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Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference (arstechnica.com)
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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

Sizovs claimed that Boyko, "a demo persona from our test website version," was added to DevTernity's speaker list "by mistake" after two real women cancelled their conference appearances due to "reasons out of our control at the worst possible time." He said that he "noticed the issue in October" but failed to fix it because "it was not a quick fix" and it was "better to have that demo persona while I am searching for the replacement speakers."

Removing a name from a website is "not a quick fix"?

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago

Their git is public too, you can see how little effort it took to remove them lmao

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