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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030969
https://archived.moe/g/thread/93632944/linux-graphics-stack-is-trans (EDIT: removed/jannied, archive: https://archived.moe/g/thread/93632944/)
HN users are noticing something:
« I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans »
From a purely statistical POV, this is absurdly bizarre.
Not really.
Statistically there will be weird coincidences completely naturally. It's also quite arbitrary which we see as meaningful. If say, Linux networking has unusually many people called "John" that probably will be unnoticed because nobody pays that much attention to common, unremarkable names. If they all randomly turn out to have green eyes, then that's more visible. It's completely subjective which of those is more remarkable.
There are also likely social effects -- people stick together, and some side interests align with some fields. Eg, I think it's reasonable to guess there's going to be more furries than average in VR development. Part because VR allow you to look like whatever you want a lot of the time, part because people will invite their friends in.
It is not just a random coincidence. It's a phenomenon more broadly across programming, especially very low-level/hardware stuff.
There does seem to be a correlation between autism spectrum and gender confusion, with the former often present in individuals who are into highly technical pursuits.
The logic seems to be not conforming to masculine stereotypes ==> must be a woman.
It's not "gender confusion". They know very well who they are. You are confused about the topic.
Meanwhile on /g/:
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Don’t care
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Why are 4chan threads about s so jannied nowadays? Have the mod team been infiltrated?
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Unrelated to trains: just use debian + i3
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pic related, it's me upgrading to Windows 11
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The tabs in file explorer are so goated since it can axtually load thumbnails
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WHY HAS NO ONE POSTED THIS PHOTO
From the homepage
https://rosenzweig.io/
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This is why the military industrial complex is the only safe space
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Plenty of s there.
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Hm. How do they square that circle? You’d think they would hate working for a system of oppression that promotes heteronormativity yadda yadda
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Is this a rhetorical question?
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You know no one would actually care or even ask questions if someone's transgender or not if they didn't keep rubbing it in people's faces. People don't like girl peepee in their faces or manc*nts.
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We need a nothing is beyond our reach trans pride patch now lol
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Well this certainly explains a lot
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Whats the least ed OS? Ill run apple if i have to
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Redstar OS
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I'd say TempleOS but those train drumkit BIPOCs killed our hero and I'll never forgive them.
Maybe Haiku since it's written in C++ and doesn't treat the GUI as some shitty afterthought?
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The whole s are great at coding is the biggest fricking meme ever.
There's loads of coders because autism but barely any of them are any good because they're too mentally ill and their autism can't save them
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Well there goes any interest I had left in Linux.
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Why does anyone use Linux for the graphics? I mean i know it has a gui if you really want it...
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Make sure to switch
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on for the HN link, lots of flagged in the commentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032240:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032412:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053317:
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Serious question: What other industry would hire them?
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No wonder Carmack went full chud. Working around these strags would make anyone hate them.
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Switching over to apartheid linux rn
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There's no way 90% of people who have an opinion on this matter would dare enter that HN thread and talk honestly
the only resistence is the spergs who cant behave
nothing political at all about it, nope
ctrl-f "republican"
"You don’t need to like Democrats, but I need you to understand that if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism."
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The story only has 160 points and 76 comments. I think most of HN just ignores these posts.
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Voting blue isn't political, it's basic human decency.
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putting the W in Windows and the L in Linux
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The majority of the development is being supported by corporate interests, if all these devs 41 percented they would be replaced in a year.
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“getting rid of linux developers” would mean letting them out and 41% instead of staying as neurodivergent males
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It's ok
goycissy, it's just a coincidence. Stop nooticing thingsJump in the discussion.
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It'd be more convincing if they said that there are no coincidences, there is only The Force.
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Pretty sure it's been shown nix users are also more likely to be libertarians, but im sure that has nothing to do with the higher use by trains?
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it's actually their higher use of brains
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lmao
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It's so fricking obvious that neurodivergent trans people are just autists fixating on social roles they don't understand because they're not supposed to be neatly defined. It's crazy that no one with authority has stepped in to tell them that they're over thinking it.
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online discourse devastated by the use of 'over thinking' as a concept instead of others you disagree with being misguided in what they think about, as if amount is the problem, and there's some weird stopping point they are shooting past, its horrible
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There is legit such a thing as over thinking. There are fuzzy concepts that should be used as a not too examine heuristic or it breaks down. You genuinely miss the forest for the trees often and it's something autists are more liable than neurotypicals to do.
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It's become a catch all for "people that do things that I don't understand" and the need to express some specific condition can't be worth the collateral damage of "Everyone is just overthinking shit and they should chill out"
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You are overthinking it.
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I appreciate you doing the needful Sal
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No need for collateral, we can't neuter entire concepts because they are sometimes used irresponsibly.
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How about about 90% of the time including when you used it
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I used it correctly. Neurodivergents over think gender, it's why they go trans. They think there is significantly more tham there is and they end up wrapping their identify around the fixation.
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His fixation on that word and not on what you actually said is pretty neurodivergent in of itself, ironically.
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Ah yes, Linux graphics, famously unable to do literally anything at all.
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A "well known linux developer" for Asahi linux. Basically Linux for macs.
Pretty sure Linus would kick them out of any kernal development if they were ever involved.
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They’ve already upstreamed patches and the code is good even if everyone involved are culture warriors.
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You mean people with left leaning economics and generally socially liberal opinions, cant ever have nuanced opinions about specific subjects?
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Oh so that's why there's 41% probability of graphics dying after an update
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“Normies don’t care about us even when we bring up how we’re prosecuted just like blacks and Jews. Surely they will care about us if we somehow connect ourselves to this niche OS.“
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zoz
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We care about what you do, what you achieve, not what you are.
And we sure as heck don't want to know about your face.
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You have too care. This is what happens when you allow mentally ill people too contribute too you're project. Trans lives matter
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!slotsmb 100
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Why do s have to touch everything? Why can’t I just enjoy my neurodivergent OS in peace?
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People don't even care about s in tech, they just don't want nonpartisan institutions to be hollowed out for short term political advantages.
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I wonder if a distro or some other project made by forced anons will ever take off. Like, to contribute you have a random name assigned to you, there's an IRC where you must use that random name, if you talk about who you are irl you get banned, but you're invited to reregister as a new anon, maybe get GPT to rewrite most of what they post about to minimise stenography attacks. You could be interacting with , , , or , and you'd have no idea. It wouldn't matter. All that matters is your work for the project. I've wanted to make this for the last few years but I have a job. Maybe when I retire and need something to do with my money and time.
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Half the reason to contribute is that it can be used as inroads and networking to the industry, anonymizing it removes that leaving just the actual code as product. Only true believers will be willing to contribute as spending time toiling without being able to put it on your track record isn't going to be accepted. You'll also likely have people 'expose' themselves when they leave the project to try to parlay it into a position in the industry by retroactively claiming everything they contributed onto their commit record.
There'd have to be a powerful incentive, either anonymizing commits which people can vote favorable for points which can be parlayed into something, having an explicit political goal, or have a strong community which will grant meaningful respect and belonging in exchange for good commits(like here).
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I was hopeful for fedi having interesting tech discussions, especially Linux focused, but it’s overrun with this, nazi that.
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The Linux kernel will be 100% Rust within a decade. Dead project
Trans lives matter
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God I hope so rust is so fetch!!
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It's not going to happen
The object/memory model in Linux (how you pass around data) is extremely difficult to interface with w/ Rust. Huge fundamental parts of it would literally have to be rewritten in Rust and data structures rebuilt from the ground up, without solid backwards compatibility, which is rarely ever how major progress is made in mature software. It's always incremental and bit-by-bit.
Still there's tons of opportunities around the edges of Linux, like drivers, self-contained code, and userspace software that will very likely be heavily Rust in the coming years.
In the meantime the core of Linux will remain C for the foreseeable future.
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But yeah I know, I still like programming in rust tho
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trans lives matter
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Thanks to choo choos
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<--- this marsey was exposed to the trans lives matter movement for 12 seconds
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Beautiful chuddery
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It's fun when people get creative with their posts after being chudded.
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