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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I understand that etymologically, it makes perfect sense to pronounce daemon the same as demon because it's the same word. But I'll never stop pronouncing it day- instead of dee-, as if it's a Ferengi captain.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I pronounce it like the German word for demon, Dämon [ˈdeːmɔn] 🔊 because daemon is how Germans would write the word in lowercase ASCII.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I pronounce it da-eh-mon in my head, it sounds more old-timey than "dee-mon".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that because you have a daemon in your brain, swapping neurons to force you to pronounce it wrong?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More likely a DaiMon using a thought maker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How do you pronounce denut?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I left a comment about taking one, so it was balanced. Now you're up one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

systemctl restart artistd

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why should I?

Please write a 250-or-more word essay explaining 3 reasons why I should.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Demon != Daemon

It took me way too long to learn this, please don't confuse me.

[–] EuroNutellaMan 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Liar. Daemon = Demon. There's lottle red demons in your PC doing stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You're thinking of Gremlins!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Any background process, routine, or program contributes to the complexity of the overall system, which does indeed contribute to ruin as entropy gradually builds and collapse/death/crashing becomes inevitable.

Which is to say, I agree with these definitions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If a daemon is an agent of ruin then ... Systemd must be ... Oh no !

[–] renzev 6 points 1 month ago

Why is the daemon smoking? Are they taking a break from their duties? Is this what happens when I run rc-service sshd stop?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The origin for computing is actually documented too.

The term daemon was coined by programmers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Project MAC (Mathematics and Computation) in 1963, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics. In a thought experiment devised by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, a demon would control a small massless door between two chambers of gas, forcing fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction and slow-moving molecules to pass in the other direction. In Greek mythology, a daemon was considered a supernatural being or power.

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/daemon

There's also a response on Virginia Tech's website from a professor from the group that used the word first.

Your explanation of the origin of the word daemon is correct in that my group began using the term around that time frame. However the acronym explanation is a new one on me. Our use of the word daemon was inspired by the Maxwell's daemon of physics and thermodynamics. (My background is Physics.) Maxwell's daemon was an imaginary agent which helped sort molecules of different speeds and worked tirelessly in the background. We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes which worked tirelessly to perform system chores. I found a very good explanation of all this online at:

I also found this stackexchange post that adds even more context to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

thank you for making your art

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

As if there was any doubt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't tell me what to do!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or do you? vsauce music starts playing (you made me talk)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Connection to fubar closed by remote host.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's allowed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

TODO write a clever comment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Woah, this is so cool

[–] Sanctus 4 points 1 month ago

"These damn demons!"

Demon: points

"Oh, its a memory leak."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is a comment, identifiable by the text and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wait, is Ma Bell the dæmon? or is the dæmon controlling Ma Bell?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 3 points 1 month ago

This is the first one of these that I've even remotely comprehended.

[–] EuroNutellaMan 3 points 1 month ago

This comment has been left

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

but what should I write?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Are they helpful?

[–] Electric_Druid 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hello there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Holy hell it is a baby bell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I kind of want a cigarette

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
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