• @[email protected]
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    Not pictured: elitist chuds that are really angry about the trans and furry community, and think Linux and other open source communities were ruined by code of conducts.

  • T Jedi
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    I love the fact that “Ninja Cat” was used as a mascot for Windows 10 Insiders back in the day. Makes the meme even better to me.

  • Killercat103
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    Marxist/Leninist hardliners is funny to me because FOSS kind of set me on the path to become a socialist. (Although I’m a libertarian not a ML)

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    Software from the 80’s? Get that new fangled garbage outta here. If it doesn’t predate the first Alien movie it’s probably full of bugs.

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        As far as I’m aware, a lot of the core utilities originate back some time ago, stuff like ls, CD, chmod/chown, cat, sed, awk etc.

        Now the question is, is a piece of software that’s been maintained or ported since the 70s considered pre 79 software?

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        Unless you’re running BSD or some other genetic Unix probably not as everything GNU is newer than that. GNU is 80s, original Unix 70s, in the 60s you still have giant minicomputers with very little standardisation, including ISA, and before the 60s there were not even compilers.

        A decent chunk of software traces lineage back to then, even if the old code has been retired: vi is the screen terminal mode of ex with is a more featureful ed which got most of its features from qed which is 60s software. Cutting-edge: You didn’t have to punch holes any more, you had a keyboard and a printer. Someone figure out where dd has its argument syntax from so we know whom to blame.

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          Dunno where CP/M got it from but PIP and REN use DEST.EXT=SRC.EXT, so that arg style dates back to then at least.

          Also, CP/M 2.2’s ED is great, it’s my daily driver editor on my RC2014.

          E: Wow, I really can’t type.

        • @[email protected]
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          The program dd (data duplicator/disk destroyer) is named after the DD (data definition) command in IBM’s Job Control Language. The syntax for dd is also based on IBM JCL.

      • fakeaustinfloyd
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        Off the top of my head, vi came out in the late 70s (though it might have been a little while later before you could start editing directly through vi)

  • @[email protected]
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    This is mostly true, especially in communities like this. I do know a couple of guys who are the complete opposite politically - ultra conservative Christians. But when they need forum support and encounter this part of the community it just makes them stronger in their opinion that the world needs Jesus.

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    892 months ago

    I would argue that’s the cool part. You also have the average hyper racist neo-reactionary Suckless fossid user who thinks daring to write in anything other than C is “gay” or smth.

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    Does Linux cause some amount of autism or is it the other way around? Nah, nevermind. It works and most other things in my life don’t.

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      I work in tech and there are a lot of trans people in the industry, 10% of my company are trans. I do live in a country where it is safe to be trans person, so maybe people are more open about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      What, do you ask your coworkers such questions? Unless it’s their entire personality, it doesn’t really get revealed in normal conversation…?

      I worked with a guy for over a year and I never would have guessed it, until I saw FurAffinity come up as a suggestion in his browser once.

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      I know a single person in a nearly 2 decade career. But I’ve seen this stereotype posted repeatedly. I think it’s just niche, loud, sections of the internet wearing blinders, being in echo chambers, and wishful/fantasizing thinking.

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      I have yet to meet a furry or trans IT person IRL.

      Visit any comic or anime convension and you’ll find the former in spades.

      As to the later, idk. I’ve got three cousins who came out as Trans in the last five years or so.

      There’s definitely been a thaw around sex and gender over the last twenty years, and I can’t help notice a certain number of “butch lesbians” and “sis men” just saying “fuck it, I’m the other gender and straight” and going all the way.

      Or is bullying a bigger issue there maybe?

      Bullying certainly. But also there hasn’t been a large and active transgender community until fairly recently. People coming to terms with what being transgender means and how to self-actualize it wasn’t possible in the homophobic atmosphere of the 20th century.

      We’ll see how long this revolution survives in the current century. Germany also had a boom/bust of transgenderism in the 1920s. Hopefully, Trumpism/Starmerism isn’t a bell weather for that kind of reactionary reversal.

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        I can’t help notice a certain number of “butch lesbians” and “sis men” just saying “fuck it, I’m the other gender and straight” and going all the way.

        That’s either phrased poorly, or a frankly insane take on gender.

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          12 months ago

          Friend’s FtM dad transitioned in his late 60s, after it became more socially acceptable. Before that, he was just a very masculine presenting lesbian. Now he’s a guy - a straight man in what is effectively a trans-het relationship.

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            A personal journey that depends on far more than sexual orientation, and that obviously cannot be generalized.

            If you made that clueless comment to a trans person IRL, I wouldn’t be surprised if they punched you in the face over it.