*extremely american voice* someone should privatize this, with corporate sponsors that invest in and acquihire the most competitive local staging companies like farm teams
👉 I’d just like to interject —
What you call Linux is, in fact, GNU/Linux — GNU plus Linux.
🖥️ Linux is not an OS.
It’s just the kernel — vital, yes, but useless alone!
📦 A complete OS requires more.
GNU supplies the tools that make a full, POSIX-compliant operating system.
👩💻 Most people run GNU every day without realizing it.
Through a twist of history, the system that spread worldwide became known simply as “Linux.”
But in reality—what they’re running is GNU with Linux added.
🐧 So let’s be precise.
All so-called “Linux distributions”?
They are truly distributions of GNU/Linux — the GNU operating system, completed by the Linux kernel.
🗣️ Say it with me:
It’s not Linux. It’s GNU/Linux — and always has been.
affirmation: it is possible that my life will be ruined, undermined, hollowed out, etc by AI, but it’s not going to be because of some way in which I’m uniquely flawed, rather, it’ll be a big historical change that I will experience with many others
work crush on someone who left the company years before you started but their contributions are just so tasteful, their diffs just so asmr, when you see them in the git blame you know everything is going to be ok
china’s first globally recognized luxury brand is prob going to be *the chinese communist party itself*. bureaus are incentivized to commission decent official products to enhance the image of their cadres. given the massive scale, export versions can be sold abroad at a premium
on the accelerationist timeline, “communist party ties” don’t really matter, whomst was the jeweler of the french king 400 years ago def doesn’t matter, and getting the official all-china women's federation handbag will be a way to signal that
credentials for this prediction: we predicted the way douyin/musically/tiktok would play out starting in early 2018, unfortunately only documented this belief in joke tweet form in 2019 x.com/computerlab_/status/11…
*cyberpunk 2077 vibes*
teen nervously walks up to bodega counter
“y-you guys do the thing here?”
bodega guy points to the back
there’s a laid-off software engineer there drinking modelo
“give me your phone, kid”
the guy plugs it into a beat up MacBook, runs ./install-tiktok.sh