2026-10-27 17:10 UTC
Why in the name of fuck did they call it the "finger protocol"?!?
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@lukyan@lukyan.eu 2026-10-27 17:17
@png@yap.pony.biz Someone seeing others using their fingers to point at output of another program, and so choosing to name a program automating that. (At least that's the story Wikipedia points to.) There is also the verb, and I could expect this being a reference to digital technology.