Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them...

VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thank you for explaining, I only know nonce being used to refer to someone as a pedo so Noncefest certainly raised an eyebrow. I can only assume this guy was unaware of the meaning.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The slang term for pedophile is only used in the UK, hence the Americans keep doing this.

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    • phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We need to bring it to our own lexicon. It packs a punch. 😂

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• outlawcarl@fedinsfw.app ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Am from the UK and my mom would call anyone she didnt like on TV a nonce (turns out she had a high accuratarcy rate) so i grew up thinking it just meant stupid, which resulted in me calling myself a nonce when making a mistake at work to peoples shock and amusment.

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  • genzboomer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same here. Learned at about the age of 35 the real meaning!

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is universally hilarious

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  • seblin@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s like being psychology adjacent and having to double check which CBT do people mean

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I spent a while figuring that one out for sure (am swedish)!

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• restingOface@quokk.au ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  cryptography (not the cryptocurrency-kind)

  This may be pedantic, but that is the cryptocurrency kind. The “crypto” in “cryptocurrency” literally comes from the term “cryptography”. It is currency that is secured by cryptographic functions.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m well aware.

    Most cryptocurrency pushers are less interested in the underlying cryptographic fundamentals, however.

    Cryptography is undeniably cool. Cryptocurrency is undeniably not cool.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cryptocurrency is cryptography, but cryptography isn’t cryptocurrency.

    There’s a good reason to note that a term that most uninformed people might assume is unrelated to a shitty thing people hate. There’s a reason a lot of shit we used to call AI has to be clarified as non-llm because the llms have become the initial connotation to AI.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cryptocurrency uses cryptographics, the WEB uses cryptographics! Everone uses cryptographics.

    It’s a banana is a fruit moment.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  nonce did used to be an English word too meaning “of/at the moment” or “for one purpose” so Number used Once is actually a backronym

  It derived from Middle English was “tō þen naness” which is roughly “best item for a purpose” literally, but is used to mean “something” or “disposable/temporary” in context.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  thank you i had to look up the british sland now, as I could only think of the cryptographic association

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• phoenixarise@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  See, I never knew that. I wondered what kind of weird convention this is. 😂

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