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Terry Allen 🇪🇺14h ago

If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)23h ago

@bloor "Denice", surely?

@greem yeah that's the best thing I've read all day. Calling it Denice for ever now.

Jonathan Bennett 19h ago

"What's the IP address for that web site?"

"Dunno. Have you asked Denice?"

DJ RNDM 20h ago

@greem @bloor m-A-AA-RON-a

Sam Clemente 19h ago

@greem @bloor
Broke: "Sequel" and "Dennis"

Woke: "Squeal" and "Denice"

The cat who walks thru walls 18h ago

@countablenewt I will always treasure the memory of a cow-orker who once pronounced SQL*Plus as "squeal! splat! plus!" (I am well aware he was not the only one) @greem @bloor

@mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor If you're like me and came from a Microsoft software development background, you might wonder about the proliferations of "sharps". The world replied "Those are hashtags!"

Enola Knezevic 8h ago

@AncTreat5358 @mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor Used for hashtags but on their own they are just hashes. (Sharp in music is a different sign.)

@rhelune Thank you.

Just to be clear, my post was referring to the programming languages C# and F# (pronounced C-sharp and F-sharp). I believe these are rendered as pound signs instead of the musical shape.

Enola Knezevic 5h ago

@AncTreat5358 I know, that's Microsoft's fault. Just like calling it "hashtag" is Twitter's. Language evolves, to "decimate" now means to destroy way more than 10%, and "literally" now means "figuratively".

Sam Clemente 1h ago

@rhelune @AncTreat5358 "Awesome" can mean "cool" or "Terrifying"

"Cleave" can mean "Force apart" or "Force together"

English isn't hard...

@greem @bloor Denise?

Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)18h ago

@WiteWulf @bloor that one completely passes over my head I'm afraid!

@greem @bloor David Duchovny’s character from Twin Peaks, Denise.

The first Denise that sprang to my mind, after Debbie Harry and Denis 🥰

salyavin 15h ago

@WiteWulf
Denise the menace
@greem @bloor

Iván Sánchez Ortega 23h ago

@bloor [Insert "Dennis the Menace" joke here]

jtonline 22h ago

@IvanSanchez @bloor definitely a menace!

Ian Campbell 🏴16h ago

@IvanSanchez @bloor consider it inserted ;)

https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116258588294304846

Ian Campbell 🏴 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] leading to one of my favorite conference swag shirts my employer has ever made.

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Matt Hall 23h ago

"It's _always_ Dennis."

Shawn Webb 23h ago

@bloor Our very own @jimsalter would likely remind you it's pronounced "dee niss".

Corey Snipes 🌱23h ago

@lattera @bloor @jimsalter that's where I was headed

Jim Salter 22h ago

@lattera @bloor it's the leanest, the meanest.

@bloor I prefer "squeal" and "dunce."

@bloor mDNS is "madness."

Owl Eyes 21h ago

@mansr @bloor true. #Apple and #Microsoft ensures this, BTW

Peter Drake 21h ago

@mansr @bloor "squeal" except in October, when it's "skull".

@mansr @bloor
I prefer Squirrel and Dance

@bloor “There’s some lovely filth over ‘ere!”

Ken Butler 22h ago

@jimfl @bloor I didn't know you were *called* DNS.

@nxskok @bloor “Well, you could query for a CNAME record…”

Colin Beveridge 20h ago

@jimfl @nxskok @bloor pronounced “tsunami”

Ken Butler 19h ago

@icecolbeveridge @jimfl @bloor stealing this!

@nxskok @bloor @[email protected]

Ken Butler 19h ago

@jimfl @bloor this being Mastodon, that *has* to be the name of a server somewhere.

Icewind 23h ago

@bloor
Site breaks: God dammit Dennis!

fraggle 20h ago

@robin @bloor I'm calling it DNS the Menace from now on

John Maxwell 23h ago

@bloor That would make DNS vulnerabilities Dennis Menaces?

Neil Brown 23h ago

@bloor And where does that leave RSS?!

@neil @bloor Skibidy RSS

Jon Roach 20h ago

@jimfl @neil @bloor arssssse

@jimfl @neil @bloor Pronounced rizz ofc

Guillaume Ross 23h ago

@neil @bloor It's pronounced rizz

Haelwenn /элвэн/

@g @neil @bloor Or ASS when it's a bad font.

Neil Brown 22h ago

@lanodan @bloor @g

(I was anticipating "arse", fwiw!)

Neil Brown 22h ago

@lanodan @bloor @g

Which, I should say, is a sentence that I would prefer not to be taken out of context!

Guillaume Ross 22h ago

@neil @lanodan @bloor

@neil @lanodan @bloor @g Exactly! It was right there!

@lanodan @bloor @g @neil ASS is reserved for subtitles

@neil @bloor "Arses"

Juno Jove 4h ago

@neil @bloor rizz

@bloor It is now.

Bryan Haskin 21h ago

Third spruce tree on the left 20h ago

@bhhaskin @kelson @bloor we live in a _spaceship_, dear

ilias 🏴‍☠️💙💛23h ago

@bloor actually, considering how DNS works, it should be pronounced as "Donos"

(joke explanation: it's russian for "snitching", "denunciation")

BigLinter 23h ago

@bloor well, we put salt into our hash before ... we smoke it?

things that happen if half of your cybersecurity community are potheads

@bloor it's always Dennis

Jason Rush 22h ago

🚴 📷22h ago

@bloor as ZFS is pronounced Zeffus

@patnat @bloor Zuse?

Only you have to slur it pretty hard

Hibou Chachara 22h ago

@bloor JSON agrees.