GNU’s Not Unix! moment
GNU’s not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.
Lol Edit: TIL that’s what GTK stands for
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
GNU Hurd.
It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
– Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell
And then they slapped the GNU’s not UNIX infront for good measure
LoL I guess acronyms that repeat on itself are a common thing in Linux
Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.
WSL 3 wishlist starts here
I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.
OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol
Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration
It’s harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.
Honestly, yes
Of course not! It’s a drink!
My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.
Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.
Acorn/ARM apparently did much the same thing.
i refuse to call it advanced risc Machine, it’s always Acorn Risc Machine
You can wine about it all day - it still isn’t an emulator.
Some day when x86 is a thing no one has anymore, they’re going to put x86 emulation in wine and then it’ll actually be an emulator.
Yaml ain’t markup language
Well that’s LAME
But I thought LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder?!
Actually I never got that. WINE isn’t an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder
Next you’re going to tell me the People’s Republic of North Korea isnt a Republic?
well it sure as hell ain’t the people’s
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither Democratic, nor the people’s, nor a republic.”
- Voltaire
GTK = GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit
I wrote a rule engine for processing data called ORE - ORE Rule Engine I wanted to call it Odoyle Rules Engine. It had a QueryTracker, that had a RulesAppliedQueue aka a QT with a RAQ. This is what happens when you have 4 friends from college working in a 4 pack office.
my favorite fact about Wine is that they could’ve named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc
It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned
Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.
I’m starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn’t than by what it is.
EMACS makes all coding suck
VIM is marvelousEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
That joke has aged like milk
Vim is the new “I use Arch btw”
NEW?
You could argue that maybe Helix is.
I guess? Because I’m new to Linux
I can bet the Emacs/Vim war has been raging for longer than you have been alive.
Well, it was either that or “I’ve been using Unix for so long that my first text editor was ed”.
Emacs is older than ed
Didn’t ed released in 69 and Emacs is in 85?
73 and 76, but I got them mixed up, ed is older.
That’s for original Emacs though, the gnu version came out in 85
My favorite software acronym is PINCE, the reverse engineering tool that’s similar to Cheat Engine in Winblols, that stands for PINCE Is Not Cheat Engine.
My favorite is the scanning device interface driver protocol.
TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name
I really wanted this to be true but according to Wikipedia that’s an unofficial backronym. :( Sorry to be Debbie Downer.
Get outta here with your facts! /s
Well looks like I finally found a cheat engine equivalent for Linux
Game Conqueror also works, but is missing a lot of features too from what I can tell. Don’t know how it holds up against PINCE.
I’ve had success getting CE to run with Proton though, specifically by using SteamTinkerLaunch to run it as additional custom command with the game. There are other ways too, like protontricks. In my experience, it has been mostly stable, with the occasional freeze, but generally usable for pointer scanning and such.
Sadly not, Cheat Engine has a whole lot more features. PINCE is still very good though
True is not cause it not emulating CPU/GPU of a different device, is more like a translator of sorts as it translates windows modules like directx and stuff in a way that Linux can interpret them and use them!
PHP Hypertext Protocol
I’ve always thought of this
