As a German, it’s always fun to use the ss command. The SS was the organization that did most of the genocide under Hitler. That’s a bad name around here, so people are always surprised that a command is named that.
But what’s even more fun is that we can memorize the standard set of flags as -tulpn, because it’s basically spelled+pronounced like “Tulpen”, which is German for tulips.
So, occasionally I get to tell people to type “SS-tulips” into their terminal and it always confuses the hell out of them. 🙃
Funny, in the US I just saw a car that was an “SS” model and I thought “Huh, apparently SS doesn’t immediately scream Nazis to Americans” (SS => Super Sport apparently, to Chevrolet)
As a German, it’s always fun to use the
sscommand. The SS was the organization that did most of the genocide under Hitler. That’s a bad name around here, so people are always surprised that a command is named that.But what’s even more fun is that we can memorize the standard set of flags as
-tulpn, because it’s basically spelled+pronounced like “Tulpen”, which is German for tulips.So, occasionally I get to tell people to type “SS-tulips” into their terminal and it always confuses the hell out of them. 🙃
I think most Americans think of that as well. It’s even the first several Google search results for “ss”. Bad name choice.
Though we (Americans) didn’t get the fun “tulip” bit.
Funny, in the US I just saw a car that was an “SS” model and I thought “Huh, apparently SS doesn’t immediately scream Nazis to Americans” (SS => Super Sport apparently, to Chevrolet)
Yeah, the nazi secret police is still the first thing that comes to mind when most Americans hear/see “SS” without context.
There’s so many poor names in FOSS but people refuse to change them out of attachment for history. One other example comes to mind: Gimp.
Basically, devs are terrible at naming things.
Unique and Bad names are very memorable
Like WSUS for patching windows machines, very sus indeed :)
And it’s used for killing… processes.
On a separate note, I wish such tutorials explained what the commands are abbreviations of. Would make it easier to remember.
Yeah, I hate that, too. I just looked it up:
ssis “socket statistics”.ss -tulpnwas a welcome find for me. I have it memorized for netstat and dislike always having to install it on a new box, very handy toolI’ll remember that.