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[–] CameronDev 89 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, was about to mention Reiser 🤣... he's like the king of the hill 🤣.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CameronDev 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Terry Davis was the real world Wonko the Sane?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does being the last sane man on Earth make you crazy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

About as much as having a single functional eye in a country where everybody is blind makes you king.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

At least caves might be ethically sourced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Freedos is not MSDos though. And how is x86 evil?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Have you ever tried programming in straight x86 assembly? :P

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

RISC-V is a good start though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Perhaps, but that's quite far away still

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

.>calling being trans a mental illness

sus incredibly sus ngl unsus

[–] CameronDev 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So do you also think it is a mental illness, or are you just being a middle school edgelord?

[–] CameronDev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic

There are many, many ways you could have done that without repeating the bigoted belief that being trans is supposedly a mental illness.

[–] CameronDev 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment, and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me. Again, sorry for any offence caused, it was not intentional.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me

So why did you repeat the "mental illness" part?

If you really mean what you're saying just take the L this one time and move on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You are bad faith and trying to put words in to op's mouth you are the one that should have moved on after his second reply.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

don't threaten me with a good time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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.