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Context: During WW2 Alan Turing was essential to the efforts to break the Nazi Enigma code. In 1952 the British government chemically castrated him for being gay, in 1954 he took his life.

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

his soul haunts the entire field of computer science, which is why compsci people are the way they are