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It's probably a good idea to avoid insulting or alienating your audience. My manager is a woman and I run into code and setup documentation all the time that says things like "he should do X/Y/Z". At least our documentation team fixes that before public release.

Google's guidelines are here: https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation

I have to say though some of their examples are weird. I have never encountered anyone that would object to the phrase "senior citizens" or the word "hang" in documentation. The idea that the latter could cause "unintentional harm that might be caused by the violent interpretations" is frankly absurd.

I'm just as cynical.

> I’ve been on the internet since I was 14 (11 years ago).

The author is young. They weren't around to remember the early internet or life without it. Their childhood/adolescence is corporate controlled, algorithm driven websites like Youtube and Facebook. Their outlook as an "Internet native" has been shaped by the enforced behaviours of sites like Twitter.

The conclusion I would draw is that dog owners are unable to objectively analyse their pets behaviour.

There's a subreddit that campaigns on the issue. The research page has a link to lots of studies, most from respectable publications, which are really damning: https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/wiki/research

Another few examples:

"In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-b...

"United States Human Radiation Experiments" http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/guyman2/

I recently learned from a friend his mother was subjected to medical trials in an orphanage in Europe as a baby which run by GlaxoSmithKline and found to be illegal and unethical even by the standards of the time. I wonder how many trials and experiments were successfully covered up.

I'm pretty sure the owner of the “Mozilla Team” team PPA [1] has been dead since 2013 [2]. He is also listed as an Administrator. If someone were to comprise his account via his old email, e.g. if he used a now expired domain that could be registered, they could use this PPA to deliver a backdoored Firefox build to thousands of users and steal their passwords, tokens and SSH keys.

Community support is great but without a proper security team and enforced secutiry processes the PPAs are very dangerous.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito

[2] https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/apex-nc/john-vivi...

Is the linked PPA [1] actually maintained by Mozilla or is it volunteers? I can't tell. The uploader looks like a freelancer and the PPA owner hasn't been active on Mozilla's Bugzilla in over a decade.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Amazon's attempts to get users to unwittingly sign up to Prime is one of the most egregious examples I encounter on a regular basis. As a European I cannot wait to see it gone.

I can imagine a ridiculous Black Mirror-like scenario in which a Tesla suggests that instead of driving to a Bernie Sanders event as planned, that the driver go to a conservative one instead. After all, Tesla could decide that Sanders' politics are inappropriate and harmful (to society/its bottom line).

> It's not telling you what to change, it's giving you suggestions.

By giving you suggestions it's telling you that it thinks you are wrong. There is no way around that. It's a judgement plain and simple and that changes people's behaviour.

> Even the suggestions can be turned off.

Let's be honest. No one changes the defaults.

> Language (like everything) has become politicized,

ANd now my word editor is picking a side...

Finally someone gets it.

Imagine if Google was dominated by religious conservatives and their "inappropriate" language suggestions flagged "gay parents" or "pro-choice" as 'wrong' by default.

That's crazy. Local timelines are the best part of mastodon instances.

> Lupiano said many of those who reached out to him about their brain cancer cases "are former CHS teachers and staff members who didn’t live in Colonia, they just worked in the school."

You probably are. Everyone wants to spin things for there own benefit. However I think it's mostly in the interest of the aggressor to keep people lost in arm-chair debating about global powers by manufacturing suspicion of critical voices and fueling competing narratives, as it leaves them free to reshape the world through violence. As a European who campaigned against the Iraq and other wars, whatever the propoganda we are being sold is, for me it doesn't change the reality that millions of Ukraines are now refugees fleeing to my country and 10,000s have been murdered in cold blood.

> In the western world the vast majority of people I know already have zero issues being tracked, advertised to, recommended to, and generally manipulated for "engagement" and profit.

The vast majority of people have no thought out opinion on the matter. They have no idea how much data is gathered about them, how it's sold and how it's used. Ignorance is not the same as affirmation.

I think they recommend just using normal Ubuntu now that most of the drivers have been upstreamed.