Dan Fixes Coin-OpsFree software people I am begging you to stop naming your software
🦝 So you've made a great program that pisses all over the paid alternatives, great, now for the love of god please delegate the naming of that software to someone Normal so you don't end up calling it something like Kalculator
The biggest hurdle towards Jabber adoption is people calling it XMPP
maeLike, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"
One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files
Before you commit to a name for your free software you should at least once say it aloud in a public place
🐰 *fiddling with phone* ugh, what did he say it was called, exemplary pee? oh ffs now I gotta confirm my age again...
🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world
🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world
🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search
🐰 I'm forking ANUS because of the godawful name
🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
🐰 My new project is called Pete's (fork of) Andrew's Interesting New User (friendly) Search
🐹 Honestly I think the name should be neutral while representing the underlying technology, which is why my fork is called hhgxyxynszzyr
🐹 it stands for "hhgxyxynszzyr ain't painus"
🐹 It's a bit of a niche name I know but look at Facebook, they had a crap name and millions of marketing dollars and succeeded anyway and all I have to deal with is a crap name
🐹 hhgxyxynszzyr, trips right off the tongue
🐧 As we all know, early intervention is important. Schools are overwhelmingly teaching children to use proprietary software, which in addition to being against the spirit of liberation in computing, can be considered basically equivalent to a competition-stifling government handout to already-rich corporations, ensuring their customer base into the next generation.
🐧 Unfortunately I myself have been banned from the premises but if anybody else wants to bring up ANUS to their local school board at the next meeting,
This isn't as much of a problem with other endeavours as it is with computer endeavours
Like in the pub you might overhear
🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴 No it didn't
🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴 Good, so...
🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴 No
🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴 No,
🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers
But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking
🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 *no response*
🐺 ...do you have any *objection* to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆 ...
🐺 Then it's settled
There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers
Programmer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release
Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,
Steve GisselbrechtFuckin' poetry, here.
Kranston 🪑@ifixcoinops Phather Phalanges
Bolet modo Sombrero de paja 🏴☠️ 
hello from "wafrn"
how is it pronounced?
nobody knows
how is it pronounced?
nobody knows
Aaron@javascript @ifixcoinops Like rat poison, minus the vowels?
Lunar 🛸 ♾@ifixcoinops I somehow knew what this was about before I'd caught up with the rest of the thread
Luka Rubinjoni@ifixcoinops I volunteer to deadpan lobby for GIMP instead of Photoshop.
@rubinjoni dead donkey dude
Amro has been@ifixcoinops Lovely rant. Thank you.
Yaoi Box Balloon@ifixcoinops Yeah. All of this.
*cough* gimp *cough*
Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace 
@ifixcoinops we at least gotta bring back naming the new thing a pun on what it's replacing
like bison replacing yacc
D Ingram@BestGirlGrace @ifixcoinops less is more, right?
Steve Foerster 🌐@ifixcoinops An example closer to home would be having to explain that, no, the Fediverse is not about the US federal government.
And no, it's not quite the same thing as Mastodon, but it's also not quite not the same thing.
"How is that easier?"
*sigh*
fluffy 💜@stevefoerster @ifixcoinops I always get a bit more annoyed when someone gets hyper specific in response to someone else being generic, like “don’t you mean rss/atom and not just rss?” as if it ever matters to the end user which specific protocol is being used. Not that “rss” is a good name either, of course.
@fluffy @ifixcoinops Ackchyually, it's GNU/Linux....
Miakoda 
@stevefoerster @fluffy @ifixcoinops Omfg, the GNU/Linux shit.
This drives me bonkers. Never once has "GNU/" made a fucking bit of difference as far as referring to something goes. Put your shit in the about and stfu. Those of us who know wtf GNU is know damn well it's there and won't forget!
This drives me bonkers. Never once has "GNU/" made a fucking bit of difference as far as referring to something goes. Put your shit in the about and stfu. Those of us who know wtf GNU is know damn well it's there and won't forget!
@hosford42 @stevefoerster @fluffy @ifixcoinops Yeah. I like Linux, a lot, but he's a bit pretencious
Damir
embix@brezelradar @fluffy @stevefoerster When it was time to rebuild Improbable Island's stat system I decided to call it Arbitrary Stat System, then realised that this was inappropriate and renamed it to Arbitrary Roleplaying Stats Engine because it's a bri'ish game after all
@ifixcoinops @brezelradar @fluffy True story: George Mason University announced that they were naming their law school to be the "Antonin Scalia Law School" just a few hours after having initially announced that it was being named the "Antonin Scalia School of Law".
screw_dog@stevefoerster @ifixcoinops @brezelradar @fluffy Western Australian university briefly flirted with "Curtin University of New Technology"
@screw_dog @ifixcoinops @brezelradar @fluffy There's an old joke that Friends University, which is located in Wichita, should be referred to as Friends University of Central Kansas.
Stumpy The Mutt@stevefoerster @screw_dog @ifixcoinops @brezelradar @fluffy My alma mater has been co-opted by right wing wealth and was just about to open the Antonin Scalia School of Law until the late night talk shows pointed out the acronym spelled ASSoL, which I thought was a perfect description of all involved.
Mike McCaffrey@stevefoerster @ifixcoinops Especially, since we could have called it The Federation.
pgcdTalk about missed opportunities
@stevefoerster @ifixcoinops
@stevefoerster @ifixcoinops I've literally seen people reject an influencer suggesting they go to Fediverse because "Feds".
I first thought they were stupid, but then I shutdown the computer nerd part of my brain and realized their skepticism over the name is somewhat logical
I first thought they were stupid, but then I shutdown the computer nerd part of my brain and realized their skepticism over the name is somewhat logical
Daburu Dar
arclight
Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦@ifixcoinops Same for commercial software. Pentaho (supposedly pen-taho) used at my last employer became known to us as penta-ho and then five-hoes and "that group of five ladies of the night software"
Third spruce tree on the leftyeah but what if the ass software you're trying to replace ALSO has an ass name? Trello. What the fuck is a Trello?
Trello is the onamatapoeia for when you have a bad cold, sore through and you try to say high to a coworker after not talking to anyone all morning.
Trello is Gollum coughing up phglem. Trello is the sound of a cat barfing up a hairball.
malte@tezoatlipoca @scuttlebutt what if you're simply wrong, though? 🤔
@tezoatlipoca @scuttlebutt @ifixcoinops And it has the added benefit of rhyming with Jell-O.
A portmanteau? Trellis + Jell-O?
Mx. Eddie R@ifixcoinops
And say it in front of a preteen and someone extremely online. If they snicker, don't use it.
And say it in front of a preteen and someone extremely online. If they snicker, don't use it.
queer as in fuck your borders@silvermoon82 @ifixcoinops And if you're not one, make sure to ask the queerest person you know, and a furry.
Possumantha@bright_helpings @silvermoon82 @ifixcoinops and if they are the same person find another furry, preferably an odder
Les Orchard@silvermoon82 @ifixcoinops huhu pee pee
Dr. Sobek@silvermoon82 @ifixcoinops A Preteen of which country ?
You are aware that every introductory to CS lecture in French has to deal with that ?
Why did you need to call binary digits « dicks » ?
@Sobex @silvermoon82 when I was little there were these felt-tip pens that had tips on both ends in different sizes. They were called Fat & Thin felt tips. In the UK at the time it was common for everything to be marked in several different languages and I guess the German word for fat is dick and that's why I had a pen that said fat dick
Lunaphied@ifixcoinops yeah I mean that's what we get for things being named after the protocol. Imagine if everyone referred to websites as "on HTTP" instead of "on the internet". It'd be a mess
@Lunaphied @ifixcoinops Some bloke in the UK: "You can find it on the HAYCH TEA TEA PEE!"
LisPi@Lunaphied @ifixcoinops It always sounds silly though because the Web is not the Internet.
There were all those whole proto-memes about surfing the web and whatever.
There were all those whole proto-memes about surfing the web and whatever.
yelling jackal@ifixcoinops it says a lot that I somehow didn't even know those two things were related. 
(and if I did, it certainly didn't stick!)
(and if I did, it certainly didn't stick!)