JPi imagine the few people still working on and around the X Window System technology stack, their travails wearying enough already, waking up today and reading tech news headlines and letting out a long, ragged sigh, loud enough to startle flocks of crows from their trees.
Andy@jplebreton lol/oof
Alan Coopersmith@jplebreton my phone is still logged into the XorgFoundation twitter account, though we stopped using it and migrated to Mastodon months ago (@XOrgFoundation). Woke up to so many notifications on it this morning as people pointed out the logo similarity.
Aslak Raanes@alanc @jplebreton @XOrgFoundation Will https://x.org get a lot more traffic now that http://x.com seem to be active?
It's a pity that the Norwegian usenet group `no.x` no longer exists
John Lindsey@jplebreton hah, that's like when WindowsXP came out and every practitioner/advocate/acolyte for this newfangled thing called eXtreme Programming sighed and grimaced and looked at their resumés with mentions of anything XP and thought, "great now everyone thinks that if I say I'm an expert at XP or an XP team leader they think I'm a fucking Microsoftie Windows dork."
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sigh, why couldn't the Agile Manifesto have come out sooner so we all could have called ourselves Agile Programmers? hehe, tho I guess recruiters would then think we were talking about Advance Placement classes and tests (in a school sense, not an OOP sense).
sigh, why couldn't the Agile Manifesto have come out sooner so we all could have called ourselves Agile Programmers? hehe, tho I guess recruiters would then think we were talking about Advance Placement classes and tests (in a school sense, not an OOP sense).
Oblomov@jplebreton what did I miss?
Mattias Bengtsson@oblomov I was wondering the same. My gf just told me—while I was just scratching my head over this post—that Twitter apparently changed name to X! :D
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@mattiasb @jplebreton oh yeah, that. For some reason I had a mental block making the connection
@oblomov I just hadn't heard about it. 🤷♂️
lorddimwit is now @1985, a dark, smoky lab at MIT.
“We have to release the latest version of the X Window System!”
What version are we up to?
“X10!”
*maniacal laughter*
Home automation engineers: *crying softly into pillow, the lamp on the nightstand automatically dims in sympathy*
Kaito@jplebreton They should rebrand themselves to Twitter /jk
Andres@jplebreton Twitter -> X12
raytraced@jplebreton hello, what happened? semi-retired old dog asking.