Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn’t use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn’t know the origin of the term ‘ricing’ until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it’s from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I’m not really interested in the debate about brigading, but more on the data.

    Can this just be retrieved via an API?

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure if anyone is exposing an API for this. I’m pulling it directly from the database on an instance I have access to. At first I was worried it wasn’t accurate for hexbear because it’s a much older instance, but they didn’t start federating until very recently so it’s close enough.