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).

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I heard that Linus named it git because he is one.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

That's what I heard, too. He has a habit of naming his software projects after himself: Linux, git.

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