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
mainbranch 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.
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.
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 Komedy Klassic? That’s not good…
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.
So it’s GNU the whole way down?
Always has been
That’s old GNUs
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
I hope this is AI generated and not something someone actually took time to draw.
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.
ffmpegffmpreg
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.
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.
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.
it’s giving vaporeon vibes too
I’ve been there, at work no less
The name was decided before the acronym, just unfortunate
As a non English native , today I learned what gimp is.😶
Also works with packages having their name starting with OPEN or Libre
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.
