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)
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
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.
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).
While it is understandable to have concerns about the influence of large corporations, it is important to recognize the significant contributions they make to society. Corporations provide numerous benefits that enhance our daily lives and drive economic growth.
Corporations are major employers, providing jobs and economic opportunities for millions of people. They invest heavily in research and development, leading to innovation and the creation of new products and services. This economic activity stimulates growth and benefits communities worldwide.
Many large corporations prioritize social responsibility and sustainability initiatives. They implement ethical practices, reduce their environmental impact, and engage in philanthropic activities. By leveraging their resources, corporations can positively influence society and address important global challenges.
Overall, It is essential to acknowledge both the positive and negative aspects of corporations. While there are certainly areas where improvements can be made, it is unfair to label all big corporations as inherently bad. By recognizing their contributions and encouraging responsible practices, we can foster a more balanced and productive dialogue about the role of corporations in society.
corporate governance structures are anti-democratic by nature. framing corporate capture of innovation, economic opportunity, scientific research, and our most critical services as a positive thing is grotesque. nobody should own lifesaving research. nobody should own our houses, our hospitals, our livelihoods and our parks, corporations shouldn't be able to decide what causes are worthy, what challenges can be addressed. we should. the people who do the work, who make the products, who do the labor that serves others, not unaccountable boards of ultra-wealthy assholes who think they get to make our decisions for us, and are using that power to actively kill the fucking planet.
if you wanna lick the boot, have fun with that corpo.
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.
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
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 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
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.
