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mothra(1) (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

https://man.9front.org/1/mothra

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why is every single piece of open source code some form of a bad pun?

Does the GPL require that somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Same principle why you purposely mispronounce a word in your youtube video. So that people would get triggered, leave a comment and drive the engagement numbers up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Note that mothra, like the other Guardian Monsters, has no particular concern for humanity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Also, for context for the software package's name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra

[–] CodexArcanum 3 points 5 months ago

Web names, called URLs, have a peculiar syntax: