I tried to warn you too

every time this issue came up on HN or Phoronix or a mailing list I laid out my strongest argument

usually ended with "LOL YOU JUST WANT TO EYE RAPE THE HYPOTHETICAL WOMEN WHO MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY JOIN OUR COMMUNITY IF WE WERE MORE WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE IN SOME VAGUE AND NEBULOUS WAY"

It's just dumb. They could be eating children's brains in their spare time, that doesn't effect whether their code is useful or not.

code has no gender

half the time I can barely tell what country an email comes from on a mailing list

I don't think I would recognize the faces of more than three contributors to projects I follow closely or contribute to.

Why do people want to restrict who can work for free?

Even if I were a raging sexist, racist, homophobe from the hottest sweatiest pits of the Mars Boys Club

I wouldn't know who to mistreat.

There must be profit in being a douche.

these people see cis-white males everywhere because they believe cis-white males are the superior group

Well, the piece Tim based his recent video on points to a plausible explanation

I know that the org chart of feminist infiltrators in Node (which managed to very nearly ruin everything with a CoC there a few months ago) is pretty suspicious too.

If someone wants to do free labor constantly patching up my operating system in response to 0-day security threats why should I care that they're a white male?

i mean, why else would meritocracy in an anonymous community mean only cis-white males end up on top? its because they believe, they themselves believe, that straight white males are the best in this area

Corporate soft coup seems like a plausible way it ends up this way.

they are the racists, and they project onto everyone else because they have been told since childhood racists are bad

they hate themselves and blame everyone else

White male Wikipedia editors is funny too, that's mostly free labor as well.

I run Linux every day for work and for play, and if the best contributors were pedophiles... no, child rapists, I'd want them contributing (if only from jail).

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1043965240960937985

hell, make them contribute from jail

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HOLY SHIT

THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING

What if they hide links to CP in the comments and then the FBI raids your house?

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS CALENDARS THAT LONG

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

@Risotto still worth it.

Ryan's a daily wire journo if you don't know the name

(a future political figure apparently)

also CP links are not unlawful to possess

fucking incredible

certainly suspicious though

actually are they not illegal?

feel like that falls in a grey area

@Risotto they'd have to write a LOT of code to stegano' images into the code

links are not CP

TFW you're in jail because you compiled code that said "Megumi the wizard is sexy"