Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Lol, if we start excluding tech based on the inventors mental illnesses we are gonna end up bashing rocks together to make fire.

    Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that being trans is a mental illness, only refuting that mental illness is not a reason to discard ones contributions. Apologies for any offence.

    • metaStatic
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      396 months ago

      let me tell you about the guy who invented bashing rocks together …

    • V ‎ ‎
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      286 months ago

      Pretty much lol. RMS went off the deep end so no GNU, Torvalds used to call people devil cunts so no Linux kernel. Theo probably did something to upset somebody lol. Maybe we can just use TempleOS and become computing hermits?

      • @CameronDev@programming.dev
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        476 months ago

        Goes back further than that, Turing was gay, so anything building off his works must also be transitively gay.

        To add to the modern examples, Reiser murdered his wife, which really puts “devil cunts” into perspective :D

        • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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          276 months ago

          Goes back another 100 years before that. Lovelace was a woman, who in her time wasn’t supposed to be doing anything at all

          • Lilium
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            96 months ago

            Back then people still believed in the “woman hysteria” thing, right? Ngl sounds very “mental illness” to me.

      • @lauha@lemmy.one
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        86 months ago

        Except all our hardware is made by major corporationw and there are no major corporations that work totally ethically and morally

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          96 months ago

          Hmm maybe we’ll run FreeDOS on breadboarded (vintage) 8086s and live in caves 😂.

          • @XTL@sopuli.xyz
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            66 months ago

            A Microsoft (stolen) design and the most evil CPU arch?

            At least caves might be ethically sourced.

          • @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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            116 months ago

            pretty hard to do computation on a pdf. which is what risc-v is. You need someone to design and build a chip according to what’s in those pdfs

              • @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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                46 months ago

                i was replying to the point that all hardware is made by large corporations. That will not change, irrelevant of whether the isa is open source or not.

            • @XTL@sopuli.xyz
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              36 months ago

              You know there’s tons of real chips out already and more coming all the time?

              ARM is as much just a spec at heart.

              • @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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                36 months ago

                and arm do not manufacture chips. Usually tsmc or samsung do. The fact that chips exist is orthogonal to the argument of who ends up manufacturing them

          • V ‎ ‎
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            6 months ago

            I like the idea of RISC-V, but I need something like a Raspberry Pi except RISC-V. I can accept a little jank, but it needs to be “good enough” if you catch my drift.

              • @crystal@feddit.de
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                26 months ago

                Are there any performance benchmarks for the Star64?

                Pine64 claims the chip to have performance similar to certain Cortex-A55 processors, which would put the Star64 on par with the Raspberry 4 series. Is that true?

      • The Doctor
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        66 months ago

        OpenBSD got a grant from the DoD, and then Theo posted his opinions of the post-9/11 US government, and they put a stop on the check before it even crossed the border. He pissed a lot of folks inside the Beltway off that day.

      • @FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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        6 months ago

        Being trans is not a mental illness but let’s not encourage stigma around mental illness either.

        Cis people with mental illness are valid

        Trans people with mental illness are valid

        Mentally healthy trans people are valid

        Mentally healthy cis people are valid

        • @metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub
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          6 months ago

          I mean, being trans is perfectly valid, but I think gender dysphoria itself should be classified as a mental illness so long as it brings significant pain/distress to the individual, the solution there is just gender reassignment, surgery, hormones, etc. I don’t think there should be stigma in calling it such, it needs treatment the same as anything else. People with ADHD have a mental illness and get meds, sometimes therapy, people with poor eyesight have an ocular dysfunction of some kind and get glasses or surgery or whatever, none of it should be that big a deal. The point is it can be diagnosed and treated.

          I think the response to shit like “transgenderism” being a mental disease should be “well at least their/our dysphoria can be treated now, what’s your excuse?”

    • @selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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      56 months ago

      It’s so easy to be called *phobic these days. It reminds of those relationships in which people feel like they are walking on eggshells.