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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I remember reading a story here not too long ago about a guy who broke the internet by taking his code away because some big company forced to have his package's name or something along those lines

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Mark Russanovich was just some guy who had trouble fixing Windows computers so he wrote systernals from scratch including widely used psexec and other required tools if you are forced to be a windows admin. He has since grown up into a very hansom man who runs Azure which sucks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"He has since grown up into a very hansom man who runs Azure which sucks."

Thanks for this. Really brightened my day.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Runk means masturbation in Icelandic so that adds another layer of hilarity to this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I'm from the west coast of Canada, a euphemism for jerking off where/when I grew up is "pulling the pud." Moving to the UK had some funny bits...like Christmas Pud...as in pudding(dessert). Pronounced slightly different, but my inner 6 year old had a laugh anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pudendum

It's a more general English phrase. Could come up with a good insult for transphobes with this though. "Pud CHUDs?"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Same in Swedish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

runk is the thomas ladder of our era

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
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