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.

  • Bezier
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    164 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
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      114 months ago

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

      Graphics Image Manipulation Program, yeah right