"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."
the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."
with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.
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#EveryDayIsRepostDay Encabulator technology got its first real video start as a government research bid, and market encabulation hasn't been the same since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
Google's Chatbot Panic: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/
"Hapsburg AI." What a phrase.
In other news, among the hype #DuckDuckGo hasn't bought into is chatbot nonsense. If you use Firefox, it's one of your default search engine choices in Settings.
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@nixCraft That's why the most important person you have to write comments for is your future self.
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