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I'm married to a lawyer, so I asked him to look into this and he wrote a blog post: https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/data-23-and-me/ Most relevant bit: "The law requires medical…

Trying to figure out how to apply Charles' Rules of Argument to the situation, I realized I wrote an entire article on this topic (and linked to it from the OP): http://lwn.net/Art…

It was safe to rename() a file and expect the data it contained after crash to either be (1) the data before the rename(), (2) the data after the rename(). What changing the ext4 d…

Will you volunteer to filter my social media and email for rape threats, and compensate me for the lifetime earnings loss that is the result of naming someone who controls whether …

OP here. To all the people flustered that I'm calling "listening politely" and "respecting people" feminist acts, I'll point out that, at the time, the only place you could reasona…

There was already code written to zero out the BSS shared across all the bootloaders for PowerPC, the call to it had just gotten lost when our enthusiastic fellow kernel dev rewrot…

This study is so flawed as to be scientifically worthless. The experimenter who was interacting with the babies and measuring the time they spent staring at faces knew the gender o…

Er, while trying to research Jessamyn, I think you instead tracked down the leader of the Dreamwidth project, Denise Paolucci. Yes, she updates the Dreamwidth documentation, among …

If you've ever been annoyed by a sexist comment on Hacker News, you should donate to the Ada Initiative. We're working hard to change the culture and attitudes in open source and f…

Have you met any of the "core regulars" in the Linux community? The short answer is that the people who do these things include both regulars and newbies. I have personally been gr…

An upper bound of N - 1, where N = number of all women in tech. Work hard on that and you should be able to get it down to at least N - 1000 or so.