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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 160 points 3 months ago (19 children)

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

  • gimp
  • finger
  • john the ripper
  • libcaca
  • toilet
  • fsck
[–] db2@lemmy.world 140 points 3 months ago (3 children)

unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

man

every Command Line Interface Tool

(not Linux but there are special printers for clothing called DTF's )

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 46 points 3 months ago

Don't forget fuck

[–] Una@europe.pub 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like how developers are not shying away from possibility of them having foot fetish (foot terminal, gnome logo being a foot)

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 43 points 3 months ago (12 children)

The foot is actually symbolic for the devs stepping all over you with their opinionated design and no choices

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] hectocotylus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 17 points 3 months ago

Also, in Italian "sudo" means "I sweat".

sudo nano

means "I sweat, dwarf"

[–] okmko@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Man, I remember laughing like a school boy when I first heard of the "finger" util in college, lol.

Also finger \! && exit

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 92 points 3 months ago (1 children)

KDE's tool to configure an IntelliPoint™ device.

[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Its called a cat-tongue. Everyone that refers to it as anything else is wrong

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We need a command line interface named Toris. CLI Toris

[–] zen@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Like if Nautilus is any better

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

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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)

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 28 points 3 months ago

I can never find that program...

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago (18 children)

I'm still amazed people use and browse the septic tank of the internet. Xitter just won't stop.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

bash: klitoris: command not found...
:(

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, you should touch klitoris or finger klitoris, not bash it.

man klitoris

no manual entry for klitoris

Well that explains a lot.

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 23 points 3 months ago (24 children)

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.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Don't recall if it had a Linux port, but anyone remembers Nesticle?

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is the GNOME version called Gock?

[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would not be surprised if KDE already had "Klitoris"

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

does anyone have the repo? I can't find it

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[–] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gonna make a TUI music player and call it D-Bussy

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

There's a very useful linux tool called "fuck". When you make a typo in a CLI command and get an error message, all you have to do is type "fuck" and it looks at your last command and the error message and takes a guess at fixing it. If it's right all you have to do is hit Enter.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2026version: copilot internet 365 just shortened to copilot after the next MBA is hired.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, all Windows software is starting to sound the same, with as little clue as possible as to what it actually does. Remote Desktop on Mac is called "Windows App". What does that mean? Everything else is called 365.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It's called Windows app on Windows now as well. But they also have remote desktop still, and they're not intercompatible.

Microsoft truly are terrible at naming things. They always have been. Remember XBone?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hey, I finger the klitoris of my thinkpad all the time

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[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
klitoris: Permission denied
[–] epyon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] CaffeinatedCubits@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago

Searched everywhere and can't find the download. Does anyone have a link for the latest klitoris? I can't locate it and my wife is getting pissed.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's my favorite app to play around with

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago

GNOME folks are like "well, before GNOME was even a thing, we had this application called The Gimp, and we kinda wish we didn't call it that, so please don't name your apps for laughs OK?"

[–] Toryu122@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

You think that's the worst?

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago

Passable censoring, 2/3 successfully censored

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I'm kind of surprised that Apple didn't name the iPhone just "Phone".

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