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Locutus as in borged Picard?
by evbogue 2y ago
Locutus as in borged Picard?
- ravenstine 2y agoMaybe, though it could also be that locutus is a Latin word that essentially means "speak". Adds another layer of meaning to its use in Star Trek. :D
- noman-land 2y agoIt makes sense because the Borg chose Picard as a representative for all humankind.
- evbogue 2y agoand there are some reasons to believe the borg were running some kind of distributed system that was weighting certain nodes at various times. Perhaps a future fork of freenet will become borgnet? Seems futile, but resistance often can be.
- mananaysiempre 2y ago> locutus is a Latin word that essentially means "speak" Or more precisely “spoken”, the (nominative masculine singular form of the) past passive participle. (In English, other Latin words from the same root get you locution, colloquium, etc.)
- schoen 2y agoUsually Latin past participles are passive, but loquor is a deponent verb which has only passive forms with an active meaning, so locutus means "spoken" as in "I have spoken" rather than "the words have been spoken". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deponent_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deponent_verb
- sanity 2y agoBorg reference (decentralized architecture), and Latin "speaker" - but Locutus was just a working title for what's now called Freenet.
- evbogue 2y agoI think throughout Star Trek history the borg have proven themselves to be a noble collective worthy of naming your repo's working title after. How do I join the collective chatroom? And of course I want to skip The Matrix. Been there, done that. If assimilation is painful, I'll endure.
- sanity 2y agocargo install freenet will work but not yet.