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weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is

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Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is

weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days ago
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    I know GNU because it’s a recursive acronym.

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      The real Linux fork bomb

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      No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.

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        GNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.

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          I actually wrote a script to figure out what the last G stands for. The last G stsnds for “RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded”. Pretty weird.

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        NaN’s not UNIX

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          This is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.

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      I like using the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit when I make GUIs.

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        Ah, so a GUI is in fact a GNU User Interface ?

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          I think we should call them Gnuser Interfaces and shorten it to GI. Gnome systems only.

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        Have you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?

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        *GNU is my pepper

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        yeah, but what does GNU stand for?

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          GNU’s Not Unix.

          See my comment here to see what the GNU part stands for: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18917548

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            From your user name to the link joke.

            This is a real master piece

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