In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.

32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of #transHistory I learned today.

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I finally left the MMPA discord, I just couldn't stand it any more. So far, everything they've hastily announced "due to imminent threats" has been five years old.

To protect yourself from Fractureiser, don't... do anything? The CNC server's already shut down.

To protect yourself from MC Mad Gadget (what they call "bleeding pipe" because eva just decided that one day on a lark) just play the current minecraft version. The really bad gadgets are from the ~1.7 era.

To protect yourself from *reads marker on hand* microsoft auth stealing your minecraft account, don't do anything, Microsoft already closed that exploit. Also don't authorize strange apps to access your Microsoft account. Obviously.

I switched to #Firefox just over a week ago from #Chrome. It took about five minutes and the only thing that fucked up was the migration of my saved payments details (it hung, no big deal).

Phone and desktop - both very simple. Finding add-ons was fine, the only slight annoyance has been navigating my bookmark folders when they sync to the phone but otherwise I've lost no functionality.

If you were thinking of switching because you've heard Chrome is becoming more evil than it was, it's not that hard to do.

Sorting through my collection of randomly desoldered ICs, I came across these two... I can't find anything on the internet about these and I don't remember from where I desoldered these from.

Anyone here knows before I throw them into my e-waste bin? ​

#Minecraft Forge split info #NeoForged: https://neoforged.net/news/theproject/, by @cpw

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