• BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    2121·
    28 days ago

    Are you suggesting there is something wrong with any of these names:

    • gimp
    • finger
    • john the ripper
    • libcaca
    • toilet
    • fsck
    • zen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      36·
      27 days ago

      I’m a dev. I develop little prototypes and things with Rust. I often create a new repository and don’t give the project a name, until I’ve coded enough of it that I know where it’s going.

      A few years back, the makers of the programming language Rust started punishing people for prepending rust- before the names of their tools and apps. They recommended that people append -rs to the end.

      The combination of these two things caused me to end up with a whole bunch of repositories named something like cli-rs or clitool-rs, both of which I’d just pronounce as clitoris.

    • nullify3112
      1·
      27 days ago

      Thought about this a little more. Cut and paste can be rebranded as excise and stitch.

  • Grimy
    401·
    28 days ago

    Can’t find the app guys. Where is it? Bruh. Help me someone, my girlfriend is coming home and I don’t want to get mocked for the same thing two days in a row.

  • BlackLaZoR
    38·
    27 days ago

    The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      22·
      27 days ago

      Like if Nautilus is any better

      Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      12·
      27 days ago

      The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.

      (PRO TIP: dolphin is the KDE file manager, dolphin-emu is what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)

      • BlackLaZoR
        6·
        27 days ago

        Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.

      • T156English
        3·
        26 days ago

        To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies

        Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.

        Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.

      • bacon_pdp
        0·
        26 days ago

        Just remove the execute bit and then it can’t run. (Or overwrite the first 4 bytes with nulls if you want to permanently disable it)

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      10·
      27 days ago

      Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.

      • zeb420
        3·
        27 days ago

        Lumberjack or woodpecker honestly would have been better names since file systems are basically trees

        • T156English
          2·
          26 days ago

          If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.

    • kreiger
      2·
      27 days ago

      WDYM “explorer”, is that some weird name for a file manager?

      • BlackLaZoR
        6·
        27 days ago

        You can explore file system, but how would you dolphin it?

      • BurnoutDV
        1·
        27 days ago

        I always loved the logically escalation with konquerer

    • Bluewing
      2·
      27 days ago

      It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    36·
    27 days ago

    Gnome: GSpot. It doesn’t actually exist (GNOME devs though there was no use case for it)

    • baatliwala
      327·
      27 days ago

      It’s still the best social media for anything worthwhile. Hyperlocal news, sports, government agencies, corporate news, everyone posts there since nobody looks at Facebook anymore and Instagram is mainly for pics. All the good artists are on Twitter as well.

      Nobody is posting to Mastodon because actually finding information and people is proper impossible. I mean hell I almost never see any posts from Mastodon getting posted to any meme community because everyone is all tech and politics and doom and serious.

          • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            26 days ago

            Congrats on that btw, it’s those things that give me a tiny shred of hope in humanity.

            But the “uneducated” part is not necessary, come on. Just because someone on the other side of the planet has probably not investigated the finer details of your domestic politics such as what social media platform was used to organise protests?

            • baatliwala
              2·
              25 days ago

              Just posting what I replied to the other person –

              After being retrospective I agree it’s uncalled for but I am just tired of western bias of many social and political issues

            • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              2·
              26 days ago

              this sounds like being proud of a western bias. we are the fortunate. it should be our duty to consider perspectives that have been disadvantaged and where information about this side of the internet doesn’t flow as freely as it does in the first-world culture.

              was saying “uneducated” wrong? sure. but who was responsible for the frustration and misunderstanding that led to using that word in the first place?

              • baatliwala
                2·
                25 days ago

                Yeah thanks for that, after being retrospective I agree it’s uncalled for but I am just tired of western bias of many social and political issues

      • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8·
        27 days ago

        “noooo i can’t read corporate slop from government agencies and my favorite ragebaititng influencer news on Mastodon nooo, must read Xitter!!!”

        • baatliwala
          210·
          27 days ago

          noooo i can’t read anything at all worth talking about and no one is on mastodon, noooo must rage into my depressed people’s echo chamber

      • AngryCommieKender
        91·
        27 days ago

        Ironically nextdoor is actually pretty active, but goddamn is it a toxic cesspool of fascism. I can’t even try on that platform anymore. I tried for a few months, and naw. I don’t like surrounding myself with willfull ignorance.

        • baatliwala
          32·
          27 days ago

          Never heard of that in my life. Not available in my country I guess

      • CodeBlooded@programming.dev
        6·
        27 days ago

        I know that I’m just one person, but I find it interesting how I’m always online but never using twitter, ever, for anything. I’m not even trying to avoid it. And yet, it’s so damn popular. I just hate the format.

        • baatliwala
          2·
          27 days ago

          I actually don’t like the format too much myself but ever since they raised the character limit it’s a bit better to follow

      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        27 days ago

        I wonder if Twitter just hung onto market share in India while it hemorrhaged users in the anglosphere? IIRC we’ve seen this with Facebook in a few places. Basically everyone I want to follow moved to Bluesky or at least is posting their content there too - there’s a few local governments that are stuck in 2010 technologically due to indifference or lack of budget that still only post stuff to Twitter but that’s fairly unusual, but is infuriating enough for people to post about it.

        • baatliwala
          41·
          27 days ago

          That’s possible, I don’t know literally anyone from India on Bluesky; In fact there’s more people I personally know who are on Mastodon as it’s prevalent in the FOSS ecosystem. But Mastodon doesn’t bring in general people easily so literally the only people I follow there are related to the FOSS ecosystem (and similar nerds)… A lot of the accounts I follow are just bots which mirror content from Twitter.

  • yuri@pawb.social
    29·
    28 days ago

    i think PCSX2 is the maddest i’ve ever been over a name. i’ve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.

      • MinnesotaGoddamEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        i was familiar with zophar’s domain, yes.

        edit wait fuck. sleep will help with reading comprehension, yes.

    • vividspecter@aussie.zone
      11·
      28 days ago

      RPCS3 is similarly awkward to read and spell.

      And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it’s about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.

      • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        27 days ago

        And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it’s about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.

        Ah yes the ncm<TAB> program. Used to give my brain half a stroke trying to remember the full name.

          • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            27 days ago

            It doesn’t exist. Well, PCSX4 doesn’t, RPCS4 was a private project some years ago:

            RPCS4 was a private project being worked on by one of the original developers of RPCS3, DH. Little is known about the project at the time, but we do know that it was expected to run on Unix-likes and can boot PS4 games without graphics

            https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_4_emulators footnote 2

            PCSX4 was just malware/adware or similar if I recall correctly. It came into being long before PS4 emulation reached anything remotely resembling the concept of “playable”.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
      6·
      28 days ago

      I hear you. The one that always gets me is PPSSPP. Every time I type it I miss out a letter and have to go back and fix it.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        5·
        28 days ago

        Somehow, I perfectly remember ncmpcpp (what does any of that even mean? something with C++ I guess?) but struggle with lighttpd (light+httd+daemon).

        • DarkSirrush@piefed.caEnglish
          19·
          28 days ago

          Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.

          PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.

          One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.

          PCSX2’s team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.

          And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.

          • okmko
            2·
            27 days ago

            Y’all remember the PSX emu Bleem! ? You could buy it commercially as a physical disk from the shelves of a store? I have no idea how they got away with it but that seems unthinkable these days.

            I feel like, based on the interface, they just took PCSX, swapped the splash screen, and somehow distributed it commercially, along with even running TV ads. They must’ve been sued into oblivion by Sony.

            • DarkSirrush@piefed.caEnglish
              3·
              27 days ago

              Personally, I wasn’t allowed to own a computer until well after Bleem! went out of business (from running out of money for legal defence against sony).

              That being said, looking at wikipedia, Bleem! started first, so PCSX was the one that stole the look and feel of Bleem!

            • okmko
              2·
              27 days ago

              I didn’t even know people read it. My eyes just glazed over the letters like it’s a picture lol.

            • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
              5·
              28 days ago

              Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.

              Like… if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.