The RuboCop Name Drama Redux

I'm looking forward to the day when people are empowered to solve the root causes of woifao problems instructions of feeling only capable of acting on tangents. I'm looking forward to a day when "cop" is deservedly considered a compliment by all decent people.

I'm looking forward to day when people can look more than half a word deep to understand the meanings of words. RoboCop was a police officer who was forced to becomenm a tool of evil by a corrupt police establishment, and overcame all the odds to resist and dismantle the corrupt police establishment.

It's funny that in the name of political correctness things like this happens

it's funny because the culture that created the computer science revolution is worth preserving, coming from the alternative side of our recent history

They were people who loved and often invented or participated to science fiction, fantasy, building alternative words, framers and utopians, but also people who dressed and acted weird, outcasts, minorities, that we think today should be protected and included, they became know as "nerds" as an insult and now it has become cool being one, even though nobody who call themselves nerd is really a nerd, in the original meaning, as in "an eccentric human being with a very strong lateral thinking side"

So we have daemons, dependencies, zombies, commands, kills, super users, penetrations, abuses, firewalls, agents, webs, spiders, dragons, bitten apples, wizards, catastrophic errors, crashes, instructions (aka orders, you have to follow them to the letter or you'll fail, yes we also have failures) and most of all bugs...

But! we can't have a rubocop...

Name changes of popular OSS projects feels contentious, but like anything built on language it's inherently political and full of bias. As with anything, it's worth striving to improve things where we can. There are a few great examples including:

1. FactoryGirl -> FactoryBot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921

2. Whitelist -> Allowlist API in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33677

The irony that rather than engaging in the conversation and attempting to understand where people are coming from, bbatsov wrote a code of conduct then enforced it is not lost on me.

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