Divs seems short and snappy.
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This is the only one here that doesn't make me cringe
pirates?
Deez Naughts
Leech my seed!
... im sorry, rofl
If only i can add this as an instance tagline 😔
Maybe pirates or mates, since piracy is one of our core philosophies here. And our other ones also align with that similarly by being things that are rejected by current norm much like pirates were rejected by the current society at the time. I don't know maybe it's too obvious or boring.
One thought I had
m@tes
- It uses the word
matewhich is A) Pirate-coded B) Non-gendered - It uses 1337speak, which fits with the domain name (dbzer0)
- It uses a circled 'a' which, you know...
I love it
Except for the fact that I read it as user@domain
I like it!
Technically I think it should be M4735 or M4T35 in 1337/L33T, but that is nowhere near as readable for most folks.
I like m@tes. I would want to stick with the pirate theme and in lots of the world, "mate" is a friend.
Love the idea of assuming we're all on the same side. Because we are.
Then the circled a is a good reminder.
This is solid stuff, db0.
Ahoy m@tey!
Good one m@te
How about b@ts, as in "bats" referring to many things, among them:
- Landstreicher's translation of Stirner's "bats in the belfry" expression
- "Bats," referring to the expression of insanity for our neurodiverse and other friends
- Bats, the animals, live in dark caves and only come out at night (pejorative for us being internet nerds)
- It uses the @ symbol and fits all of your criteria
- Bats are cool
zero dividers
A division by zero is incalculable. On computers, this is sometimes represented by a special value NaN, which stands for "Not a number".
So we could be NaNs? Although a few Anglo countries use Nan to refer to a grandmother.
Another benefit: NaN implies a kind of freedom. To quote from the cult 60's show The Prisoner: "I am not a number, I am a free man"
that would be so fucking rad
... I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is... Naan bread, lol.
Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.
Its pronounced like... Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.
Nullheads, zeronauts, diverrs?
Dunno, not creative
I think the first two are... well they got more flair, more pizzazz than my suggestions!
Maybe you could ... go from diverrs to like... webdivers, or some flaired up spelling of that?
More of an old school / stereotypical cyberpunk way of saying you're doing a big deep dive into the net to find useful info, webdivers or netdivers.
I did say i'm not creative :) I like db0's m@tey personally. Your suggestions aren't bad, either
Thanks haha.
Always remember:
Sucking at something is the first step toward being kinda good at something.
=D
Thanks :D (i dont know if you saw my other comment, i was replying to someone else but i got confused sorry lol)
I did, and seeing as it didn't make much sense contextually, assumed as much, lol.
The... cascading/branching comment thing... is better than a pure, one after another forum structure, but it does have complications.
Haha yeah sorry about that... Discovered that error hours later lol
all good, i guess uh, cheers m@tey, yargh, haha!
I recommend "Mathematical Criminals" for obviois reason.
I will not take questions, please deliver the prize to my home.
You'd have to give us your address!
Donald J. Trump, white house, washingtom D.C.
I'd please like a package Bomb as prize, thank you
I like the cut of your gib.
For the outside the instance, something from the instance name would be intuitive.
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Ds ("dees")
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Divs
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Dbs ("div/dee-bees")
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0s ("ohs/zees/zeros")
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Db0s ("div/dee-bee-ohs/zees") which seems easiest for those all round.
Outside the instance, I'm not sure! I like the thinking of the mate but it still seems a bit too... something
Lmfao I kind of like db0s because if you pronounce it "oh" instead of 0 it's the default schema for all m$ databases.... Haha
Lol I take it back
These are mostly joke suggestions, but:
NaNs
nulls
voids
unhandled exceptions
... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism, or can be interpreted as adopting a self-referential moniker which mocking the systems anarchists critique.
... probably it is a bit of a reach, but a good number of people refer to black cats as 'voids' these days, and ... pretty decent history of angry black cats as symbols of anarchism.
You could also maybe l33tsp33k them up a bit?
Use 'z' instead of 's' to pluralize?
... common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism
first I didn't understand, but this way "unhandled exceptions" sounds very cool. maybe a bit long though
Depending on what programming language you are using, and precisely how you've coded a function, which exact numerical data types, and functions/methods you are using...
Actually attempting to divide something by zero will result in either NaN, Not a Number, Null, or an Unhandled Exception, as an... output value/error type.
I tried to explain 'void' a bit better, Im not personally familiar with any code language that'll have 'void' as an output/error type when you try to divide by zero... but most people use the phrase 'null and void', so, my brain associated that word in as well.
As far as how those terms refer back to an anarchist mindset?
I am 'not a number', I am a human being, so are all others.
Null or nulled out has been a cyberpunkish slang term to refer to both an individual being seen as inherently unspecial, not unique, made into just another consumer/commodity... as well referring to actually killing or otherwise neutralizing someone or something... for decades now.
It seems you get the less programmy meaning of 'unhandled exception', in the 'become ungovernable' sense, but now hopefully you also get the math/programmer meaning, and see how these all work as double entendres or at least have somewhat esoteric meanings.
... The problem is that they don't work as well in common speech as a replacement for common nouns... with at least one of the reasons why that is the case being that evidently the multifarious meanings are too esoteric, lol, which is why I said I was mostly proposing these as jokes.
no I understand the programming side of it, I meant how "unhandled exceptions" translates to the real world that I didn't get immediately (exactly that it's similar to "be ungovernable", as you said)
0s pirates divers arcs
idk anything else
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