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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 91 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

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

  • gimp
  • finger
  • john the ripper
  • libcaca
  • toilet
  • fsck
[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 minutes ago
[–] db2@lemmy.world 66 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

man

every Command Line Interface Tool

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

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget fuck

[–] Una@europe.pub 13 points 2 hours 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 8 points 55 minutes ago

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

[–] sundray@lemmus.org -1 points 59 minutes ago

Ugh, "gimp"? Seriously?

And the name isn't great either.