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throw6119088 | 5 years ago | on: Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF

I just wanna leave here some classic papers on sexism and harassment in tech, which are relevant even now:

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...

throw6119088 | 5 years ago | on: A beginner’s guide to web accessibility

The GPL'ed 'Emacspeak' developed by T V Raman, who is blind. Actively developed since 1995. Seems quite advanced? Idk anything about it, seems to need Emacs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak

Github: https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak

throw6119088 | 5 years ago | on: Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

Tarsnap maybe? Not unlimited but encrypted. The author is on HN as 'cperciva'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsnap

Recent talk with the creator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg3NQLzMBKw

throw6119088 | 5 years ago | on: Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

What's that with Spotify?

throw6119088 | 5 years ago | on: Cancel We The Web? (2020)

Yeah you said it best. RMS shouldn't be the head of FSF. I say it as someone who does't think he is malicious at heart. He's got a string of behaviours towards women that would drive them away.

Maybe someone should email him these classic papers on sexism in tech. They are old but still relevant. Seems like many here need to read them too: