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mongol
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What does yak refer to? Is it a reference to gnu?
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mmm_grayons
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It refers to yak-shaving, which often manifests as pointless tinkering with meaningless config files.
https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
mwcremer
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I'm guessing
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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