cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44833191

Oddly specific.

Meanwhile, Dylan and Luca Boccassi are busy trying to make Systemd, which is in a lot of linux distros , into more of the same.

Fifth column bastards.

7. The act of throwing out of a window (something or someone)

I did that last week. Now I'm on omarchy. It's quite handy. I even switched to neovim for my daily writing and coding. Loving the keyboard-focussed control.

It comes from wikitionary.

Get Systemd to stand near the window. We remember better options.

I thought it also meant throwing it out the window from a specific floor.

a better one *

Well well well, if it isn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop wink wink.

Ackshually it's from Neo-Latin ‘fenestra’ meaning ‘window’, specifically coined in 1620, presumably as ‘defenestratio’:

A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague" (May 21, 1618), in which two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of Hradschin by Protestant radicals. The trio landed in a trash heap and survived, but it marked the start of the Thirty Years' War.

‘Fenster’ was borrowed from Latin as ‘*fenestr’ way back in the times of Proto-West Germanic. Which, to my understanding, is a somewhat unusual behavior for Germanic languages.

P.S. As noted below, in German it's 'Fenstersturz', meaning simply 'windowfall'.

Year of the Linux desktop!

every year is the year of linux if defenestrate windows

Isn't omarchy created by a fascist, racist, transphobic pos?

I've heard that, but I'm not actively seeking out the cult of personality. He's made a good product though. He's also very active in the project and very active in the spotlight. His hunger for fame does not bode well for the allegations against him. It's usually those people who are the worst.

But still, it's a good product. He might be an asshole,but I don'think he will become an Elon musk kind of asshole. But if he does, it'll be easy enough to abandon omarchy en masse.

Interesting, the OED adds this:

Compare post-classical Latin defenestratio (1620 or earlier, although the author claims to be coining the word). Compare also Middle French, French défenestrer to throw out of a window (1564), and German Fenstersturz (1626 or earlier in this sense; lit. ‘act of throwing from a window’; also more fully Prager Fenstersturz), the usual German name for the 1618 event.

“Defenestration, N., Etymology.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9213494086.

Wiktionary actually lists both words as sorta-cognates (under ‘etymology’). However, Wiktionary has a habit of not listing any dates. But, Trésor de la langue française informatisé says that the 1564 source uses the word in the meaning of removing windows of a house — while also noting that the French-root ‘défenêtrer’ should be used for this meaning instead of the Latin ‘défenestrer’.

In the typical blunt German manner, ‘Fenstersturz’ is simply composed of ‘window’+‘fall’.

Defenestration, the word with 6 meanings and 4 of them are the same.

Btw can you buy laptops unfenestrated? I don't mean macbooks.

Defenestration: How high ranking Russian officials are retired when they are no longer useful.

yes, there are a couple of unfenestrated laptops you can buy. the companies i can remember right now are tuxedo, system76, and framework

1. To throw something or someone out of a window

thinkpenguin.com sells some to i think

Dell and Lenovo used to, don't know if they still.