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[-] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago

I just skimmed this but shouldn't people who are unable/ubwilling to live in the modern world be true to themselves and also not code in some demonic language?

Just skip it and piss off dear catholic

[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

Wait until they learn about daemons

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even the real daemons are just spirits it's the Christians who literally demonized them.

The idiocy goes back more than a millenium.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

If Christians are idiots then so are the "pagans", religion is religion. Don't defend one because you hate another.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

it's easier to find obvious faults when something is held close for examination. Shoving this one in our faces has given us greater opportunity for close study. Other brands of hokum may include an actual space ship to rocket the most a faithful away or a con man who this one final time miraculously went straight, rituals with one rolled pant-leg, or alien spirits living in volcanoes. But we don't talk about them so much as they keep their weirdness in the shadows.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Aight I recognize most of those, who's the pant leg?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I had a crazy Catholic prepper neighbor way back in '99 (she was the hipster of preppers, one of the things she railed about was all the people prepping just for y2k when she had already been doing it for years, but that's another story) and one of her things was how evil bill gates was- so I told her Linux was evil-er because of the daemons. Gave her a lot to think about.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Does that command refer to the His Dark Materials thing? I thought regular demons were spelt without the a, but maybe it's an old spelling.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC. According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC in 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked tirelessly to perform system chores".[2] Unix systems inherited this terminology. Maxwell's demon is consistent with Greek mythology's interpretation of a daemon as a supernatural being working in the background.

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