I wrote my first interactive program in Pyton today! It's a text adventure and took me a couple days.

Programming is fun!

I'm involved in a research project at university to create a programming language designed for women. One of the problems with women entering the field is that programming languages today are all designed around how men think. Our research involves taking existing programs, asking women what they think it does, and find ways to make it more clear to women's way of thinking. We started with the Python language since it's considered easy for beginners. Participants in the study were in the 14-20 age group with no previous programming experience.

The first thing we noticed was that the print function was confusing. Participants were turning on the printers and waiting for the paper to come out with text on it. We found that changing the vocabulary to something they were more familiar with greatly helped. Well over 90% identified the verb "tweet" as the sending of text, eliminating the confusion about the print function.

Before: print("Hello World!")
After: tweet "Hello World!"

Variables were the next challenge. Participants were confused about how the first and second lines were related in the following program. Many believed the program would simply print "x" to the terminal and wondered why the first line was there.

x = 5
tweet x

Despite being slightly more verbose, adding additional keywords proved more helpful. First, we added the "pretend" keyword and we changed the equal sign to "is".

pretend x is 5
tweet x

Is there a worst language than LSL ?

real talk. how can you not get hard from this? they will call you a pedophile for liking this

Every breath you take
https://www.stuff.tv/features/apple-watchs-breathe-app-simply-breathtaking
Every move you make
https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/secret-map-tracking-apple/465598
Every bond you break
Every step you take
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/09/08/iphone-tracking-everywhere-you-go-how-find-setting/5695132002
I'll be watching you
https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/iphone-camera-spying.html

Every single day
Every word you say
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/13/siri-is-listening-to-you-but-shes-not-spying-says-apple
Every game you play
https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/09/25/iphone-apps-games-tracking-apple-privacy
Every night you stay
https://www.iflscience.com/new-ways-your-smartwatch-and-phone-may-be-spying-you-how-worried-should-you-be-33027
I'll be watching you
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apples-siri-is-eavesdropping-on-your-conversations-putting-users-at-risk
Oh, can't you see
You belong to me
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropologist-confirms-apple-is-a-religion

How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/your-iphone-has-a-map-of-everywhere-you-go-how-to-find-it
Every move you make
https://www.stopspying.org/latest-news/2021/10/1/stop-condemns-apple-for-tracking-iphone-location-when-turned-off
Every vow you break
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/iphone-owners-could-be-spied-on-through-microphone-on-apple-watch
Every smile you fake
https://www.abc4.com/news/tech-social-media/yes-your-iphone-is-taking-invisible-pictures-of-you
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3628454/apples-plan-to-scan-us-iphones-raises-privacy-red-flags.html

>wants to go on a public room
>nearly all the rooms are invite only
>hacks in Gentoo
>immediately can't post in invite only room because every post needs approval by moderator
>3,488 Hazbin porn images appear after 3 bots enter the room and 9/11 the conversation
>Sharp calls up Matrix developers asking for a raise along with more collaboration with Mossad
>the other rooms on matrix.org are full of trannies

fuck this broken kike honeypot

>just get lasik bro
no thanks. i'll stick to my glasses and contact lenses

If you could eradicate exactly one piece of technology from the planet for good, what would it be, and why?

I hope to Christ I'm wrong, but from the magnet metadata this seems to be exactly what you think it is. My question is, what the actual fuck, and why has it been there for 5 months?

Alright /g/, it's game time.

Give me a single reason to use GNU/Linux over macOS. Consider the following.

-> You're paying $0.00 for what is essentially a hybrid kernel, the BSD userland (and everything that comes with it), and the Apple UI. Paying nothing for a very polished and stable certified-Unix system seems reasonable, considering how well Apple seems to integrate everything in their OS.

-> You're not really missing out on anything in Mac that you wouldn't in GNU/Linux. You've got the same version control software, compilers, a packaging system, and the same IDE's as GNU/Linux if you develop that way. Much of the underlying structure of macOS is rooted in Darwin, which is basically BSD, meaning that it's free and open source. You can literally look at the source inside the OS.

-> Let's also consider the proprietary side of things. Sometimes, the open source drivers and plugins the community has can be... a little lackluster. You have every streaming service available, the Microsoft suite of productivity software, and a whole host of other software available through the Mac App store, a great way of unifying all the programs available for macOS and providing them to the user.

-> The UI is very well done and responsive, and anything that it really wanted to hide from the user, can be found if they really wanted to. If you're someone who can't live without all the rice, it's not like you can't slap a tiling wm on it, make some modifications, and call it a day if you're so inclined. Once again, it's the best of both worlds.

-> "But Anon," you spurt out through your cheeto drooling mouth, "What about all the 'excellent' command-line tools that Linux has?" There's nothing that isn't already on macOS that you can't just compile anyway, since you were already going to do that on Linux.

So tell me /g/, what's the point, or even the benefit of using an OS made mostly by NEETs and neckbeards who peel the skin off their crusty cracked feet and eating it?