• BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
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    1 year ago

    I only know the Ansible as the intergalactic communication system from Ursula K Le Guins novels, so this comment is too cool to me.

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      1 year ago

      That’s almost certainly where it came from. This might be hard to believe, but Linux devs are often huge nerds.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I’m sure, that word isn’t used for a lot of other things. It’s neat how much anarchist and socialist lore is hidden inside of FOOS and Linux tech terminology, including the word Ansible. So refreshing compared to closed source devs unironically naming their products after murderous AI or what have you.

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        1 year ago

        Ansible was indeed used by Orson Scott Card in his Ender’s series, about 20 or so years after it was first coined by Le Guin. Funny to think of someone reading such good novels as Ursula’s and still coming out of it a bigoted asshole.