Code-hosting portal GitHub is reportedly working on replacing the programming term “master” with a neutral term such as “main” in an effort to avoid references to slavery. The move is part of a leftist push to change the language of coding by removing terms deemed racist, sexist, and otherwise “offensive.”
Britain’s lockdown is based on the computer modelling of a scientist with a track record of failed predictions and whose widely-criticised methodology is subject to such secrecy, he still has not released the source code underpinning his model.
Drupal developers are fighting back following the expulsion of Larry Garfield following the public shaming of his private sex life.
Social justice warriors love diversity, except when it’s political diversity.
With weak iPhone sales causing Apple to suffer its first full-year revenue and profit declines since 2001, several analysts are downgrading Apple and upgrading the potential for Google’s new Pixel smartphone line.
The DeepMind Challenge victory demonstrates that Google’s open-source “artificial general intelligence” has just launched a new era of disruptive technology.
Coraline Ada Ehmke, a partisan feminist known for imposing hated progressive codes of conduct on open source coding communities, has announced she will join the influential software development platform GitHub to advise on “anti-harassment.”
Two luminaries from the open source software world, Eric Raymond and Meredith Patterson, discuss the social justice incursion with Milo Yiannopoulos.
Yesterday, we reported on the untimely death of open source software pioneer Ian Murdock, who died in sensational circumstances after a string of emotionally charged posts on social media in which he threatened suicide and claimed to have been the victim of a vicious incident of police brutality.
Feminists in tech have been staging attempted “honey traps” to frame prominent male software developers for sexual assault, according to explosive claims on the blog of Eric S. Raymond, a pioneer of the open source movement. In allegations that will rock the world of
O’Reilly Media’s 2015 Open Source convention (OScon) turned into a debacle on Twitter last week after the invitation of a controversial activist. The drama escalated after O’Reilly Media employed a flawed mass-blocking tool on its official Twitter accounts, which blocked a swathe of journalists and developers in addition to the convention’s critics.
On June 12, 2014, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the company’s web site that “All Our Patent Belong to You.” In adopting an “open source” policy to allow others to use the company’s patented intellectual property for free, Tesla’s stock (NASDAQ-TSLA) went up and the company got lots of publicity. But the statement preserved patent rights by requiring “good faith”, which is definitely not “open source.” Now, in a bizarre move, Musk has announced unlimited free-use of Tesla’s patents. Twenty-four hours later, Apple leaked that it is designing an electric vehicle and is now bidding to recruit Tesla employees.
