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 (DIR) Post #B7l808kvG2syGwuLBY by kde@floss.social
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       As Pride  Month🏳️‍🌈  draws to its conclusion, KDE and @gnome  would like to pay tribute to the LGBTQA+ people that have contributed and continue to contribute to making our lives better through their work in the field of digital technology.We start with one of the greatest computer scientists of all time...#QueersInFoss
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l809s372BFjLFXvs by kde@floss.social
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       Alan Mathison Turing - 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954, English, Gay ManA thread... 🧵@gnome
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l80ALpKK03DhBKLY by kde@floss.social
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       Turing is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. Best known for the Turing Machinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machinethe mathmatical model to simulate all possible computer algorithms, Turing made many other contributions to the area of theoretial computer since during the 1930s untiil his death in 1954.@gnome
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l80AotaFFgfqmXei by kde@floss.social
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       While working at Bletchly Park at the height of World War II, Turing lead Hut 8, the section of the Britains codebreaking devision against the Nazis, Turing and his teams work gave the Allied powers the edge to defeat the Nazis and their allies in multiple crucial battles - shortening WW2 by many years, saving millions of lives and preventing the takeover of the world by facist forces.@gnome
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l80BHxqAVK80Nkxs by kde@floss.social
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       Despite his loyalty and heroic acts for his country, Turing was prosecuted by the British government for being homosexual, and given an ultimatum - go to prison for years, and thus barred from research, or accept chemical castration in an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexuality. 2 agonizing years later, Turing commited suicide via cyanide posioning, leaving behind a lot of unfinished research.@gnome
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l80BqLmK0fqeTDYu by kde@floss.social
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       Nearly 6 decades later, after much public outcry and campaigning, the British Government issues an official apology then pardon for Turinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315, followed by the coining of the "Alan Turing law", a law to blanket-pardon all those convicting of homosexuality in the UK.@gnome
       
 (DIR) Post #B7l80CQ9dCeLdhDoMy by kde@floss.social
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       Turing was an example of a brilliant mind who helped build an entire scientific and mathematical field - and a warning about how our institutions can abuse and fail the queer community, despite all the progress made in the ensuing decades since Turings death.[EOF]@gnome