[ddxv]

I've seen an interesting politically motivated one. It didn't appear to be a bot, just a user from China:

https://github.com/umami-software/umami/pull/3678

The goal is "Taiwan" -> "Taiwan, Province of China" but via the premise of updating to UN ISO standards, which of course does not allow Taiwan.

The comment after was interesting with how reasonable it sounds: "This is the technical specification of the ISO 3166-1 international standard, just like we follow other ISO standards. As an open-source project, it follows international technical standards to ensure data interoperability and professionalism."

The politics of the intent of the PR was masked. Luckily, it was still a bit hamfisted. The PR incorrectly changed many things and the user stated their political intention in the original PR (the above is from a later comment).

[nl]

Doubly interesting (and relevant to this discussion) is that it was an AI code review tool that detected the issues with the PR

[komali2]

One of these days I need to make a bot that scans FOSS repos for this kind of little pink nonsense behavior.

The insecurity of wanting to call a place "country name, province of different country name" should alone be mocked. Imagine, "Ukraine, province of Russia," or "India, colony of The United Kingdom." Absurd on its face.

[theshrike79]

It's just information warfare, sign of the times.

Every little thing counts, even if it's just changing names in an open source app like that.

[maxbiggaveli]

The problem with this is that, for some folks, its not absurd or nonsense because that is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. So the inverse (calling a province a country) is considered absurd/nonsense.

[komali2]

> is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name.

Some people think calling the earth a globe is absurd. Those people are wrong. Is there any particular reason I should entertain their, hm, "opinion?"