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Has "genode" any meaning in English, or is it just an artistic blend of "generic" and "node" or similar? I'm asking because my brain read "Genocide OS" at the
by blauditore 1y ago
Has "genode" any meaning in English, or is it just an artistic blend of "generic" and "node" or similar?
I'm asking because my brain read "Genocide OS" at the first pass, which seems a bit unfortunate.
- iamnothere 1y agoPlease don’t make insubstantial comments about project names. There is a plague of this kind of comment here.
- dvh 1y agoWell op has 3x more karma then you which means he's 3x more likely to understand the hn vibe then you. Secondly, the famous joke says that there are 2 hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation and naming things, so names of the computer projects are legitimate topic.
- iamnothere 1y agoI rarely comment hence the low karma, which isn’t a reliable indicator anyway (plus this is not Reddit). And besides, this is my fourth or fifth account. Naming comments are too frequently used to derail conversations here, particularly threads on FOSS projects. These threads never lead to a productive conversation and I fail to see any purpose other than trolling or “joking around” (if you can even call it that).
- hundchenkatze 1y agoThen just downvote/flag and move on. Commenting just to complain furthers the derailment, here were are 4 layers in... imo there's nothing wrong with discussing project names.
- iamnothere 1y agoFrankly I’d be happy to see a formal rule against it, or at least a community norm, but only frequent complaint is likely to drive things in that direction. I see these comments almost daily, it’s a true plague. And never once have I seen it lead to an actual real-world change. Name-related comments most often serve as a sort of drive-by “dunking” for indirectly hating on projects. Do we really need a hundredth person commenting on a thread about Mastodon that there is also a band with the same name? What does that add to the conversation? I recognize that I’m tilting at windmills, but someone has to speak up about it.
- slekker 1y agoMy mind went to Genome :^)
- lucideer 1y agoCurious if you're a native English speaker - the "-cide" suffix has a general root meaning of "to kill", which means that words ending in it generally have the opposite connotation to the word with the suffix. E.g. "Eco" has positive connotations whereas "ecocide" has negative ones. Similarly, here "geno" would never naturally seem to have negative connotations without the suffix. Just my 2c
- geor9e 1y agoThey just read it too fast and it's the closest real word geno(ci)de
- prerok 1y agoWell, to expand on your point, the -cide suffix is actually rooted in Latin. So, even us, non-native English speakers would sooner recognize that word as opposed to other words. That said, the term genode is familiar to me, so I did not get the negative vibes.
- calvinmorrison 1y agoyour reply had me reread this and its apparently "Genode" not "Geode OS" which sounds cooler to me.
- geor9e 1y agoI too read it as genocide, the closest real english word, and assumed it was some catty editorial headline about Israeli army tech. But no, it was named before that word's recent spike in news popularity. It's from Germany so you'd have to consider it in the German language. There's no name explanation given, but -de is their country code, and geno- is from greek.
- stavros 1y agoI'm always reading it as "geode", "genocide" is inserting quite a few letters there.
- maksimur 1y agoI've read it as "genocide" too and I scrolled down to see if there were any comments like yours. I wasn't disappointed.