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by _Algernon_ 1124 days ago
>If there’s a software equivalent of a Cathedral then I still haven’t found it.

That one old file dialog window that still somehow shows up in windows 11 from time to time?

Or the Linux kernel.

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This is completely random, but you remind me of something that makes me laugh every time I use Google Maps navigation.

Last year I was messing around with my phone's text to speech settings, and I selected a male voice but cranked the pitch setting to the max. I proceeded to forget about it. For some reason when navigating, the voice is still the default pitch. Maybe about 1 in 20 turns at random though, the voice has the pitch cranked up to the max. It's rare enough that my 4 year old and I always burst out laughing when it happens.

I expect few will be using/working on the linux kernel in 30-50 years.