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#1
Minecraft / Re: Minecraft 1.21
Last post by Mr. Analog - Today at 04:43:24 PM
Right? I'll never forget that first time playing with Tom and his friends. I can't remember if we used Skype or Vent to talk but it was great
#2
Minecraft / Re: Minecraft 1.21
Last post by Thorin - Today at 02:38:19 PM
Jeebus, 15 years?!
#3
Minecraft / Re: Minecraft 1.21
Last post by Mr. Analog - Yesterday at 11:51:27 PM
Not sure how I feel about non ambient music but hey, capes maybe!
#4
Minecraft / Minecraft 1.21
Last post by Lazybones - Yesterday at 11:08:15 PM
#5
Lobby / Re: Oilers 2023-24
Last post by Mr. Analog - April 23, 2024, 07:21:13 AM
What a game last night! Great way to kick off a series!
#6
Tech Chat / Re: DHH is right, nothing is e...
Last post by Thorin - April 22, 2024, 10:37:47 PM
"grandfathering" isn't sexist, it's named after a systemic racist attempt to keep freed slaves from voting. It's inherently racist.

Your link to UW's inclusive language guide has explanations for each word / category they're addressing. I read them to make sure there's no "gotchas" listed that might come back at me, now I can confidently say I agree with all their decisions in their guide. Hell, they even offer a whole bunch of references to learn more from.

Meanwhile the only argument against is some guy who was good at driving a car and writing code, who apparently doesn't bother studying what he's complaining about before complaining about it, and his argument is really only that he didn't like being inconvenienced for what in his unstudied perception didn't make a difference. It doesn't help that he's an anti-DEI heading down the far right rich guy asshole pipeline.
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Tech Chat / DHH is right, nothing is ever ...
Last post by Darren Dirt - April 21, 2024, 12:17:48 PM
https://world.hey.com/dhh/forcing-master-to-main-was-a-good-faith-exploit-b21ee30c
QuoteI never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can make a real difference, great. Let's do it.

How naive.

This was a classic exploit of good faith, and I fell for it.

Changing master to main changed less than nothing. Because nothing was or is ever enough in this arena...



So now, the words "blacklist" and "whitelist" are too racist for the University of Washington. And "grandfathering" is too sexist. 🥴

https://itconnect.uw.edu/guides-by-topic/identity-diversity-inclusion/inclusive-language-guide/

#8
Minecraft / Re: Minecraft 1.20 Update
Last post by Mr. Analog - April 19, 2024, 10:22:32 AM
Cool!
#9
Minecraft / Re: Minecraft 1.20 Update
Last post by Lazybones - April 18, 2024, 11:25:20 PM
Looks like we are getting close to release

#10
Game Chat / 4 Favorite Video Games (a quot...
Last post by Darren Dirt - April 10, 2024, 08:45:36 AM
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https://twitter.com/KirscheVerstahl/status/1777921153136255347
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Click click click = very few titles mentioned more than once (!)