Jules Glegg
Can tech people please refrain from making the Gendering App every three months
Apr 17, 2023 at 1:05amWeb
Show threadJoseph KohlmannApr 17, 2023
@julesfern Apparently not! 🫣🤬😤
Show threadluddite 🇵🇸 computerApr 17, 2023
@julesfern what the actual living fuck, what is the VC-brainworm use case for this?
Show threadVelvet Cupcake GamesApr 17, 2023
@julesfern I love those things only because 90% of them encounter me and go, "I don't know, WTF?" And I laugh. I have defeated the Gendering App.
Show threadXayoApr 17, 2023

@julesfern gender guessing seems to be a decades old tradition in (web-)tech … the first listed release of the PHP gender extension [0] is from 2008 :-/

Not only are tech people keeping up this horrible tradition, while re-invening a broken wheel. They pretend guessing binary genders is just how you do it (guess_gender is still part of ORM exmaple code [1]) …

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gender.php & https://pecl.php.net/package/gender
[1]: https://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/doc/manual.xhtml#13.3

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