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[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 14 minutes ago

If computers are gay, that makes AI the homophobic conversion therapy.

[–] Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

this is not actually correct, he didn't invent the computer, he invented the turings machine

[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes 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.

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Computing: invented by an incredible clever gay guy to fight nazis.

Honour his legacy.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 4 hours ago

Someone should probably make sure he didn't Zola himself

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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 4 points 7 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.

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 11 points 9 hours ago

A language isn't Turing complete if it isn't gay

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Maybe it's just me, but he kind of looks a bit like a young Max Verstappen

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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.

I do think that this makes you weird (affectionate), and I hope you never change, because your weirdness is wonderful.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 9 hours ago

ironically they also put chemicals in alan that were supposed to turn him not gay

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My friend's mom occasionally gives full names, like forename+surname and uses them as such

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 6 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 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The only one who can decide your computer is gay is the computer itself.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

The gayest computer that ever existed was that cunty little bastard on Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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. 🙃😶😶🙄

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Mecha-Hitler my brain, Grok-chan >~<

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Konrad Zuse invented the first proper computer.

Alan Turing later invented computing.

This distinction is why computer science exists.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago

Turing theories and papers were pre-war. It's those that people remember him for.

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 44 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Alan Turing, the inventor of the first computer*, was castrated by the British Government for being gay.

FTFY

*Not exactly, but not to diminish his immense contributions to computer science

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Thank you. That part got my pedantic ass in a tizzy. Glad someone else mentioned it.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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 and new drugs that the 1950s possessed.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

West germany also put gay men from the concentration camp back into the prisons.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

And it wasn't until late 2013 that he was pardoned for the crime of "being gay", and ironically TERF island has only gotten worse since then.

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[–] match@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

but we avenged him by turning computers gay

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] match@pawb.social 11 points 21 hours ago

turing completemess refers to the idea that any computational system capable of universal data manipulation is completely gay

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"For Turing," Aragorn uttered, a cock in each fist.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 7 hours ago

Turing invented the first "reprogrammable computer"

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It was 1941, and not seen as valuable by the Germans.

The British built Collosus in 1943 and used it for code breaking.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 45 minutes ago

It was build in 41 and bombed in 43, which is what I alluded to.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 12 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

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

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Babbage invented the computer, Ada invented the programming language that would be used to program it. She even wrote the first ever bug in it.

https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

"In her “diagram of development,” Lovelace gives the fourth operation as v5 / v4. But the correct ordering here is v4 / v5. This may well have been a typesetting error and not an error in the program that Lovelace devised. All the same, this must be the oldest bug in computing. I marveled that, for ten minutes or so, unknowingly, I had wrestled with this first ever bug."

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[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 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 she 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.

[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago

He’s the one who properly started computer theory, I suppose

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