weastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu ismessage-squaremessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down110
arrow-up1238arrow-down1message-squareIronically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu isweastie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square49linkfedilink
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agoI know GNU because it’s a recursive acronym.
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 year agoNo one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoGNU isn’t entirely infinite though. After unpacking GNU is Not Unix 10^45 times, you actually find out what the final G is for.
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThis is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoI like using the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit when I make GUIs.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoAh, so a GUI is in fact a GNU User Interface ?
minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI think we should call them Gnuser Interfaces and shorten it to GI. Gnome systems only.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoHave you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
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minus-squareBootLoop@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoGNU’s Not Unix. See my comment here to see what the GNU part stands for: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18917548
minus-squarenagaram@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoFrom your user name to the link joke. This is a real master piece
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I know GNU because it’s a recursive acronym.
The real Linux fork bomb
No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can perform an infinite recursion in constant time.
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.
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.
NaN’s not UNIX
This is why it really should have been called “NNU”, that would work perfectly.
I like using the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit when I make GUIs.
Ah, so a GUI is in fact a GNU User Interface ?
I think we should call them Gnuser Interfaces and shorten it to GI. Gnome systems only.
*GNU is my pepper
Have you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
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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
From your user name to the link joke.
This is a real master piece
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