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.

  • Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Idk who needs to know this, but in Norwegian “runke” means to jerk off. “runk” is the word you add a prefix to in conjugation to get the different inflections

    • runke - jerk off
    • runker - jerking off
    • runket - jerked off

    Etc…

    • Bezier@suppo.fi
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      2 months ago

      Hi, I’m a Finn. We also have a variation of this.

      Ronald’s Universal Number Kounter sounds like someone did it on purpose.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        2 months ago

        There’s a lot of that in the software world. I’m thinking of gimp.

        Graphics Image Manipulation Program, yeah right