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Yup, that makes sense. I hope you get it working!

Oh, sorry if my response was too basic-level for your experience.

I get what you're saying about "cis men" being explicitly about gender. I took it as meaning phenotypic males, and that they used "cis men" either for simplicity (perhaps to avoid getting into the details of trans people that they thought was irrelevant to the point they were making) or because they were just imprecise with their language. It's also possible it was based off of something from earlier in the conversation that we can't see because it's just a screenshot.

Anyways, I agree, it was poorly worded, but I think the point they were trying to make was pretty straightforward (unless you insist on interpreting what they said to be something about genes affecting gender expression, then it doesn't make sense).

I think you have the wrong mental model of how the AUR works. You don't enable it and then it works with pacman (which is what it sounds like you are thinking). Instead, it's a repository of packages that require a different method of installation. This is described in section 2 of the wiki page you linked:

1. Acquire the build files, including the PKGBUILD and possibly other required files, like systemd units and patches (often not the actual code).
2. Verify that the PKGBUILD and accompanying files are not malicious or untrustworthy.
3. Run makepkg in the directory where the files are saved. This will download the code, compile it, and package it.
4. Run pacman -U package_file to install the package onto your system.

More detailed instructions are on that page.

However, if you want a pacman-like experience, you can install an AUR helper. You'll still need to install the AUR helper via the steps above, though.

I think you're misunderstanding the point the OP is making. Typically, male/female are used when referring to sex, and masculine/feminine and man/woman are used when referring to gender. So this conversation isn't about gender identity at all, but completely about biological sex.

There are a bunch of factors that go into determining sex. The two main categories are related to the person's genes (their genotype) and how the person physically presents (phenotype). The biggest genetic marker is whether the person has XX or XY chromosomes (or some other combination). The easiest marker for phenotype is the person's genitalia, but there are others, such as gonads, gamete production, hormones, etc.

So even just talking about biological sex, a person's genotype and phenotype might give conflicting determinations of sex. So an "XX male" refers to someone with the genotype of a female, but the phenotype of a male, but says nothing about their gender identity or any surgeries they might've undergone.

With that in mind, someone with a PhD in genomics seems to be in the right field to address gene expression and genotypes vs phenotypes. Although you're right that we shouldn't rely on authority, but instead on the arguments presented. What we've been shown here, though, isn't a fully fleshed out debate. It's about 60 words on social media that amounts to "your mental model of sex is wrong; here are cases to rebut it"

Email isn't "the only way" to send patches. In fact, he addresses that:

It doesn’t have to be by email, either. Any method of sending this data to the maintainer is fine. For example, I’m on Mastodon – so you could send me a repository URL via Mastodon if you really wanted to (provided you didn’t mind my responses being very short). Or you could send patches via any other communications medium that you and the maintainer are both on, if it lets you attach files to messages.

His preferred method is just sending a URL over email. You can use any communication method if you both already have an account.

I remember the DS had a similar feature. You could connect to people nearby and they could download the game and play with you. It was super cool, and I hope this becomes more common.

They would just be removed from the line up succession. We've had cabinet members who were ineligible for the presidency, and they were just not considered as in the line of succession, even though they otherwise would be.

Edit: here's the text of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947

(b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

Note that it explicitly mentions the Speaker failing to qualify for the presidency

If these people were fascists, why wouldn't they just endorse Trump?

Maybe, as some of them have said, they fear the fascism Trump promises and are willing to put aside any other policy disagreements to try to end this threat of fascism in America

Why did she get the endorsements? Did she promise to end Medicare or Social Security or do whatever the Republican platform is now? No, it's because she's not Donald Trump and these people think he's such a dangerous person to make president that they're willing to endorse a Democrat in the hopes it'll convince other Republicans that they should vote for Harris.

Is that self-own?

If it's on Github doesn't that make it OS?

No, when talking about open source software, people typically refer to a definition along the lines of the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition. To distinguish this from software that you can only see the source (but don't have rights to copy and modify it), they'll use the term Source Available Software.

I don't really know about the software you guys were talking about, but the repositories I looked at used the MIT license, which is OSI approved. However, that might not be all of the code they use. It's not uncommon for a company to open source a "base" version, but they deploy a version that's altered from that (I've got no clue whether they do or don't).

People often use the OSI's Open Source Definition when using the term "open source". One of its criteria says "The license must allow modifications and derived works" which this license does not allow.