It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)
It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.
my armchair opinion about computers for the season is that i wanna see a "software degrowth" movement. seems like software, games, even programming languages (i've heard), are made like overpowered computers are normal, good, and gonna be around forever (and always improving), and anyone on slow old hardware needs to e-waste it and buy a new machine. it's giving "speeding your SUV down the freeway for 10 minutes to buy a bag of factory-farmed milk from the grocery store".
A planned change to Amazon means that if people buy items on your wishlist, it could expose your address. Definitely a threat to people who have public wishlists.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
Git won't track empty directories (because at heart it only tracks files). Common advice is to add a '.gitkeep' file so the directory isn't empty and git will make the directory.
EVEN BETTER ADVICE: put a README in the directory explaining what the empty directory is for and what will eventually be there.
re: Linux rant
My only choices are extremely niche, which will be supported for who knows how many more days, and vintage distro versions with the certainty of no more updates.
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Linux rant
"Got a dusty old laptop you wish you could use again? Don't want to throw it out? Just run Linux on it!"
This is total BS, now that every major Linux distro has abandoned its i386/i686/x86 32-bit editions. I can't even find one to put on my Atom Netbook anymore, let alone my early XP era Dell Inspiron tank.
Especially don't promise such BS with a stock photo of an obvious Commodore PET 4032 with the nameplate taped over to make it look like a generic old PC.
I don't know who actually operates archive.today, but congratulations to them on figuring out the one thing they could do to make literally everyone flee from using their service
"In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases."
"The Master said: 'The common man gets drowned by water, the noble man gets drowned by his mouth, and the man of importance gets drowned by the people – it all lies in what they take too lightly.'"
(from "Black Robes" section of The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study & Complete Translation by Scott Bradley Cook)
a humorous little infosec study in a case of a vendor applying their anti-piracy DRM to the installer and not to the actual software https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector
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