RT @republicofmath@twitter.com
Order of operations really does matter ...
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/republicofmath/status/1165403757527650304
the most important feature i can possibly contribute for linux 5.4:
"linux now supports up to 3 floppy drive controllers. wtf?? who needs this"
old tech and how it is still important
computer tech from the 1980s is still everywhere, hiding behind the scenes in everything we do, and isn't going away anytime soon
the faa uses 386 and 486 at clones running from floppies to control airplane runway lighting
that i know of, both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies are also used in textile manufacturing, as well as metal machining for aircraft parts. the most accurate cnc machines still use these and use custom interfaces, so floppy emulators aren't an option
horrible US history fact:
The US used to forcibly sterilize the mentally disabled and ill as part of a eugenics program
and yes, the Nazis were inspired by it
and I don't think the US has ever truly reconciled it's past
instead, we just buried it, just like American businessmen links with Nazis
apparently super mario 64 has been decompiled??? https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64
genitals, intersex, hypospadias, intactivism
I read an article yesterday that made me rethink my stance on operations to correct hypospadias in children and infants. https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2013/02/hypospadias-intersexuality-and-gender.html
Hypospadias correction operations are closer to forced gender reassignment of intersex children than I realized. One in 125 children assigned male at birth have operations performed to correct hypospadias. Many of these operations also require circumcision, the tissue of the foreskin is used to construct a urethra.
The author is an intersex professor, and he shows how much of the medical literature on hypospadias tries to erase the existence of intersex genitals with inaccurate diagrams, drawn to look more like a "normal" penis that has a misplaced urethra.
#intersex #intactivism
(A security camera pans in your direction)
> RECOGNIZING FACE
(It constructs a wireframe model of your head)
> BEEP BOOP
(It looks at the adversarial colour patch)
> YOU ARE 2 KITTENS AND A SPATULA THAT HAS BEEN ROTATED 30 DEGREES
>
I love #emacs, #gnu, and #freesoftware
he/him 23
I'm an intactivist, all children have the right to be protected from genital cutting before they can consent, regardless of their genitalia. A consenting adult has the right to do what they want with their own body. #intactivism #i2 #autonomy