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ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:linux, linux, linux! you only need 2-3 commands to linux okay
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 18:42 |
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triple sulk posted:I've had the extreme misfortune of inadvertently meeting one of these people franklin?
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2014 03:12 |
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How Git shows the patriarchal nature of the software industry. Git is a Distributed Source Control Manager (DSCM), a piece of software that enables software developers to keep track of the code changes in a project progressively over time without relying on a centralised database. It was created by Linus Torvalds, more famous for his other major creation, Linux. It was a novel Open Source alternative to the existing SCMs, allowing developers from all over the world to collaborate in a new, dynamic fashion; even when they were unable to access the internet. As a result, it and other DSCMs have become the dominant tools of this nature in Open Source projects. Every time a developer wants to share her bug fix or improvement with others in her team, she makes a commit which is a description of the differences between it and the last commit. This commit is labelled with a short comment describing in plain English the changes made for the benefit of the other developers. It is also labelled with the name and email address of the developer who made the commit. This is where we start running in to problems. If you ever want to change your name on your commits, say you have been married, divorced or chosen a name more congruent with your gender identity, you have to make what is called a "destructive action". To try and put it simply, the author of a commit is tied in to the identity of the commit itself. If you change the author, it's treated as an entirely new commit. Anyone who has grabbed a copy of your original commit and made subsequent changes on top of it finds themselves orphaned from the history of the project. To use a crude analogy, it's like you rip the trunk of a tree out, while the branches are magically left hanging in the air, connected to nothing and isolated. In practice this would be almost impossible for you to do. Even if you controlled the project, your contributors would have to rewrite all the changes they had made, potentially taking hundreds of hours depending on the size of the project. Of course this problem has never been significant for the vast majority of the software developer community. Even in today's day and age, the majority of people who get a name change are going to be married/divorced women. It has probably never crossed the minds of the creators of Git that this could be such a huge problem to a non-cis or non-male person. There are a few workarounds to mitigate this problem, the most obvious being to grin and bear it. Unfortunately this isn't an option for many trans software developers who open themselves up to discrimination if they are forced to reveal their trans status by disclosing their assigned at birth name. Women who have gone through divorce may find their surname from their marriage to be upsetting and want to disassociate themselves from it. Another option is to use a handle/pseudonym. This is also fraught with problems. Even if you are able to predict your one day need for it, if you are developing in a professional capacity this can come across as unprofessional to many current and future employers. This has personally affected me. I am now having to distance myself from a large and popular Open Source project that I co-founded and which was at least partly responsible for me getting my current job. Just another example of how a seemingly small, normative assumption can have profound negative effects on minorities.
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 14:44 |
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and here i am begging people just to set a drat name in git before committing anything
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 14:48 |
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Progressive JPEG posted:also people change their names/emails all the time and its not like they feel a need to retroactively go back in time and remove all prior record of the previous name/email die techie/cis scum
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 17:26 |
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2015 23:59 |
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:
they should do the same thing with .com domains
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 00:02 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:the Overwatch truck at PAX east took out a car lmao https://twitter.com/nuii37/status/723662395374182400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 23:43 |
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eww. don't encourage bicycles
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2016 00:49 |
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https://twitter.com/hotdoorknobs/status/809927964674719744
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 16:24 |
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This is how I want to die.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2017 02:40 |
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i just want a good dog. is that too much to ask for?!
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 16:26 |
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hifi posted:you can go wherever you want on a bicycle though ya if u like going slow
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2017 02:45 |
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blugu64 posted:bikes are cool,and good, but more lanes are good too incorrect on both counts, unless u are talking about car lanes then ya
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2017 19:23 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2017 21:47 |
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ArmZ posted:lol HEB is garbage compared to wegmans hahahahahah *catches breath* hahahahaha no
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# ¿ May 22, 2017 20:36 |
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https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/868246918329192451
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# ¿ May 27, 2017 00:48 |
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eschaton posted:you mean this one? didn't read
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# ¿ May 30, 2017 04:09 |
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lol twitter should ban trump. would be funny
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 20:23 |
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new tesla looks like trash yet costs a lot of money. also doesn't go very far and i have to recharge it like my goddamn phone? like it's usb3 or something? ya, i'm gonna jump right on that lol
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 21:03 |
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also good luck reselling a car that has all the appeal of a dealextreme android tablet
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 21:05 |
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2017 21:23 |
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qirex posted:in other news, somehow reddit raised $200 million which they will be using to add user-uploaded video which seems like an excellent idea I'm sure the reddit homegroan community will be thrilled
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2017 18:34 |
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C.H.O.M.E posted:30k will get you a nice 2005-7 lotus not really what I'm looking for in a daily driver
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2017 20:45 |
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i don't listen to old bald beatniks
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 21:54 |
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Xaris posted:"Reached 1.97:1 KDR with Scouts in TF2" ban all scouts
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 21:42 |
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vodkat posted:Has anyone posted this shitshow yet? lmao they even bought sidebarenhancements. glad I haven't used that poo poo in a long time.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2017 14:11 |
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2017 22:08 |
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Physical air vents are best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdmoEWabg4
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 20:27 |
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man, remember when the internet was good?
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2017 02:03 |
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Last Chance posted:i liked when i just used the internet to go to zeldapower.com and learn about zelda 64 did you ever learn how to find the triforce in zelda 64?
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2017 02:34 |
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Shaggar posted:cars are gr8. it would suck to be poor and have to ride a bus. yeah, i don't know how people do public transportation. it sucks.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2017 17:15 |
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https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/900425924675592193
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 19:44 |
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https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-harassment/quote:The codebase for popular Node.js JavaScript runtime has been forked again — the second time in less than three years — with a growing number of contributors charging that the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) leadership is ignoring repeated violations of the project’s code of conduct. rod vagg
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 18:03 |
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this ayo fork of node.js is so dumb. they've disabled comments and issues on it so I can't tell them how stupid the name "ayo" is.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 18:08 |
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thanks benzos
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 18:54 |
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qirex posted:bonus reminder: samsung released bad expensive tvs this year and is trying to compete with oled by calling their [inferior] technology "qled" "qled" is the most samsung thing ever
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 22:13 |
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notch is a piece of poo poo we are all aware
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 17:49 |
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https://twitter.com/billwright/status/902272845052600320
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 02:49 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 18:42 |
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gordon ramsey pops out and yells at me if the chicken is raw, or if the chicken was cooked any longer than it needed to be
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 03:05 |