Re: A quick search on _noticeable_ Linux improvements since 2014

On 2025-03-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 04:23:52 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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On 2025-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 08:00:47 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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    In Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s quest to nix all diversity,
    equity, and inclusion (DEI) content, some photos on the Pentagon’s
    website and online posts appear to be marked for deletion just
    because they include the word “gay”—regardless of what the context
    is.

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I assume the DoD has some very skilled database programmers.
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DELETE * FROM everything WHERE anything LIKE '%gay%'

 
Yeah, it looks like a picture of the Enola Gay, the WWII atomic bomb
carrying plane, was inadvertently taken down.

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Back in the '70s a friend and I were visiting his mother, an old Maniac.
He had non-standard shoes laces in his Chuck Taylor's, red iirc. "What gay
shoelaces!" she said. Ladies of a certain age in upstate Maine weren't
attuned to the changing usage.
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I remember at least two people from grade school / high school. One's last
name was Gay and the other's given name was Gay (she was a she). Can't do
much about the surname but I imagine Gay has fallen out of favor as a
given name.

I had a teacher in Bible College (in the mid 70s) who defiantly refused to
bow down to the new meaning of "gay." He continued to use the word in its
traditional sense and made to point he was doing it. He probably did this
until he died (I think in the late 80s or early 90s, he was already pretty
old in the 70s).

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien