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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

I am having an amusing and/or deranged conversation with someone who is trying to gaslight me into being ashamed for not knowing what a "brevect" is. (Also, their preferred mechanism for quoting emails in replies appears to be to cut-and-paste screenshots.)

So, what *is* a "brevect" about which the "kernel staff' should totally know? Let your imagination run wild, I'm curious.
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vivi@arff.archandle.net

dba. dog [Viridi Vix]

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@monsieuricon you wreally don't know what is a brevect? Have you ever opened a Linux

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@vivi opening a Linux was not on my job description!
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mattdm@hachyderm.io

Matthew Miller

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@monsieuricon

I, for some reason, want to read more of this conversation.

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eyrie@froggie.gay

keinna spinnycat_demigirl

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@monsieuricon@social.kernel.org breakfast vector

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mason@thames.blisses.org

Mason Loring Bliss

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@monsieuricon Brevecty is the soul of banana splits?
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shaun@mastodon.xyz

shaun

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@monsieuricon

All project participants must be fully treated for fleas and ticks

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diazona@techhub.social

David Zaslavsky 🗳️ ☑️

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@monsieuricon Judging by this excerpt I'm a bit scared of what might happen to me if I found out what a brevect is

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eva_chaos@mastodon.social

Eva Chaos

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@monsieuricon

I'm probably at the point I could call myself a white beard, and I'm female, but I definitely have to pluck chin hairs at this point in my life. I have no fucking idea what they are talking about, nor do I care to.

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kees@fosstodon.org

Kees Cook tux

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@monsieuricon Per my brevious email, I think it's brevectly clear. Surely you are not brevective!

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@kees I have not considered this brevectuality, but I'm starting to suspect that a brevect is something you may order with a cup of covfefe.
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_hic_haec_hoc@fosstodon.org

(hic/haec/hoc)

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Edited 1 month ago

@monsieuricon brevet/brevetto means patent in French/Italian and I imagine a lot of languages took their word for the concept from there, maybe you're currently having the honour to converse with a genius inventor too brilliant to bother with a mere dictionary?

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edinbruh@mstdn.social

Edinbruh

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@monsieuricon I think they mean a patent, but it's hard to say. After all... me not am in a kernel staff

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dermoth@noc.social

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

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@monsieuricon maybe try the same against them, make an unintelligible reply using invented words and when they seem confused just shame them for not knowing what it means 😂

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