Post AxzhFkJJBfi5CadMzQ by geraldew@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AxyrQiQvJNtSwu6arA by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T01:18:05Z
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I know people are focused on the Ubuntu stuff right now but one of my viewers actually went back through the archives and likely found the origin of the GNU Copypasta
(DIR) Post #AxyrYMe6CW4jh1uoCW by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T01:19:26Z
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@ariadne "I'd like to interject"I had traced it back to somewhere as early as 2007 but I lost the trail.What is the one about Alpine?
(DIR) Post #AxyroCdhAlEvI9HLuK by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T01:22:14Z
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@ariadne I don't know how I've never seen this one lol
(DIR) Post #Axys2dfPTtP9AdxrKy by migam830@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T01:24:54Z
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@BrodieOnLinux What is the likely origin the viewer found?
(DIR) Post #Axyt8popJV8mYCt50a by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T01:37:16Z
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@migam830 Most people believe it's from 4chan's /g/ it looks like 4chan is correct but it may have come from /prog/ one of the text only boards
(DIR) Post #AxyvADEnvZV7Nhp5A8 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-09-08T01:59:49.641826Z
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@ariadne @BrodieOnLinux @ska 2001 is early, wow.That said I'm pretty sure I've seen the no-GNU Copypasta before 2020 back when Abyss Linux was a thing (Linux with musl and LLVM).
(DIR) Post #AxyvOR3HMcLoHNDKeO by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-09-08T02:02:22.472362Z
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@ariadne @BrodieOnLinux @ska True that said I think the no-GNU Copypasta is from 2017~2019 rather than 2001 or 2022.
(DIR) Post #AxywjLeCkhzBYM1Ooi by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-09-08T02:17:23.221108Z
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@ariadne @BrodieOnLinux @ska In fact oldest I could fine on my instance is https://glaceon.social/@monorail/103246621896646132 attributing it to lynnesbian.
(DIR) Post #AxyycIENFyk0q0hekK by __hetz@mas.to
2025-09-08T02:38:34Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @migam830 /g/ is where I first saw it. Thought it was around the same time someone was posting Cirno code challenges but the few of those I saved are from 2012. Might've just been the earliest I saw it.
(DIR) Post #Axyyl2cudsPt34LuF6 by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T02:40:10Z
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@__hetz @migam830 It's 100% pre 2010 as there are people using it then
(DIR) Post #AxyzjNGb22P0RBgPL6 by __hetz@mas.to
2025-09-08T02:51:05Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @migam830 Oh for sure. Not questioning that at all. I could've seen it earlier (likely did) but my memory is just trash and I didn't regularly venture into any of the blue boards until the late 00's. iirc :cirnothinking:
(DIR) Post #Axz9ibTphSqRlv957I by ignaloidas@not.acu.lt
2025-09-08T04:42:55.064Z
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social @ska@social.treehouse.systems I think first I saw it was from @toast@toast@donotsta.re but the server it was from is now long gone
(DIR) Post #AxzAw4eae2d5yFAEzY by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-09-08T04:56:31.679240Z
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@ignaloidas @ariadne @ska @BrodieOnLinux Toast's copypasta of it is from 2020-01-03, my server still has it archived https://toast.cafe/objects/8fa80f08-bfb3-4cf9-8780-9142b927f732
(DIR) Post #AxzIpruVuTuILPAFJA by BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social
2025-09-08T06:25:09Z
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@Owlor Likely always a parody to make fun of Stallman
(DIR) Post #AxzhFkJJBfi5CadMzQ by geraldew@fosstodon.org
2025-09-08T10:58:44Z
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@BrodieOnLinux not the copypasta, but the place I'd go to look for earlier versions of what Stallman wrote is Usenet.To whit:https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.advocacy/c/_O03Hyoggw8/m/mf_k31nArikJfrom 31 May 1996<quote-extract>Here is the text of the file etc/LINUX-GNU from the GNU Emacsdistribution.... hope those concerned about this issue will read and consider what rms actually has to say, instead of what people areclaiming he said....thanx -len http://www.ai.mit.edu/~tower/home.htmlDirector, Free Software Foundation</quote-extract>
(DIR) Post #AxzmU64Pa6nuVuKQjo by deedend@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T11:57:19Z
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@BrodieOnLinuxWhich Ubuntu stuff?
(DIR) Post #Ay1qTsmnl8nVRlAH9E by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-09-09T11:51:35.840961Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @ariadne "I use Linux as my operating system", I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a GNUish gleam in his eyes, ready to GNUsplain with extreme precision. "Actually, he says with a grin, Linux is only a kernel, a proprietary one at that." he took a powerful breath into his thick GNU/Lungs and continued; "Most likely you use GNU slash Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a proprietary smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's Linux, but it's not GNU/Linux".The smile quickly enhances on the man's face. His body begin emanating a holy GNU/Glow as he prepared for yet another GNU/Exorcism. Being possessed by a proprietary daemon, I soon began foaming at the mouth, dropped to the floor and started to writhe and scream. He calmly continued with his interjection; "Alpine is a BusyBox/Linux distro. BusyBox is a inferior clone of GNU under a GNU license. Even though Alpine's developers attempt to not include GNU and make an utter garbage distro, they still use GCC and many GNU libraries to compile it - so it does indeed include and require GNU code (like all nontrivial free software), plus the first thing most Alpine users do is install the GNU software that's missing (although most of them don't even register that they're installing GNU software). Furthermore, GNU coreutils is only one GNU package out of 388." The daemon replied; "If windows was compiled with GCC, Would that make it GNU?" and demonically interrupted before he could respond with; "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more Compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."He signed and continued; "Yes, that would make it; quote compiled with GNU unquote. Furthermore, there are indeed distributions of GNU for windows, which does make GNU/Windows if you install them - but those only exist to give the suckers a taste of freedom and you're better off installing the real thing (GNU/Linux-libre). It's a real shame that Linux puts any development work into ensuring that it can be compiled with compilers that aren't under a freedom-defending license, rather than using all the fine GNU extensions GCC makes available, but that's sadly to be expected from a proprietary kernel project - although Linux is indeed freedom respecting once exorcised to make GNU Linux-libre. I'm always correct despite the proprietary efforts to make me wrong." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the proprietary daemon was exorcised from my body. It lay on the floor, cold and limp - he interjected it to death with the good word of freedom.Now that I had been saved, I begged for forgiveness. He proclaimed; "Forgiveness is not required - all you need to do is repent. Repentance consists of installing a free distro on your computer to replace the proprietary Alpine. A list of free distros is available at; https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html";
(DIR) Post #Ay1wsCLRI9A8mXLNwm by nigger@detroitriotcity.com
2025-09-09T13:03:11.862993Z
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@lanodan @BrodieOnLinux @ariadne it can't be later than 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wz9BkzU1zY