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When it repeats on certain conversations it becomes a bit obvious, and full history of a user is visible with a single click.

Its really not the effort you think it is.

Not really, no, I’m playing with the client communication so I can contribute updates, so ive been using a rather fugly web interface I made. Up/downvote activity is visible in that.

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Tragic.

So the creator, the way a soft vs hard g is used in the English language, etc, none of that matters.

Noted, enjoy your day.

If you read my name, and I pointed out that your pronunciation was wrong, would you tell me my pronunciation is incorrect due to pronunciation rules rather than how my parents named me?

Edit: and I’ll just note, a soft g is very well defined, and is usually behind an e, i, or y, while a hard g is typically behind an a, o, or u, but let’s focus on the whole “who gets to choose how a name is pronounced” bit for a moment.

I don’t think it’s decided by the creator anymore then by the words making up the acronym either.

I mean, they got to name it… How it sounds is part of that…

Most just say it like it would sound, the creators pronunciation clearly lost.

How long have people been talking about how to pronounce gif?

I don’t think there are any winners or losers here.

.jif was named to follow .gif.

Its also .jfif to be accurate, and no one really used .jif or .jfif.

I’m pointing to the lead of the team that created it. They get to name it, not me.

I’m also not oddly mad about it like the person replying to me with lots of exclamation points, the user in OPs image, or the person using their alt that has only been used to downvote people they are in conversations with for the past few months.

All I said was the people responsible for it say its a soft g, not a hard g.

Wouldn’t doubt it.

Some folks get unreasonably mad about what they consider “right”.

Reverse that.

.jif (jpeg interchange format) came out 5 years after .gif.

It was an homage to GIF.

Edited to add: Also no one ever really used it.

Because at the origin of the format, “choosy graphic designers choose .GIF”. Which is a direct reference to JIF, the brand of peanut butter, and their tagline.

The pronunciation of an acronym often has little to nothing to do with the words themselves they represent, and more to do with the acronym itself as though it were a word.

Steve Wilhite (engineering lead on the team that created GIF) said the soft g is the right pronunciation.

Did you sand in between? Just curious

Ive done smaller things and with ultra fine grit for sanding between coats, ended up with a gorgeous finish (mailbox, exterior lamps, etc)

Thats just bad design. I get that you’re joking about it BTW, this is more of a general info comment on the reality.

A door lock should always have a mechanical locking method in addition to the electronic, or the electronic would need to default to open (mostly a security door thing for default open BTW, for fire emergency scenarios).

The same applies to anything else. I mentioned just yesterday that I have (aside from some wled managed lights, which are not critical use and dont need it) a physical button which can control my regular lights. Its a momentary switch and a relay, so I can control it automatically, or physically by pressing the button. If I press it, the state changes and its reflected in my home automation (home assistant, as others mentioned).

Next problem - Alexa/Google Home/etc. I personally would never use a commercial solution like theirs, but let’s say I did - it should only ever be an augment to the system not the sole means of control. So a spoken command should trigger an action, the same action that could be run by a local device (whether its a zigbee button, a wall mounted wired momentary, or even a trigger based on a PIR sensor - whatever).

I’d say a good design for a smart home includes local operation, withno internet connectivity requirement, and a physical method of managing any critical endpoint (door locks as the example above). Anything critical should also have a battery backup for continued operation, and in the case of something like a door lock, needs to default to a safe selection in case of both wired + battery failure.

Plenty of tech folks have a smart home. Most of the non enthusiast-style techs I know use home assistant, but all of them use a local system.

One of my in-laws has a maybe 80-100sq ft room off the basement with guns in a safe and porn on the wall.

We are both in our 40s. They still exist.

No worries! Like I said, missing context from the deletion. For the record, they were conflating sex and gender and thinking they were the same thing.

Which, obviously - no, definitely not the same thing, and both are important.

Edited to add: and I completely understand how the lost context can make things more confusing, so seriously, no worries. I just wanted to be clear that was not what I was saying at all.

We’re going well past “these two words mean the same thing!” that I was replying to, probably because they deleted their comment. So there is missing context.

So trans women’s brains mirror those of cis women more closely than cis men, and vice versa for trans men.

Because sex is not a binary either. I’m not a geneticist, doctor, etc, but this is fairly well established AFAIK, showing that ‘male’ and ‘female’ are more akin to general groupings, with a degree of overlap, than any actual dichotomy.

As a sample reference:

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/genomics/Scientists-reject-binary-view-human/102/i33

To quote that example:

Gender and sex are closely related yet distinct concepts—sex is considered a collection of biological characteristics, and gender is considered a collection of socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities.

Regarding the next bit from you:

Also, treating sex as the only one that is relevant in medicine is reductive and inaccurate.

It would be, but that isnt what I said, right from the quote you have of me:

Sex and gender are still entirely distinct

I never, at any point, said that only sex mattered in medicine. I said they were distinct.

I doubt it was your intention to do so, but youre putting words in my mouth. Please don’t misrepresent me.

Once youre talking science, sex and gender are two very different definitions. Colloquial use of words doesnt really factor in.

If you mean sex and gender, gender was used only used for classifying nouns up until around 50 years ago. At that point is when it was used by feminists to create a distinction between sex and gender (and as a means of identifying gendered social constructs), using it as a synonym for sex is more recent.

Sex and gender are still entirely distinct when it comes to medical science, psychology, neuroscience, etc.

(I may be missing another historical usage here, but it would be a modern use of ‘gender’ definitely. I think the timeline is about right though.)

Ok, 2/2 (I hope). Starting with a part I missed:

It is “our” community in the sense that we are, and always have been, responsible for it. We’re not suggesting you owe us your contributions.

Hard disagree on both. Especially when the community gets locked.

To speak frankly again, I’ve exhausted myself with how much time I’ve put into responding to all of the concerns. But if you feel like you have more that wasn’t addressed then just say it. I’ll be here, and I’ll always be willing to continue sacrificing my free time for the sake of you guys understanding what happened, why, and what we are doing differently so there are no problems in the future.

I think my reply is detailed enough to explain why I say the concerns have not been addressed in any of those three parts.

Asking if people agreed with the choice should have been the first step, because clearly a majority of the community agreed with Ada as well.

This was already addressed here, and I encourage you to read Ada’s reply and my reply to her. Long story short, I did tell people about this months ago in an effort to be more transparent with the community, and I was in favor of a vote, but due to some misunderstandings with Ada I had to remove what I said.

So… people didn’t get asked because it was removed? So people didn’t get asked. It just became a unilateral decision based on the mod team’s own vibes.

What I didn’t say in that comment, though, was that the mods didn’t even have time to realize or interject when the change was being made without notice.

“The mods” are the ones who made the change. So… I don’t follow.

So even the idea of discussing a move was so far removed from when conversation should have happened, if only to get some alignment/input from the community, Addressed in the previous two paragraphs, and in many of my comments elsewhere.

That it didn’t happen, yes, confirmed. There was no input from the community.

that this should also be a pretty bright lantern light guiding the mod team to resignation. Addressed here and in this post.

You have said you would. Do you speak for the whole mod team? Where is the response from the rest of the mod team involved in this debacle? Have folks resigned?

So still not addressed.