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Please call us from your phone to fix your phone. m)

I hope your eyes are fine again after seeing this. 😄

@Fast-Nop This. Why would you need that information?

That's a duck for the bugs already out in the field, obviously. :)

Damn, I hope you're able to find a decent job really soon because the one you have in combination with your boss (what a giant asshole!) just seem to scream GTFO. A decent dev like you shouldn't have to put up with this shit.

I wish you the best of luck job-hunting-wise. If Root can't do this who else can. ;)

But- but- the "GER" in BENELUX obviously stands for Germany! m)

in which attic did you find this one? ;)

I don't experience discrimination at my current job.

I get some of those stereotyped, humourous remarks concerning my gender every now and then. But that's nothing I'd roughly consider hostile or discriminating, also as there's never a link between my skills or competence to my gender.

I know from women friends in tech that it can be quite different e.g. not getting a job, being considered "beautiful decoration" rather than an equal colleague or being exposed to dudes who don't back off after being told that she's uncomfortable being subject to romantic interest. Most incidents correlate with an overall shitty company culture.

"What could possibly go wrong ..."

Bah, what a stupid beast! I got house spiders on my desk at home sometimes but I think all they want to do is code review, so I leave them be.

@PonySlaystation I'd never assume you hated women and I'm aware that the topic holds a lot frustration for me you as a guy might never have experienced.

My abbreviated opinion - I'd very much like to discuss that in depth, but I'll get even more political for which devRant isn't the platform, so I'll stop after this:

Taking legal action against an illegal, verbal statement is a waste of time and money without witnesses and even then can affect you negatively.

Though not working in heavy industries many women have to keep up with men physically - the sick, the elderly or disabled people in intensive care mostly won't move by themselves.

Rape allegations are horrible. But if "innocent until proven guilty" does not work we have a general problem.
Other "risks" have already viable solutions in some fields like e.g. giving all your employees the possibility to care more about their health, increasing overall performance.

Feminism for me is about having a choice in the first place.

It'd be suspicious if it'd work the first time. 😏

Actually ... depending on the underlying wet ware that might be a good thing? :D

But what about machine learning and AI? ;)
*goes to fetch bullshit-bingo card*

Careful how you put diodes into your relationship. If you're AC, you might want to use a rectifier. ;)

@PonySlaystation
I can reassure you, women are not as equal yet as you think they/we are and there are also still forms of discrimination around other than pay.
I have a good friend that was denied a job by 2-3 companies as an electric technician because they did explicitly not want her as she was a woman - not because she was lacking qualification or not working hard enough. (They told her during the interviews, she'd "distract the men" and similar things. Couldn't write those in a rejection, obviously.)
(Even I got denied an internship once because people didn't want me "as a woman" working in their workshop.)

These are things you normally suck up and keep going because everything else is a waste of your time, but they still suck anyway.

And then someone tells you it might have to do with experiences made by others based on simple biological reasons. Well, fuck this, really.

I think it's important to be concerned about the parts of "our" field that has political implications apart from office politics, like companies selling our data, ethics in ML/AI, net neutrality etc.
And so is being able to just vent over the little things that have some political value there imo.

However, I'm sometimes disappointed - not disheartened - how it's discussed if it's discussed and not just vented.

On the other hand, it's the occasional event that occurs and then recedes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This looks better. 👍

Aw, snake screen! :)

I don't think so. Having a 30+ years old project stumble over some CoC change seems just a bit too unrealistic to me.

@linuxxx Yes, something like that - but then I had the spontaneous desire to make some tea.

Nah, either I find something directly or it may be a problem that needs "!so".

@linuxxx We'll see. ;)

(No, seriously, if it's the address you wrote on one or two threads on here in the last half year, I know it.)

@electrineer @ilPinguino Thank you, that was all I needed to be sure. :)

Yes, please. :) What app?

@linuxxx I didn't want to state a general causality but I also can't observe this demographic when I think of the "privacy-unaware" part of my contacts. (This may correlate with the majority of them being men now.)
But maybe I was also somewhat lucky by being a tad too paranoid when it came to Facebook etc.

Hehe, sounds cool. I'll drop you an email today/in the next days. :)

@linuxxx Had to know, went with the duck and apparently they do.
Not as cute as I'd imagined but they're shaking their heads in the process. :D

Bless you! :)

(... do penguins sneeze?)

@xewl Yeah, it's probably a cultural thing.

(I'd agree with you there if Konzentrationslager would've ever had a positive or at least neutral context.
Because I also think we shouldn't let fascists or other groups subvert our language - and taking it back by joking is probably a good idea. However I don't see that in this case.)

@xewl meh, probably not - if you don't want all those horrified stares.

It's a part of the history you don't joke about for obvious reasons: there actually died and suffered too many people.

@HRT-713 Always glad to help! :D

Now I'm thinking about other typical german expressions in the same field, but atm I can't think of any. ^^"