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Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by jcynix on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:28PM (#29299409)
I agree. Apple Mail, Apple Safari, Microsoft Windows, etc pp. Makes certain searches hard or almost impossible (until the arrival of the semantic web).

You'd expect that the people who chose these "names" have dogs named "dog" and their childs have names like boy" or "girl" ...

Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo... by almaember on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:24PM (#29299876)
To be fair, Windows was named way before the WWW was a thing. And Apple Mail is an email client, so it absolutely makes sense.