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Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by georgeorwell »

logjam wrote: post #68
georgeorwell wrote: post #57

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Hi rmrfrmrf. I went through your recent comments. By and large, they're highly inflammatory. Ease off on the vitriol and your life might get a bit easier. To be precise, these are the comments that I find inflammatory: > Because anti-woman and anti-black hate groups are trying to game HN with mass account creation and upvote spam. > SendGrid would have come out stronger from weathering the storm as a defender and pro…

Hi georgeorwell. I just went through your one comment above. You just told somebody who complained of getting death threats because of his comments here to watch how he comments so "his life might get a bit easier?" I can't imagine anything more cowardly that you could have possibly posted.

I'm not sure why it's cowardly to suggest that. Could you elaborate? I thought it was good advice. If inflammatory comments are even possibly leading to death threats (and it seemed to me like they might be), it's probably a good idea to not post inflammatory comments. I mean, surely nobody wants to receive death threats. Are you saying that his/her comments are not inflammatory?

My standard for cowardly posting is verbal abuse and death threats, but YMMV.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by Finbarr »

nicedongle wrote: post #46
[deleted] wrote: post #43

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We got your back quite literally: https://teespring.com/DongleGate

Just to be clear - Fork My Dongle has no affiliation with Girls Who Code either. We absolutely plan to donate 100% of the profits from this shirt campaign to them, though.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by nicedongle »

clicks wrote: post #80
nicedongle wrote: post #46

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We got your back quite literally: https://teespring.com/DongleGate

So, to be clear, unlike submitted link's teespring payment arrangements (100% of proceeds will be donated to Girls who Code), 100% of proceeds on your link will be going to your pocket. Not knocking on you, just making it clear you hold no affiliation to the 'Girls who Code' organization as well.

Correct, there is no affiliation - I apologize if I caused any misunderstanding of that. Just trying to create a few laughs and lighten the mood of what was a pretty hectic day for a lot of people!

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by davidroberts »

karenxcheng wrote: post #64

Hi, I designed the shirt. I didn't intend for this to come off as mean spirited. There have been overreactions on both sides of this whole mess. We made this shirt because we believe that it's okay to laugh at potty humor and support women in tech at the same time. Also I do want to make it clear that we are not affiliated with Girls Who Code, we just support their cause.

The shirt is awesome and so is the spirit behind it.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by stcredzero »

pud wrote: post #11

Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing. So I'd feel kinda like a poser wearing it -- like "look, I'm a l33t haxor!" who got it wrong. Or like ones of those Chinese tattoos that doesn't actually mean anything in Chinese. Or like one of those action movies with bogus hacking scenes ("enhance!"). Or like someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt from Urban Outfitters who's never actually heard…

> Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing.

If the design of a hardware dongle is Open Source, then it can be forked. Sorry, you did you did what you were afraid of but by movng in the opposite direction you thought.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by samstave »

pud wrote: post #11

Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing. So I'd feel kinda like a poser wearing it -- like "look, I'm a l33t haxor!" who got it wrong. Or like ones of those Chinese tattoos that doesn't actually mean anything in Chinese. Or like one of those action movies with bogus hacking scenes ("enhance!"). Or like someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt from Urban Outfitters who's never actually heard…

Forks and dongles are both male, so this is a retarded way to "support women in tech"

"Finger my ports" would be far more appropriate.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by stcredzero »

philwelch wrote: post #45

I love this. Finally someone is treating the situation with exactly the right tone. Quoth PG, from "What You Can't Say": Best of all, probably, is humor. Zealots, whatever their cause, invariably lack a sense of humor. They can't reply in kind to jokes. They're as unhappy on the territory of humor as a mounted knight on a skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating…

There's been plenty of humor by cruel people perpetrating injustices. They thought it was genuinely funny at the time. Sometimes, a bit more time has to pass before things can be laughed off.

Zealots are known for absolutist positions. An absolutist position on laughter is as much a potential big mistake as most other absolutist positions. There's no substitute to being aware of your surroundings and being open to others and the moment.

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Post by derleth »

icambron wrote: post #74
karenxcheng wrote: post #64

Hi, I designed the shirt. I didn't intend for this to come off as mean spirited. There have been overreactions on both sides of this whole mess. We made this shirt because we believe that it's okay to laugh at potty humor and support women in tech at the same time. Also I do want to make it clear that we are not affiliated with Girls Who Code, we just support their cause.

FWIW, I think it's great. One of the things that bugged me about this whole sordid business was the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes, or that if you think they're funny, then you're against women in tech. I think this is an appropriate and reasonable, not to mention fun, response.

> the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes

Which is sexist, and I can't see how others can't see how sexist it is. It is pure, straight-up middle-class Victorian bullshit of the kind first wave feminists fought against. It's the idea that women are not naturally sexual beings until they're corrupted by the cruder, more physical men, and the related idea that women are naturally more pure in thought and deed than men. This leads directly into the Madonna-Whore complex and every evil, stupid, petty thing that flows from it.

Real humans shit. Real humans sweat. Real humans fuck, and make love, and occasionally forget the difference between the two, and act like idiots because of it. Real humans are strange, flawed, hormonal animals from the day we're born to the day we die, and there are no exceptions. Making exceptions in your mind means putting the person you're making the exception for into a non-human category. It is literally dehumanizing, and, yes, I am using the word 'literally' in its literal sense.

There are no gods. There are no monsters. There are just people, however scary and wonderful that is.

Re: Fork My Dongle

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Post by stcredzero »

aneth4 wrote: post #75
kaonashi wrote: post #28

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In fact, that seems to be the entire point: to be mean spirited and obviate any responsibility by claiming to support a charity.

Humor is the last refuge of those who refuse to be tied down by other people's issues.

Sorry, but there's no substitute for being wise, being open, and listening generously. History's villains had humor and laughter too. Laughter is not a magical ultimate good. It's just laughter, it's orthogonal to morality, and it doesn't excuse you from using your best judgement and "being a good guy."
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