That's the sort of overt racism that made me leave github.

They are likely to go after NPM etc to make it difficult for projects to have the freedom to define their own standards and practices if they want to be distributed and used. Then we'd have to create and fund a whole new repository infrastructure if we want to continue making software that's all about the code rather than our identities and the privilege hierarchy.

Did you know there is a way to get the name of the uploader for that? Just wondering in case it's you and you think it's anon.

Some agree with her, others are afraid for their job and speak in whispers because they know they operate under a fascist regime.

In those old black and white pictures of women in computer rooms, the women's job title was "computer". The programmers were men, the women put punch cards into slots.

I apologise if anyone got triggered or made ill by the image Voat has included above. I didn't intend to make you feel unsafe here.

I don't want to work with people who think that sort of thing is exclusionary, but unfortunately they are in the ascendency. Putting in place Codes of Conduct which talk about "exclusion" in this sense are exclusionary to people like me.