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by zipperhead 3568 days ago
I like ss, except I can never seem to remember the name. The two letters don't seem to have any relation to the functionality.

The man page refers to it as "ss - another utility to investigate sockets". That doesn't seem to help.
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tangue 3568 days ago
For different (historical ww2 reasons) I don't like the name and I wish ss had a more meaningful name ...
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txutxu 3568 days ago
ss - Sockets Stat (?)
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tangue 3568 days ago
In Europe ( at least in France ) ss means Nazis' Waffen SS. Something like sostat would have been a better choice imho.
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txutxu 3568 days ago
Sorry, I'm from Europe too, and I did feel in my skin, the Nazi ideology that remains, when working in Holland/The Netherlands for 2 years. If I read "ss" in a computer/programing context, I don't think about Nazis. The same that I love rainbows, and I'm not gay.

People takes symbols as a totalitarian thing. We are free to skip their imposition and use things as we like. We are still free to do it. Really. We can appreciate the beauty of a rainbow after a rain/sun combination, and not impose our sexual unsolicited demonstrations to anyone because of it. It's just a nature thingy.

We can say "ss" for a program that print sockets stats, and skip remembering Nazis. It's opensource, any skin tone can use, modify and redistribute, ss. We can do it, or, we can stick to bad memories, and name things just and only, as Israeli stuff.

I didn't think about it, and probably the person that did name the program, neither. Anyway, I see your point, the name can bring negative sentiments to some persons which see the daemon in a piece of source code or in an acronym in unrelated context.

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tangue 3568 days ago
Millenials in my team think like you so I think It' s not that bad. And for some time I was a a hudge advocate for a js testing library named "testacular" which is far worse in retrospective ... " What's in a name" ...
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kleiba 3568 days ago
Nope, sorry. I'm with the (great grand) parent(s) on this one: my first association when reading about 'ss' in this thread was "Schutzstaffel" as well. I think I would think about it every time I'd have to type it into a shell, but luckily, I don't do much network related development.
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