An anonymous reader writes: There's no question that the tech world is an overwhelmingly male place. There's legit concern that tech is run-amok with "brogrammers" that make women programmers feel unwelcome. On the other hand, people just want to laugh.
It's at that intersection that programmer Randy Hunt, aka "letsgetrandy" posted a "project" earlier this week to software hosting site GitHub called "DICSS."The project, which is actual free and open source software, is surrounded by geeky jokes about the male anatomy. And it's gone nuts, so to speak, becoming the most trending project on Github, and the subject of a lot of chatter on Twitter. And, Hunt tells us, the folks at Github are scratching their heads wondering what they should do about it.
Some people love DICSS (and, we have to admit, some of the jokes did make us snicker) ... and some people are, understandably, offended.
The offended people point out that this is exactly the sort of thing that makes tech unwelcoming to women, and not just because of the original project, but because of some of the comments (posted as "commits") that might take the joke too far. (And, we have to admit, the tech world really doesn't need another thing that encourages sexism. A lot of male programmers are just as sick of that as women are.)
Whats Slashdot's opinion? Harmless fun? Sexism run rampant?