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Alan Turing, the father of modern computers, has an incredibly depressing ending.
Chemically castrated due to being an illegal homosexual, he died in dishonor over bullshit homophobia and new drugs that the 1950s possessed.
West germany also put gay men from the concentration camp back into the prisons.
And it wasn’t until late 2013 that he was pardoned for the crime of “being gay”, and ironically TERF island has only gotten worse since then.
i find it hard to say terf island has gotten worse since the 1950s.
i find it hard to say terf island has gotten worse since the 1950s.
I meant since 2013, because yeah, it did get better for a little while. And now they’re policing the bathrooms.
I sometimes still wonder why it got worse after. I think it’s got to do with Putin invading Ukraine’s Crimea and concurrently, spreading disinformation in the UK and US, causing Trump to win, and Trump in turn spreading even more hatred…
But that they could win was also reinforced by long standing social issues; the lack of proper and affordable housing, free healthcare, (and later, enormous inflation) for one!
In times like these, oligarchs try their hardest to indoctrinate the populace that playing out against each other is preferable as otherwise, groups they dislike get rights.
When these marginalised groups don’t get into the news much nor that negatively (but do get support from politicians), and the socioeconomic circumstances are good for the bourgeoise (and the proletariat too), I think it would be much better.
i would not be surprised if some decades from now it’s common knowledge that russia is responsible for a very large part of the shit we’re going through currently, basically all the far right parties seem to have kremlin hands shoved so far up their asses it’s a wonder we don’t see fingers when they yawn
I sometimes still wonder why it got worse after.
UK was always TERFs headquarters due to previous-waves feminism being more successful (Thatcher was one of the first female head of states in the west), so cis british women assimilated into the power structure more.
but we avenged him by turning computers gay
“For Turing,” Aragorn uttered, a cock in each fist.
Every UNIX socks post is in memory of Turing. If you don’t agree you’re gay. And if you do agree you’re gay too. Computers are gay and by using one, you’re gay. Jokes on you, by reading this, you’re using a computer. You’re gay. That’s the actual Turing test
I don’t think he’s necessarily the inventor of the computer. There are a few possible candidates, including Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage, who were earlier.
Babbage invented the computer, Ada invented the programming language that would be used to program it. She even wrote the first ever bug in it.
https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
“In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug.”
The first functioning programmable computer was Zuse’s Z3.
The Z3 was relay based in 1941. (Germans)
Collosus was 1943 and based on valves. (British)
The Harvard MK1 was in 1944. (Americans)
There was a lot of parallel development going on at the time, all converging on solutions.
Blaise Pascal was the real OG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascaline
Being gay didn’t contribute to his death. How the state treated him when they found out did. Anytime his name comes up I think about how many horrible people there are in the world who just can’t let others be what they are . Fanatics are somewhat evil by nature.
Konrad Zuse invented the first proper computer.
Alan Turing later invented computing.
This distinction is why computer science exists.
Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It’s those that people remember him for.
I named* my first self-built computer after him! Does this make that machine gay? They put chemicals in the bytes that turn the friggin’ hardware gay!
*call me a weirdo but I do often name stuff like household appliances and my trees.
Can I see your homebrew computer? I am working on 6502 rn and this sounds interesting
Turing is gone for years; got replaced with Midgard and then Tiberis, the current machine. Here’s Tiberis:
inb4 my desk is a mess and to be replaced, and I need to clean Tiberis’ guts. The pics highlight how dirty it is.
specs
- CPU - Ryzen 7 5700X3D
- GPU - Biostar AMD Radeon RX 6600
- Motherboard - Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite
- RAM - Apacer Nox, RGB, 2*16GB
- SSD - Adata SU650 480GB, Sata III
- HDD - a Seagate 2TB, I don’t recall further info
- Power supply - Gamdias Cyclops M1-750B
- Fans - Aigo Darkflash DR08, ARGB
- LED strip - Pichau MAG 200, ARGB
- Case - a second hand Mancer case a friend sold me.
ironically they also put chemicals in alan that were supposed to turn him not gay
The only one who can decide your computer is gay is the computer itself.
My friend’s mom occasionally gives full names, like forename+surname and uses them as such
I don’t go so far. Only my pets get a surname, and it’s the family’s surname. (Some of the household appliances have kind of melodramatic names though, specially if they break often. Like Solineuza, the washing machine.)
Not only was he gay but also convicted for it by the UK, denied entry into the US, put on chemical castration and there’s a good chance he committed suicide over it. So, yeah.
A language isn’t Turing complete if it isn’t gay
Alan Turing was the father of computer science, but didn’t invent the first computer. Arguably the first computer was called the Manchester Baby and was created by folks at the University of Manchester.
Alan Turing was an absolute boss, though. Huge respect.
When you use the computer, first think you do is put your hands on the keyboard, specifically, you touch the D. This extracts all the heterosexuality from your body. If you’re lucky, this effect is only temporary.
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