Alan Turing, the father of modern computers, has an incredibly depressing ending.
Chemically castrated due to being an illegal homosexual, he died in dishonor over bullshit homophobia.
be gay, do computers
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dragontamer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
match@pawb.social 1 day ago
but we avenged him by turning computers gay
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every UNIX socks post is in memory of Turing. If you don’t agree you’re gay. And if you do agree you’re gay too. Computers are gay and by using one, you’re gay. Jokes on you, by reading this, you’re using a computer. You’re gay. That’s the actual Turing test
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
“For Turing,” Aragorn uttered, a cock in each fist.
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 15 hours ago
West germany also put gay men from the concentration camp back into the prisons.
TomasEkeli@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Computing: invented by an incredible clever gay guy to fight nazis.
Honour his legacy.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
A German guy called Konrad Zuse also invented computers around the same time. I honestly never wondered about his relation to the Nazis. I’ve just looked it up and he never was a party member, yet he worked for the military. Yikes.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 hours ago
Someone should probably make sure he didn’t Zola himself
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Alan Turing was the father of computer science, but didn’t invent the first computer. Arguably the first computer was called the Manchester Baby and was created by folks at the University of Manchester.
Alan Turing was an absolute boss, though. Huge respect.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
Depends entirely on the definition of computer.
There are so many “inventors of the first computers” it is ridiculous. Almost like creating a complex machine like a computer takes a whole many inventions and people who worked on it over a time span of multiple generations.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Turing invented the first “reprogrammable computer”
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The first (turing complete) computer actually build was the Z3.
Not many people know about it, because central Berlin in 1943 was not a healthy place for a computer.wewbull@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
It was 1941, and not seen as valuable by the Germans.
The British built Collosus in 1943 and used it for code breaking.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yeah, the Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer. As others have noticed, you can go down the rabbit hole a long way, depending on what you define as a computer. Fascinating stuff.
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 1 day ago
The ENIAC was before that and Charles Babbage’s difference engine was before the ENIAC, though I don’t think he actually got it out of design
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also before the ENIAC was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Turing wrote the third (and final) program for the Baby.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I heard Turing also wrote Rockstar (ft. Roddy Ricch) for DaBaby
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Alan Turing, the inventor of the first computer, was castrated by the British Governmwnt for being gay.
FTFY
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you. That part got my pedantic ass in a tizzy. Glad someone else mentioned it.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Being gay didn’t contribute to his death. How the state treated him when they found out did. Anytime his name comes up I think about how many horrible people there are in the world who just can’t let others be what they are . Fanatics are somewhat evil by nature.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
He ended WW2 at least half a year earlier than it would have.
He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe millions.
Then he returned home to England as a war hero, but was instead exiled and chemically castrated for being a homosexual.
Not much later he committed suicide.
It was Alan that first opened my eyes as a child to the senseless violence committed against LGBTQIA+
Every June 23rd I make sure to remember him and all he has done for humanity.
Rip Alan Turing, the father of computer science, i love you.
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think he’s necessarily the inventor of the computer. There are a few possible candidates, including Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage, who were earlier.
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
He’s the one who properly started computer theory, I suppose
ValiantDust@feddit.org 1 day ago
While Ada Lovelace did not actually help inventing the Analytical Engine, she was arguably a greater visionary than Charles Babbage who, as I understand it, mostly thought of it in terms of calculations.
This is what the wrote in 1842, one hundred years before the first general purpose computer was actually built (Babbage’s Analytical Engine was never built):
[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine…Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
[deleted]grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That wasn’t the first bug; it couldn’t have been because the term hadn’t been coined yet. It was just the first programming mistake.
The first computer bug was found by Grace Hopper, and was caused by an actual insect that had gotten into the machine.
match@pawb.social 1 day ago
babbage: the calculator lovelace: the programming language turing: the computer science
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The first functioning programmable computer was Zuse’s Z3.
wewbull@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
The Z3 was relay based in 1941. (Germans)
Collosus was 1943 and based on valves. (British)
The Harvard MK1 was in 1944. (Americans)
There was a lot of parallel development going on at the time, all converging on solutions.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Blaise Pascal was the real OG: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascaline
Hoimo@ani.social 16 hours ago
A language isn’t Turing complete if it isn’t gay
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Konrad Zuse invented the first proper computer.
Alan Turing later invented computing.
This distinction is why computer science exists.
wewbull@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It’s those that people remember him for.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
He ended WW2 at least half a year earlier than it would have.
He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe millions.
Then he returned home to England as a war hero, but was instead exiled and chemically castrated for being a homosexual.
Not much later he committed suicide.
It was Alan that first opened my eyes as a child to the senseless violence committed against LGBTQIA+
Every June 23rd I make sure to remember him and all he has done for humanity.
Rip Alan Turing, the father of computer science, i love you.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
I named* my first self-built computer after him! Does this make that machine gay? They put chemicals in the bytes that turn the friggin’ hardware gay!
*call me a weirdo but I do often name stuff like household appliances and my trees.
lime@feddit.nu 16 hours ago
ironically they also put chemicals in alan that were supposed to turn him not gay
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I do think that this makes you weird (affectionate), and I hope you never change, because your weirdness is wonderful.
Dicska@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
My friend’s mom occasionally gives full names, like forename+surname and uses them as such
lvxferre@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
I don’t go so far. Only my pets get a surname, and it’s the family’s surname. (Some of the household appliances have kind of melodramatic names though, specially if they break often. Like Solineuza, the washing machine.)
Honytawk@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
The only one who can decide your computer is gay is the computer itself.
TeddE@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Technically true, but as an admin with root priviledges, I can access system private keys and directly manage it’s identity, such that it’s choice is usually what I told it to want.
Tangent, boy I cannot wait for neurolink to let Grok in my brain. I’m sure it will lead to lots of new ways of thinking for me. 🙃😶😶🙄
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The gayest computer that ever existed was that cunty little bastard on Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Fossifoo@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
Not only was he gay but also convicted for it by the UK, denied entry into the US put on chemical castration and there’s a good chance he committed suicide over it. So, yeah.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 7 hours ago
If computers are gay, that makes AI the homophobic conversion therapy.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I love watching Usagi Electric for old computer repair and restoration; including the restoration of the computer inspired by Turing’s computer, the Bendix G15. Wikipedia article.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 12 hours ago
Maybe it’s just me, but he kind of looks a bit like a young Max Verstappen
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Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When you use the computer, first think you do is put your hands on the keyboard, specifically, you touch the D. This extracts all the heterosexuality from your body. If you’re lucky, this effect is only temporary.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The movie was excellent
Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
this is not actually correct, he didn’t invent the computer, he invented the turings machine
houstoneulers@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I also looked this up and many sources are giving credit to a guy named Charles Babbage. But perhaps this meme creator is defining computer differently.
Tamo240@programming.dev 7 hours ago
Babbage is the creator of the first mechanical Computer (his Difference Engine).
Turing is the father of Computer Science, in that he created a mathematical model for computation (Turing Machines).