> 1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.
> 2. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. an unsophisticated or ignorant person, especially one from a rural area.
I'm saying this because I'm raised on a farm, I was always proud of it, I still do it as a hobby (and I love my crops) and I never, ever considered it an insult when I heard a term "farmer" or "peasant".
Nowadays, I read about people being offended in my stead, giving themselves the right to insult other people, like author of microwebsockets.
Is there a world in which haters could hate without using excuses such as "it insults farmers"?
I'm one of the farmers, I am not insulted, I do have the right to say this and point the attention at the *real* problem - and it's fake developers.
My most regular outburst of swearing is about 'dev-ops' and lack of engineering discipline and occurs almost daily :)
If you read the section, applying context from what the project is about and where it is used, you should pretty easily grasp the overall idea that is: "compression sucks and is incredibly inefficient". It would be a much more interesting thread if people took that message and argued against/for it, technically. But now we are here arguing about some word usage that might be offensive if interpreted in a very literal way. Congratulations; we have reached peak cancel culture. I hope you enjoy it while it lasts.