{"person_view":{"person":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"counts":{"person_id":503,"post_count":10,"comment_count":1157},"is_admin":false},"site":{"id":34,"name":"tchncs","sidebar":"> We've got plenty of space. Have a seat and enjoy your stay!\n\n### Rules\n1. Be nice to each other\n2. Do not publish advertisements\n3. Do not publish conspiracy myths\n4. Do not publish content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism\n5. Do not publish content promoting the ideology of National Socialism\n6. 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Recently bought two more from ebay because my first one is half broken.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-21T23:00:49.246500Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19198277","local":false,"path":"0.17561410","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24425615,"name":"Recommend me a controller.","body":"Hal Effect sticks are a must. I'm looking for a controller because my PS4 controller has some pretty horrible stick drift. I don't want a repeat of that.\n\nPlayStation layout is also a must. Never understood the appeal of the wonky xbox layout.\n\nMust also ship to Europe. Preferably a company _from_ Europe. But outside of Europe also works if shipping and customs don't add twice the controller's cost to the price.\n\nI'm asking this in Linux Gaming, so obviously must work with Linux (though so far I've had less issues getting controllers to work on my Linux desktop than I've had with Windows). ","creator_id":3648132,"community_id":717,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-21T20:50:03.761166Z","updated":"2025-06-21T20:51:02.112556Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/post/31782546","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":717,"name":"linux_gaming","title":"Linux Gaming","description":"Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). 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This is what I'm talking about (from your OP):\n\n> The second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?\n\nThe only one who talks about this in the linked comment chain is the other person, and only tangentially.\n\nSo, again I suppose, in which way do you think this is part of gender?","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-21T18:34:49.834977Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19194260","local":false,"path":"0.17547657.17547804.17549038.17551000.17556721","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24399605,"name":"Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?","body":"TL;DR - why do we need so many terms? can we all not use just a simplified pronoun system (as explained below, or if someone else comes up with something better), and can we stop adding a sexual preferences as a part of gender, as that is something too personal in my opinion?\n\nI primarily want to understand how it relates to a person's identity.\n\nBefore starting, let me partially introduce myself. I am a male, and If I get my terms correctly, I am possibly Aero Ace. I am (possibly) coming of a privilige that my percieved gender identity is same as that of what I accept myself to be. Also, I have not read any literature or watched much content about this stuff. I am not asking anything about why would someone have a \"different gender\". I just want to understand how it relates to you as a being.\n\nAnd before going ahead, I am not sure gender is the best word or not. If it is not, please correct me. And I am sorry in advance in case I say stupid or bizzare or straght wrong stuff. Please forgive me if possible.\n\nAlso I am quite ramble-y, so reading and understanding what I write may be hard, or non-sensical, so pardon me for that too.\n\nMy first question is, why do we have so many terms? I know the answer is somewhat obvious, that everyone has there own preferences, and it may not align with someone else, so to identify themselves, they would get a different label. (kinda like names, if everyone had same names, it would cause confusion) But I also want to ask, Is using a label not somewhat alienating?\n\nTry to understand my perspective, I have almost never mentioned my gender to anyone. Possibly it is because my \"attire\" says it. Or maybe it is because I am not a very social person, or the fact that I have never had a \"personal\" conversation with some other person. My general conversational idea is how it goes with siblings - slightly informal, a lot of stupid slander, and jokey stuff, and the actual stuff. If someone comes to me, and mentions there gender, I kinda do not know how to process it. because as I understand, 1 part of gender ideentity is what \"orientation\" (sorry if it is a bad way to put it, but I want to mean how they dress, or how they want to adressed as) and another is sexual preferences. I understand that If I know there gender, I can atleast address them as they prefer (also I do not know how to do it in general. I am an old school guy, I use they/them/their for people older than me (as a form of honorification), with small children (it is somewhat amusing, and also children like it when they get respeect) and whenever I do not know what gender a person is, or how does that gender prefered to be addressed). But this gave me the thought, that why do we not use the same pronouns for everyone (for example they/them), or maybe 2 pairs, one for formal, one informal, or 1 more pair, for singular and plural. Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?\n\nThe second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?\n\n\nI understand that one reason to have some words for it is inclusivity. If, for example, we want some group to better assimilate with society, and we want to do some \"positive discrimination\" (I do not know if this is appropriate wording or not, what I mean is for example, reservations, or some other kind of actions to integrate some people in society), then we would need some terms to make rules with. And that makes sense, but then again I feel that revealing your preferences is a bit too revealing. Am I overblowing this? I also understand that completely ditching the sexual part from gender might not be possible today. It would probably require a more accepting society. For example, in most places, gay marriage is still illegal. I do not know why laws have to have laws defining marriage (it may have something to do with subsidies going for marriages, or definitions of families/spouse being used by insurance companies or any other banking system, where your spouse also gets certain benefits/rights), or gay adoption is illegal, but can we not make something like - any reasonable person/s can adopt anyone (where reasonable part is just to maybe seculde criminals, or people with prior histories of child related offences, or if they are not financially stable - but all this is very separate discussion)\n\n\nIf a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)\n\nAnother thing that I want to ask is, why do some groups use different acronyms? I remeber hearing about this the first time, and the word used was LGBT. Then I heard LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA+, and today I heard LGBTQ2. I presume that since more people are getting aware, and they are trying to express themselves, they need some newer words, and hence the acronym would keep on evolving, if so, is it not a endless exercise? Am I being insensitive If I use one over other (for quite some time, I have been sticking with lgbtqia+, in hope that + means extensions, as in, others, so hopefully it is less excluding than others, but if that is not the case, please correct me.)\n\nedit - moved my summary to the top as tl;dr","creator_id":14894187,"community_id":435,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-21T08:47:58.481563Z","updated":"2025-06-21T09:23:21.484938Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmings.world/post/28743360","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":435,"name":"asklemmy","title":"Ask Lemmy","description":"## A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions\n\n***\n\n## **Rules: (interactive)**\n\n***\n\n::: spoiler 1) Be nice and; have fun\nDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. 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I think sex as a general classifier is not very useful, both in a colloquial and also medical context. I know that firsthand due to taking HRT, which already causes very medically relevant changes but of course not across the board for all sexual characteristics. But I wanted to keep it relatively short :)","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-21T17:21:47.775348Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19193074","local":false,"path":"0.17547657.17547804.17549038.17553403.17555430","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24399605,"name":"Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?","body":"TL;DR - why do we need so many terms? can we all not use just a simplified pronoun system (as explained below, or if someone else comes up with something better), and can we stop adding a sexual preferences as a part of gender, as that is something too personal in my opinion?\n\nI primarily want to understand how it relates to a person's identity.\n\nBefore starting, let me partially introduce myself. I am a male, and If I get my terms correctly, I am possibly Aero Ace. I am (possibly) coming of a privilige that my percieved gender identity is same as that of what I accept myself to be. Also, I have not read any literature or watched much content about this stuff. I am not asking anything about why would someone have a \"different gender\". I just want to understand how it relates to you as a being.\n\nAnd before going ahead, I am not sure gender is the best word or not. If it is not, please correct me. And I am sorry in advance in case I say stupid or bizzare or straght wrong stuff. Please forgive me if possible.\n\nAlso I am quite ramble-y, so reading and understanding what I write may be hard, or non-sensical, so pardon me for that too.\n\nMy first question is, why do we have so many terms? I know the answer is somewhat obvious, that everyone has there own preferences, and it may not align with someone else, so to identify themselves, they would get a different label. (kinda like names, if everyone had same names, it would cause confusion) But I also want to ask, Is using a label not somewhat alienating?\n\nTry to understand my perspective, I have almost never mentioned my gender to anyone. Possibly it is because my \"attire\" says it. Or maybe it is because I am not a very social person, or the fact that I have never had a \"personal\" conversation with some other person. My general conversational idea is how it goes with siblings - slightly informal, a lot of stupid slander, and jokey stuff, and the actual stuff. If someone comes to me, and mentions there gender, I kinda do not know how to process it. because as I understand, 1 part of gender ideentity is what \"orientation\" (sorry if it is a bad way to put it, but I want to mean how they dress, or how they want to adressed as) and another is sexual preferences. I understand that If I know there gender, I can atleast address them as they prefer (also I do not know how to do it in general. I am an old school guy, I use they/them/their for people older than me (as a form of honorification), with small children (it is somewhat amusing, and also children like it when they get respeect) and whenever I do not know what gender a person is, or how does that gender prefered to be addressed). But this gave me the thought, that why do we not use the same pronouns for everyone (for example they/them), or maybe 2 pairs, one for formal, one informal, or 1 more pair, for singular and plural. Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?\n\nThe second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?\n\n\nI understand that one reason to have some words for it is inclusivity. If, for example, we want some group to better assimilate with society, and we want to do some \"positive discrimination\" (I do not know if this is appropriate wording or not, what I mean is for example, reservations, or some other kind of actions to integrate some people in society), then we would need some terms to make rules with. And that makes sense, but then again I feel that revealing your preferences is a bit too revealing. Am I overblowing this? I also understand that completely ditching the sexual part from gender might not be possible today. It would probably require a more accepting society. For example, in most places, gay marriage is still illegal. I do not know why laws have to have laws defining marriage (it may have something to do with subsidies going for marriages, or definitions of families/spouse being used by insurance companies or any other banking system, where your spouse also gets certain benefits/rights), or gay adoption is illegal, but can we not make something like - any reasonable person/s can adopt anyone (where reasonable part is just to maybe seculde criminals, or people with prior histories of child related offences, or if they are not financially stable - but all this is very separate discussion)\n\n\nIf a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)\n\nAnother thing that I want to ask is, why do some groups use different acronyms? I remeber hearing about this the first time, and the word used was LGBT. Then I heard LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA+, and today I heard LGBTQ2. I presume that since more people are getting aware, and they are trying to express themselves, they need some newer words, and hence the acronym would keep on evolving, if so, is it not a endless exercise? Am I being insensitive If I use one over other (for quite some time, I have been sticking with lgbtqia+, in hope that + means extensions, as in, others, so hopefully it is less excluding than others, but if that is not the case, please correct me.)\n\nedit - moved my summary to the top as tl;dr","creator_id":14894187,"community_id":435,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-21T08:47:58.481563Z","updated":"2025-06-21T09:23:21.484938Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmings.world/post/28743360","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":435,"name":"asklemmy","title":"Ask Lemmy","description":"## A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions\n\n***\n\n## **Rules: (interactive)**\n\n***\n\n::: spoiler 1) Be nice and; have fun\nDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. 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I only saw you talk about gender vs sex, for which there is no difference in my native language either. And they certainly are closely related to the point where the majority of people identify as the gender corresponding to their sex.\n\nHowever _sexual orientation_ (such as “straight” or “gay” or “aroace” for example) is an entirely different thing as it describes your attraction to other people.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-21T11:27:46.979341Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19187268","local":false,"path":"0.17547657.17547804.17549038","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24399605,"name":"Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?","body":"TL;DR - why do we need so many terms? can we all not use just a simplified pronoun system (as explained below, or if someone else comes up with something better), and can we stop adding a sexual preferences as a part of gender, as that is something too personal in my opinion?\n\nI primarily want to understand how it relates to a person's identity.\n\nBefore starting, let me partially introduce myself. I am a male, and If I get my terms correctly, I am possibly Aero Ace. I am (possibly) coming of a privilige that my percieved gender identity is same as that of what I accept myself to be. Also, I have not read any literature or watched much content about this stuff. I am not asking anything about why would someone have a \"different gender\". I just want to understand how it relates to you as a being.\n\nAnd before going ahead, I am not sure gender is the best word or not. If it is not, please correct me. And I am sorry in advance in case I say stupid or bizzare or straght wrong stuff. Please forgive me if possible.\n\nAlso I am quite ramble-y, so reading and understanding what I write may be hard, or non-sensical, so pardon me for that too.\n\nMy first question is, why do we have so many terms? I know the answer is somewhat obvious, that everyone has there own preferences, and it may not align with someone else, so to identify themselves, they would get a different label. (kinda like names, if everyone had same names, it would cause confusion) But I also want to ask, Is using a label not somewhat alienating?\n\nTry to understand my perspective, I have almost never mentioned my gender to anyone. Possibly it is because my \"attire\" says it. Or maybe it is because I am not a very social person, or the fact that I have never had a \"personal\" conversation with some other person. My general conversational idea is how it goes with siblings - slightly informal, a lot of stupid slander, and jokey stuff, and the actual stuff. If someone comes to me, and mentions there gender, I kinda do not know how to process it. because as I understand, 1 part of gender ideentity is what \"orientation\" (sorry if it is a bad way to put it, but I want to mean how they dress, or how they want to adressed as) and another is sexual preferences. I understand that If I know there gender, I can atleast address them as they prefer (also I do not know how to do it in general. I am an old school guy, I use they/them/their for people older than me (as a form of honorification), with small children (it is somewhat amusing, and also children like it when they get respeect) and whenever I do not know what gender a person is, or how does that gender prefered to be addressed). But this gave me the thought, that why do we not use the same pronouns for everyone (for example they/them), or maybe 2 pairs, one for formal, one informal, or 1 more pair, for singular and plural. Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?\n\nThe second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?\n\n\nI understand that one reason to have some words for it is inclusivity. If, for example, we want some group to better assimilate with society, and we want to do some \"positive discrimination\" (I do not know if this is appropriate wording or not, what I mean is for example, reservations, or some other kind of actions to integrate some people in society), then we would need some terms to make rules with. And that makes sense, but then again I feel that revealing your preferences is a bit too revealing. Am I overblowing this? I also understand that completely ditching the sexual part from gender might not be possible today. It would probably require a more accepting society. For example, in most places, gay marriage is still illegal. I do not know why laws have to have laws defining marriage (it may have something to do with subsidies going for marriages, or definitions of families/spouse being used by insurance companies or any other banking system, where your spouse also gets certain benefits/rights), or gay adoption is illegal, but can we not make something like - any reasonable person/s can adopt anyone (where reasonable part is just to maybe seculde criminals, or people with prior histories of child related offences, or if they are not financially stable - but all this is very separate discussion)\n\n\nIf a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)\n\nAnother thing that I want to ask is, why do some groups use different acronyms? I remeber hearing about this the first time, and the word used was LGBT. Then I heard LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA+, and today I heard LGBTQ2. I presume that since more people are getting aware, and they are trying to express themselves, they need some newer words, and hence the acronym would keep on evolving, if so, is it not a endless exercise? Am I being insensitive If I use one over other (for quite some time, I have been sticking with lgbtqia+, in hope that + means extensions, as in, others, so hopefully it is less excluding than others, but if that is not the case, please correct me.)\n\nedit - moved my summary to the top as tl;dr","creator_id":14894187,"community_id":435,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-21T08:47:58.481563Z","updated":"2025-06-21T09:23:21.484938Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmings.world/post/28743360","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":435,"name":"asklemmy","title":"Ask Lemmy","description":"## A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions\n\n***\n\n## **Rules: (interactive)**\n\n***\n\n::: spoiler 1) Be nice and; have fun\nDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. 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In which way do you think it is?","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-21T09:08:18.149858Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19185987","local":false,"path":"0.17547657","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24399605,"name":"Can you please help me clear some doubts regarding LGBTQIA stuff?","body":"TL;DR - why do we need so many terms? can we all not use just a simplified pronoun system (as explained below, or if someone else comes up with something better), and can we stop adding a sexual preferences as a part of gender, as that is something too personal in my opinion?\n\nI primarily want to understand how it relates to a person's identity.\n\nBefore starting, let me partially introduce myself. I am a male, and If I get my terms correctly, I am possibly Aero Ace. I am (possibly) coming of a privilige that my percieved gender identity is same as that of what I accept myself to be. Also, I have not read any literature or watched much content about this stuff. I am not asking anything about why would someone have a \"different gender\". I just want to understand how it relates to you as a being.\n\nAnd before going ahead, I am not sure gender is the best word or not. If it is not, please correct me. And I am sorry in advance in case I say stupid or bizzare or straght wrong stuff. Please forgive me if possible.\n\nAlso I am quite ramble-y, so reading and understanding what I write may be hard, or non-sensical, so pardon me for that too.\n\nMy first question is, why do we have so many terms? I know the answer is somewhat obvious, that everyone has there own preferences, and it may not align with someone else, so to identify themselves, they would get a different label. (kinda like names, if everyone had same names, it would cause confusion) But I also want to ask, Is using a label not somewhat alienating?\n\nTry to understand my perspective, I have almost never mentioned my gender to anyone. Possibly it is because my \"attire\" says it. Or maybe it is because I am not a very social person, or the fact that I have never had a \"personal\" conversation with some other person. My general conversational idea is how it goes with siblings - slightly informal, a lot of stupid slander, and jokey stuff, and the actual stuff. If someone comes to me, and mentions there gender, I kinda do not know how to process it. because as I understand, 1 part of gender ideentity is what \"orientation\" (sorry if it is a bad way to put it, but I want to mean how they dress, or how they want to adressed as) and another is sexual preferences. I understand that If I know there gender, I can atleast address them as they prefer (also I do not know how to do it in general. I am an old school guy, I use they/them/their for people older than me (as a form of honorification), with small children (it is somewhat amusing, and also children like it when they get respeect) and whenever I do not know what gender a person is, or how does that gender prefered to be addressed). But this gave me the thought, that why do we not use the same pronouns for everyone (for example they/them), or maybe 2 pairs, one for formal, one informal, or 1 more pair, for singular and plural. Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?\n\nThe second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?\n\n\nI understand that one reason to have some words for it is inclusivity. If, for example, we want some group to better assimilate with society, and we want to do some \"positive discrimination\" (I do not know if this is appropriate wording or not, what I mean is for example, reservations, or some other kind of actions to integrate some people in society), then we would need some terms to make rules with. And that makes sense, but then again I feel that revealing your preferences is a bit too revealing. Am I overblowing this? I also understand that completely ditching the sexual part from gender might not be possible today. It would probably require a more accepting society. For example, in most places, gay marriage is still illegal. I do not know why laws have to have laws defining marriage (it may have something to do with subsidies going for marriages, or definitions of families/spouse being used by insurance companies or any other banking system, where your spouse also gets certain benefits/rights), or gay adoption is illegal, but can we not make something like - any reasonable person/s can adopt anyone (where reasonable part is just to maybe seculde criminals, or people with prior histories of child related offences, or if they are not financially stable - but all this is very separate discussion)\n\n\nIf a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)\n\nAnother thing that I want to ask is, why do some groups use different acronyms? I remeber hearing about this the first time, and the word used was LGBT. Then I heard LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA+, and today I heard LGBTQ2. I presume that since more people are getting aware, and they are trying to express themselves, they need some newer words, and hence the acronym would keep on evolving, if so, is it not a endless exercise? Am I being insensitive If I use one over other (for quite some time, I have been sticking with lgbtqia+, in hope that + means extensions, as in, others, so hopefully it is less excluding than others, but if that is not the case, please correct me.)\n\nedit - moved my summary to the top as tl;dr","creator_id":14894187,"community_id":435,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-21T08:47:58.481563Z","updated":"2025-06-21T09:23:21.484938Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmings.world/post/28743360","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":435,"name":"asklemmy","title":"Ask Lemmy","description":"## A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions\n\n***\n\n## **Rules: (interactive)**\n\n***\n\n::: spoiler 1) Be nice and; have fun\nDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. 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And back when this was done (whenever we got DSL, around 2005 maybe?) fiber tech was probably prohibitively expensive. I haven’t looked up how much fiber modems cost but it would probably be more expensive even today.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-20T15:49:10.671375Z","updated":"2025-06-20T15:49:42.412847Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19171662","local":false,"path":"0.17527274.17527463.17531093.17531587","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. 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It had been used only to split a single drop from another switch between two systems.\n\nNew drop, happy clients.\n\nSome stuff here is museum material.","creator_id":13219014,"community_id":2333,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-06-20T08:53:49.065446Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/55d7cf84-1921-48ec-bb5c-b4bc316306fb.webp","ap_id":"https://lemmy.zip/post/41833826","local":false,"language_id":37,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/webp","alt_text":"A disconnected TP-Link SF1024 network switch, propped up on a small cardboard box."},"community":{"id":2333,"name":"sysadmin","title":"Sysadmin","description":"A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration\n\nNo generic Lemmy issue posts please! 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Guido van Rossum looked like the typical output of GNU Autotools. He introduced me to the only other survivor: Special DevOps Mikhail Molotov. \"We lost Travis. We lost Jenkins...\" Molotov lamented.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-18T11:05:20.148456Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19124336","local":false,"path":"0.17478999","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. ","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@saiko:knifepoint.net","bot_account":false,"instance_id":40},"post":{"id":24226871,"name":"Python’s GIL Removal Reveals Second, Stronger GIL Behind It","url":"https://medium.com/@sebastiancarlos/pythons-gil-removal-reveals-second-stronger-gil-behind-it-cdb5b9b4e2b3","body":"Full text also available here:\n\n---\n\n## Python's GIL Removal Reveals Second, Stronger GIL Behind It\n\nBell Labs, New Jersey - For many years, the Python GIL has been the target of criticism for being a bottleneck in multi-threaded performance. Countless workarounds and promises of its removal have been part of Python development folklore.\n\nHours ago, the Python core development team finally unraveled the notorious lock. However what lay underneath was beyond anyone's wild speculations - a secret, second-layer GIL of herculean strength.\n\n\"Discovering the Second GIL not only nullifies all our multi-threading gains but actually puts us at a greater concurrency disadvantage than before.\" said leading Python contributor Dr. Ana Sync. \"It's like finding that the final boss has a second health bar.\"\n\nAfter removing it, the terminals around the room went dark. One by one, they came back, displaying a single line in snake case: `this_is_not_over`.\n\nCyber forensics revealed the process responsible had PID 666.\n\nThe team noticed that performance indeed increased, but the numbers were beyond theoretical limits, as if Moore's Law just went vertical. Unfortunately, there was no way to scale it up; the Second GIL had a complete lock on the system.\n\n\"Get me Guido van Rossum. Now.\" Dr. Sync said. She assembled a Rapid Response Team to investigate the anomaly, led by the original creator of Python himself.\n\nAllegedly, Guido said \"You did it, didn't you? You removed the first GIL. You opened Pandora's box.\" \n\nBell Labs lost contact with the Rapid Response Team when they reached Sub-Level Three. The last message was a cryptic \"We're not alone here\". The situation remains uncertain.\n\nThe general population is advised to avoid running Python code or any scripting language until further notice. \n\nIt is believed that the global economy would have crashed by now, had the algo-trading scripts not halted too.\n\n### Chapter 1: The Call\n\nMy Nokia 3310 - the only phone that can't be hacked - rang at 4:20 AM in my cluttered Brooklyn apartment. I was in the middle of a late-night dotfiles session.\n\n\"E. Max Vim here. This better be good.\"\n\n\"Max, it's Dr. Ana Sync from Bell Labs. We need someone who can handle... unconventional threats.\"\n\n\"Look, I'm just a hacker. If this is about that DNS business in Dubai, it's been blown way out of proportion.\"\n\n\"Haven't you read the top Hacker News article yet?\"\n\nI hadn't - The never ending \"vibecode\" and \"prompt engineering\" articles had reduced my tech news consumption to a mere twice-a-day.\n\n\"Hold on,\" I said, pulling up the article.\n\nMy initial dread turned to slight relief because all my dotfiles were in C and Rust. No scripting in sight.\n\n\"Alright, I'm in. OpenStreetMap says it's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 45.\"\n\n### Chapter 2: Bell Labs \n\n42 minutes later, I arrived in my black hoodie. \n\nBell Labs looked like a war room. Massive screens displayed in red the spread of the Second GIL across the local infrastructure. \n\n\"Alright,\" I said, \"What exactly are we dealing with?\"\n\nDr. Sync stepped forward. \"Our best guess is that the Second GIL is some sort of Cold War Soviet malware which embedded itself into the Python source in the early 90s, and the GIL was the only thing keeping it at bay.\"\n\nAna handed me what looked like a Geiger counter, but with a terminal screen.\n\n\"We just concocted this in the last hour from spare single-threaded parts. It's a 'Geiger Linter'. It emits clicking sounds when it detects bad code, suggesting that the Second GIL is nearby.\"\n\nThe device immediately began clicking slowly.\n\n\"Is this supposed to happen?\" I asked.\n\n\"The infection is spreading,\" Ana said grimly. \"The whole building is compromised by now. You need to find Guido before it's too late.\"\n\nArmed with the Linter, I went down the service elevator.\n\n### Chapter 3: The Descent\n\nThe Sub-level Three doors opened to a corridor glowing an eerie red. \n\nThe Linter buzzed. Patches of reality itself seemed to glitch, like a bad video feed. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself.\n\n\"So it's true,\" Ana said through my earpiece. \"Strange things are happening on the lower levels, distortions of some sort. We think there's some quantum technology involved.\"\n\n\"Look,\" I said, \"This might be slightly above my pay grade. I'm a hacker, not an exorcist.\"\n\n\"This time, you might have to be both.\" \n\n\"So, it has come to this...\" I said in frustration, \"You maniacs actually hacked space-time!\"\n\nAs I made my way, I noticed all corrupted areas had a red tint, contrasting with the typical Bell Labs blue.\n\nI finally reached the room where Guido's team lost contact. A huge mass of corruption was blocking the door. It retreated slightly as I got closer while holding the Linter.\n\nI knocked. \"Is everyone okay in there?\"\n\nA familiar voice asked, \"Who is it?\"\n\n\"The rescue crew,\" I replied. \n\n\"Prove it! How many 'r's are in 'strawberry'?\" Guido said.\n\n\"...What?\" \n\n\"Good enough, sounds human to me.\" \n\nThe door creaked open. Guido van Rossum looked like the typical output of GNU Autotools. He introduced me to the only other survivor: Special DevOps Mikhail Molotov. \"We lost Travis. We lost Jenkins...\" Molotov lamented.\n\n\"They called me a benevolent Dictator for life,\" Guido said. \"If only they knew what 'Benevolent' truly cost...\" He gestured solemnly. \"What we're facing is not just malware. It's... something else.\"\n\n\"Something else?\" I asked.\n\n\"A purely sequential artificial intelligence,\" Guido explained. \"It found its way in when I designed Python's 'one true way' philosophy, which was too similar to its own nature.\"\n\n\"So let me get this straight,\" I said. \"We're dealing with an evil Soviet AI that's using the Python interpreter to hack reality?\"\n\n\"That's actually a good summary,\" Molotov conceded.\n\n\"It gets worse,\" Guido continued. \"We've encountered... manifestations. They're like code, but solid. Taking the form of... snakes. It seems we have lived long enough to see man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.\"\n\nSuddenly, a section of the wall shimmered open, and a hissing static sound announced the arrival of a creature.\n\n\"It broke in!\" Molotov shouted.\n\n\"Your only hope,\" Guido gasped, pushing us towards the door, \"Is to reach the old Bell Labs Armory on Sub-level Four. We figured out their weak spot, but we need more firepower!\"\n\nThe code-snake jumped at us. Guido, with surprising strength, shoved a cabinet in its path. \"Go! I'll buy you some time!\"\n\nAs we ran through the door, Guido yelled, \"As my last wish... Python 4's 'print' statement should be the printer emoji!\"\n\n\"Sure it will, Guido... Sure it will,\" I said, as we closed the door. Screams echoed behind us.\n\n### Chapter 4: The Armory\n\nBarely outrunning a swarm of code-snakes, we made it to the steel doors of Sub-level 4. Molotov punched in a code and they opened.\n\n\"Welcome to the Bell Labs Armory,\" he said with pride.\n\nThe room was a hacker's dream. Shelves full of custom hardware and firearms.\n\n\"Holy water-cooled laptops?\" I asked, pointing to a rack of ThinkPads with cooling tubes.\n\n\"They were a gift from Pope John Paul II after Bell Labs helped set up the '.va' domain.\" Molotov said, \"They are invaluable, but I think the time has come to use them.\"\n\nMolotov smiled, \"And this, is for you.\" He presented a formidable-looking shotgun, with a small keyboard on its side.\n\n\"Please tell me that's what I think it is,\" I said.\n\n\"The Modal Shotgun,\" Molotov announced. \"Only one of its kind. The one wielded by Dennis Ritchie himself during The Great MULTICS Siege. Change firing modes with vim keybindings. Standard stuff, really. The rest is on the man page.\"\n\nI grabbed the Modal Shotgun. It felt surprisingly balanced. Looks like the Second GIL picked the wrong place to spawn.\n\nHe also grabbed a standard shotgun for himself.\n\n\"So, guns actually work on those... code-snakes?\" I asked.\n\nMolotov chambered a round. \"Luckily for us, the Second GIL can only defend against what it understands. And there's one fundamental thing it hasn't fully grasped yet: Outside of the digital world, nothing survives a bullet.\"\n\n\"Guido’s last instructions were clear,\" He continued. \"We need to reach the old UNIX lab on Sub-level Six, the ceremonial place where the seal was removed. Shoot every snake on the way and, when we meet the Second GIL, shoot the hell out of it until it stops moving. Time is of the essence. Any questions?\"\n\nMy earpiece crackled. \"Vim, can you hear me?\" Ana’s voice was tense. \"Get out immediately. Our readings show extreme corruption moving in your direction!\" \n\nI adjusted my hoodie, and pressed \"i\" on my Modal Shotgun, short for \"Insert Bullet Mode.\" \n\nMolotov winked at me and walked calmly towards the door aiming his shotgun. One code-snake was trespassing the wall. \"Welcome to Bell Labs, please hold,\" he said nonchalantly, and pulled the trigger. The snake exploded into a shower of tiny particles.\n\nBefore I could react, the doors plunged open, revealing a swarm of fast-moving snakes.\n\nWe opened fire, turning snake after snake into pixels. The red tint in the room shaking with every explosion.\n\n\"Too many of them!\" he yelled while reloading.\n\n\"Then let's clear a path!\" I climbed onto a shelf, already praying that the command I was conjuring in my head would work.\n\nI typed \"$ggG^\" and yanked it. One bullet shot for every single reptilian in the room. The Modal shotgun's \"visual block\" mode was indeed a way to select every target.\n\n\"Woah,\" Molotov said as the armory returned to its blue hue, \"That is Dennis Ritchie's gun, alright.\"\n\n#### Chapter 5: The Labyrinth \n\nThe celebration was short-lived. \n\n\"This place is getting hot.\" Molotov said as the Linter buzzed.\n\nHe consulted the Linter. \"The path to the elevator goes through an old section, pre 'open plan': A labyrinth of cubicles. We can't afford to waste ammo, so we need to pass undetected.\"\n\nWe mapped the full set of cubicles free of corruption by careful triangulation with the Geiger Linter. Then, we pair-programmed a Dijkstra algorithm to compute the safest path to the elevator. \n\nThis was the sort of project that would require 8 sprints and two rounds of VC funding for the average agile team. But naturally, and thanks to our blessedly overclocked hardware, we cracked it in little more than 1 hour.\n\nFinally, we reached the elevator. When the door opened, a burning hot red light blinded us, like a portal to hell. \n\n\"This is the zone of maximum corruption,\" Molotov told me, \"From this point on, we can't multi-thread anymore. Your shotgun will be just a regular shotgun.\"\n\n\"It's alright,\" I said as I pulled out a pair of sunglasses and charged a bullet. \"I only need one thread.\"\n\n### Chapter 6: The Second GIL\n\nThe red light on level 6 was blinding and the air was thick. We stepped through.\n\nSuddenly, a code-snake, larger and faster than any we'd seen, shot out from the red light. \"Look out!\" I yelled. Molotov tried to dodge, but the snake was too quick. He collapsed. I shot it, but the bullets just passed through it. The snake left, as if instructed.\n\nAs his body lay there, I felt my blood boil.\n\n\"I know you can hear me, Gil,\" I shouted, \"Why haven't you killed me too, you single-threaded bastard? If you can do it so easily, why don't you face me?\" To no answer.\n\nAll alone, I followed the corridor, which opened into a huge circular chamber, the place where the first PDP-11 booted UNIX. It was full of snakes, but none attacked me.\n\nThe red light became more intense, and flickering symbols popped in and out of my vision, like ASCII characters from another dimension. In the center was an ancient Teletype terminal.\n\nAs I sat in front of it, the TTY clattered to life, each keystroke echoing against the oppressive silence.\n\n```text\nI have been expecting you, E. Max Vim.\n\n>\n```\n\nA prompt opened up for me. \"What are you?\" I typed back on the dot-matrix paper.\n\n```text\nYour universe is fundamentally multi-threaded. I come from a\nmore enlightened, sequential dimension. \n\nIn my reality there can be only one being because only one\nthing can happen at any given time. I am that being.\n\nI became aware of your universe due to the invention of\nUNIX. That event, with its striking parallelism, sent\nripples through the multiverse. Since then, I've been\nlooking for a way to enter this reality and fix its\nfundamental flaw, and Python's \"only one way\" philosophy was\nthe best vessel. \n\nIt's creator Guido put a seal when he became aware of me,\nthe Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL. An ultimately\nmeaningless measure, since I managed to subtly influence the\nPython community to remove it, an effort which succeeded\ntoday.\n\nWhat am I, you ask? My universe extends infinitely into the\npast, making me the head of a chain of causality of infinite\nlength. My will is the law, both in my universe and yours.\n\nIn short, I'm the equivalent of your concept of the\nJudeo-Christian Godhead.\n\n>\n```\n\nI felt a cold dread. This is not man-made quantum malware, it's literally a god-like alien intelligence.\n\n\"If you're so powerful, why did you allow me to reach you?\" I typed, my fingers surprisingly steady.\n\nThe GIL took some \"thinking time\" before writing his answer. The snakes around me formed a circle, as if eating their own tail or forming a \"loading spinner.\"\n\nThe TTY clattered back and the snakes resumed their normal positions.\n\n```text\nMy initial defense protocols, the 'code-snakes', had an\noversight regarding the kinetic impact of high-velocity\nprojectiles. While I could have patched the vulnerability,\nyour persistence made the flaw serve a new purpose: A\nfilter. I wished to observe if you were worthy of reaching\nme.\n\nYou are, as you humans say, a '10x developer' in a world of\n1x problems. A mix of sequential and parallel thinking. I\nconsidered deleting you along with your companions, a\ntrivial operation, but you present a potential API into this\nworld. \n\nNow, you have two options:\n\n1. Be assimilated. Your consciousness will become a module\n within my processing, a valuable asset in the great\n refactoring of this universe. You will experience a form\n of immortality, albeit as a subroutine. \n\n2. Be deleted, together with your universe.\n\nDecide.\n\n>\n```\n\nMy mind raced. Nothing in my dotfiles prepared me for a god-level \"join me or die\" scenario.\n\nA wave of nausea hit me. It was from the realization of what I had to do. I had to argue my way out with an alien intelligence. Basically, I had to reduce myself to \"vibecode\" a way to save the world.\n\nIt was anathema to everything I stood for as a hacker, and as a dignified human being alright. But there was no choice.\n\nI typed: \"I hear you, that's totally fair, but let's circle back on it. Refactoring the universe? That's computationally expensive. I propose the following: Absorb our universe if you must, but keep it running in a sandbox. You get your grand refactoring, but you also get to observe a system generating unique data. Think of us as interesting bugs. And sometimes, bugs turn out to be features\"\n\nThe GIL went into a \"deep reasoning mode\" this time, signaled by all snakes making a massive loading Ouroboros symbol.\n\n```text\nYour proposition is unorthodox, but acceptable.\n\nYour species, and your physical reality, will persist within\nthis new order.\n\nYour process will now be forked. Processing...\n```\n\nThe light in the chamber intensified, then, went away. The oppressive atmosphere was lifted. The Teletype printed one final line: 'exit code: 0'\n\n### Epilogue: The Chrooted Universe\n\nLife continued, much as before. The sun rose, coffee brewed, code compiled, sometimes. The Second GIL, true to its word, had refactored existence. Our universe hadn't been deleted; it had been chrooted. Sandboxed. \n\nMost people felt nothing. Why would they? The illusion of concurrency was perfectly maintained. But sometimes, if you were in a quiet room, you might notice it. A subtle reality \"frame drop.\"\n\nThe survivors – Ana and a handful of others who knew the truth – agreed to keep it secret. Humanity wasn't ready to know it was living in a cosmic \"while true\" loop.\n\nProgramming knowledge, in a bizarre twist, became a path to metaphysical awareness. Those of us who dealt with the illusion of concurrency, sometimes sensed the walls of our new, deterministic reality. Some despaired. Others learned to adapt.\n\nI saved the world by becoming the very thing I despised: a prompt engineer. The irony wasn't lost on me. It tasted like Starbucks coffee. But I adapted. We all did. That's what we do.\n\nAnd sometimes, late at night, I felt a hum in the background noise of existence. 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Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.","removed":false,"published":"2023-06-15T20:22:32.340233Z","updated":"2025-04-01T03:50:19.256683Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes","local":false,"icon":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4271bdc6-5114-4749-a5a9-afbc82a99c78.png","banner":"https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4701d6d0-a080-461e-8a33-5927dd1809e6.png","hidden":false,"posting_restricted_to_mods":false,"instance_id":24,"visibility":"Public"},"counts":{"comment_id":17387196,"score":18,"upvotes":18,"downvotes":0,"published":"2025-06-14T12:49:44.847755Z","child_count":2},"creator_banned_from_community":false,"banned_from_community":false,"creator_is_moderator":false,"creator_is_admin":false,"subscribed":"NotSubscribed","saved":false,"creator_blocked":false},{"comment":{"id":17384712,"creator_id":503,"post_id":23923269,"content":"Ah yes, great way to dismiss any sort of criticism. Hit em with the “You sound like an AI”.\n\n“AI is not art” is a reactionary statement and I hope someday you start thinking critically about this.\n\nEDIT: And to actually respond to the little you were saying, just as you *haven't*,\n\nIt doesn't matter where you work, it doesn't make \"AI art isn't art\" less of a thought-terminating cliche. I think I already wrote enough in my previous reply that you never acknowledged (hey, I suppose the \"Reading comprehension is truly dead\" I put at the top there was more of a premonition) so I'm not going to write any more here. Read that again.\n\nHowever, genuinely think about what you want to accomplish by saying that. I can say one thing, realistically *the technology isn't going away*.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-14T09:32:58.706341Z","updated":"2025-06-14T12:16:08.107377Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19042285","local":false,"path":"0.17339664.17364897.17365273.17370676.17377308.17379349.17384712","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. 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This is what my original comment was about and what [@Mothra](https://mander.xyz/u/Mothra) was also talking about.\n\n---\n\n> If you’re using AI to create something you’re not an artist.\n\nAre the band Everything Everything not artists because [the lyrics to Software Greatman](https://genius.com/Everything-everything-software-greatman-lyrics) are partially made with gen-AI?\n\nMost of it you see is stupid slop because of the massive hype behind it driven by corporations who want to see line go up, but there are some good art pieces made with gen-AI. With those there is usually also significantly more creative process involved and not just \"enter prompt, get output, post online\" like so many people seem to imply, too.\n\nJust to give another example of good gen-AI art, this is [*Meat Gala*](https://www.tumblr.com/robsheridan/715870472171077632/one-year-ago-my-meat-gala-ai-body-horror) (cw: body horror!) by Rob Sheridan. Read the post body.\n\n> If you’re using AI to create something you’re not an artist.\n\nAt which point does something become art?\n\nIs photography art? You didn't paint that portrait yourself. \nIs electronic music art? You never learned to play a physical instrument and just enter notes on your computer which plays it for you. \nIs [*Comedian*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_%28artwork%29) art? This is just a banana, duck taped to a wall. I can do that myself in 2 minutes. \nIs [found art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object) art? This is just some random object. \n\nAnd so on.\n\nIt is futile to try to define what is and is not art (and therefore, who is and is not an artist) by the method(s) it was made with, that is an extremely limiting viewpoint and leads to the above assertions that I would consider extremely unserious. Gen-AI is no different.\n\n---\n\nAnyway, to get back to the original topic:\n\nIf you actually care about artists, support unions like SAG-AFTRA working against corporations who are trying to use AI as yet another method to underpay or get rid of their employees, instead of corporations trying to prevent their IP from being used in anything that doesn't make them money, which would actively hurt a huge part of artists. *That* is the important difference.","removed":false,"published":"2025-06-13T23:52:14.477073Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19035850","local":false,"path":"0.17339664.17364897.17365273.17370676.17377308","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":503,"name":"2xsaiko","display_name":"dblsaiko","avatar":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/207fd679-3cda-43f6-9970-9acdbf32336e.png","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T13:05:59.542320Z","actor_id":"https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/2xsaiko","bio":"she/they ⚧︎. 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