Breaking News at msn.com: "Linux uses child labour!"
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Unpaid child labour!
Oh god, maybe they'll start calling actual child labor "open source"
FOSS
Free and Open Source Slave
FOSS: Forces Orphan Se--
No matter how many times I read this I have no idea what's going on. Can someone explain this like I'm 3
A girl read documentation and see that all the titles are underlined with -, but one of the letter isn't underlined like the others (that's the lonely s). Then she asks the person doing the commit to fix it and they fix it together.
The line of code (well, documentation in the code) used to look like something like this (I'm not sure if this formatting will work on mobile, sorry):
The code ends with an s
----------------------
And after her changes it looks like this:
The code ends with an s
------------------------
See how I added an extra - in that second line? That makes the S happier because now it also has a - below it like all the other letters. This also just generally makes that line more consistent with other spots in the code. So it's not a bad change. It doesn't do anything really but making your code format nice, easy to read, and consistent is usually important in programming so although it doesn't do anything tangible it's still a valuable change!
That is adorable.
Though slightly cliche, this just feels right. That niece has learned a great lesson about how collaborating to improve things is always possible, and that open-source relies on everyone doing their bit.
I want her to do a Ted talk on the morality and ethics of making sure no letter is left behind when underlining text.
This is just adorable. Poor s!
I don't know, this feels cringe on some levels...(parents)
Nope, I was smiling like a maniac the whole time I was reading. Reject cynicism 😀
...Kernel patch at age 4. Sigh... What have I done with my life?
The Internet didn't even exist when I was four, let alone Linux, so I don't feel so bad.
Well, you shoulda been working on ARPANET then, slacker!
Somewhere, somehow, this is going to break something lol
It's almost 9 years ago, I think we're good.
This better get backported with high priority.