Linux Rule

Interstellar_1@pawb.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 1112 points –
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There are only so many nouns that start with G. Everyone knows all Linux programs must be a noun and an acronym that starts with "GNU" (which is itself a noun and an acronym that starts with GNU)

KDE would liKe to Know your loKation.

KDE is not an abbreviation, and not in the same way than XNA is not an abbreviation. Originally it was the Kool Desktop Environment which was quickly dropped not for the obvious KDE Desktop Environment but K Desktop Environment, which kinda makes sense given that KDE replaces 'c's with 'k' all over the place -- such as, to wit, its name as it's a reference to CDE. Nowadays it's plain KDE though.

a long time ago I've heard that maybe the only reasoning behind the "K" is that it comes before "L" in the alphabet (L, cause of "Linux")

Idk how true is this, but I've found this "explanation" amusing.

So it's GNU the whole way down?

When they finish the words with G they can just add another layer of recursion and create BIG, an acronym for "BIG Is GNU". And from there go on like a word chain game

Being free from megacorps let's humans be humans, to express themselves, I love it, the jokes are nice (and are jokes, unlike the nightmare abominations like Clippy and their AIs).

I was part of a coding bootcamp, and one day the class was talking about git. Somebody mentioned that "git" is also a word used as an insult, like "That guy is a total git". When I revealed that was where the name came from, several students audibly gasped, and a couple said something like "Oh, how embarrassing!" I had the weirdest sense of culture shock, and I had no doubt those students would make very good corporate drones.

Yeah it’s weird how computers are still so grounded in weirdo cultures but because everyone has to use them and they’re the foundation of modern society and economy these people often run into something they aren’t prepared to deal with whether it’s copy left and the open source movement or it’s terminology and naming with an irreverent flair.

This is also how you wind up with me casually talking about linux and home servers with a bunch of anarchists as we fix up old bikes while I know engineers and tech chasers who are scared of such things.

I heard that Linus named it git because he is one.

That's what I heard, too. He has a habit of naming his software projects after himself: Linux, git.

wait until part 2 of git class where they use the MASTER branch

It's main branch these days (at least that's the new default for new repositories)

They were already assimilated at that point, changing their culture would be futile.

But we must try anyway.

It might be some weird act of masochism but I liked clippy.

Really, huh, that's ... kinda nice to know? (In the 'world is the tiniest bit better than I knew' way)

I have enjoyed various creepy Clippy art/mini lore.
It's basically an SCP thing.

I did too, but I was a child and in retrospect I feel like that made me the target audience.

Like I get that Microsoft has for a long time been trying to make tech and computers feel non threatening. And clippy feels like a reasonable attempt especially within the program it was created for Microsoft Bob which was something I can totally see a world in which it had been popular

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This is why I use Krita

Which has nothing to do with nerdy sex perverts whatsoever

I am afraid to open Krita in public because its mascot Kiki (the robot squirrel girl) is drawn dangerously close to upskirt in the splashscreen.
Krita splash

GIMP's is just mushrooms, nothing objectionable.

it's giving vaporeon vibes too

Her look varies by artist. She is usually whiter and not as apparently robotic. There is a reference design but it's not really official. More info

GNU's not Unix tool kit image manipulation program. As long as you don't believe Unix actually is an acronym

hold up im pretty sure it's without the "tool kit" part

GTK is the GIMP tool kit

The name was decided before the acronym, just unfortunate

I don't know if this memory of mine is real, or just a (day)dreaming or my brain just fucks with me, or just too much acid, but I clearly remember lots of years ago I opened GIMP and the splash screen had this fox IN A FUCKING GIMP SUIT!

Probably the very instant mum walks in, too.

I guess she got used to the sight of drawn animals in gimp suit on my screen by that time

Engineers have always been pervs. As evidence, resistor color codes are remembered by:

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

As taught in college. In my situation, our professor disappeared mid semester, as he was arrested for child porn, and was the biggest supplier of child porn in Colorado at the time...

Im almost afraid to ask, but could you explain how that helps remembering resistor colors?

Black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white

I have a passing familiarity with the colors and that just helped me list them out... now I feel gross

The open source game framework Löve (Love2D) has some incredible library names, here's a few select ones out of context:

  • Hump
  • Lövetoys
  • Löve Bone
  • Quickie
  • Goo
  • Pölygamy
  • Swingers
  • Adult Lib
  • Gspöt
  • Möan/Talkies
  • fLUIds
  • Yaoui

Do these even make more sense with context?

Most of them are a stretch but they do! Hump is for collision detection, Lovetoys is helper functions, I believe Love Bone is an animation system, etc.