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by prepend 1877 days ago
Why hacker?
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If Paul Graham doesn't rename this site "Hackex News" tomorrow, the woke brigade must cancel it immediately!
It’s tomorrow and not renamed. Surely, his silence on this issue means that he endorses the patriarchal dominance of hackers.
their explanation: it's "gendered and not inclusive"
"hacker" isn't gendered.

> 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

My daughter will be a hacker if she wants to follow in her old mans footsteps. Please don't take that away from her.
mines only 6, shes defeated some child locks and found a "cheat" in one of her kid games on the iPad and presses every button on every machine she sees. Hack the planet kiddo!!
Good! we'll need her in a few years once these kids' anxiety drives them out of the wokeforce
And what's wrong with husband? Or housekeeping?

How am I supposed to talk about my husband doing the housekeeping?

you say

"My Man Spouse is doing the domestic science"

Not sure about housekeeping but husband is gendered so I assume that is the "problem".
That seems like they don’t understand the word. I can’t think of many more communities more inclusive than hackers. It’s certainly not gendered either.

Are all gendered words banned?

Oh boy! No having cash cows or taking bullshit, or taking a gander, or goosing the numbers, etc., etc.

What the hell happened to us?!