• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    As a German, it’s always fun to use the ss command. The SS was the organization that did most of the genocide under Hitler. That’s a bad name around here, so people are always surprised that a command is named that.

    But what’s even more fun is that we can memorize the standard set of flags as -tulpn, because it’s basically spelled+pronounced like “Tulpen”, which is German for tulips.

    So, occasionally I get to tell people to type “SS-tulips” into their terminal and it always confuses the hell out of them. 🙃

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      3 months ago

      I think most Americans think of that as well. It’s even the first several Google search results for “ss”. Bad name choice.

      Though we (Americans) didn’t get the fun “tulip” bit.

      • sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        Funny, in the US I just saw a car that was an “SS” model and I thought “Huh, apparently SS doesn’t immediately scream Nazis to Americans” (SS => Super Sport apparently, to Chevrolet)

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, the nazi secret police is still the first thing that comes to mind when most Americans hear/see “SS” without context.

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        3 months ago

        There’s so many poor names in FOSS but people refuse to change them out of attachment for history. One other example comes to mind: Gimp.

        Basically, devs are terrible at naming things.

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      3 months ago

      And it’s used for killing… processes.

      On a separate note, I wish such tutorials explained what the commands are abbreviations of. Would make it easier to remember.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, I hate that, too. I just looked it up: ss is “socket statistics”.

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      3 months ago

      ss -tulpn was a welcome find for me. I have it memorized for netstat and dislike always having to install it on a new box, very handy tool