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Riot is now Element

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dividedbyzero ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.23842798[source]
looking at you, git
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istjohn ◴[] No.23843725[source]
For any other confused Americans:

Git is a term of insult with origins in English denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. As a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less pejorative than berk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)

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athenot ◴[] No.23845064{3}[source]
One of the best pranks I've seen is people getting endorsed for git on LinkedIn, from coworkers who don't think quite so high of them as pretended during office hours.
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1. dmos62 ◴[] No.23845739{4}[source]
> coworkers who don't think quite so high of them as pretended during office hours

Sounds malicious.