{"id":24,"date":"2006-10-12T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/24"},"modified":"2006-10-12T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T22:37:54","slug":"ice-weasels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/24","title":{"rendered":"Ice Weasels?"},"content":{"rendered":"
14:57 < sky> debian forked firefox? haha\r\n15:00 -!- PowerUser [i=hollandp@nat\/apple\/x-c57695efe759d747] has quit ["Fly \r\n          the white flag of war!"]\r\n15:21 < dre^> lol, why?\r\n15:24 < johnny-o> the inability to modify the artwork, if you can actually \r\n                  believe that\r\n15:24 < dre^> LOL\r\n15:24 < dre^> I can believe it, actually :)\r\n15:24 < johnny-o> http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gnuzilla\/\r\n15:24 < dre^> hopefully they'll keep their changes limited to art...\r\n15:24 < johnny-o> nope!\r\n15:24 < johnny-o> they already blew that one :)\r\n15:25 < dre^> I will say that IceWeasel is a great name\r\n15:26 < johnny-o> as far as tongue-in-cheek unixy names go, definitely\r\n15:26 < dre^> "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly \r\n              it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels \r\n              come. -- Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"\r\n15:26 < dre^> I suspect that is the real reference\r\n15:26 < dre^> as opposed to a silly pun on firefox ;)\r\n15:27 < johnny-o> i assumed something like fire\/ice and fox\/weasel\r\n15:28 < dre^> yeah, but that's the obvious one\r\n15:28 < dre^> gotta aim for obscure with the obvious fallback, so there can \r\n              still be an 'in' crowd ;)\r\n15:29 < johnny-o> of course!\r\n15:29 < dre^> plus the metaphor is more fun if you try to map the software \r\n              development process to that groening quote...\r\n15:32 < dre^> where software development is love, the tundra is the open source \r\n              community, firefox is the snowmobile, 'non-free software' causes \r\n              the flip and subsequent pin... now you feel trapped! you can't \r\n              move the snowmobile enough to, say, apply a fancy decal on it...\r\n15:32 < dre^> hence iceweasels\r\n15:33 < johnny-o> i like that much better, actually<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14:57 < sky> debian forked firefox? haha 15:00 -!- PowerUser [i=hollandp@nat\/apple\/x-c57695efe759d747] has quit ["Fly the white flag of war!"] 15:21 < dre^> lol, why? 15:24 < johnny-o> the inability to modify the artwork, if you can actually believe that 15:24 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}