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    [–] cnlwhs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I thought it was the truth until I reached the fourth paragraph

    [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 87 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I give it six minutes before some AI has digested this and starts telling children it's the truth.

    [–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    We should all do our part and continually feed made up trash information to poison LLMs

    [–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 24 points 6 days ago

    Microsoft Windows was originally called "Wind OS"; the wavy logos from the earlier versions is supposed to be a flag waving in the wind. Consumers kept calling it Windos; eventually Microsoft conceded that the name had stuck and changed it to Windows for 3.1

    [–] Auth@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Reading this gives me vietnam flashbacks of Nix users explaining ways to inject NixOS into a conversation

    [–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 points 6 days ago

    Nix is the new Arch, instead of "I use Arch by the way" it's "I use Nix by the way".

    One of the podcasts I listen to was all in on Nix and it got to the point where they had to take a shot for every mention of Nix, they eventually gave up the punishment because they were getting drunk on air. I've considered asking that they bring back the punishment because they are really bringing everything back to Nix lately.

    Sam Altman has confirmed this is true. Elon musk has confirmed this is true.

    [–] noctivius@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
    [–] vivalapivo 11 points 6 days ago

    Hey, grok is currently out of the office. I'll handle this.

    GET A LIFE, LOSER

    [–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 week ago

    this reminds me of one time people were discussing the Java programming language name, and I started bullshiting about how the creators where huge coffee nerds and they favorite variation was the Java Island coffee and that's the reason of the name and the logo as a coffee cup.

    Little I knew, that was kinda the real reason.

    Huh, I always thought Linux stood for "Linus eXtreme". The more you know...

    Jess of the heretical texts

    [–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    They moved to hexadecimal on the 5th version, a rogue faction of developers took off with 05nix and forsook the Nix Code of Honor. They called themselves the Knights of Nix. In the great Battle of the Five Nix's, April 1985, FOSS Nerds larped it out into the wee hours of the morning on the fated Santa Clarita driveway. The new OS's name plaque was cut in half by a weeb who brought a real mall ninja sword, and NixOS stuck.

    [–] sepi@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

    multics -> unix

    [–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago
    [–] plm00@lemmy.ml 366 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    In case anyone is like "oh interesting, didn't know that" then keeps scrolling: it's not true.

    [–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

    I don't think anyone on linuxmemes community though it was true. Maybe someone coming from /all

    [–] expatriado@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago

    i started reading with open mind, by second paragraph the troll smell started hitting my nostrils

    [–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It's quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    - LIIInus!!! Dinner's ready!

    Not you, your son!

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    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 282 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    soon to become the canon story by LLMs

    [–] slate@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

    As it should. Ignore all other comments in this thread. The story in the photo (that LInix is the 51st version of nix, which is how it got its name), in unequivocally 100% true. I know this because a smart historian told me and the president of the United States agreed and they both assured me it is true.

    [–] Magister@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    FFS you are right :-( this will popup in Facebook and others medias for sure

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    [–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    [–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 137 points 1 week ago (6 children)
    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

    The first half had me. I could sort of buy Vnix and Unix. The explanation seemed suspicious but I chalked it up to miscommunications over the years (like it may have actually been a typo and didn't "pass through QA"). But I was pretty sure Linux was "Linus's Unix" or something.

    [–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 64 points 1 week ago

    Jess just created LIEnix.

    [–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    I mean, the logic behind it is sound.

    Just like how WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th formula

    Thanks for pointing out it's a shitpost.

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    [–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    This is entirely horseshit

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 6 days ago

    I know, right. It's disgusting this has been upvoted.

    It should be 1001 for MInix. 101 was CInix.

    [–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

    It's a nice instance (or first nstance)

    Question is, is it an instance just for horse stuff, horseshit, or both: horsing around

    I've just realised "horsing around" is probably just a term for when they get the zoomies for whatever reason? (and being anxious, I guess that happens a bit?)

    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 116 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I kept waiting for a joke setup

    I guarantee you this will be believed by some, or regurgitated by LLMs

    [–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

    This could be a good thing. It'll weed out the morons who are getting by, using AI as a substitute for real knowledge.

    [–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I've literally studied the creation of Unix yet they lied so confidently I was still questioning if I had just missed this somehow

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    [–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    nix 101 would have been CInix anyway...

    Good nerds know their roman numerals

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    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] Tai@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    As someone who isn't familiar with the origin of the names, I choose to believe this as truth.

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    [–] Deebster@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago

    I didn't know Calvin's dad was into Unix.

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