many years ago i mustered a campaign to reverse four square's real name policy, with the help of a former AOL executive and the former public health comissioner of a large state other than my own.
as i go off to start the christmas season with my... lists... i wish we wouldn't reinvent these debates every 5-10 years.
one point this author misses is many folks are not american - dissidents in places like russia and china are not young wannabe cryptoanarchists wanting to steal the music they cannot afford at sam goody, they are dissidents, a forever decision that means a life of fearless, adversarial ratfucking of any and all attempts to identify you that are encountered if you want to live to troll another day.
nyms are like underwear, meant to be discarded and begun anew when worn out -- and open source should be able to tolerate such a cycle if we want to continue to see projects like how truecrypt became veracrypt and others come to fruition
From his past comments, the author doesn't have much respect for women in general, so it doesn't surprise me that he completely disregards women as a marginalized and discriminated against group.
Given the hyperfocus on the mention of trans issues in these comments (which I called out in my blog post specifically because they are the group who is currently most affected by this issue in free software), I think your comment is trying to say that I (the author) think trans women are women and therefore I don't respect "real" women.
the entire summer i was at mozilla, i was nearly suicidal. i wanted out of an abusive phd environment, having enrolled prior to dadt ending, and... they were just using folks as glorified temps and they'd cancelled the project i was scheduled to work on and my host had left the company, and every day, my new "mentor" took everyone but me out to lunch and i had a family member across the country dying and i felt like i'd never find a path of my own.
the reason i was a social pariah?
to me... it seemed to be that early on, i'd told them not to make tally marks next to the name of the staffer they found most attractive on the whiteboard and sign up for okcupid or go to bars/galleries/shows if they want to meet people -- basically dudes, this is not ok, go outside the office, or at least, if it's true love... don't write her name on the wall and ask people to rank her against the other staff ffs
i miss the positive energy the internet used to have -- no one knows if you're young or old, male or female or... whatever... and it feels like at some point it because a game between sets of affluent, educated folks to out diversity each other as those of us attracted to tech because it could lift us out of precarity never were.
there's a lot of lonely, angry folks in tech, and it baffles me since it always seemed my only barrier in love was that i was some scruffly low class guy from applachia -- no money, no prospects, and thus... no partner.
i can see how people get radicalized, but when someone has the skills the op has, to never worry about work or income, and to wield that power of the pen in the way they do... it makes me angry.
as i go off to start the christmas season with my... lists... i wish we wouldn't reinvent these debates every 5-10 years.
one point this author misses is many folks are not american - dissidents in places like russia and china are not young wannabe cryptoanarchists wanting to steal the music they cannot afford at sam goody, they are dissidents, a forever decision that means a life of fearless, adversarial ratfucking of any and all attempts to identify you that are encountered if you want to live to troll another day.
nyms are like underwear, meant to be discarded and begun anew when worn out -- and open source should be able to tolerate such a cycle if we want to continue to see projects like how truecrypt became veracrypt and others come to fruition