• WuTang @lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    There’s a lot of transgender in the hacking (reverse engineer) community…

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        1 year ago

        That is a wild factoid. I had no idea. I wonder how the fuck some shit like that even comes up. “Hey! Trans people are good at stuff just like regular people!”

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          1 year ago

          you are assuming the bad here.

          read my sentence:

          There’s a lot of transgender in the hacking (reverse engineer) community…

          reverse engineer being an hardcore craft/skill, I don’t think you could reasonably say that I was diminishing them.

          seeing how low my score went on a simple sentence, I think it’s time for some reflection, people…

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            1 year ago

            I didn’t down vote you. I was just talking shit. I don’t give two fucks, brother man.

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        1 year ago

        You know, sometimes I’ve wondered if that’s why there’s a weird correlation between the two. Engineers and scientists tend to grab physical reality in their hands and create something where there was nothing to change the status quo of existence.

        Reverse engineering and modding are the applied version of that when it comes to rules and constraints. Who’s to say these types wouldn’t also be keen on changing their own mortal reality as they like it?

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      Yes. There are, and it’s fucking awesome because it’s a space where we can say “the gender of the person who did all this great work has zero negative impact on the wonderful outcome!”

      People can argue that trans actors can “feel out of place” or that trans athletes “ruin the spirit of competition.” I don’t agree with those perspectives, but I can see the (warped) logic behind them.

      Here, there’s nothing to possible complain about. Does the PCB function any differently because of who reverse engineered and recreated it? No. Should it impact one’s experience gaming on this hardware? No, and if it does, said person has a problem disconnecting their personal beliefs from their objectivity.

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          1 year ago

          What do you mean you didn’t say anything special? You called attention to something obvious. People normally only do that when they want to complain, i.e. “it’s monday” or “the bus is late” etc. If you want to call attention to something obvious but in a positive light, you have to say that explicitly, i.e. “it’s cool that there’s a lot of transgender people in the hacking community” or “nice, it’s raining!”. Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

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            1 year ago

            Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

            I don’t agree, especially cause we talk here about reverse engineering which is considered as relatively hardcore skill and in the positive way.

            If I was saying: “There’s lot of transgenders in blackhat hacking”, there you might draw some negative conclusion.

            Anyway, that was not my intention and sorry, it is not something ‘obvious’.

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              1 year ago

              You get to choose your intention. You don’t get to choose how it’s received. You were downvoted because people perceived you as negative, even if it’s not what you intended. Unless you have a better explanation?