• Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
      112·
      9 months ago

      “It’s so funny! Sheldon reminds me of you!”

      Yeah, never watched it, but heard this enough to hate the show with a passion.

      • Hector@lemmy.ca
        61·
        9 months ago

        I heard this for years while the show was running. I refused to watch the show as well. I decided to start watching it recently.

        It turns out that what people were referring to when they likened me to Sheldon was my autistic traits. Sheldon incorporates a lot of specific autistic traits in his character and I am autistic. The funny thing is, one of the people that was constantly comparing me to Sheldon was a good friend of mine who was also autistic but I guess she is somewhere else on the spectrum which is why it was easier for her to associate me with Sheldon than herself.

        I guess my point is to tell you that sometimes people make uneducated guesses and comparisons that may end up seeming funny when you realize why they made them. Watch the show. Laugh at them for comparing you to an exaggerated TV persona because you were different from what they expect the average person to be.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        38·
        9 months ago

        It’s a show that normalized hot women dating nerds.

        Nerds hate this for some reason.

        • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
          31·
          9 months ago

          …I don’t want to date women, so I know know how that’s relevant.

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
            14·
            9 months ago

            Sorry, I didn’t realize that you were a psychopath that only cares about your own interests.

            • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
              1·
              9 months ago

              So, let me unpack what happened, from my point of view. I’m not complaining or anything, just pointing out how it seemed from my end.

              I made a comment that I personally didn’t like the show because of how many times people around kept saying I was like the main character.

              You replied directly to me implying that nerds should like the show because it normalizes dating them. (Which I agree is a good thing.)

              I replied to say that doesn’t apply to me, and I’m not sure why it was relevant to my comment.

              Finally, you left a comment to call me names.

              Do you see how that entire interaction makes no sense from my side of things? I said that I didn’t like a show, and you inserted yourself into the conversation to complain that hot women should want to date me because of the show. Then, when I said that had nothing to do with what I was saying, you insulted me.

              So, like, why?

        • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
          31·
          9 months ago

          implying hot women can’t also be nerds and that nerdy men can’t be hot

          also implying that a generic sitcom is, in any way, responsible for the way society treats nerds and not the invention of the fact that our modern world is largely nerd creations, resulting in a lot of wealthy nerds

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
            12·
            9 months ago

            Implying that the number of women in STEM fields is exactly the same as the number of men.

            Also implying that a sitcom isn’t important why it comes to influencing people’s perceptions while also being angry over that same sitcom.

            Also implying that nerds shouldn’t be successful? I don’t even know what you’re even trying to say.

    • Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      9 months ago

      Any reason why ? Else than it being a sitecom (which is my number one reason why I never watched it)

      I never stumbled upon someone who’s hating the show, kinda curious on the arguments

  • 30p87@feddit.de
    202·
    9 months ago

    Arch isn’t affected afaik, as it specifically targeted Debian and RPM. Also, sshd isn’t linked against liblzma (or something along those lines). And I hope that’s true, because otherwise, I had a backdoor on a public system for over a month.

  • black0ut@pawb.social
    13·
    9 months ago

    If you use Arch, you aren’t really affected. As far as we know, the backdoor only affects SSH if it is linked against liblzma, which is a requirement for libsystemd. However, Arch doesn’t use that, so SSH has probably been safe. However, you should still update, because we don’t know if the backdoor could’ve been used in other ways.

    Note that if you update, xz 5.6.1-2 will be installed. This is a safe version. However, if you run xz --version, it will still report version 5.6.1.