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

[viq@social.hackerspace.pl]

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@clarfonthey @bloor

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@alisynthesis @bloor yep

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@alisynthesis @bloor and I think this AU could learn a thing or two about naming from ours because "sequel"? ugh. Squirrel. Way better.

[matdave@floss.social]

@bloor its Denis

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

@moira I mean, I obviously love it. I'm just confused because there is no r OH WAIT of course there is an r, in query!

I'm bringing this superior pronunciation to the U.S. of A.

@bloor

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@alisynthesis @bloor How does "sequel" even make thematic sense? What do squirrels do with the important thing (for us data, for them nuts and seeds)? Store them and find them again! Just like SQL does!

But no. "Sequel." What does that even mean. Honestly. SQL is Squirrel.

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@alisynthesis @bloor excellent

squirrel ftw

[gandalfdg@indieweb.social]

@bloor deenis

[danyoder@mastodon.social]

@bloor I am still refusing to call it sequel. It's not worth saving one syllable!

[mokomull@macaw.social]

@praetor @bloor learned it at Texas A&M? http://tea-sip.urbanup.com/1049253

[iveryam@mastodon.social]

@bloor

DNS

Dee and Ess

Dinesh?

[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.