Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any product name that needs a voice file to explain itself is a bad name 🤦 what were they thinking?

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  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forgejo (/forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ – inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge) source

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rijndael is pronounced AES.

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have some bad new for you about Linux…

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hadn’t heard that before, but that is exactly how I also pronounce it 😍

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let me guess: You think everyone needs to speak english?

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your assumptions betray you. I speak 4 languages fluently/natively and two-three more poorly. English is not my native language.

      This is not about language, but about marketing. Thank you.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “i cant pronounce word therefore bad”

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You speak 4 languages, but not Esperanto?

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We can name things Forge in English, but not in a different language without your criticism?

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t call that “seething”, the project is targeting an English speaking audience (English is the source, other languages are translation targets), effectively no one is a native speaker of Esperanto, and it’s usage is small enough that someone could quite possibly never encounter the language.
      Bad project names are common enough in programming and open source, and complained about, that I wouldn’t jump right to xenophobia as the reason someone might complain that a project picked a name knowing it would be difficult to pronounce.

      They can name it whatever they want, but getting that angry that someone didn’t recognize a word in an anglisiced spelling of a word from a niche language is uncalled for.

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