@grillchen@kaia@lain Besondere Erwähnung für die Pioniere des generischen Neutrums:
- "Was machst Du eigentlich beruflich, Susi?" - "Ich bin Abwassertechnik. Gelernt. Fred hier ist auch Abwassertechnik. Die Leonie hat allerdings eine wilde Karriere hinter sich, die wollte mal Afrikanistin werden, hat das aber abgebrochen und war dann 'ne Weile freier 3D-Artist (w), bis die KI-Welle den Markt dafür zusammengeklappt hat und jetzt ist sie auch Abwassertechnik."
@kaia@lain Lass uns doch einfach den Doppelpunkt auch noch weglassen und dann schreiben wir halt 20-30 Jahre lang generisches Femininum bis auch den letzten Sprachgerechtigkeitsbewegten auffällt, dass man mit dem ollen Maskulinum am wenigsten tippt und dann ist der Spuk vorbei
@Moon The functions for printing kernel messages to the console in Linux evolved significantly over time and the x86 NMI code also became slightly more complex.
It did not always retrieve a reason for the non-maskable interrupt - in fact Linux probably predates the registers in Intel chipsets to pull a reason for an NMI from (not too sure about this though) - Linux also definitely predates SMP for x86, so there was no code to print the exact CPU the NMI originated from.
The code that prints this message had to be rewritten several times, at one point splitting the original single line message into two separate lines.
None of these opportunities to change the wording of this message was ever taken - on the contrary, even the "Uhhuh" part has always been carefully preserved.
x86 is also the only architecture where a Linux user is likely to ever see the kernel use a literal filler word in a kernel message, other platforms that use non-maskable interrupts usually stuck to wording gleaned straight from reference documentation.
"Dazed and confused" however is a multi-platform phrase, thanks to a fan of Linus' error-message-prose adopting it and putting it into eCryptfs's kernel code.
@Moon That right there is quality code and error message prose from none other than Linus himself. First appeared in Linux 0.99, released in December 1992 (kernel/traps.c, these days lives in ./arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c).
@lain@piggo Now the lucky first customers can pass these down to their heirs and some day in the distant future, one of them will be able to clone themselves a copy of the Orka founders as their personal slaves, p. good deal
@kaia@koakuma Pretty useless poll tbh. Sex work is stigmatized, on the supply-side as well as on the demand-side, Americans are prudes in general, conservative Americans are prudes especially.
There are more sex workers than ever, there are more clients of sex workers than ever (especially when you include people who watch porn, then almost everybody world-wide becomes a sex-work client eventually, a good chunk of that before they're even adults), but people would still rather lie about it or be lied to than face the facts.
So, "the peripheral" is a remote controlled body that is controlled through a headset that conveniently can also communicate with these bodies *through time*. And what powers this amazing technology? A "server" that some of the protagonists hacked into, but don't know how it works or where it is (but they assume it's "somewhere in China").
There's also some sort of slow apocalypse going on that makes the 22nd century world (where the peripherals exist) at the same time very depopulated, technologically advanced to an astonishing degree and completely ruled by powerful oligarchs.
No surprise the Amazon adaptation flopped, the only medium and format where that much suspension of disbelief for implausible nonsense is readily given by the audience is anime. Maybe Bill can still get the rights back and sell them to Japan, lol.
Anyway, I guess if I had read this load of bull back in 2014 or 2015, I would have been much less taken aback by Gibson's public transformation into a Trump reply guy and Russiagater on Twitter a few years later. Guy's lost it big time.
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