yes it was a joke. “Cause” means the same as in English but also the verb that is kind of an old slang for “speak”.

je pensais pas à mal. Bon ma réponse était un peu sarcastique je te l’accorde.

Ah merci pour l’info. J’ai tendance à oublier que le français est ma langue maternelle

It says cigarette speaks cancer

Emacs is a Text Editor mostly used for coding. It has a very steep learning curve, pretty hard to master but very powerful

C++ is a programming language

FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software

Cataclysm DDA (Dark Days Ahead( is a video game, and because it’s FOSS you can modify it (programming) if you know what you’re doing.

Llama.CPO is a C++ library providing ChatGPT like features to a program. In this case Emacs.

IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. Basically text editors but optimized for coding, like Emacs.

VSC stands for Visual Studio Code, which is another IDE owned by Microsoft. Hence the complaints against their internet logs. Microsoft collect too much data with VSC.