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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 110 points 4 months ago

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).

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 65 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

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

[-] allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

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

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 months ago
[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

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

But we must try anyway.

[-] Senseless@feddit.de 19 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Just install vigor.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

I’m glad someone did.

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