 shares a report: The latest notes from the Debian anti-harassment team on Wednesday caught my attention when reading, "We were requested to advice on the appropriateness of a certain package in the Debian archive. Our decision resulted in the package pending removal from the archive." Curiosity got the best of me... What package was deemed too inappropriate for the Debian archive?
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
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Webob is actually a package that already exists.
Re:Rename it (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess this is new from the "Are You Fucking Kidding Me Department".....?
Geez, now we're having to police acroyms, because someone might read something into one and be snowflake offended?
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JFC.....really?
I guess this is new from the "Are You Fucking Kidding Me Department".....?
We're really busy these days.
Ask them for suggestions (Score:5, Insightful)
Geez, now we're having to police acroyms, because someone might read something into one and be snowflake offended?
It's a way of getting people to waste their time and energy trying to come up with other options that don't offend them. The answer with people like this is to put it back on them. If you don't like the acronym "Weboob" come up with one that doesn't offend you and still describes what the project does. Their goal is to frustrate you until you finally tell them to where to go, at which point they can turn around and say you're unwilling to co-operate.
Have no doubt requests like this are a sign of mental illness in the same way Rorschach tests [wikipedia.org] are used to identify anti-social people who only see sexual images in the random patterns. Instead their, quite abused, minds see only sexual connotations in the acronyms in an attempt to be morally superior to those who created the acronym.
The mistake is to allow oneself to be drawn into expending mental energy on their behalf. Simply accept their criticism and ask them to come back with a minimum of five suggestions for you to choose from as an alternative name. Chances are they won't come back, however if they do then simply pick the name you prefer and move on. Under no circumstances should they be engaged in a way that causes you to waste time thinking on their behalf. That is allowing yourself to succumb to their form of psychological abuse.
Feeding into this mentality by attempting to come up with an acronym that won't offend someone who wants to be offended is enabling the behavior and, quite frankly, is as offensive as the original request because it validates and propagates the abuse.
This is what narcissism looks like, it's a loser's mentality. Don't feed it.
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Under no circumstances should they be engaged in a way that causes you to waste time thinking on their behalf. That is allowing yourself to succumb to their form of psychological abuse.
They will also frustrate you more by simply refusing every alternative you offer until you snap. Then they use that to a) claim that it proves they were right, b) attack your character and c) feel themselves superior to you.
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Under no circumstances should they be engaged in a way that causes you to waste time thinking on their behalf. That is allowing yourself to succumb to their form of psychological abuse.
They will also frustrate you more by simply refusing every alternative you offer until you snap. Then they use that to a) claim that it proves they were right, b) attack your character and c) feel themselves superior to you.
It would seem we have encountered similar circumstances.
This is wise advise because those people try to trap capable people's intellect with double bind scenarios. This is because their mental illness traps them into low levels of problem solving and they're only able to communicate emotionally. Their traps are designed to force capable people into experiencing their reality and suffer the emotions they, themselves, suffer.
Thank you for mentioning what I neglected to add.
Re:Ask them for suggestions (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a really sad situation, really. These people desperately need help, but they would refuse any help offered, and turn it around along the lines of "don't be patronizing to me!" or - a new favorite - a gross misuse of the word "mansplaining".
Sometimes, you just want to have a good friend who is a shrink and wordlessly leave his business card.
What saddens me the most, however, is how this constant barrage of oversensitive bullshit helps to bury real issues. I regularily say this in discussions about "rape culture" - when you start to call people looking at you the wrong way "rape", then you discredit and diminish the term that should be reserved for a serious an traumatizing crime.
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Sometimes, you just want to have a good friend who is a shrink and wordlessly leave his business card.
If they recognize their emotional issues as a problem they have to deal with. They seem to have a skill for manipulating people and they can do a lot of damage to an organization with these kinds of stunts. The only way I've been able to deal with those people is to deal with my own emotional issues so that I wouldn't respond to manipulation easily and become one of them.
After that they simply come across as a teenager with an adult's body. It's pretty ugly.
Just about Rorschach (Score:3)
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Why not, the first listing for definition of Boob, A stupid or foolish person, clearly the person who chose to ban it. Fuck you Debian, you are attacking words people use in regular language, in fact generally speaking, boobie is for breast and boob is for idiots.
Re: Rename it (Score:5, Insightful)
Haven't we already gone through this with fortune-off, hot-babe and whatever-else? Just create a separate debian offensive repository and move everything that offends people in there. Eventually, it'll be the only repository with any packages and we can rename it to main or something.
Re:Rename it (Score:5, Insightful)
Just change the name to something like Webob . . . . oh wait, that may be worse.
Add a dash: "Web-Oob"
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Just change the name to something like Webob . . . . oh wait, that may be worse.
Add a dash: "Web-Oob"
At this point, because it has become a "news-item" they would have to rename it something drastically different if they didn't want most people to call it We-boob just for a laugh. If this hadn't broken news they could have put the dash in and been done with it; however, now this has broken news they will have to completely rename it if they don't want people to call it We Boob.
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From the committee notes:
As Gregor Herrmann eloquently put it, it's "not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic] themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
We appreciate uploading a new version without the insults (and thank Jonathan Dowland for his efforts[2][3] on this front). Please note that the insults and homophobic language *is* a flagrant violation of Debian's CoC and in our opinion, Debian should not ship new software including them.
[2] from their code:
if not self.check_loaded_backends({'url': 'https://symlink.me'}):
print("Ok, so leave now, fag.")
Re:Rename it (Score:5, Funny)
From the committee notes:
it's "not ok to use the boobs theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic] themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
Understandable...
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name
But I'm offended that they're calling it a "Package".
Re:Rename it (Score:5, Funny)
It is not like that team has any members, they are all pussies.
Re: Rename it (Score:3, Funny)
It's a violation of debians CoCk?
Why are debian allowed cock jokes but these guys aren't allowed boob jokes?
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Re:Rename it (Score:5, Informative)
...meant to add, next thing they'll want to get rid of "fsck".
And blocking the installation of Gimp and git
Re: Rename it (Score:3, Funny)
Linux is effectively killed when they turn their attention to 'mount'
Re:Rename it (Score:5, Insightful)
it should've been named WOOB from the beginning anyways. It's an acronym, right? Acronyms are supposed to take the first letter of each word in the name. Web Out Of Brower. WOOB.
WEB-OOB was a stretch and I don't like it when people stretch things to make clever-sounding acronyms. Yeah I will never join the US military, their acronyms will drive me insane. BTW this is not even about SJW, I have no social agenda to justice-ize. I don't care if you have boobs or tits or whatever in your source code.
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BTW and SJW aren't acronyms, they are initialisms. You can't pronounce either as a word. I do support acronyms that drop minor words from the abbreviation similar to the capitalization rules of titles.
For example, the local police department got a HEAT unit grant for Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic. They didn't like my suggestion to start a special unit for the Highway Enforcement of the Left Lane though...
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Rername it to "Snowflakes".
No. You are juvenile. (Score:3, Insightful)
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
Re:No. You are juvenile. (Score:5, Insightful)
The name is not juvenile. The people reading it and giggling are juvenile. It's like the stupid joke in Austin Powers over the Asian name Fuk.
People need to learn to respond more professionally to things their own juvenile personality deems offensive.
Apparently it goes beyond the name and other parts of it include juvenile humor. It's something the developers will regret later. I know I'm kinda embarrassed nowadays about all the tables, columns and functions I've used "Ass" as short hand for words like "Assignment", "Association" etc,etc. I have a "Request Ass" table out there in one database and whereas it made me laugh 7 years ago- now it makes me cringe.
Re: No. You are juvenile. (Score:5, Funny)
You must absolutely loathe your second name by now.
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Show me six lines by the most loyal of men, and in them I shall find reason to hang him.
Paraphrased from some very eloquent guy.
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Does the name Seahorse offend you? It will after you accidentally save credentials you don't want saved in Gnome/MATE desktop and then have to figure out which program handles them.
Boobs! (Score:5, Insightful)
(...) likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments (...)
That may well be but it's also completely irrational. The only thing "wrong" with the name is that people probably associate it with boobs, which is all in their heads. Even worse, they apparently fear boobs. Which is also in their heads.
So Debian has now banned a package because its combination of letters triggers irrational things in peoples heads. They've gone mad.
Also, on top of that, there's nothing wrong with boobs. On the contrary: they are what feed our babies and they are the most defining body part of our the class of mammals. They are beautiful and shall be honored, for example by naming software after them.
Boobs.
Re:Boobs! (Score:5, Funny)
Next up is probably removing man pages for being sexist.
And engrampa for making fun of the elderly.
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How 'bout removing libass - now that's a dirty name if ever there was one.
There's probably hundreds of library and package names that are innocently
offensive - I say delete them all - we're better off without them!
This SJW stuff has gotten completely out of hand.
CAP === 'actress'
Re: Boobs! (Score:2, Funny)
So called man pages are being exploited and forced into gender stereotypes.
Worse, referring to them as pages harkens back to feudal times and reinforces the patriarchy.
All documentation not only must be referred to in a gender non specific manner until said documentation can declare its own gender or genders, but needs to be empowered to decide on its own what it will document.
Anything less is exploitive and regressive.
We must do better.
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So Debian has now banned a package because its combination of letters triggers irrational things in peoples heads.
All words are just arbitrary combinations of letters that convey meanings.
That doesn't magically make them all appropriate for all environments.
I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find a string of letters that you would blanch at, if it were a package name in Debian.
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All words are just arbitrary combinations of letters that convey meanings.
Yes. And the meaning here is "boob". What on earth is wrong with boob or boobs?!
This is not about all combinations of letters conveying things. It is about people responding irrationally to those things. We should not name packages that rationally affect people. Things like swear words, insults or hateful language. A boob is no such thing. In fact, it is one of the kindest body parts in existence.
And if we absolutely must remove something that's named after a body part, I suggest we start by removing all ap
Re:Boobs! (Score:5, Insightful)
So Debian has now banned a package because its combination of letters triggers irrational things in peoples heads.
All words are just arbitrary combinations of letters that convey meanings.
That doesn't magically make them all appropriate for all environments.
You know what's not "appropriate" here? Acting like a child who's offended at an acronym.
People need to grow the fuck up already.
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It's not the phone that's broken. Slashdot is stuck in 1991.
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It's not in their heads, the project itself went out of its way to get boobs into everything. Look at the official list of apps [weboob.org], half of them work "boob" into the title for no reason by dropping the "we".
It already had to patch out homophobic slurs [weboob.org] from the output. Not a comment in the source, the output of the binary.
The principal here is outlined in this post [debian.org] on the Debian mailing list.
This whole discussion reminded me of a campaign by the German project
pinkstinks.de called "Sexy yes, sexism no":
https://pinkstinks.de/sexy-ode... [pinkstinks.de]
Summary in my words:
It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's
underwear (left picture: "Bra 29 EUR").
It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair
(and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw
attention to the ad) (right picture: "Chair 199 EUR").
I think that explains the issue of objectification quite well.
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This whole discussion reminded me of a campaign by the German project
pinkstinks.de called "Sexy yes, sexism no":
https://pinkstinks.de/sexy-ode... [pinkstinks.de]
Summary in my words:
It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's
underwear (left picture: "Bra 29 EUR").
It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair
(and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw
attention to the ad) (right picture: "Chair 199 EUR").
I think that explains the issue of objectification quite well.
Who the hell are they to tell me what is and is not OK? I'll objectify whatever I want. People like sex, people like sexy things, and rational people have no problem seeing ads that feature attractive people of the opposite gender used to market things to them.
This entire issue isn't about people getting offended anyway. It's about people pretending to be offended so they can show everyone how upstanding and moral and non-sexist and great they are. It's ridiculous and we all need to stop catering to it.
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It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair (and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw attention to the ad)
Wage the good war, but that's a fight you're not going to win. Using beautiful people to sell things will be here.
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It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair
(and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw
attention to the ad)
But it works. And because it works, you have just created a rule with a strong incentive to work around it. So she will show a bit less skin, but still be sexy. Then you forbid that... at the end, you end up with the Burka because you're scared of women.
Re:Boobs! (Score:4, Informative)
Is there really no middle ground between "don't be a sexist asshat" and "everyone must wear a burka"?
Going by the feminist self defense brigade, defending Islam is great and a burka is 'liberating' and a 'great statement for feminism.' So simply no, there is no middle ground because there seems to be some batshit crazy people who hold substantial positions in various organizations and promote that.
If not I think we have bigger problems, because walking around naked in public is already illegal in most places and we must already be on that slipper slope. My god, they have already banned erect penises on British TV 60 years ago, it's no wonder it's now a Sharia hell-hole!
Considering you've got mass child rape gangs, the police looking the other way, "islamic police" beating the piss out of gays in UK cities, and various things like the Trojan Horse Scandal, seems like you're well on your way to becoming a sharia hell hole. Going by your own posts, you don't seem to have any problem with this either.
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Where do you get this bollocks from? Is his name Carl?
Have you bothered paying attention to what feminists have been spouting for the last ~7 years or so? I guess not. Why don't you go take a look, I'll wait. Can't wait till you get to the feminists protesting a gay pride parade, because it would offend muslims.
Re: Boobs! (Score:2)
You should generally avoid three letter commands due to conflicts. There's only one global namespace of commands. In addition WOB has the implication it's going to be dealing with printers as it's used in other commands to mean white-on-black.
Oh God, The Stupid (Score:2, Informative)
It hurts.
And I meant that Debian has an "anti-harassment team" that can remove packages. This is the wrong way to solve _what_ problem?
What a bunch of pansies (Score:3, Insightful)
It is just sad how PC the world has become. If you are offended -- go fuck yourself.
OMG we have some foul language in our source code -- need a PR now!
OMG the name of a package has the word boob in it -- MUST REMOVE NOW!
Fucking ridiculous.
Dry your tears snowflake. (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, it's stupid and silly, but don't you see the latent irony in you crying and breathlessly whining about political correctness like this is a big deal? It's not. Dry your tears snowflake.
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I would rather live in a world where people are free to offend, then a world where everyone is scared to talk at all for fear of offending someone.
News from the future (Score:5, Funny)
"The missing number doesn't really affect the accuracy of the numbers as, at that size, its little more than a rounding error and the slight inconvenience is inconsequential to affecting the feelings of millions of persons and transgender persons who are offended by the term"
Sometimes guys an an acronym is just that.
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Debian's anti-harassment and sugarland fairy team removed the number 8008. This number is just juvenile and inappropriate in corporate environments. This will not affect the size of objects in anyway as infinity will not be affected and calculators will refuse to allow the number to be punched in.
Ha! .. I can still get my thrills from viewing 58008 upside down on my calculator. Take that sugarland fairy team!
Harassment? (Score:5, Insightful)
If anti-harassment is the reason why it was being removed, why was there no mention of who was being harassed and who reported the harassment?
This team has already jumped the shark (Score:2, Interesting)
If anti-harassment is the reason why it was being removed, why was there no mention of who was being harassed and who reported the harassment?
This. I'm normally in favor of going after assholes who abuse and intimidate others. The extreme right would probably label me an SJW for not approving of sexual harassment, or being perfectly OK with Les Moonves being thrown out on his ass without his $120M golden parachute.
But this is ridiculous, and this is why, to paraphrase Bill Maher, "nobody likes you." It's
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The extreme right would probably label me an SJW for not approving of sexual harassment, or being perfectly OK with Les Moonves being thrown out on his ass without his $120M golden parachute.
Possibly off topic, but most of the really hard right people I know thinks he should have his ass kicked to within an inch of his life on the way out. I don't know where the idea that right wingers support sexual harassment, but that smear campaign makes literally NO sense. Right wingers do support the right to a trial by jury, the right to confront your accusers and that sort of thing, so maybe the #metoo move sprung off of that to conflate "a quick trial and a fair hanging" with "let them go free".
The anti-harassment team pulls double duty (Score:2, Interesting)
Keep calm and Debian on. This kind of stuff happens. Middle managers get sticks up their but over this sort of thing. If you've got to blame somebody blame them.
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Youtube used to pay good money for adverts, but there was an advertiser scare when some of the major brand's ads (Coke was the big one) were being showed before neo-Nazi videos. The advertisers pulled their ads in mass for about 90 days, but then noticed that being off Youtube for 90 days didn't effect their sales in the slightest, so a lot of them never came bac
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Okay, so leave now, fag [weboob.org].
Software is built by some very classy people [bachelier.name] who are no doubt stable geniuses [weboob.org].
Digging into that module, it seems to allow you to "participate in a boobathon" and has a way for you to be the "winner"...I have no idea what this is.
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You don't see the irony in crying your eyes out about PC'ers? Lol you anti-PC'ers are just as bad, in reverse. You ARE the problem YOU cry about! Nobody has a gun to your head, crybaby faggots.
No? Never heard of Lindsay Shepard? She's the TA who was a Wilfrid Laurier a couple of years ago and showed a clip of Jordan Peterson to her class as part of contrasting between two points of view, and two professors including her supervisor falsely invented a complaint against in order to force her "into line" with their line of thinking. Not only that, but they threatened her with "human rights" complaints, and threatened to contact the crown and have her criminally charged with inciting hatred.
Those po
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Please remove all forms of humor from your everyday life. Only pre-approved smiles will be permitted.
TOUCH GREP UNZIP FINGER MOUNT FSCK UMOUNT (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe we need to ban most of these dirty commands too!
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Don't even get me started on 'man fsck'
Re: TOUCH GREP UNZIP FINGER MOUNT FSCK UMOUNT (Score:2)
Lulz so hard.
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I am more of a master/slave guy. Let's re-name all computing history to appease a few idiots
You're a bit late to the party for that one.
Um No (Score:3, Interesting)
Um no "Web-Oh-Oh-Bee" is perfectly fine. The name is only juvenile of you yourself are a child and decide to pronounce it a different way.
Re:Um No (Score:4, Interesting)
HandJoob and WetBoobs are just people's overactive imaginations choosing to see things that aren't there? Seriously?
How about... (Score:3)
Programming Using Several Scripts Yourself
Juvenile? (Score:2)
Okay, it's "Weboob", not, "We Love Boobs". This is totally overstretching it with the PC.
And how non-juvenile do "Google", "Bing", "Yahoo", "Hadoop" and other IT corporations or services sound?
It's all about the silly juvenile words!
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Uhhh, what? (Score:5, Insightful)
If it isn't objectionable when it actually refers to mammary glands on well endowed non- or pre-mastectomy patients, then it isn't objectionable when it refers to the web software.
This is the same kind of stupidity that plagues things like the closed captioning on one specific TV channel -- MeTV -- for example. Watch with CC turned on and you'll see the actors making "xxxxtails", or playing badminton with "shuttlexxxxs". Or our lovely local newspaper with a blog that won't allow anyone to refer directly to a city councilor whose first name is "Richard" but always goes by his nickname.
Sheesh. People think the world hates us because we "meddle". Maybe it's because we make such big stupid stinks over such ridiculous first-world problems.
Re:Uhhh, what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, you see, breast cancer is one of the approved causes. When you're one of the approved causes, you can't be offensive. You're just "refreshingly transgressive."
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The basic principal at work here is that it's fine to use boobs if they are relevant to your product. Breast cancer charities, bras, that kind of thing, fine, go ahead. Even sexy poses for your push-up bra is fine, because it's designed to enhance sex appeal.
But if you are selling a chair and you decide to drape some boobs over it for your advert, that's just exploiting women's bodies to sell your presumably shit product.
Now I need a new Distro (Score:5, Insightful)
The enemy has clearly managed to get even deeper into Debian.
Re:Now I need a new Distro (Score:5, Insightful)
The oo construct (Score:2)
The double-o construct in this short follows a long engineering tradition of shortening "out of" or "outside of" as "oo".
For example, in safety engineering, a system element which defines safety requirements on the environment in which it is to be integrated is referred to a "Safety element out of context", or "SEooC". Another example is the short hands for the various redundancy design patterns, like "two out of three", or "three out of five", which are usually referred to "2oo3" and "3oo5".
So a piece of s
Goodbye Debian (Score:4, Insightful)
I've been running Debian on a hosted virtual machine for the past 15 years or so. I guess it's time to find a new distribution. I don't use Weboob, but I'm not going to support an organization that has given in to terrorists.
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Funny that this is what puts you over the edge and not technically inferior ideas like systemd.
There are only so many commands (Score:2)
Commands are in a global namespace and should be kept short, with minimal non-alpha characters for usability. There simply aren't that many options. This decision is fucking stupid.
What about freedict - Debian's Dictionary DB (Score:2)
Sounds worse the Weboob in my opinion...
https://wiki.debian.org/freedi... [debian.org]
All such efforts (Score:3)
Will eventually go to far and make themselves in to a perfect copy of what they are there to prevent.
Yes, it is juvenile. (Score:5, Funny)
Textual applications, both command-line and REPL.
Boobank - List your bank accounts balances, their expenses, transfer money, etc.
Boobcoming - List events, fill your calendar.
Boobill - List your subscriptions, view and download the bill details.
Booblyrics - Get lyrics of songs.
Boobmsg - Read and post public and private messages.
Boobooks - List your books rented and get your booking history.
Boobsize - Display various gauges status.
Boobtracker - View, edit and create issues on bugtrackers.
Cineoob - Search movies, persons, torrents, subtitles, and get info about them.
Comparoob - Compare prices of products.
Cookboob - Search recipes, find one, and cook.
Flatboob - Search for housings to buy or rent.
Galleroob - Find and download web image galleries.
Geolooc - Geolocalize IP addresses.
Handjoob - Search for a job.
Havedate - Interact with dating websites, and get popular.
Parceloob - Parcel tracking.
Pastoob - Submit and get text (source code, backtraces) to pastebin-like websites.
Radioob - Search for radios, and get direct stream URLs and current playing songs.
Shopoob - Obtain details and status of e-commerce orders.
Suboob - Find and download subtitles.
Translaboob - Translation functions.
Traveloob - View public transportation timetables.
Videoob - Search for videos, get their direct URLs, download them or play them.
WebContentEdit - Manage and edit content on supported collaborative websites like wikis.
weboob-config - Show, install, update and configure backends.
Weboorrents - Search for torrents and download the
Wetboobs - Display current weather and to see forecasts.
If I was going to be triggered (Score:3)
systemD would be what would set me off.
Anything that ends in a D should be immediately removed from all debian distros,
Wait until someone finds... (Score:2)
libcaca.
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libca... [zoy.org]
Git's days are numbered. (Score:3)
Git has its own meaning in UK English.
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and knob. [debian.org]
As an American I'd argue that UK English is a minor dialect that we can safely ignore. Commonwealth English is more prominent and essentially the same as UK English with the most speakers in India, Nigeria, and UK. If we only count those who speak Commonwealth English as a first language then I believe the UK has the most speakers. Jamaica wins as a percentage of Commonwealth English as a first language (beating UK and Ireland).
Thank you for listening to my ridiculous reductionist rhetoric.
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Scunthorpe (Score:2)
We all know about the town of Scunthorpe. I suppose that talking about Dickeybirds is right out? Be sure you don't mishit any balls. And British bird watchers are eagerly awaiting the day that the Great Tit becomes extinct, so they don't have to talk about it any longer.
More seriously, if Debian is removing Weboob, then they also need to remove all of the following packages: Liboobs, Titanion and TitanTools. If they do not, inquiring minds want to know why...
Why only go half way? (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time we get Linux politically correct.
"man" pages are a relic of toxic masculinity and the superiority complex of the patriarchy and are now "person" pages.
The "yes" command is considered reaffirming the male belief that the only applicable answer a woman could ever give is actually yes and it will now be complemented by a "no" command. Ignoring this results in a crash of the system, this is not a bug but a feature of the system protecting itself from being overpowered by its (usually male) user.
Likewise, commands are no longer allowed to accept --force parameters.
"mail" shows gender bias and will for now be symlinked to "femail" until a gender neutral replacement can be established.
You are no longer allowed to "touch" files without proper permission.
"more" is no longer available as a relic of the consumer-capitalist ideals of more being always better, the use of "less" is now enforced for all applications.
The environmentally problematic Latex is replaced by the biodegradable Kleenex.
shell commands
"kill" is no longer appropriate and has been replace with the much more acceptable "euthanize". Programs have to agree to being euthanized before their termination.
"abort()" is now "choice()"
"history" has been rewritten. It's now "herstory".
terminology and phrases
Terminals are no longer considered "dumb" or "smart". All are equally valuable.
The word "Daemons" is considered pejorative in some religions, we now speak of "spiritual guides".
X-Window system is now the NC-17 Window System.
I dare not continue. Some idiot will probably take this serious and do it...
Links (Score:3)
After digging deeper, I've decided to provide links and no commentary
https://translate.google.com/t... [google.com]
(although some of it is in english)
http://weboob.org/applications... [weboob.org]
https://lists.debian.org/debia... [debian.org]
http://laurent.bachelier.name/... [bachelier.name]
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/... [weboob.org]
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/... [weboob.org]
Re: (Score:2)
All this thing is completely retarted!?!
WebOOB? (Score:2)
Oops, forgot they neutered all the capital letters and can't use case to provide further discernment....
Knowledge of English might help. (Score:2)
Re:This article is misinformation. (Score:4, Informative)
The Weboob dev team sets off the asshole detector [bachelier.name] pretty hard.
Re: (Score:3)
Problem solved - GET BACK TO WORK you neckbearded shirkslags.
Like that stopped people calling the XBoxOne the "X-Bone" or stopped people calling Experts Exchange "Expert Sexchange".
Re:Wut? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm at work. I don't know if I should google it. WTF does 'weboob' mean? Why should I be offended by it?
Weboob is offensive to the developers who worked on the project by suggesting that all male developers all have man-boobs.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
It is right there in the summary: WEB Out Of Browser. WEBOOB.
Is being at work the reason you can't read the summary, either?
Re: (Score:2)
That tiny minority finds they can screw everything up without any opposition.
Re:The PC-Police just needs to die... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm...
As i Debian user i do feel offended by this word ... "systemd"
Better notify the anti-harassment team they have one more package to forever purge ...