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.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 month ago

    MAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder

    You’re thinking of LAME. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      51 month ago

      See why those names are kinda dumb? You end up with a lot of fairly similar 4 letter words.