If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

[tvwonder@mastodon.social]

@bloor @HollyGoDarkly yes, it sure ISS

[unsungnovelty@mastodon.social]

@exT0LI @bloor My comment was just a joke.

But TIL!
Never heard it pronounced it that way though.

As for .gif, it's pronounced as jif as in giraffe as per the creator of the file format. That should ideally settle it... but nooooooo.. Internet has opinions

[0f4d0335@infosec.exchange]

@bloor wait what's the joke

[joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social]

@bloor If you're French, it's pronounced "danse", as in DNS Macabre.

[argonaut@mastodon.social]

@bloor @briankrebs and LLM is pronounced “Lame”

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@bloor I like that actually. So I can be like. God damn Dennis did it again

[rzn@infosec.exchange]

@bloor surely you mean denues?

[wavefunction@mastodon.sdf.org]

@bloor tshirts printed.

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@robinadams @bloor I emailed her to tell her I was telling stories about her on the fedi, and she said that I forgot the important bit: she subsequently had it added as a title on her card and CV. Heh. So many of us at the edge of the dot com wave had really weird titles / job descriptions as we tried to figure out how far we could push boundaries before the money people would get cranky.

As it turns out, they didn't give a rat's patoot what we were doing, as long as we were working 80 hour weeks for the carrot of stock options.

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@dragonfrog @bloor Ooooh, the 1990s scuzzy vs sexy wars.

[tazpoltorak@fosstodon.org]

@bloor How do you think I pronounce Power BI?

[saustrup@mstdn.dk]

@bloor It's always Dennis.

[cleopatro@masto.es]

@macosas Y yo que no puedo soportar decir así SQL. Para mí siempre será S Q L

[simonk88@nerdculture.de]

@bloor
The name of the predecessor to SQL was SEQUEL

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor If you're like me and came from a Microsoft software development background, you might wonder about the proliferations of "sharps". The world replied "Those are hashtags!"

[v_perjorative@mastodon.org.uk]

@bloor my preference is for Squirrel and Dunce.

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@kevinrenskers @bloor @ekuber You're showing your Mario game lineage.

[daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se]

@bloor@bloor.tw it's Denise.

[jaeniemc@mastodon.online]

@bloor I’ve always called SQL “squiggle”

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@AncTreat5358 @mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor Used for hashtags but on their own they are just hashes. (Sharp in music is a different sign.)