Posted Jan 10, 2013 19:33 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by micka
Parent article: Quotes of the week
I specifically used “Aunt Tilly” – and put it into quotation marks – because this is LWN, and the term *comes* from the LKML (or at least, that’s where I’ve learned it). I’m not aware of a stereotypical non-tech user name in my own language, even ;) and I’m not even prejudiced against older people wrt. tech skills, so the “Uncle” part would be equally incorrect. (But, honestly! Did your parents compile you with -pedantic or something? I hope not ☺)
I just used it here so people like certain Linux kernel programmers *ahem* know what I’m talking about.