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 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.
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).
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 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
Corporations are an outdated means of organizing industry. While they can innovate upon existing technology, invention and discovery are avoided, as the length and uncertainties in such undertaking can eat into shareholder returns. While there are exceptions, this selective pressure is seldom overcome. This competitive evolutionary model forces participant companies into a race to the bottom. Corners are cut, labor stiffed, and customers squeezed in order to draw greater and greater profits -- or else run the risk of loosing out to more ruthless competition.
In the same way large firms were able to stabilize disruptions in the supply chain through vertical and horizontal integration (thus outliving smaller, regionally managed businesses), mixed economies stabilize the shocks and disruptions of large firms, with the added benefit of re-focusing the output of industry to common goals, rather than to enrichment of a narrow few.
Overall, it is essential to see corporations as a phase in the conscious and unconscious evolution of human endeavor - a tool in the industrialized toolbox and not an end goal unto itself. It's also important to learn to write for yourself, or you'll be clowned on quite easily.
It's a recursive acronym so it could expand indefinitely into GNUNUNUNU...TKIMP, similarly to wineineineine... or Benoît Benoît ... B. ... Mandelbrot Mandelbrot. Like a ZIP bomb, never try to expand it fully.
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!
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...
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.
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.
Kock and Kall Korture
DO NOT USE A ACRYONYM FOR THIS UNLESS YOU ARE A PRIDEFUL FILIPINO!!!!
These two joKes just had me laughing unKontrollably at my phone.
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.
Cool Desctop Environment
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.
Make sure you've installed Flatseal from the DisKover Store
KDE Komedy Klassic? That's not good...
So it's GNU the whole way down?
Always has been
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀
GNU Nominal Universalism
That's old GNUs
or as I've recently taken to calling it
old GNUs
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).
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
mainbranch these days (at least that's the new default for new repositories)Embarrassing for who?
For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.
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
Just install vigor.
I’m glad someone did.
NAHHHH, and here i was thinking that "internet bot" just means a person spreading obvious propaganda on the internet.
update: The rest of this guys comments are the exact same kind of garbage. although this one was admittedly kinda funny:
Oh someone has prompted it to use a casual tone. I did this with GPT and it spat out answers with a "HELLO FELLOW KIDS! 😎🔥🍆" tone.
This is generated by AI.
Corporations are an outdated means of organizing industry. While they can innovate upon existing technology, invention and discovery are avoided, as the length and uncertainties in such undertaking can eat into shareholder returns. While there are exceptions, this selective pressure is seldom overcome. This competitive evolutionary model forces participant companies into a race to the bottom. Corners are cut, labor stiffed, and customers squeezed in order to draw greater and greater profits -- or else run the risk of loosing out to more ruthless competition.
In the same way large firms were able to stabilize disruptions in the supply chain through vertical and horizontal integration (thus outliving smaller, regionally managed businesses), mixed economies stabilize the shocks and disruptions of large firms, with the added benefit of re-focusing the output of industry to common goals, rather than to enrichment of a narrow few.
Overall, it is essential to see corporations as a phase in the conscious and unconscious evolution of human endeavor - a tool in the industrialized toolbox and not an end goal unto itself. It's also important to learn to write for yourself, or you'll be clowned on quite easily.
Umm...is this a joke?
Corporations can do all of those things while also operating as a non profit
Can you name one tech non-profit that does all of those things
Ok chatGPT
Can confirm.
Source: am Linux diehard and sexual deviant
He forgot about the third category, silly Trans catgirl programmers :3
Seems like a redundant category, I believe you can comfortably slot them into the other 2 categories
There's admittedly some overlap
I kinda fall into the DnD category but I'm Asexual
ffmpreg
Don't look that up on LemmyNSFW.com
😳
And
Trojitá(the email client) was written by a Czech. It means “triple” in Czech, and Czech Republic is famous for porn.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.
GIMP's is just mushrooms, nothing objectionable.
I've been there, at work no less
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
SEXO
At least the name just means crayon.
The name was decided before the acronym, just unfortunate
GNU's not Unix tool kit image manipulation program. As long as you don't believe Unix actually is an acronym
GNUTKIMP
It's a recursive acronym so it could expand indefinitely into GNUNUNUNU...TKIMP, similarly to wineineineine... or Benoît Benoît ... B. ... Mandelbrot Mandelbrot. Like a ZIP bomb, never try to expand it fully.
I'm so meta, even this acronym
Also works with packages having their name starting with OPEN or Libre
Open paKage.
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics
Pretty much everywhere has cracked down on that kind of thing for a while.
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:
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.
Hm...
You think there are some die-hard Christians against the use of BSD? 🤔
seen a few they seem to be okay with openbsd tho because it uses the pufferfish
What and gimp and gnome is weird?
Gnome is fantasy related and gimp is a sex thing
As a non English native , today I learned what gimp is.😶
Did he say it as a compliment, admittance or insult?