Wtf i’m only realizing this now! Wtf after 30 years!!! Aaarrgggg
Is this actually the reason it’s called this? Like dead serious.
If it’s fake, it’s a decades old prank. I heard it used seriously pre-millennium.
It fits extremely well. Software changes regularly. Hardware never changes, while firmware is mostly fixed, but can change periodically.
How am I just hearing about this now?
Wait until you learn about wetware.
I love how everyone both believes this but is so upset that they didn’t realize that they need confirmation
Is this true?
I want to believe…
Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.
I do love scientice’s collective sense of humour. I’d give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).
Science pubs are some of the best pubs.
The fact that Java compiles into Jars always makes me smile.
QBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as “pixels”. Specifically it faked a 80x50 “pixel” grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.
I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was “using half a byte”, i. e. a nibble.
To extend on the theme, can we start calling the codebases of platforms that have undergone enshitification “chodeware”?
Shitware, I’d think.
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What’s next… Underware?
semper ubi sub ubi
Half-chubware
FIRMware is just SOFTware that’s HARD to INSTALL.
Bro
