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apgarcia
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linux sysadmin.
i dabble in: coding, making, retrocomputing, synths...
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Joined May 06, 2022
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@spaf That almost sounds more like a Voltaire quip than something you'd expect from Kierkegaard.
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” - Kierkegaard
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@sterpeto try it. You might like it. It's how Darth Vader likes his toast. (on the dark side....)
I think I'm going to start migrating my professional audio software to Linux wherever possible, starting with bitwig. I really hope arturia follows suit sometime. I would so love to access the v collection from Linux...
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@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz you should have told them, "Ada Lovelace was programming in 1843. Now give me a raise!"
When I hear right wing lawmakers say things like "You can't turn a biological male into a female", it bothers me, because they're wrong.
There is a common pesticide that turns male frogs into female frogs that can successfully reproduce: https://www.livescience.com/10957-pesticide-turns-male-frogs-females.html
Another annoying phrase I hear is "There are only two genders". Wrong again. One species of mushroom has over 23,000 sexes: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes
Minds can be narrow and immutable. Gender is diverse and fluid.
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@deirdresm @dymaxion
i was oblivious that people might take offense. there was never any malice on my part when i used my parents as an example. i never meant to imply that they were stupid or inept, much less did i intend to disparage all women or all elderly.
but i don't deny that one's choice of words is important. i also don't deny that sexism and ageism are real, systemic problems. i would prefer not to contribute to that, even subtly or inadvertently, so i will do as requested.
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@dymaxion i've honestly never given this any thought. it never occurred to me that it might annoy people, but i'll make it a point not to do that in the future.
in the past i've used "my mom", "my dad", or "my parents" as examples, cuz neither is tech savvy. my dad has a copy of "windows 10 for dummies"...
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@lottie Me arguing with my companion chatbot: "I hope you become a git branch that no one ever compiles again."
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@sigrid maybe not over but passé. All the holy wars these days being raged seem to be over AI. One of the more interesting ones is the claim that AI is a drug...
I wrote a filk about the woes of linker errors to the tune of Careless Whisper by George Michael:
https://gist.github.com/apgarcia/77e6e9d239dc3cb5d6b0dfaf732142b3
