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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. 🙃
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)
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.
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: ss is "socket statistics".
ss -tulpn was a welcome find for me. I have it memorized for netstat and dislike always having to install it on a new box, very handy tool
I’ll remember that.
I didn't knew about lsof -i, noted
I will simply Google this next time I need it
What makes Google search useful is articles like this not the opposite.
Like those AI fans. Why a website if I can ask AI? :/
