• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 days ago

    Def just bloat. How am I supposed to carry all these limes while thinking about the metaphysical connotations of gender and society?

  • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org
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    23 days ago

    Beta testing a system update. Lots of improvements here. This beta has been open for quite a while, and it seems to be catching on. It’s already more or less stable. I expect mass adoption with somewhat regional distribution at the 1.0 release. Of course you’ll have the stragglers insisting the out-dated version was better. In comparison I find it clunky, restrictive, and demanding. Our processing power has increased in orders of magnitude; why we’d want to keep using an archaic way of doing things like this is a head scratcher.

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    23 days ago

    I replaced my old proprietary gender with a free and open source one

  • flicker@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Mine came with a DRM key I had to use a special cars to read, and now I’ve lost the card so I’m stuck in this gender unless I want to leave it and never get it back.

  • cobysev@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    The “Work/Government Issued” one make me laugh because I served in the US military, and a handful of years ago, they approved gender reassignment surgery for trans people.

    You’re allowed to receive one “cosmetic” surgery for free while serving in the US military, and this counted for that. So you could literally be “issued” a new gender by the government, for free.

    Trump became president, and while military people were signing up for gender reassignment surgery, he randomly ordered that trans people weren’t allowed in the military and had to be kicked out immediately. So a bunch of people who outed themselves to take advantage of the surgery suddenly were at risk of losing their jobs.

    Fortunately, the Department of Defense put a hold on those orders and managed to talk Trump out of kicking people out for being trans. But I guarantee, if he becomes president again, he’s not going to be talked out of it again.

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        21 days ago

        Breast augmentation is one of the more common cosmetic surgeries in the military. I actually knew someone who had hers reduced in size because they were too big and interfering with her life. Plus, wearing heavy flak vests with armor plating is painful if you have boobs, and next-to-impossible if they’re massive.

        I also had another coworker who got implants because she said her flat chest was affecting her mental health, self-image, and confidence. Now she’s one of the more confident and outgoing people I know in the military.

        The most common surgery, actually, was LASIK/PRK eye surgery. For most of my career, it was considered a cosmetic surgery. The military defined “cosmetic surgery” as any unnecessary surgery a member elected to have done. You didn’t need to fix your eyesight, because the military would issue you glasses. So it was cosmetic.

        However, in the last handful of years I was in, someone successfully argued that getting your eyes corrected would improve your effectiveness at work, and thus was a benefit to the military, not just the member. Plus, they started allowing people to become pilots if they had the PRK surgery. (You need perfect vision to be a pilot, and eye surgery used to ban you from the job.) So eye surgery is no longer a cosmetic surgery.

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    Government issued and it was bloat AND it was proprietary gender. I don’t want any gender without access to the source, and the freedom to use, copy, modify, and redistribute (even charging a price) said gender as I wish.

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        If it doesn’t respect the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Gender it is not Free and Open Source Gender.

        -The freedom to use the gender as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

        -The freedom to study how the gender works, and change it so it does behave as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

        -The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

        -The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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          22 days ago

          This is brilliant, I love it. It’s a joke, but it actually captures my experience of my assigned gender at birth perfectly.

  • don@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    There’s no option for “found an old glass syringe with some greenish/purple liquid and an odd metallic smell, was drunk and bored so I gave it a go”?

    Fine, whatever.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    Data corruption, it’s a bunch of garbled stuff that I can’t make heads or tails off.

    Miraculously, everything keeps working. So I don’t dare to interfere because it might crash the system :)

  • Alice@beehaw.org
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    23 days ago

    Uninstalled for sure. Obviously this is just a personal thing but any gender just feels like an arbitrary list of restrictions to me.

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      23 days ago

      I identify as a cis male but essentially feel the same way. The social trappings of my gender are just that. It has about as much to do with my actual identity as my hair colour does. “Factory default” because I don’t care enough to bother.

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    23 days ago

    Data corruption/re-write. Installed a bunch of psychedelic programs I bought on the black market and restructured my OS from the kernel level. Worth it because shutdown/sleep signals were being ignored as well as CPU buffer trashing issues (resulting in system crashes, hangups, etc.). Works a lot better now, but handshakes are difficult because my non-conforming configuration isn’t recognized by the majority of the network. Still very much worth it though as I find complete network access isn’t exactly necessary.

    (╭☞´ิ∀´ิ)╭☞

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      22 days ago

      my non-conforming configuration isn’t recognized by the majority of the network

      This could be a case of nodes running outdated software, the current standard protocols can handle any unknown configuration just fine. These are a source of a lot of holes and vulnerabilities that can pose a serious risk, they should be updated as soon as possible. If you have to keep outdated systems in your network e.g. running on legacy hardware, or make the ocasional connection, you’ll have to monitor them and isolate them from your critical infrastructure, at least with a good firewall and a strict configuration when possible.

  • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    It was freeware, but a nightmare to install. I learned several new languages that weren’t even necessary in the end. There was no wiki, just disparate posts on decade old forums, most of which were misinformation. Definitely a learning experience.