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).
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 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
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).
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 heard that Linus named it git because he is one.
That’s what I heard, too. He has a habit of naming his software projects after himself: Linux, git.
wait until part 2 of git class where they use the MASTER branch
It’s
mainbranch these days (at least that’s the new default for new repositories)Embarrassing for who?
For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.
They were already assimilated at that point, changing their culture would be futile.
But we must try anyway.
It might be some weird act of masochism but I liked clippy.
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
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.
I’m glad someone did.