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submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Whereas fsck, short for "file system check", should be pronounced "fisk" when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it's "fuck".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

It's ef sock in my head

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

it kinda ends up as "fsuck" for me, which is apt-get when it doesn't magically fix all my filesystem issues

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this