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by dullcrisp 1061 days ago
What’s X?
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The X Window System allows applications to present bitmap images on a display, and receive mouse and keyboard input. The main implementation is X.Org, shepherded by the X.Org Foundation: https://x.org/. Originally for Unix-like systems, it is now available on many other architectures, such as Microsoft Windows: I find ssh's X forwarding feature especially useful there.
So does twitter redirect to x.org now?
Would be an improvement to be honest :)
It's a slang term for MDMA. Clearly the poster means that you don't have to interact with anyone when you're on ecstasy.
A variable you could substitute with anything.
I'd like to substitute it for x

which holds a value "X"

It's what Musk is trying to rebrand Twitter as.
it's that thing you used to call twitter.

x.com

This is what GP was referring to when they said "chaos monkeys"
If I go to x.com it redirects me to a site called twitter.com in which there are things called "tweets" and "retweets"