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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And GIF is pronounced GIF

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No no, we won't be having any of that. It's not GIF it's GIF!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They can pry my /ɡɪf/ from my cold dead hands.

/dʒɪf/ heretics can burn

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

PNG is pronounced "PING!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CMYK is pronounced smück.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Schmuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

P- iNG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The fuck?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lo and behold,

P[i]NG

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

careful there buddy