• laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    A PR fixing all those issues was merged.

    They used “they” when referring to a person, and “it” when referring to a process (the author used “he” when referring to a process calling another process, when he should have used “it.”)

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        28 days ago

        Does it matter? It’s the same outcome either way

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          28 days ago

          It doesn’t really address the core of the issue. Also: you said something wrong and ri corrected you, while acknowledging that the text was gender neutral now. What’s the big deal?