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  • I believe in equal rights and opportunities for all, be they man, woman, in between or none of the above.

    But saying (and perhaps believing) one is a feminist and actually acting like one are often two different pairs of shoes. We all are confronted with so much discrimination, with so much bias, with so much misogyny, it takes active labour to actually behave like a feminist, because no matter how you think about yourself, at some point and to some degree, all that shit we get confronted with every day will rub off on us, and we have to understand that and constantly check ourselves so that it does not influence us in our thought patterns. Constant mental garbage collection, if you want.

    That is true for all kinds of discrimination, no matter what it is based on.













  • We have a customer, a big international corporation, that has very specific rules for their intranet passwords:

    • Must contain letters
    • Must contain numbers
    • Must contain special characters
    • No repeats
    • Passwords must be changed every two months
    • Not the same password as any of the last seven
    • PASSWORDS MUST BE EXACTLY EIGHT CHARACTERS LONG

    I can only assume that whoever came up with these rules is either an especially demented BofH, or they have some really really weird legacy infrastructure to deal with.