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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 1 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 2.952s | source
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dividedbyzero ◴[15 Jul 20 07:49 UTC] No.23842409[source]▶
That's been long overdue and will hopefully help Matrix make inroads into more conservative organizations; I believe the tech is really promising. It's a definite liability, trying to introduce people to Matrix, when the de-facto default client's name evokes all kinds of unhelpful associations – it doesn't sound like work at all and it does sound like gamers, toys, apparently even like a far-left political organisation. Element should be fine for everyone.
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srg0 ◴[15 Jul 20 08:59 UTC] No.23842798[source]▶
looking at you, git
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oehtXRwMkIs ◴[15 Jul 20 09:04 UTC] No.23842833[source]▶
funny thing about git is as a non-Brit, I thought for the longest time it was a made up word.
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1. Xenoamorphous ◴[15 Jul 20 12:05 UTC] No.23844002[source]▶
I thought so too (not a native English speaker, had never seen that word before) until I read a quote from Linus saying that he likes to name his projects after himself.