Wtf i’m only realizing this now! Wtf after 30 years!!! Aaarrgggg
63 0 ReplyEven now it took me 30 minutes to figure it out.
9 0 ReplyWe still love you!
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Is this actually the reason it's called this? Like dead serious.
42 0 ReplyIf it's fake, it's a decades old prank. I heard it used seriously pre-millennium.
It fits extremely well. Software changes regularly. Hardware never changes, while firmware is mostly fixed, but can change periodically.
23 2 Replythen where else does firmware come from?
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How am I just hearing about this now?
20 0 ReplyThat took a bit of time for me too
19 0 ReplyNonNewtonianWare
14 0 ReplyI love how everyone both believes this but is so upset that they didn't realize that they need confirmation
13 0 ReplyIs this true?
11 0 ReplyI want to believe...
Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.
10 0 ReplyI do love scientice's collective sense of humour. I'd give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).
8 0 ReplyThe fact that Java compiles into Jars always makes me smile.
6 0 ReplyQBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as "pixels". Specifically it faked a 80x50 "pixel" grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.
I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was "using half a byte", i. e. a nibble.
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To extend on the theme, can we start calling the codebases of platforms that have undergone enshitification “chodeware”?
10 0 ReplyShitware, I’d think.
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Wait until you learn about wetware.
10 0 ReplyWhat's next... Underware?
9 0 Replysemper ubi sub ubi
3 0 ReplyHalf-chubware
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FIRMware is just SOFTware that's HARD to INSTALL.
9 0 ReplyBro
4 0 Reply:O
3 0 ReplyOof me too
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