• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com
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    2 days ago

    I really don’t get these posts common on Lemmy. How common is this? Where did the high socks Linux joke come from?

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      2 days ago

      There was a post on a similar subject not too long ago, and it seems the landscape shifted about 10 years ago. A whole load of alt-lifestyle folks got into Linux and sysadmin, and maybe a few previously straight-laced sysadmins came out as alt too.

      Vive les différences

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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      2 days ago

      This is the second post with Unix and socks on my feed in the past few minutes.

      There was a post about software and socks a few weeks or so ago where I replied about a company called functional software that made functional socks which I wore for years, which come to think about it also started a discussion about functional programming.

      Anyway, here’s a community where the socks seem to be coming from.

      https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/unixsocks