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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why would you lick your Thinkpad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Why wouldn't you?

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

You forgot to add the hover text.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Centrally Located Input Tool

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am the C.L.I.T. Commander!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I MAKE THAT SHIT WORK!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

You just point and clit.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

I call it the clicktorus

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Who do all these cute thigh socks belong to?”

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody mentioned Archlinux

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Unix socks are for more than just Arch

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Now I want to know how different distros measure up in unix socks per 1000 users or something. I have a feeling that Debian has a higher total number, but NixOS a higher percentage, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I use both Debian and Arch. Now give me some good socks. Why are all of them so tight?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Polling time?!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have never once understood these sock references and jokes. Never seen a programmer wearing thigh high socks. Never associated socks with specific programming languages.

What’s the punch that I’m missing here?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it went like this:

  • Linux is highly customizable
  • customizing or "ricing" your Linux machine became a hobby
  • weebs got into the hobby, infesting the space with anime waifus and other degenerate cartoons
  • some time during the weeb infestation, thigh high socks became a recurring theme
  • gay/trans programmers sarcastically posted themselves in thigh high socks
  • gay/trans programmers who didn't get the sarcasm unironically adopted thigh high socks
  • Rust was invented

So you see, it's just another example of the kind of tragedies that can befall society when sarcasm isn't clearly labeled on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

I loled at "Rust was invented" :)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The point is that you're looking at the wrong programmers. You need to look at gay programmers, and your life will change for the better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Damn, our hiring process was wrong all this time!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's apparently a newly vocal (yet previously existing) trend amongst trans and drag programmers, particularly of the linux variety.

I know of one transwoman and she doesn't do this, though we do work for a "business formal" environment.

Seems to be a bigger thing amongst the younger college CS and fresh out of college folk.

I personally find it a bit funny, but I also have the small bit of me that worries about the social-political climate and how it might impact their careers.

Amongst engineers I've still found an uncomfortable amount of conservatives. So even if they don't support MAGA directly, I'd imagine they still carry a lot of that bias on "what is appropriate" or not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Basically there is a stereotype that a lot of trans girls are programmers, and thigh high socks are a stereotype of trans girls along with blahaj ownership as well. There are a lot of chasers on 4chan and some trans folks as well. Therefore some anon shopped a picture of an Amazon listing to say "programming socks" to poke fun at the two stereotypes. People embraced it so much that the socks started showing up on Amazon when you search "programming socks". As for a specific programming language, I have seen Rust associated with trans women.

I for one don't think estrogen has made me better at coding at all. I tried to do Rustlings before and didn't have time to follow through with it, but maybe I should give it another go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

TL;DR: It all seems to have started with a (possibly deliberately) misnamed pair of socks for sale on Amazon. They began showing up as suggestions when people searched for programming-related items.

[–] smuuthbrane 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

I never thought to use my tongue to move the mouse

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The joke is that programmers actually have sex.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Some of them move to marketing and become sexual predators

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I always wonder why that dot ass mouse hasn't been in any joypad. It's perfect for precise movements

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the teverse of precision for me, slow slow medium weee speeed!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The closer I am to a target the more I will overshoot it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Controller innovation is dead in the water because familiarity :(

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

So that's why the keyboards are waterproof too?!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So tempted to send this to my gf but I'm going to get roasted alive. 🏳️‍🌈

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Consider it a moment for light hearted constructive criticism

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So other than clit-mouse, what's the actual name of the nubbin thingy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

We always called them mouse nipples.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

It's the click-toris.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I too, prefer them to touchpads.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apparently wiki identifies it as a "pointing stick".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

...also, I find it amusing that the article does use the term clitmouse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Lenovo calls it the TrackPoint but most people call it the "nipple"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

…and other fairy tales you can tell yourself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Is this ALSO a sex joke? 😄

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

it's true, lesbian confirmed

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