this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
313 points (99.4% liked)

196

16423 readers
1990 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other^ ^rules^

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
all 33 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I take a GPLv3 shower, that means the water has to be open-source, the resevoir has to be open-source, the Earth's water cycle has to be open-source.

People are 75% water give or take, so people have to be open source •~•, if people are open source then any plants fed by nutrients of corpses have to be open-source, the whole biosphere will end up being open-source.

Damn, how to open-source the entire planet in 1 easy step, take a libreshower people!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh wow, so the schematics are published, the repair procedure is documented and you can 3D print the parts yourself? Sign me up for the open source shower!

Oh you thought open source meant sharing your secrets? Nah it's actually more common to see secrets in the code in closed source projects than in projects that were open source from the start. In open source software, you need to set your own PP_SIZE as an env var or provide it in a .env file or keyvault.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There has to be a way of turning this into a copy pasta and I will do every effort to make it happen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Do it, it's just spreading knowledge

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If showers were free and open source, I'd use one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we use it together? We could fork

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'll merge after we fork

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can also upstream some genetic code if you want some

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno. Pretty much the only thing that isn't open source would be the shower head, pumps, and water heaters. However, those technologies are frequently out of patent, with the "user interface" aka shower head being what is actually proprietary but, that is optional.

Modern pipes are made of copper and/or PEX. The plans for the plumbing are generally public records. Seems pretty open source or at least "source available" to me.

Water itself has rather well-known atomic "source code" of one oxygen and two hydrogens.

What even would "closed source" water be?...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well played.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude said shower, not the components that make up the shower

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Dude said open-source shower. That implies access to the knowledge required to recreate it, thus, the components that make up a shower. I demonstrated that most showers could be considered mostly open-source or at the least "source available".

[–] sentient_loom 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sentient_loom 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The joke is that Linux users don't take showers and don't care about hygiene. The "free and open source" part has no actual meaning.

[–] sentient_loom 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never heard the idea that linux users don't shower.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not just a Linux thing; it's a joke about nerds in general or chronically online people being too invested in whatever they're doing like: playing video games, arguing on/moderating forums, or reading books and never taking time to care for outside things, including themselves.

[–] sentient_loom 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't fathom the lack of life someone has to suffer from to come up with that. But I guess haters gonna hate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Take a shower.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Steamymoomilk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That man (notoriously) does not shower.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The linux memes post has almost 50% downvotes, guess some people took it personally 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fucking gottem