devs naming an app:

macOS: Swoomp

Windows: Internet Manager 6 Extreme

Linux: klitoris

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[–] 143 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It's just "Copilot" for everything in Windows these days

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  • [–] 90 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Missed opportunity for the search input placeholder to say "Search for Copilot"

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Imagine a screenshot where someone is chatting with copilot, asking it to help them find copilot and copilot replies with frustration that the user needs to be more specific.

    Alternate answer: just click any icon.

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  • [–] 128 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    On Linux it's klitoris, forked to CLItoris, then open-clit, then freeclit then onepiece

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  • [–] 85 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

    Apple: someFancyName4

    Microsoft: Task Doing-er 5

    Linux: some cute animal

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Apple would use a minimalist and confusing name like: Task

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  • [–] 74 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    More like Linux: "Kritoris" which achtually is a 2500 year old greek symbol for harvest tools.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Linux devs would name something “Klitoris” literally just so the project website could say “you’ve finally found what you’re looking for”

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  • [–] 146 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I'm having trouble finding klitoris in the repos. Anyone know where it is? AUR?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    It's in the AUR as klitoris-gtk-git. Or is it klitoris-qt-git? There might have been a klitoris-qt-bin but the maintainer stopped updating that one like a year ago and nobody's picked it up. Actually now that I think about it none of the AUR versions are up to date, you gotta get it straght from github. Ah, no wait that one's a fork, the OG is on sourceforge. Or was it gitlab? No no no actually I remember now, it used to be up on gitlab but they moved over to GNU Savannah, so the gitlab version is out of date. Oh by the way it relies on old versions of libraries and other dependencies that no distros actually have in their repos anymore. It won't compile with the newer versions of those dependencies and they don't provide a binary. People are complaining about that on the Issues page but it's only developed by like one guy and he doesn't even know why the newer versions won't work he just knows it works on his system. Still refuses to provide a binary though. Oh right there's that fork I mentioned, that might work. Ah wait nevermind that was an attempt of making a gtk version of klitoris but the developer abandoned that project unfinished and hasn't been seen since 2022.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's a myth, it doesn't exist.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    It's by kde.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    10x devs just vibe code it in Rust to balance out the security issues 🤔

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    If it was written in python it’s PyMagpie. Qt? QtPie. Rust? IThinkImSecureBecauseTheLanguageIUseButTheresMoreToItThanIUnderstandPie JavaScript? IStealAllYourRAMAndaiDontCarePie.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] [S] 36 points 6 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    bash: meow?: command not found

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    The Linux one isn't realistic, this is not an ancronym.

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  • [–] 64 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    KLITORIS

    KALI

    Linux

    Intrusion

    Testing

    Operation

    Response

    Incident

    System

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    That's just KDE. But why am I imagining a mirror dimension universe where its called CDE and all the software names are normal words with the k's replaced with c's.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    i love Linux

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Gotta love FOSS, gotta love klitoris.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Is this just a reference to The GIMP or are there other common apps with dodgy names? I'm struggling to think of any.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 6 months ago

    The app starting with K is probably a nod to how KDE names many of their projects something that starts with K. (Konsole, Kate, Kdenlive, Krita).

    The litoris part probably refers to how linux apps often name things after random weird stuff, e.g. gimp, but it's not always genital/sexual related I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Latex and that one other thing which I forgot

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Latex is just a kind of rubber, and a material produced by some plants used for making rubber. Sure, if you're not careful when googling, you can get dodgy results with "latex" in the terms, but that seems to me to be of a different calibre.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    LaTeX is the #1 Material used in fetish clothes. Its pretty much the only use for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry what? What about:

    • Shoes
    • Gloves
    • Tyres
    • Elastic bands
    • Balloons

    All of these are made (partly) from natural (i.e. latex) rubber.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yes I'm dumb, I didn't express myself well. I meant to say that its the most prominent use for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Hmm, fair enough but I would say latex gloves and latex condoms are equally prominent (the latter obviously not helpful as far as avoiding dodgy results on Google)

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Oh I’m not in femcelmemes

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    grep grep grep grep grep grep grep grep grep

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Windows names sound like a boss fight, Linux names sound like a typo that stuck 😭

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Looks like it might be a Windows command line tool this time

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