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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 126 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Centrally Located Input Tool

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 week ago

You just point and clit.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago

I call it the clicktorus

[–] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody mentioned Archlinux

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Unix socks are for more than just Arch

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 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?

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Polling time?!

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[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 25 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?

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 44 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.

[–] Buildout@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

I loled at "Rust was invented" :)

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 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.

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Damn, our hiring process was wrong all this time!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You need to look at gay programmers, and your life will change for the better.

Words to live by or class action lawsuit waiting to happen? Won't know until you try!

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 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.

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 7 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.

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.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just got one for work, and I kept giggling to myself because of this

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Here you go, source material!

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 51 points 1 week ago

I never thought to use my tongue to move the mouse

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The joke is that programmers actually have sex.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 26 points 1 week ago

Some of them move to marketing and become sexual predators

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Controller innovation is dead in the water because familiarity :(

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[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 22 points 1 week ago

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Consider it a moment for light hearted constructive criticism

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

It's the click-toris.

[–] waz@lemmy.world 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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

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

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

We always called them mouse nipples.

[–] AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

…and other fairy tales you can tell yourself.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Is this ALSO a sex joke? 😄

it's true, lesbian confirmed

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