Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don’t have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about “lemmings” or “redditors”. We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Ideas?
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”
… 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.
that would be so fucking rad
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?
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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.
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Thanks haha.
Always remember:
Sucking at something is the first step toward being kinda good at something.
=D
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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.
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all good, i guess uh, cheers m@tey, yargh, haha!
zeronauts
I like that one!
I’m not hosted on this instance, but I worry that named identities based on instance host may lead to tribalism, which would be unhealthy for Lemmy users and the fediverse as a whole. Using phrases like “local users” or “users of [instance name]” or “[instance name] accounts” may be a better option. We’re all in this big network to have a good time together.
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Anarchists and elitism, can you imagine?
Doesn’t lend well.
This just in: gay people are elitist because they have their own culture and in-jokes! How dare they exclude homophobic straight people by calling themselves fags and other things
“Can you imagine?” in this context usually is a scoff or an expression of disbelief.
“Doesn’t lend well” here means those two things don’t mesh.
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Of course I was.
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Oh no, I know it’s my fault. You know I have a folksy, colloquial way of speaking, and I type like I speak.
Also makes it easier to remember.
I completely disagree. It’s not tribalism, it’s respecting coequal instance cultural differences. Each instance is self-governing, has an in group and an out group, and has culture associated with it as well as having voluntary association. If you want to erase individual instance identity and culture, good for you. Encourage that in your own instance or communities. We, as anarchists, pirates, neurodivergents and other things can decide these things for ourselves
Ahoy m@tey!
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.
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
Good one m@te
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 love it
Except for the fact that I read it as user@domain
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.
Inside 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
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pirates?
i really do love the idea of m@tes
Divs seems short and snappy.
This is the only one here that doesn’t make me cringe
zero dividers
mates or mateys whatever’s fine
Deez Naughts
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Leech my seed!
… im sorry, rofl
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.
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.
0s pirates divers arcs
idk anything else
