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Comment by 9dev

21 hours ago

Oh pretty please, if we revive this protocol, can we please pick a better name? Like, any name? Literally anything else, that doesn’t evoke weirdly sexual imagery?

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Bender  20 hours ago

Well I thought about it and if it's a body part there will be someone into that. Then I thought maybe poke, nope some are into that too. I guess maybe "status" port? Kindof like having an away message. It could be a fixed buffer as to not overlflow. Of course that could be accomplished in DNS using TXT.

Honestly I am too lazy to make an RFC. Maybe if enough people make a finger.domain.tld text record it would catch on. [1]

    dig +short -t txt finger.nochan.net
    "status: currently spending time on hacker news."

or replace the finger binary with a shell function: [2]

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/#TXT/finger.nochan.net

[2] - https://blawg.nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260527-DNS-A-Repl...

  • 9dev  12 hours ago

    Your point is valid, but how do you feel telling your wife today I fingered Alice, and guess what she was up to?

    • Bender  5 hours ago

      Well that depends on the marriage. She might want to smell what Alice is up to.

sedatk  18 hours ago

Wait until you hear about USB condoms.

  • Bender  17 hours ago

    In my electronics class in high school we learned to strip and do joints.

    We also learned the resister color codes via mnemonics.

    "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly, Get Some Now" Curious if they still teach that one. [1] Wikipedia says it is outdated / offensive but it was back then too.

    [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_...

    • tardedmeme  7 hours ago

      Black Boys, since the first mnemonic letter is for the color black. And we didn't have Get Some Now, that feels redundant since everyone knows gold is better than silver.