If you did it right, your tool or service will exist for decades to come, if you have the option to not call it something fsck, fwkc, fck, etc. it's worth exercising that option.
Even when poking fun at myself, I choose names of projects carefully. It's pretty easy to not be a jerk, at least in this way.
How could you possibly know this, where do you draw the line?
For something people, "Hacker News" is surely offensive because "hacker" is generally thought of as a negative term (Yes, I know our meaning, others generally don't).
GitHub could also be offensive to some, "git" after all is as much of a swear-word as "fck".
Good luck explaining a less-techy client at your job that fck-nat, fsck (which was originally just "fuck", afaik) and so on are fine puns and no one's holding a gun to their head either. I feel similar about recursive acronyms. These are funny-ish when you're in your mom jokes phase, but then someone asks you what that means and sometimes you can see their "what a bunch of creeps" reaction when you try to explain. Not surprising that people try to avoid that "we can use FCK for our SHT instances in CRP network" nonsense.
EDIT: Here: https://cme.h-its.org/exelixis/pubs/JanThesis.pdf
(Linus was supposedly well aware of the meaning when he chose it.)
In many countries c*nt is one of the more terrible swearwords could imagine. In Ireland it's friendly banter. d*ckhead can be either a term of endearment amongst (close) friends, or an insult in Australia, and worse in other countries.
In many, if not most, non American countries, f*ck just doesn't cut the mustard when swearing.
Heck, in the UK, they have a major high street brand called FCUK.
= filesystem check
please stop being this thin skinned
> First, let's review what fsck, or the File System ChecK program, actually does.
Again, stop being this amount of thin skinned, it is rather ridiculous.
Also, I find your reaction thin skinned-ish as well. Why throw stop commands if you ought to not care? Cause it’s ridiculous? Well, we have more in common than you think then.
Oh really. You're the one who can't shut up about some app that used to be named f*ck but was renamed some 30+ years ago still grinds your gears.
It's an (ancient) light hearted joke, please just drop it.
I care about the state of the world, and I find it deeply depressing people run around being prude like we're some kind of Christian middle ages society.
Here's the thing: there is no reason not to keep pointing out that these are just bad names. And by pointing that out every time, someone might just pay attention and give their tool a better name in the future, because they took heed and decided against calling their tool "cwnt" in favour of calling it "check-wnat". And you will never know it could have been called the "oh stop being so thin skinned" cwnt.
And as a bonus, folks don't have to guess at what it does, the name tells you. Imagine if fsck had just been called checkfs... it would have been both a better name and would have saved a lot of askubuntu/superuser/etc posts.
You learn something new every day. To be fair, this rename is 10 years old!