The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace

Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by asveikau on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:25PM (#35213254)

> The kind of person who works hard to not be sexist, racist, transphobic or smell bad

Agree with the sibling comment to say this isn't hard work. Generally speaking you're saying basic requirements to be a functioning human in society, which also involves a certain amount of emapthy.

> is often very boring.

I don't understand the correlation here. There are plenty of exist, racist, smelly transphobes who are also boring.

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Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by Jensson on Saturday March 18, 2023 @05:31PM (#35213295)

> Agree with the sibling comment to say this isn't hard work.

Read my first sentence: "Depends on how strict your definitions for those things are."

Or do you think that the strictest versions of anti-racism and anti-sexism are easy to adhere to? If not you agree with me.

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Re:The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendar... by cafeinux on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:01PM (#35214867)

Maybe a more appropriate term would have been "pedantic" instead of strict, to avoid the miscommunication? I think I understand what you mean. I am nor racist nor transphobic nor <insert-minority>-phobic (at least I hope so), yet I think that the debate about, for example, biologically male people in female sport competitions ought to be (whatever my opinion on the matter might be) and that alone could flag me as transphobic to some people. But I'm not sure they are more "strict anti-transphobe", I just think they are more pedantic, that's all.

Anyway, in the end of the day it was clearly a miscommunication, not necessarily a divergence of opinion. Words are hard.

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