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by wilkie 13y ago
Can we agree that you speak from an idealistic, not realistic, point of view? https://twitter.com/kittystryker/status/388925083559141376
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by wilkie 13y ago
Commenters: you need some terms defined with context. Let's do that. I'm a founder and one of the current maintainers of the distributed/federated microblogging platform rstat.us. In this particular context, centralized vs di
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by wilkie 14y ago
I guess you cancel out my intuition with your random opposing statement and we are left with me with a ton of links to studies and you with absolutely nothing.
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by wilkie 14y ago
https://gist.github.com/wilkie/5032530 You naturally cannot use a microscope and come to a fixed, proven conclusion. However, I would say that all of the causes of attrition are very likely based upon a prevailing systemic gender oppressi
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by wilkie 14y ago
> Female devs are considered a novelty and the term female dev is considered to be frustrating due to the term dev being appended by 'female'. The amount of active segregation is indeed frustrating. > Why can't it simply be accepted
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by wilkie 14y ago
> My kids are growing up in a bubble that I did not grow up in. There's something about this bubble that slaps erroneous labels on problems. Some of the problems aren't even problems. That's how you see it. They don't have to, and pro
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by wilkie 14y ago
I disagree that this type of article is merely an attempt to introduce negative engagement. Highlighting the problem so that we have this discussion is always important. You may "let it go," as you say. That's fine. However, why do you expe
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by wilkie 14y ago
It's her chosen name. When you can choose a name, you do so based upon a tradeoff between comfort and identity. Women on the internet can't always afford both, and so choosing such a name seems powerful. It certainly is never hypocritical.
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by wilkie 14y ago
If you are truly interested in it... I'll just dump some things here. :) "Female sexuality is framed as something which exists for the pleasure of men" is a true statement in general media. So. [Most] Porn. Watch it. Who's orgasm is display
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by wilkie 14y ago
That's totally a valid point. I wish more men would speak out against this and, honestly, that it is not used to diminish the equally valid point of sexism in technology. But we have to understand that in those situations it is not oppressi
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by wilkie 14y ago
Yes. Mainstream porn is very sexist. Do you know what a woman is assumed to be? bisexual. Do you know what happens when you look up bisexual porn? You find a man. Think about that. Understand what that means and who the assumed audience is.
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by wilkie 14y ago
Think about how little time you and I have to devote to these issues. And then think about how we don't have to suffer them. And yet, women and your non-white-male must spend some of their time (that time we may spend coding, or reading, et
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by wilkie 14y ago
Hmm. Then to go with your double-standard argument, am I not supposed to support your plight because men keep watching emotionless action movies or something? I don't get it.
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by wilkie 14y ago
Free speech is granted to ensure that oppression can be beaten by language, not to permit people to use language to systemically oppress.
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by wilkie 14y ago
Your anecdote is very useful; thank you for writing it! I really appreciate your input. In general, your writing has been greatly appreciated. Without observation, we wouldn't seek facts and we wouldn't use the scientific method. In the end
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by wilkie 14y ago
There is always one of these replies in every discussion on this topic, isn't there? Some guy comes in and tries to define 'sexism' for the rest of us with a greatly simplified version and then gives us an anecdote about how some nice guy (
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by wilkie 14y ago
Why is this a question. Of course we are. Black computer scientists represent less than one percent: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/cs-peeps.ht...
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by wilkie 14y ago
The client api and the backend that implements the protocol are different. I mean, you simply need html to provide a means of building a client. But, no client will really do that. rstat.us will try to support existing apis, but that's not
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by wilkie 14y ago
Email is a federated system just like status.net, rstat.us etc. We can all have our own clients, servers, and still interact, communicate, and play well with every other email server. Using the same means of locating a person seems very ver
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by wilkie 14y ago
rstat.us has at least one user running on linode as well. Not much more to the set-up. deploying straight to AWS is also... surprisingly easy.
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by wilkie 14y ago
As another mentioned, email has this issue. Email (smtp) is a federated system, much like http. Basically, we can all have our own clients, servers, and live on our own, but still interact as a whole. Just like ostatus powered websites. It
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by wilkie 14y ago
You need a domain to get information about a person, such as where their server is. That domain does not have to be the server they use for microblogging or whathaveyou. It shouldn't be, honestly. You can host your identity anywhere and poi
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by wilkie 16y ago
Perhaps. But the code will be there, and somebody can start up their own site on their own server at any point of time. And the beauty of it: the way the technology works (OStatus), every time somebody does this, the overall network gets la
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by wilkie 16y ago
I think a second dimension on this discussion would be fascinating. "How old are you AND how old do you feel?" Although I'm not sure how to word that just right. For instance, capturing situations like: Are you a 65 year old grandfather tha