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   Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 20:17:43 JST Phantasm

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   @latein @fiore @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero You don't understand. You have to write 20 additional tests for autotools to figure out if you are fully XDG Base Directories compliant and for the developers to write hundreds of lines of code in gnulib to cover for the slightest incompatibilities on systems you never thought existed just so they can fail at doing so anyway.
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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 20:22:00 JST φ

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     @phnt @latein @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero tbf its better that gnu devs stop writing codr at all , if the kind of code they do write looks like that

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 20:29:19 JST Phantasm

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     @fiore @latein @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero It serves as a great sanity check for toolchains at least.
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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 20:29:20 JST φ

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     @phnt @latein @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero imean tbf this is meant as demonstration . a bad one , sure

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 20:29:21 JST Phantasm

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     @fiore @latein @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero I invite you to look at the most complicated hello world not written as a joke possibly ever: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hello.git/tree/src/hello.c
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     kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 21:10:01 JST kimapr

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     @phnt @fiore @Suiseiseki wdym this is greatware

     it’s as complicated as it needs to be to parse and process options, print hello world in any language, and allow customizing the hello message to keep true to the spirit of Freedom. can your stupid one-liner do that? i bet it can’t even print its own version and credit its authors

     actually looking into it more.. oh god. GNU Hello 2.12.2. is that semver? major version 2? they had a breaking change? a breaking change in hello world? okay. the NEWS file mentions that GNU Hello used to have the ability to read your mail, using the -m option. then they removed this option in a minor release. a minor release? a breaking change? in a minor release? Okay. maybe this is not greatware

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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 21:18:04 JST φ

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     @kimapr @phnt @Suiseiseki gnu moment

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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 21:31:52 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @phnt @fiore @Suiseiseki @ecadre @latein @tusharhero do you think they list "author of gnu hello world" on their cvs
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 22:31:08 JST 翠星石

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     @grips @fiore @latein @phnt @fluffy @ecadre @tusharhero It takes at least 4 authors to write software as advanced as the typical GNU package.
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 22:31:10 JST john paul grips

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     @fluffy @fiore @latein @phnt @Suiseiseki @ecadre @tusharhero >FOUR authors
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     touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 22:39:58 JST touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified:

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     @grips @Suiseiseki @ecadre @fiore @latein @phnt @tusharhero is there a "how many to screw in the lightbulb" joke here
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     Protoss (latein@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 16:40:50 JST Protoss

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     @Suiseiseki @fiore @grips @phnt @fluffy @ecadre @tusharhero okay now I'm starting to think this GNU/Jihad isn't super autism but some troll joke like @hachi