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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

GNU's not Unix tool kit image manipulation program. As long as you don't believe Unix actually is an acronym

[–] rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 6 months ago

hold up im pretty sure it's without the "tool kit" part

GTK is the GIMP tool kit

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a recursive acronym so it could expand indefinitely into GNUNUNUNU...TKIMP, similarly to wineineineine... or Benoît Benoît ... B. ... Mandelbrot Mandelbrot. Like a ZIP bomb, never try to expand it fully.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm so meta, even this acronym