Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    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.

    • V ‎ ‎ @beehaw.org
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      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?

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

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        Well, using the same metrics would mean TempleOS is waaaaay out of the question.

      • aname
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        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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            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

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              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.

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                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

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                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.

          • aname
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            Yes but who is going to manufacture that chip and board and components?

          • V ‎ ‎ @beehaw.org
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            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.

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                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?

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        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.

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
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        The original post called it a mental illness, i was following that. Apologies if I caused offence it was not intended.

          • CameronDev@programming.dev
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            The original post referred to it as a mental illness, and claimed that was a reason to ignore their contribution. I was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic. I dont think its a mental illness, amd I have absolutely no problem with the trans community.

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        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

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          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?”

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      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.