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> only to land jobs.

so what?


"We're an international team of misfits that's been doing remote work since long before face-masks were cool or staying indoors was required."

but like... there was a global pandemic...


Why use "blacklisted" here? Why not just say not allowed...


Blacklisted is the specific terminology for when a website rejects certain file types. I guess in githubs case it would be that webm is not whitelisted since only 2 formats are permitted.


But since in this case it only allows certain other formats, it's the wrong wording.


Because it's a real word that is applied in this case.


They're free to use real specific words that aren't actually offensive if they want.

Although in this case I would have thought GitHub uses a whitelist rather than a blacklist, so they should have said "webm isn't whitelisted".

(Notice how that is different to "webm is blacklisted" but your alternative wouldn't have captured that distinction.)


Yes and I’d assume such a user is already using a browser built by Y ;)


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