on the necessity of a @snowflake codedoc annotation

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Mon Nov 26 00:24:12 PST 2018


What do we want?

A bland homogeneous, milquetoast, corporate bland predictable
sameness in all code and documentation?

Or a diversity of expressive styles, confronting (to some)
assertions, comedy and blunt yet constructive criticism?

Well many these days are snowflakes demanding the former.

Some old school punks prefer the latter, along with the
responsibility, discernment, discrimination (not to mention
robustness of emotions) brought forth by this more libre option.

The distinction between homogeneity and diversity has even found
"law" promoting apparent Marxists round these parts proclaiming the
genuwhine necessity of submission to the will of others, without a
hint of irony as to who they may be serving by such suggestions.

While the CoCs begin to reign supreme, p'rhaps the limit of ye
supremely humble wons might deign to fling the occasional pittance
"in service of snowflakes":

 A codedoc warning: @snowflake

for all the IDE's, searches and documentation where snowflake
triggering "tripe" might be purged before the weak ones flutter an
eyelid, faint and fall to the ground in a squishless puff of their
self righteous ironic condemnation of others.


LWN recently covered https://lwn.net/Articles/770966/ this all but
insurmountable brouhaha around an old joke in the glibc manual (tldr
link for those wondering how truly rivetting|abhorrent this abortion
joke was: https://lwn.net/Articles/753647/
)

 …
	Stallman: “These [GNU Kind Communications Guidelines
	https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html] guidelines
	as such do not apply to manuals. Kindness as a general principle
	surely does apply to manuals, but precisely how remains to be
	decided. ”

 He noted that he had recently added a statement into the GNU
 maintainer guide that "humor is welcome _in general_" and that the
 project rejects "the idea of 'professionalism' which calls for
 deleting humor because it is humor" (though that does not yet appear
 in the guide at the time of this writing). In order to even consider
 the question of the abort() joke, there are several "broader issues"
 that need to be resolved first, he said.
 …



Can we have our @snowflake cake and eat it too, or will the
politically correct SS (Senior Snowflake) guards "tolerantly" relieve
us of every last vestige of humour in the name of "tolerance",
insisting on the viewpoint that no viewpoint may be uttered except
corporate bland PC speak in order to "include" those of different
viewpoints who may be so timid and pissweak in their viewpoints that
they cringe and fly away to a safer, warmer, snowflakier place with
milk and honey, lest their eyeballs and last remaining synapse be
assaulted with a viewpoint different to their own?


Good luck folks, and always remember, create your world already.


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