flamegraph

flamegraphs (plural)
flame graph (alternative)

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We spent many hours running benchmarks, poring over flamegraphs, and digging through internal Node.js code.

2021, I. I. Thomas Hunter, Bryan English, “Preface”, in Multithreaded JavaScript, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page xi:

(computing) A visual representation of hierarchical data used to analyze system and application performance metrics.


return key

First known use appears c. 1965 in the publication Programming IBM 1620 by E.A. Weiss.

(computing, computer hardware) A key on a computer keyboard commonly used to execute a command or confirm the input of keyed text.


enter key

First known use appears c. 1955, in the publication Applied Electronics: Proceedings.

(computing, computer hardware) A type of return key generally present on extended keyboards with a numeric keypad.


database key

database management system
database management system

(computing, databases) A unique identifier in the database management system IDMS, which indicates the record occurrence's physical location in the database.


unique key

(computing, databases) A set of one or more than one columns or fields of a table that uniquely identifies a record in a database table.


spatial computing

I define spatial computing as human interaction with a machine in which the machine retains and manipulates referents to real objects and spaces. Ideally, these real objects and spaces have prior significance to the user. For instance, a system that allows users to create virtual forms and install them into the actual space surrounding them is spatial computing. A system that allows users to place objects from their environments into a machine for digitization is spatial computing. Spatial computing differs from related fields such as 3D modeling and digital design in that it requires the forms and spaces it deals with to pre-exist and have real-world valence. It is not enough that the screen be used to represent a virtual space—it must be meaningfully related to an actual place.[…] It is an essential component for making our machines fuller partners in our work and play.

2003 May 16, Simon Greenwold, Spatial Computing (thesis):

Apple insists that its $3,500 Vision Pro ski goggles, which officially debuted Friday, is not virtual reality but “spatial computing.” One problem: No one agrees on the definition of spatial computing. Ask 10 people in technology and you might get 12 different answers. What Apple calls a spatial computer, some technologists call “mixed reality” — or possibly “augmented reality,” “holographic computing,” “the metaverse” or “XR,” which some people say is shorthand for “extended reality.” […] “Even I can’t get my head on straight of what things mean all of the time,” said Alex Coulombe, co-founder of Agile Lens, which calls itself an XR company. Coulombe started to tell me that spatial computing and XR are the same — but changed his mind midsentence. […] What is spatial computing, anyway? I’m going to define it as an immersive video feed of the physical world plus the internet. […] Some experts instead use spatial computing as a catchall term for a range of technologies, including 3D images, virtual reality and smartphone games such as “Pokémon Go.”

2024 February 2, Shira Ovide, “Apple's Vision Pro is 'spatial computing.' Nobody knows what it means”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2024-02-02:

A computing paradigm powered by three-dimensional desktop environments, such as an extended reality window manager, usually accessed through wearables such as headsets.

空間コンピューティング

computing paradigm powered by 3D desktop environments


outscriber

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(computing, historical) A magnetic recording device that serves as a buffer for data being transmitted from computer to printer, to reduce delays in printing.


spatial computer

en-noun

spatial computer (plural spatial computers)

Any of various devices that enable or are planned to enable spatial computing, including wearables (e.g., headsets, glasses, wristwatches), implants within the human body, and embeds within infrastructure.


timewheel

timewheel (countable and uncountable, plural timewheels)

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The three atomicity semantics of an update broadcast using the timewheel group communication service are affected by the group membership protocol.

1998, Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian, “The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol”, in Jose Rolim, editor, Parallel and Distributed Processing, page 678:

The event-driven simulator uses a timewheel to manage the relationships between components.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design, pages 3-61:

Then, a pointer into the timewheel table indicates the current time slot and the owner of the resource during that time slot.

2004, William James Dally, Brian Patrick Towles, Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, page 294:

Timewheels are used in event-driven simulators to control the order in which simulated events are processed.

2016, Marilyn Wolf, Computers as Components, page 443:

(computing) A circular array of items sorted by time.


autoescape

en-verb

autoescape (third-person singular simple present autoescapes, present participle autoescaping, simple past and past participle autoescaped)

autoescapes (present singular third-person)
autoescaping (participle present)
autoescaped (participle past)
autoescaped (past)

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(transitive, computing) To escape (cause a text character to be interpreted literally) automatically.


circulation time

en-noun

circulation time (countable and uncountable, plural circulation times)

The circulation time of a slot in front of an access window has been chosen as the basic unit of time.

1982, Cees J. van Spronsen, Lutz Richter, Microsystems: Architecture, Integration, and Use, page 24:

The first record for the day gives a base time, while subsequent records for the day each have a circulation time associated with them; the circulation time is thus calculated by subtracting from the current log-on time the log-on time of the previous run by the same user.

2001, Per Brinch Hansen, Classic Operating Systems, page 94:

This mechanism provides latency hiding by decoupling the micro-threaded processor from the token circulation time.

2006, Nabil Hasasneh, Ian Bell, Chris Jesshope, “Scalable and Paritionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors”, in Werner Grass, Bernhard Sick, Klaus Waldschmidt, editor, Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006, page 266:

(computing, computer science) The amount of time that elapses in a multiprocess system from the time when a process is loaded for execution until the time when the same process is next loaded for more processing.


average access time

(computing, computer hardware) The average amount of time required for a storage device to transfer data to the CPU.


seek time

seek time (countable and uncountable, plural seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.


bit bashing

(computing, slang) Any programming technique manipulating bits instead of whole words

(computing, slang) Synonym of bit banging.


backup copy

(computing, software) A duplicate instance of an application, datafile, server or system created as a means to restore the original data in case it is deleted, corrupted or lost.


transactional memory

Since mutating state exposes those components to all the problems of concurrency, it is common practice to use some kind of transactional memory to protect the mutable variables from concurrent updates […]

2017, Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design, Prentice Hall, →ISBN:

(computing) A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.


reservoir computer

reservoir computer (plural reservoir computers)

(computing) A reservoir computing system.


echo state network

echo state network (plural echo state networks)

recurrent neural network
recurrent neural network

(computing) A type of reservoir computer that uses a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer. The weights of output neurons can be learned so that the network can produce or reproduce specific temporal patterns.


liquid state machine

liquid state machine (plural liquid state machines)

spiking neural network
spiking neural network

(computing) A kind of reservoir computer that uses a spiking neural network with nodes randomly connected to each other.


disk access time

disk access time (countable and uncountable, plural disk access times)

(computing, computer hardware) The total amount of time required for an operating system to process a read-write request involving disk storage.


desktop calendar

desktop calendar (plural desktop calendars)

(computing) A small calendar and event reminder positioned on the desktop of an operating system.


average seek time

average seek time (countable and uncountable, plural average seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) Of a hard drive, the average of all possible seek times equivalent to the time of all possible seeks divided by the number of all possible seeks.


minimum seek time

minimum seek time (countable and uncountable, plural minimum seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.


maximum seek time

maximum seek time (countable and uncountable, plural maximum seek times)

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.


slot time

slot time (countable and uncountable, plural slot times)

(computing, networking) The amount of time required for an electronic pulse to travel the length of the maximum theoretical distance between two nodes.


virtual 8086 mode

(computing, computer hardware) A mode allowing the execution of real mode applications that are incapable of running directly in protected mode while the processor is running a protected mode operating system.


virtual 8086 mode
virtual 8086 mode#English

(computing) Abbreviation of virtual 8086 mode.


ClickOps

Blend of click + op(eration)s, after DevOps.

The security and sysadmin status quo of “ClickOps” is, through this lens, frankly dangerous. It increases tight coupling and complexity, without the efficiency blessings we'd expect from this Faustian bargain—akin to trading our soul for a life of tedium.

2023, Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart, Security Chaos Engineering, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

(computing, humorous) Manual (point-and-click) configuration of a system, as opposed to an automated one.


downage

downage (countable and uncountable, plural downages)

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[…] downages, and other anomalies in operation.

1969, Howard Jacques Greenbaum, A Simulator of Multiple Interactive Users to Drive a Time-shared Computer System, page 30:

During trials by early adopters, each problem is identified and rated for severity, from system downage (most severe) to misalignment of a report column (minor).

2002, Charles V. Breakfield, Roxanne E. Burkey, Managing Systems Migrations and Upgrades, page 109:

(computing) An instance or period when the system is down, or unavailable for use.


unreal mode

(computing, computer hardware) A variant of real mode, in which one or more segment descriptors have been loaded with nonstandard values, like 32-bit limits allowing access to the entire memory.


subtick

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In this example the control word is broken in three eight-bit blocks, corresponding to three subticks that occur between two regular clock ticks.

2015, Peter J[ames] Denning, Craig H. Martell, Great Principles of Computing, Cambridge, M.A., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 68:

The update will also include an update to tick rate, in addition to visual changes. The game will now use a 'subtick' system.

2023 March 22, Calum Patterson, “Counter-Strike 2 revealed: Source 2 update overhauls CS:GO maps, graphics, smokes, more”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2024-02-14:

(computing, video games) A secondary tick that occurs between regular ticks.


Hindenbug

Hindenbugs (plural)
hindenbug (alternative)

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(computing, software) A catastrophic bug that destroys data, and may potentially shut down a system or cause a major malfunction.


unpaywall

en-verb

unpaywall (third-person singular simple present unpaywalls, present participle unpaywalling, simple past and past participle unpaywalled)

unpaywalls (present singular third-person)
unpaywalling (participle present)
unpaywalled (participle past)
unpaywalled (past)

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I will, over the next few weeks, start unpaywalling the articles I’ve got up.

2019 January 22, Yasmin Nair, “Changes”, in Yasmin Nair:

While I like publishing free posts once in a while and am in the habit of unpaywalling older ones, my overall goal is to increase my ranks of paid subscribers, so I’ve prioritized paid content.

2021 November 20, Jesse Singal, “"Let's Make Unreasonable Rhetorical Demands Of The People Who We Want On Our Side"”, in Singal-Minded:

(informal, computing, transitive) To remove a paywall from.


servermate

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You, Sir, are a dink. Thank you for posting your character name so your servermates may all avoid you and petition you at the first possible oppportunity.^([sic])

2000 February 3, The Shortest Barbarian On the Block, “Justice! - GM Approved”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

> I'm using the same / > server and the same account I used to post here with. […] > Your old / > servermate thought I was SK in that post!

2003 November 3, -=Be4U=-, “OT: The keylogger”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

Returning to the convention area later we find EQ and its players have reclaimed the PCs, presenting a row of T-shirt prints ranging from gangsta rap to Ghost In The Shell. Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.

2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 092, column 1:

My servermates turn out to be incredibly nice people and, for those of us who have never met before (in-game or offline), we begin to exchange information.

2006, T. L. Taylor, “Finding New Worlds”, in Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 4:

Patch days are usually wild, crazy things, full of massive world PvP and competing for quest kills and standing on top of mailboxes on a new mount. Which is why it's somewhat disturbing to see a screenshot of a brand-new area looking like The Birds. Jilira, of Perenolde's Black Dragon Clan, suggests that her servermates are waiting for 100% completion of the Sunwell opening.

2008 March 28, Elizabeth Wachowski, “Around Azeroth: The long wait”, in Yahoo! News, archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

You can connect your Spotify account to Discord, in order to show your friends and servermates what music you’re streaming.

2020 February 4, Taylor Lyles, “How to connect your Spotify account to Discord, so everyone can see what music you’re listening to”, in Business Insider, New York, N.Y.:

If you’re in a server that already has apps, usually there are already tons of people already interacting with it — ask your servermates what the Slash Commands do, or watch a friend use them if you’re too shy to try ‘em yourself.

2022 October 18, Clyde, “A Beginner’s Guide to using Discord Apps”, in Discord Blog, archived from the original on 2022-10-18:

(computing) One who is in the same server.


untrigger

untrigger (third-person singular simple present untriggers, present participle untriggering, simple past and past participle untriggered)

untriggers (present singular third-person)
untriggering (participle present)
untriggered (participle past)
untriggered (past)

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(transitive, computing) To undo the triggering of (a rule or action).


PC-compatible

Apple–Intel architecture
IBM PC compatible
IBM Personal Computer
Microsoft Windows

(computing, historical) Of a computer, offering the compatibility of the IBM Personal Computer regarding software, and―to a lesser degree―hardware.


PCI Express

(computing) A high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards.


polymorphic iteration

en-noun

polymorphic iteration (countable and uncountable, plural polymorphic iterations)

When we write methods that take iterators as parameters, we are using polymorphic iteration.

2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide, page 347:

The results described here provide the foundations for a series of results, including the definition of a linear version of Gödel's system Τ with a decidable typing system for polymorphic iteration.

2007, Sandra Alves, Maribel Fernández, Mário Florido, Ian Mackie, “Linear Recursive Functions”, in Hubert Comon-Lundh, Claude Kirchner, Hélène Kirchner, editor, Rewriting, Computation and Proof, page 184:

Use the Iterator pattern to provide a uniform interface for traversing different aggregate structures (that is, to support polymorphic iteration).

2011, Amnon H. Eden, Codecharts: Roadmaps and blueprints for object-oriented programs, page 145:

(computing, programming) The use of an iterator class or interface to enable traversal over the members of any type of collection for which there is a corresponding descendant of that iterator by code which need not know the type of the collection.


search space

(mathematics, computing) The set of all possible points of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's targets or goals.


Joda-Time

Derives from a four letter name, beginning with the letter j whose domain name was available at the time. It is not an acronym.

Several alternative Date replacement packages emerged, including the simple and sensible Date4J and the more comprehensive Joda-Time package.

2001, Ian F. Darwin, Java Cookbook, page 617:

Joda time is a complete alternative to the JDK date and time classes and seeks to replace them.

Joda-Time is a powerful open source library well known and used in the market that works with time, dates, and chronology:

2014, Rodrigo Turini, Practical Java 8 - Lambdas, Streams and New Resources:

Later the decision was made to integrate Joda-Time or something similar to it into Java's core libraries

2015, Terrill Brett Spell, Pro Java 8 Programming, page 94:

The design of these classes was inspired by the Joda-Time library, which is a popular open-source date and time library for Java.

2023, Cybellium Ltd, Mastering Java, page 156:

(computing, software, programming) A widely used date and time processing library.


write over

en-verb

write over (third-person singular simple present writes over, present participle writing over, simple past wrote over, past participle written over)

writes over (present singular third-person)
writing over (participle present)
wrote over (past)
written over (participle past)

(transitive, computing) To save a piece of data in place of other data; to overwrite.


error correct

error correct (third-person singular simple present error corrects, present participle error correcting, simple past and past participle error corrected)

error corrects (present singular third-person)
error correcting (participle present)
error corrected (participle past)
error corrected (past)


save over

save over (third-person singular simple present saves over, present participle saving over, simple past and past participle saved over)

saves over (present singular third-person)
saving over (participle present)
saved over (participle past)
saved over (past)


unpirateable

en-adj

unpirateable (comparative more unpirateable, superlative most unpirateable)

more unpirateable (comparative)
most unpirateable (superlative)

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In addition to being completely unnecessary for a single-player game and a blatant attempt to make the game unpirateable at the cost of consumers, "Always-Online" also completely screwed up Simcity's launch when the servers malfunctioned for weeks, leaving customers unable to play their own game.

2014 January 16, Tom McKay, “This Company Could Be Named the Worst in the U.S. 3 Years in a Row. But Why Do They Suck?”, in MIC:

2016 January 12, Chad Sapieha, “Just Cause 3 is proving nearly unpirateable, and that's great”, in Financial Post:

One of the reasons many companies decided to switch to online and live service games is exactly that they are unpirateable.

2023 August 24, Switch_Pro, “Denuvo's 'Switch Emulator Protection' Is Now Available Via Nintendo's Official Dev Portal”, in Nintendo Life:

(software, computing) Not able to be pirated by third parties.


ancilla bit

(computing) An extra bit (binary digit) used to implement irreversible logical operations.


boot time

en-noun

boot time (countable and uncountable, plural boot times)

(computing, computer hardware) The amount of time required to load the kernel of an operating system, its device drivers, and the initialization of the hardware.


startup time

startup time (countable and uncountable, plural startup times)

(computing, computer hardware) The boot time of a system in addition to the amount of time required for the operating system to load and initialize all its services and programs.


chinkware

From Chink (“a contemptuous term for a Chinese person”) + -ware.

suf

That will mean lots more chinkware for you to hype.

2011 April 17, Gordon Darling, “PC's have peaked”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):

The Windows firewall built into Vista, and Windows 7 is class. Why would I want to use Chinkware with Geekbuddy support , or indeed insert any third party code into the very fine network stack developed by Microsoft, with a little help from BSD.

2011 May 30, Pooh the Cat, “Privatefirewall Questions”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):

You always defend chinkware, which Bear Bottoms did at the behest of the PLA. Chinkware, when made in the PRC, not Taiwan, is always spyware, unconditionally, no variations on that. The PRC is the major industrial spy in the world. […]

2015 March 15, The Haberdasher Genl., “Pooh: Caver is Bear, you already know that.”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet):

The xposed module itself is closed source and the link on the github page is very suspicious. I'm not running any unknown chinkware on something higher than user level.

2022 September 15, u/Mitko0111, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2022-09-16:

[…] if you're a company that could in any case ever compete with a chinese company, or a government infrastructure builder, stay away […] chinkware will be weaponized in the upcoming war

2023 November 30, anonymous author, 4chan:

(Internet slang, computing, derogatory, ethnic slur) Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware.


leap smearing

(computing) The handling of a leap second by gradually distorting hours of surrounding time, rather than changing the system clock by a whole second at once.


OPFS

(computing) Initialism of Origin Private File System.


unprovision

en-verb

unprovision (third-person singular simple present unprovisions, present participle unprovisioning, simple past and past participle unprovisioned)

unprovisions (present singular third-person)
unprovisioning (participle present)
unprovisioned (participle past)
unprovisioned (past)

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(transitive, computing) Synonym of deprovision.


absolute path

(computing) A path or address that identifies a file or web page which includes all the information necessary to find the file or web page with no assumptions based on local context.


vertical mouse

(computing) A computer mouse that stands upright, with buttons on the side, designed to reduce strain on the user's wrist.


superword

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The Winchester drive loads data in chunks of 32 superwords […]

Recognition memory (REM) consists of 32 or more 256-byte superwords, comparison logic and control bits.

1983, Mini-micro Systems, volume 16, page 238:

(computing) A group of words (fixed-sized groups of binary digits) treated as a unit.


default gateway

en-noun

default gateway (plural default gateways)

(computing, networking) The node in a computer network using the Internet Protocol suite serving as the forwarding host to other networks when no other route specification matches the destination IP address of a packet.


password wallet

password wallet (plural password wallets)

I believe Mozilla 5 (to be released as Netscape 6) also has a password "wallet" feature. Not sure about other vendors.

2000 March 16, Peter W, “allowing directory access for authorized users”, in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix (Usenet):

Instead, the individual passwords are generated algorithmically from the master password and the sites’ names. As an advantage compared with a password wallet, nothing at all needs to be stored on the client machines. As a disadvantage, there is no easy way to change the master password.

2007, Max Hailperin, Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction, Thomson Course Technology, page 405:

The two main things to remember with a password wallet is to have a very secure unique password or passphrase to access the wallet, and keep a secure record of the password or passphrase,[…]

2017, Graham Day, Security in the Digital World: For the home user, parent, consumer and home office, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, page 111:

He showed Gemma the files to read and unlocked his password wallet. "The password wallet isn't very secure." "More secure than my physical diary which I'm sure has been checked.[…]"

2017, Ray McCarthy, The Solar Alliance, Corvids Press, page 154:

The user must have access to the password wallet whenever she needs a password.

2018, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Pearson Education, page 523:

In this section, we adapt our OTP wallet construction to the proof-of-stake setting (the password wallet can also be adapted likewise).

2023, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Lewis Gudgeon, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Daniel Perez Hernandez, Sam Werner, Thomas Haines, Aleksander Essex, Andrea Bracciali, Massimiliano Sala, editors, Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2022 International Workshops: CoDecFin, DeFi, Voting, WTSC, Grenada, May 6, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, page 632:

(computing, cryptography) An application or mechanism which stores someone's passwords by encryption.


time-tracking software

(computing, software, business, human resources) A program or application allowing a user to record the amount of time spent on tasks or projects.


connect time

connect time (countable and uncountable, plural connect times)

(computing, networking) The total amount of time spent by a user of a computer connected to a network.

(computing, networking) The amount of time during which a user of a remote terminal is connected with a time-sharing system.


canary release

canary release (countable and uncountable, plural canary releases)

(computing, software) A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users.


quantum bogosort

Implementing quantum bogosort increased my script's performance by 50%, but I still feel a little bit guilty about my computer killing quadrillions of sentient beings a second.

And from that we can conclude that in some parallel worlds, a machine to implement the Quantum Bogosort (theoretically the fastest possible sorting algorithm) has been invented.

2007 January 22, Logan Kearsley, “How the mind plays tricks.”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

Even quantum-bogosort can't keep up with Intelligent Design Sort. ¶ (IDS makes no changes to its input, on the theory that "they are already sorted according to a higher purpose.")

2009 October 2, Tim Rentsch, “Selection-Sort in C”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):

ECMA 5 lacks support for the speedy Quantum Bogosort.

2011 November 4, Dr J R Stockton, “sorting columns”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

many-worlds interpretation
many-worlds interpretation#Noun

quantum mechanics
quantum mechanics#Noun

(computing, humorous) A hypothetical sorting algorithm which generates a random permutation of its input (like in bogosort) using a quantum source of entropy, checks if the list is sorted, and, if it is not, destroys the universe. Assuming that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, this algorithm will result in at least one surviving universe where the input was successfully sorted in O(n) time (thus making it faster than quicksort).


hard real-time

(computing) Being or relating to a system in which no latency is tolerated, one that has absolute deadlines, and if those allotted time spans are missed, a system failure will occur.


Time Simulator

(computing, programming) A stack-based simulation language.


Time Complex Simulator

(computing, programming) A complex and arithmetic version of the Time Simulator language.


stack-based

(computing, programming) Of data, utilizing one piece of data from atop the stack, and returning data back atop the stack.


time elapsed counter

time elapsed counter (countable and uncountable, plural time elapsed counters)

(computing, software) A type of stopwatch or timer in a computer system that tracks the passage of time of a compiling, download, or other task.


time parameter

(computing, software) A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.


before image journal

before image journal (plural before image journals)

The before image journal is used for undoing the effects of aborted transactions, and for recovery from system crashes.

1990, Sayyed M. Deen (editor), Practical Database Techniques, page 58:

The location of the before image journal. An AI journal records changes to a file so that the journal can be used to roll a backup copy of the file forward.

1990, Kirby McCoy, VMS file system internals, page 49:

The process of recording all operations applied to a database. The type of information recorded depends on whether an after-image or a before-image journal file is created.

1991, Lilian Hobbs, Ken England, Comprehensive Guide to RDB-VMS, page 334:

This capability is based on a transaction log used with a before-image journal and after-image journal.

2006, David L. Cannon, Timothy S. Bergmann, Brady Pamplin, CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide, page 236:

(computing, databases) A transaction log acting as a version of a database entry before an update is recorded.


after image journal

after image journal (plural after image journals)

The -RESTORE attribute can only be set if the system's after image journal is open.

1990, Operator's Manual Automated Data Processing System AN/MYQ-4A, (NSN 7010-01-158-5397), page 117:

There may be one or multiple AIJ files, but whichever method is used there will only be one after-image journal file open at any time for an individual database.

1999, Lilian Hobbs, Ian Smith, Ken England, Rdb, A Comprehensive Guide, page 260:

'After' image journaling - taking an image (copy) of the record after a transaction and storing in 'after image' journal table.

2005, Nicholas Sherwood, Enterprise Security Architecture, A Business-Driven Approach, page 335:

(computing, databases) A transaction log acting as a version of a database entry after an update is recorded.


system time

system time (countable and uncountable, plural system times)

(computing, programming) The passage of time of a computer system, including the passing of days on the calendar.


turnaround time

turnaround time (countable and uncountable, plural turnaround times)

(business, marketing, computing, software) The amount of time required to complete a process or fulfill a request.


exit time

exit time (countable and uncountable, plural exit times)

(computing, software) The point in time in which a process completes its execution and exits from the system.


Hollerith machine

Hollerith machine (plural Hollerith machines)

Named after American inventor Herman Hollerith (1860–1929).

named-after

(computing, historical) A kind of tabulating machine using punch cards.


execution time

en-noun

execution time (countable and uncountable, plural execution times)

(computing, software) The amount of time required for a program or task to complete a single instruction on a computer system.


instruction time

instruction time (countable and uncountable, plural instruction times)

(computing, software) The total amount of time required for an instruction to be fetched from memory and stored in the instruction register.


transaction time

transaction time (countable and uncountable, plural transaction times)

(computing, databases) The time during which a fact stored in the database, represented by all the information in a row, is considered to be true and in effect.


valid time

valid time (countable and uncountable, plural valid times)

(computing, databases) The time period during which a database fact is valid in the modeled reality.


command processing overhead time

command processing overhead time (countable and uncountable, plural command processing overhead times)

command processing overhead times (plural)

(computing, software) The amount of processing time which a device requires, prior to the execution of a command.


think time

think time (countable and uncountable, plural think times)

(computing, software) The amount of time for which a script pauses during test execution to simulate a real-world delay.


waiting time

waiting time (countable and uncountable, plural waiting times)

(computing, computer hardware) The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.


computation time

computation time (countable and uncountable, plural computation times)

(computing, software) The total amount of time required by a computer to perform a computational process.


lag time

lag time (countable and uncountable, plural lag times)

(computing, networking, video games) The time delay (latency) between the action of the user and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which requires resending to the client.


lookahead time

lookahead time (countable and uncountable, plural lookahead times)

The risk of preemption can be varied by changing the lookahead time when making immediate admission control.

2013, Olov Schelén, Stephen Pink, “Sharing Resources through Advance Reservation Agents”, in Andrew T. Campbell, Klara Nahrstedt, editor, Building QoS into Distributed Systems, page 265:

If the lookahead time is too short, then delays to the scheduling code could mean that the scheduled time is already in the past by the time the library is ready to schedule the notes .

2024, Nick Morgan, JavaScript Crash Course, page 221:

(computing, software) The amount of time from the point when an upcoming process is scheduled and resources are allocated for it, to the moment when it executes.


ready queue

(computing, computer hardware) A data structure that holds a process that is ready to run, but is unable to do so because the CPU is already occupied.


reference time

reference time (countable and uncountable, plural reference times)

(computing, software) The moment in time near the beginning of switching that is chosen as a reference for the measurement of time in a digital computer.


logject

(computing, software, technology) An object with embedded software capable of monitoring and recording, in some manner, its own activity and operation.


wikitime

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(computing, Internet, time) A time standard or timestamp used in Wikipedia and its affiliates, set to Greenwich Mean Time, and encoded as 24-hour time-day-month-year.


data feed

data feed (countable and uncountable, plural data feeds)

(computing, Internet) A mechanism for a user to receive updated data from data sources.


Proteus effect

(psychology, video games, computing) A phenomenon in which the behavior of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.


LRU

(computing) Initialism of least recently used.


power button

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A button that switches an electrical device on or off.

(computing) A button that switches the computer on or off (or, on more recent models, often enables sleep mode).


serviceware

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A component is simply a reusable software executable. Our serviceware clearly includes the software itself, but in addition has many nonfunctional attributes, such as a cost and payment, trust, brand allegiance, legal status and redress, and security.

2002, Marvin Zelkowitz, Advances in Computers, page 46:

(computing, rare) Products and services taken collectively.


window up

en-verb

window up (third-person singular simple present windows up, present participle windowing up, simple past and past participle windowed up)

windows up (present singular third-person)
windowing up (participle present)
windowed up (participle past)
windowed up (past)

(transitive, intransitive, informal, computing) To create a window to access (a file, website, etc); to put (a file, website, etc.) in a window.


window down

window down (third-person singular simple present windows down, present participle windowing down, simple past and past participle windowed down)

windows down (present singular third-person)
windowing down (participle present)
windowed down (participle past)
windowed down (past)

(transitive, computing) To reduce in scope, resolution, capacity, bandwidth, etc. so as to enable or focus on a target.


gigaword

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/ˈɡɪɡəˌwɜːrd/

/ˈdʒɪɡəˌwɜːrd/

Frank let him have two white mice, a rabbit, and an elderly Airedale, along with a large time slice on the hospital's MEG-computational facilities, a few gigawords of data storage capacity, petty cash for wiring, and a stern warning that "any human 'volunteers' had better be named Robbins, Chun, or Hostler" to avoid repetitions of unfortunate past misadventures with patients who had not quite understood to what they were agreeing.

1969 September, JOHN W. CAMPBELL, editor, Analog, volume LXXXIV, number 1, page 98:

It has been calculated that a 100 ps pulse width would be short enough for a 1-Gigaword/second, 6 bit converter and …

1977, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, AGARD Conference Proceedings, number 219, AGARD, pages 23-16:

(computing) A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹.


clean URL

(Internet, computing) A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately and intuitively meaningful to nonexpert users.


identity broker

en-noun

identity broker (plural identity brokers)

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(computing, networking) An intermediary proxy service connecting multiple service providers with multiple identity providers.


identity provider

identity provider (plural identity providers)

(computing, networking) A system entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for principals and also provides authentication services to relying applications within a federation or distributed network.


subject-oriented

(computing, programming) Of or pertaining to a software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the objects themselves, but are provided by various subjective perceptions ("subjects") of the objects.


script out

en-verb

script out (third-person singular simple present scripts out, present participle scripting out, simple past and past participle scripted out)

scripts out (present singular third-person)
scripting out (participle present)
scripted out (participle past)
scripted out (past)

You could finish this quicker by scripting it out.

(computing, transitive) To simplify or automate a process using scripts (a file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence).


usercentricity

(computing) The condition of being usercentric


bugdoor

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a novel, minimalist approach to constructing deniable bugdoors for microcontroller firmware

2014 December 8, Samuel Junjie Tan, Sergey Bratus, Travis Goodspeed, “Interrupt-oriented bugdoor programming: a minimalist approach to bugdooring embedded systems firmware”, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '14), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 116–125:

provide the cover of plausible deniability for attackers in the form of exploitable “bugdoor” attacks

2024 April 13, Mario Lins, René Mayrhofer, Michael Roland, Daniel Hofer, Martin Schwaighofer, “On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ”, in arXiv, →DOI:

(computing) A security vulnerability caused by a bug that was intentionally added by the vendor.


replacement character

en-noun

replacement character (plural replacement characters)

(computing, Unicode) A symbol, often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark, used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to the correct symbols.


BYOIP

Cloud providers can improve best practices and documentation to demonstrate this benefit, and encourage larger tenants to leverage BYOIP to benefit security.

2022, Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel, “Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds”, in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Los Alamitos, C.A. […]: IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN, page 569, column 2:

(cloud computing) Initialism of bring your own IP (address); a system which allows a customer to use their own IP address(es) on a cloud provider's hardware.


unbookmark

en-verb

unbookmark (third-person singular simple present unbookmarks, present participle unbookmarking, simple past and past participle unbookmarked)

unbookmarks (present singular third-person)
unbookmarking (participle present)
unbookmarked (participle past)
unbookmarked (past)

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I should probably unbookmark that page, it's out of date.

(computing, transitive) To remove a bookmark.


batch up

batch up (third-person singular simple present batches up, present participle batching up, simple past and past participle batched up)

batches up (present singular third-person)
batching up (participle present)
batched up (participle past)
batched up (past)

(transitive, computing, manufacturing) To line up multiple tasks to be executed at once in order to improve efficiency.


spiking neural network

en-noun

spiking neural network (plural spiking neural networks)

(computing) An artificial neural network that more closely mimics a natural neural networks.


dial out

en-verb

dial out (third-person singular simple present dials out, present participle dialing out or dialling out, simple past and past participle dialed out or dialled out)

dials out (present singular third-person)
dialing out (participle present)
dialling out (participle present)
dialed out (participle past)
dialed out (past)
dialled out (participle past)
dialled out (past)

(computing) To start an online meeting or conference call by calling or otherwise alerting the participants.


googolbyte

Where does the enterprise store its gigabytes, terabytes and googolbytes?

1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9:

My system has one Googolbyte of RAM and
2 Googolplexbytes of disk space.

2006, Andreas Zeller, Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, page 98:

Their home addresses were any number of condominiums on the back forty googolbytes of the infosphere.

2010, Howard V. Hendrix, Standing Wave: A Science Fiction Novel, page 28:

(computing, informal) A unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.


the Internet never forgets

(computing, Internet) A widely held belief that everything that is posted online will remain there forever.


snowflake schema

en-noun

snowflake schema (plural snowflake schemas)

(computing) A logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles a snowflake shape.


unauthenticate

en-verb

unauthenticate (third-person singular simple present unauthenticates, present participle unauthenticating, simple past and past participle unauthenticated)

unauthenticates (present singular third-person)
unauthenticating (participle present)
unauthenticated (participle past)
unauthenticated (past)

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One advantage to using this approach is that you can “unauthenticate” a user at any time by sending the HTTP 401 header again. You may want to do this to force users to log in again after a certain timeout period or to provide different authentication requirements for the different areas of your application.

2001, Blake Schwendiman, “Authentication” (chapter 8), in PHP4 Developer’s Guide, New York, N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 148:

You can set up the client not to authenticate, but if you do so, be warned that man-in-the-middle attacks will be easy to perform. Unauthenticating client proxies only buys you security against the most naïve eavesdropping attacks, but is still better than no protection at all.

2002 June, John Viega, Matt Messier, Pravir Chandra, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Network Security with OpenSSL, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 26:

This is important stuff, as anyone with an online bank account or remote corporate network knows. But a lot less thought and work have gone into the other end of the problem: how do you tell the system on the other end of the line that you’re no longer there? How do you unauthenticate yourself?

2014, Bruce Schneier, “The Difficulty of Un-Authentication”, in Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security, Indianapolis, Ind.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 237:

(transitive, computing) To withdraw the authentication of.


mailaddr

a message is sent back to the mailaddr in the request

1993 October 10, Michael Richmond, Richard R. Treffers, Alexei V. Filippenko, “THE BERKELEY AUTOMATIC IMAGING TELESCOPE”, in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, volume 105, number 692, The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, →DOI, page 1164:

recipient whose address is in the ‘mailaddr’ file

2001 August 1, Amnart Pohthong, David Budgen, “Reuse strategies in software development: an empirical study”, in Information and Software Technology, volume 43, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 561–575:

Now you should input your mailaddr and password again

2005 December 15, “Is earthlink's webmail free?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

you configured your MAILADDR in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

2007 July 13, “Software RAID Failure?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(computing) Abbreviation of e-mail address.


write once, read many

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(computing, computer hardware) A data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified.


NVMe

Coined by an industry working group in 2009 on the pattern of PCIe.

coin

non-volatile random access memory#English

(computing) Initialism of non-volatile memory express; a protocol for efficiently accessing (typically solid-state) NVRAM over a PCIe bus.


autorespond

en-verb

autorespond (third-person singular simple present autoresponds, present participle autoresponding, simple past and past participle autoresponded)

autoresponds (present singular third-person)
autoresponding (participle present)
autoresponded (participle past)
autoresponded (past)

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Whenever a new user joins, a bot will autorespond with a welcome message.

SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter, did not immediately respond to a series of questions about Musk’s announcement on Tuesday, however an email sent to X autoresponded, “Busy now, please check back later.”

2024 July 16, Gillian Brassil and Nicole Nixon, “Elon Musk says he’ll move X & SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas. Here’s why”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 2024-07-17:

(intransitive, computing) To respond automatically.


data recovery

en-noun

data recovery (countable and uncountable, plural data recoveries)

(computing, software) The process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in the usual way.


OpenType

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(computing, typography) A file format, developed jointly by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc., for storing computer fonts.


TrueType

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(computing, typography) a file format for storing computer fonts developed by Apple Inc.


(computing) Abbreviation of Windows 2000.


WinMe

From Win (clipping of Windows) + Me (Millennium Edition).


byte order

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Under this order the first bit to be sent is the LEAST significant bit (B0) of the MOST significant byte (C0) of the first word, followed by the rest of the bits of this byte, then the same right-to-left bit order inside the left-to-right byte order.

1980 April 1, Danny Cohen, On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace, IETF, archived from the original on 2014-07-224:

(computing) Order in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.


tweak freak

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From tweak + freak. Chosen for the rhyme.

(slang, derogatory, computing) A person who modifies software or hardware in order to enhance its performance beyond their normal and acceptable standards.


calloc

dynamic memory allocation
dynamic memory allocation

(computing) A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.


calloc

en-verb

calloc (third-person singular simple present callocs, present participle callocing, simple past and past participle calloced)

callocs (present singular third-person)
callocing (participle present)
calloced (participle past)
calloced (past)

(computing) To allocate memory using the C programming language calloc subroutine.


master boot record

en-noun

master boot record (plural master boot records)

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(computing, software) A type of boot sector in the first few blocks of partitioned computer mass storage devices.


evidence-gathering

(computing, criminology) The collection of potential evidence, which may be present in computer or network logs, on deprecated websites, or the collection of data that is forensically extracted from a computer hard drive.


NMP

programming language
programming language

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Nginx web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and PHP programming language.


knowledge mining

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(computing, artificial intelligence) An emerging discipline in artificial intelligence that uses a combination of intelligent services to quickly learn from large amounts of information.


copy-pasto

copy-pastos (plural)
copypasto (alternative)
copy/pasto (alternative)

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From copy-paste + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).

Sorry, copy-pasto. This line was moved few lines up to here by my evil mouse. :-(

2010 May 27, Jung-uk Kim, “Re: Timezone behavior of Java”, in mailing.freebsd.java (Usenet):

Haven't tested your latest diff, but I think you have a copy-pasto here (", cnt").

2014 January 6, Kent R. Spillner, “Re: new login style: yubikey-and-pwd”, in fa.openbsd.tech (Usenet):

(computing, slang) An error caused by incorrect copy-pasting, often resulting in unintended text (or other content) being inserted.


monocase

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The program prompts for the old password (if any) and then for the new one (twice). The caller must supply these. New passwords should be at least four characters long if they use a sufficiently rich alphabet and at least six characters long if monocase. Only the first eight characters of the password are significant.

1985, Rebecca Thomas, Jean Yates, “Text Processing” (chapter 5), in A User Guide to the UNIX System, 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 281:

The Standard chose to stay with the old restrictions on these external names: they are not guaranteed to be different unless they differ from each other in the first six characters. Worse than that, upper and lower case letters may be treated the same! […] There is nothing to prevent any specific implementation from giving better limits than these, but for maximum portability the six monocase characters must be all that you expect.

1988, Mike Banahan, “Variables and Arithmetic” (chapter 2), in The C Book: Featuring the Draft ANSI C Standard, Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23:

(computing, typography) Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and lower case as being the same.


duocase

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Before the introduction of the IBM 1050, printing terminals had been limited to single case capability. But the use of an electric typewriter on the 1050 would give the capability of duocase printing—capital letters and small letters. This duocase capability was held to be a very significant marketing factor.

1980, Charles E. McKenzie, “The Size and Structure of PTTC” (chapter 6), in Coded Character Sets: History and Development (The Systems Programming Series), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 106:

(computing, typography, rare) Supporting or consisting of both uppercase and lowercase letters.


Jackintosh

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Blend of Jack + Macintosh, in reference to Atari Corporation founder Jack Tramiel, and the computer's similarities to the Apple Macintosh.

(computing, slang, historical) The Atari 520ST microcomputer.


bitstarve

en-verb

bitstarve (third-person singular simple present bitstarves, present participle bitstarving, simple past and past participle bitstarved)

bitstarves (present singular third-person)
bitstarving (participle present)
bitstarved (participle past)
bitstarved (past)
bit-starve (alternative)

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This is why bit-starved transmission streams yield a very blocky appearance. They reveal the blocky structure because the fine detail is lost and that prevents the edges of the macroblocks from merging into one another perfectly.

2005, Cliff Wootton, A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression: From Sprockets and Rasters to Macroblocks, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 206:

I had Dish for years, ditched them when they couldn't get me HD equipment in
a timely manner and insisted on charging me $3 if I didn't hook my equipment
to a phone line. WTF! Went to Comcast, gave me a great deal. But, they got
bought by TW, and I am not impressed so far, so when my smokin deal runs
out, I will likely try DTV, though they bitstarve the shit out of their HD
content, and I watch 90% HD.

2006 November 24, Venger, “NFL turns back on 52 million cable viewers”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):

(transitive, computing) To cause something to have compression artifacts (esp. blocking) by using too small a bitrate.


bitstarved

en-adj

bitstarved (comparative more bitstarved, superlative most bitstarved)

more bitstarved (comparative)
most bitstarved (superlative)
bit-starved (alternative)

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(computing) Exhibiting compression artifacts (esp. blocking) due to too small a bitrate.


BYOK

While many SaaS providers have already recognized the value of offering BYOK capabilities, some still believe their existing data security controls are sufficient without giving their enterprise customers control of their own encryption keys.

2023 August 23, Min-Hank Ho, “Take control over data in a SaaS environment with BYOK”, in Security Magazine, archived from the original on 2024-02-23:

(cloud computing) Initialism of bring your own key; a system which allows a customer to encrypt their data using an encryption key on a cloud provider's hardware.


BYOE

According to O'Brien, organizations with a hybrid of on-premise and in-cloud data are well suited by BYOE, especially for their legacy systems that cannot be moved to the SaaS/PaaS/IaaS stack.

2014 July 15, Eduard Kovacs, “Bring-Your-Own-Encryption: Is It the Right Choice for Your Enterprise?”, in SecurityWeek, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(cloud computing) Initialism of bring your own encryption; a system which allows a customer to encrypt their data using an encryption key on a cloud provider's hardware.


filespec

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Meronyms: filepath, filename

(computing) A file identifier consisting of path and filename.


ANSI art

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

(computing, art) A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

American National Standards Institute
en:ANSI X3.64
en:ANSI art


preview-quality

en-noun

preview-quality (usually uncountable, plural preview-qualities)

(computing, graphic design) A type of resolution that is visible in icons, thumbnails, or previews of operations such as scans and printing.


hackware

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(computing, chiefly science fiction) Software used for hacking (circumventing security measures).


authserv

authservs (plural)
AuthServ (alternative)

Blends of terms that start with "auth..." and "serv...". Analyzable as auth + serv.

authoritative server
authoritative server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authoritative server.

authentication service
authentication service#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authentication service.

authentication server
authentication server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authentication server.

authorization service
authorization service#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authorization service.

authorization server
authorization server#English

(computing) Abbreviation of authorization server.


DjVu

DjVu (countable and uncountable, plural DjVus)

DjVus (plural)
djvu (alternative)
DJVU (alternative)

Translingual: .djv, .djvu

/ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.

2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7

DjVu is a relatively old and no longer developed file format devised by AT&T, used to store scanned images. None of the VirusTotal anti-virus scanners detected the CySource researchers' Base64 encoded payload added to the metadata of the malicious DjVu file. The researchers found that "instead of exiftool detecting the metadata of the file it executes our payload."

2022 April 26, Juha Saarinen, "Google's VirusTotal Service Vulnerable for Over Eight Months", iTnews

(computing, uncountable) A file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text.

Because of Wikimedia's educational mission, MediaWiki supports file types that may be uncommon in other web applications or CMSes, like SVG vector images, and multipage PDFs and DjVus. They are rendered as PNG files, and can be thumbnailed and displayed inline, as are more common image files like GIFs, JPGs and PNGs.

2012, Sumana Harihareswara & al., "MediaWiki", The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol. II, p. 191

(computing, countable) A file encoded in the DjVu format.


x-plat

(computing) Abbreviation of cross-platform.


file descriptor

file descriptor (plural file descriptors)

(computing, software) A process-unique identifier for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.


network socket

(computing, networking) A software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network.


logical address

logical address (plural logical addresses)

(computing, software) The address at which an item appears to reside from the perspective of an executing application program.


SAUCE

w:Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions

(computing) Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.


zombie master

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A "zombie computer" is one that, unknown to its owner, has been infected with malicious software that allows a distant "zombie master" to control it, along with potentially thousands of other machines similarly affected.

2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World, page 41:

(computing, networking) A command and control center that guides and directs a zombie computer or zombie network.


BCHS

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the OpenBSD operating system, C programming language, httpd web server, and SQLite database.


XAMPP

(computing) A cross-platform solution stack consisting of the Apache web server, MariaDB or MySQL database, and Perl and PHP programming languages.


MAMP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Mac OS X operating system, Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and PHP, Perl and/or Python programming language.


WINS

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(computing) A Microsoft-based solution stack consisting of the Windows Server operating system, Internet Information Services web server, .NET Framework, and SQL Server database.


GLASS

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the GemStone database and application server, Linux operating system, Apache web server, Smalltalk programming language, and Seaside web framework.


LLMP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, lighttpd web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and Perl, PHP or Python programming language.


LAPP

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, PostgreSQL database, and Perl, PHP or Python programming language.


GRANDstack

(computing) A solution stack consisting of GraphQL (data query and manipulation language), React (web application presentation), Apollo (data graph platform), and Neo4j (database management system).


PERN

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the PostgreSQL database, Express.js application controller layer, React JavaScript library, and Node.js JavaScript runtime.


LYCE

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, CouchDB database, and Erlang programming language.


LYME

(computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Yaws web server, Mnesia database, and Erlang programming language.


SMACK

(computing) An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.


XRX

(computing) A solution stack based on XForms, REST, and XQuery.


PLONK

(computing) A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).


runspace

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(computing) In Microsoft PowerShell, an isolated environment in which a script or command executes.


null device

(computing) A type of device file that discards all written data in it.


code-lift

en-verb

code-lift (third-person singular simple present code-lifts, present participle code-lifting, simple past and past participle code-lifted)

code-lifts (present singular third-person)
code-lifting (participle present)
code-lifted (participle past)
code-lifted (past)

I decided to address all the encoding layers of DroidGuard through code lifting

2022, Romain Thomas, “DroidGuard: A Deep Dive into SafetyNet”, in SSTIC:

a white-box implementation is besides the point if the attacker can easily code-lift the white-box as a whole

2017 August 22, “Assessing Software Protection Schemes”, in OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide:

(computing) To copy an entire function without understanding it to use outside a secured system


OVF

(computing, virtualisation) Abbreviation of Open Virtualization Format.


VMDK

(computing, virtualization) Abbreviation of Virtual Machine Disk.


prototype-based scripting language

en-noun

prototype-based scripting language (usually uncountable, plural prototype-based scripting languages)

prototype-based scripting languages (plural)

(computing, programming) A programming language that uses prototypes to allow objects to inherit properties and methods from other objects.


timestamp-based concurrency control

timestamp-based concurrency control (usually uncountable, plural timestamp-based concurrency controls)

timestamp-based concurrency controls (plural)

(computing, databases) A method that uses timestamps to manage transactions in databases.


HAMR

heat-assisted magnetic recording
w:heat-assisted magnetic recording

(computing) Abbreviation of heat-assisted magnetic recording.


scratch tape

(computing, historical) A tape that is only temporarily needed for data storage and that can therefore be reused.


processing unit

processing unit (plural processing units)

(computing, computer science) An electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream.


AVX

Advanced Vector Extensions
w:Advanced Vector Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Vector Extensions.


(arithmetic, computing) Synonym of binary (“concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system”).


binary file

(computing) A computer file that is not a text file, consisting of data other than human-readable text.


(leetspeak) Alternative spelling of haxxor.


snapshottable

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(computing) Of which a snapshot may be taken.


CLUI

(computing) Acronym of command line user interface.


toolsuite

toolsuites (plural)
tool-suite (alternative)

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Compound of tool + suite. Attested from the 20th century (see quotations below).

2. Overall project productivity enhancement as a result of NAS support for rapid prototyping, runtime instrumentation toolsuite, and encapsulation of the difficult capabilities required in any distributed real-time system

1989, Walker Royce, “Reliable, reusable Ada components for constructing large, distributed multi-task networks: Network Architecture Services (NAS)”, in Proceedings. TRI-Ada ’89, page 500:

The CD also includes GNU toolsuite with EMACS language-sensitive editor

1999, Ben Cohen, VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, page xi:

In the past 15+ years, our team has created and evolved a tool-suite for model-driven software development that we call ‘Model-Integrated Computing’ (MIC) suite [24].

2010, Gabor Karsai, “Lessons learned from building a graph transformation system”, in Gregor Engels, Claus Lewerentz, Wilhelm Schäfer, Andy Schürr, Bernhard Westfechtel, editors, Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, page 203:

To support the complex SeCo lifecycle, we have designed a toolsuite that comprises a variety of instruments, structured as an online development platform

2011, Marco Brambilla, Luca Tettamanti, “Tools supporting search computing application development”, in Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla, editors, Search Computing: Trends and Developments, page 180:

If the compiler was installed correctly, the dialog will show Microchip C18 as the active language toolsuite. The toolsuite contents window will list the four programs required in project development

2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Microcontrollers: High-Performance Systems and Programming, page 92:

(computing) A set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.


framestore

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Framestores avoid the danger of genlocking the studio to an outside source and add a smoothness to switching in or overlaying the wild feed without picture breakup.

1977, Broadcast Engineering - Volume 19, page 48:


facet name

(computing, programming) A technical name that identifies a facet in code, such as in a shortcode.


tattleware

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Amid the rise of “bossware” or “tattleware” – essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home – is a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and makes it available to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what.

2021 September 16, Jessa Crispin, “Employers are spying on Americans at home with ‘tattleware’. It’s time to track them instead”, in The Guardian:

Rather than imposing privacy-invading tattleware on their employees, employers should instead reevaluate how they measure success. Is it about “productivity?” Or is it about results?

2021 October 19, Emma McGowan, “'Tattleware' not only intrusive but ineffective”, in Avast Blog:

(computing, informal, derogatory) Software that monitors employees' computer activity so that their supervisor can track what they are doing.


direct buffer

(computing, programming) A portion of native memory that is shared with Java and can be used for direct reads.


non-direct buffer

non-direct buffer (plural non-direct buffers)

(computing, programming) A buffer whose underlying data is a byte array that is allocated in the Java heap area.


non-free software

(computing, software) Software that cannot be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code.

(computing, software) Any software that is not free, such as payware.


URL injection

(computing, Internet) A type of code injection attack that involves adding malicious characters to data values in the argument values of a URL.


hyperscaler

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The hyperscalers include the mega cloud operators like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

2022, Tom Taulli, Modern Mainframe Development, page 282:

Do you think it’s possible for a company like Anthropic to do this without a hyperscaler [like Amazon or Google]^([sic])?

2024 December 5, Madhumita Murgia, “Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI”, in Financial Times:

(computing) A company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure.


bufferful

bufferful (plural bufferfuls or buffersful)

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(computing) The amount of data that fills a buffer.


ZBR

(computing) Initialism of zone bit recording.


proc-gen

(computing) Syllabic abbreviation of procedural generation.


RIRO

rubbish in, rubbish out
rubbish in, rubbish out#English

(UK, computing) Acronym of rubbish in, rubbish out.


xvideo

X video (alternative)
x video (alternative)
Xvideo (alternative)

(computing, dated, now rare) Alternative form of XVideo (“the X video extension”).


nybl

And the young Prophet did journey to the land of the Lotus where computers grew on trees and mighty wizards wandered about conjuring bytes and nybls, protocols and hashing algorithms, much to the astonishment of the people of that land.

(computing, rare) Alternative form of nybble.


log spam

(computing) Log entries of an amount that in acknowledgement of misconfiguration will not be read and will waste space.


BogoMIPS

From bogus and MIPS (“million instructions per second”).

(computing, slang) A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop.


boot loop

boot loops (plural)
bootloop (alternative)

(computing) A faulty condition in which the system repeatedly reboots itself.


continuous delivery pipeline

continuous delivery pipeline (countable and uncountable, plural continuous delivery pipelines)

(software, computing) An automated series of steps that moves software code from the development stage through building, testing, and deployment to a production environment.


association link

association link (plural association links)

(computing, dated) A device that is used to group multiple words or concepts.


door hanger

door hangers (plural)
doorhanger (alternative)

I can basically do whatever I want in Gmail without that hidden doorhanger icon disappearing. Also, if a user simply uses the post-login page as a launching pad for opening links in new tabs or windows, then the doorhanger still remains in its hidden state.

2010, wmarcello, “Re: Doorhanger behaviour concerns”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet):

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual notification that drops down from another element such as a toolbar icon.


procedure call

(computing, programming) A statement that invokes a procedure in a program.


SGCAPS

SG as an abbreviation from Swiss German (the first keyboard layout to use this feature) combined with abbreviation CAPS from Caps Lock.

(computing) A Windows keyboard feature that strictly produces an uppercase version of a letter on certain keys whereas Shift produces an unrelated symbol.


logical clock

(computing) A mechanism for capturing chronological and causal relationships in a distributed system.


vector clock

(computing) An array of logical clocks used to determine the partial order of events in a distributed system and detect causality violations.


reverse line feed

reverse line feed (plural reverse line feeds)

(computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which reverses the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the previous line on a display.


data collection tree

data collection tree (plural data collection trees)

(computing) A network topology used to gather and aggregate data from a collection of sensor nodes into a single node, which then propagates the aggregated data on.


sexpr

symbolic expression
symbolic expression#English

(computing) Abbreviation of symbolic expression.


RVA

(computing) Initialism of relative virtual address.


user account

(computing, Internet) A collection of information and settings associated with a specific user within a computer system or online service.


Epochalypse

(computing, informal) The predicted problem in the year 2038 when some systems using Unix time will become unable to represent new times and store timestamps.


programmer art

(computing, video games, slang) Crude or ugly visuals created by a developer as placeholders.


slashify

en-verb

slashify (third-person singular simple present slashifies, present participle slashifying, simple past and past participle slashified)

slashifies (present singular third-person)
slashifying (participle present)
slashified (participle past)
slashified (past)

(computing, transitive, rare) To add slashes to text (for example to escape it).


cyberflasher

cyberflashers (plural)
cyber-flasher (alternative)

(computing, crime) One who commits cyberflashing.


telehaptics

(computing) The study of telehaptic technology.


software container

en-noun

software container (plural software containers)

(cloud computing) Synonym of container (“a bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment”).


hypercall

(computing) A syscall made by a guest operating system to the underlying hypervisor, rather than executing instructions that the hypervisor simulates.


disk pack

disk packs (plural)
disc pack (alternative)
diskpack (alternative)

(computing) A rigid cylindrical device having a center spindle and one or more steel plates with a magnetic coating, used to store and retrieve computer files.


hidden code

(computing, programming) Code that is embedded in software or another system and is disguised to make it difficult to detect.


status line

(computing, graphical user interface) A line of information on a computer screen that shows the current state of an application, window, or computer.


visionOS

(computing, mixed reality) A mixed reality operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. used for its Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset.


DNN

(computing) Initialism of deep neural network.


backupability

(computing) The capability of being backed up.


great bit bucket in the sky

the great bit bucket in the sky (canonical)

You cannot interrupt it by pressing Esc or Ctrl-Break, and if you use brute force to stop it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by turning off the machine, your data will disappear into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Most other disk packers guard against accidental data loss by keeping a spare copy of a cluster ondisk while transferring another copy from one part of the disk to another.

1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 17, page 80:

So a file named a.doc or files 1.doc through 9.doc would be sent to the great bit bucket in the sky; however, a file named 10.doc, because it has two characters in the file name, would not be affected by the previous command, which may not have been your intention.

2016, Gilbert Held, Windows Networking Tools, page 158:

(computing, humorous, slang) Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”).


BTPAN

(communication, computing) Abbreviation of Bluetooth Personal Area Network.


dedup

(computing) Deduplication; elimination of redundant duplicate data.


devnode

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A handle to a hardware device in a tree data structure representing the connections between devices on the system.


slack space

(computing) Unused space in an allocation unit containing a file smaller than the allocation unit itself.


text-to-speech

To demonstrate the common-form model, let us now sketch how a text-to-speech system actually works. The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.

2009, Paul Taylor, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(computing) The conversion of language text into speech using voice synthesis.


sixel

(computing) A dot analogous to a pixel, forming part of a code based on sets of six such dots, used to transmit bitmap graphics to certain printers and terminals.


defed

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From defederation. By surface analysis, de- + fed.


defed

en-verb

defed (third-person singular simple present defeds, present participle defedding, simple past and past participle defedded)

defeds (present singular third-person)
defedding (participle present)
defedded (participle past)
defedded (past)


minifloat

floating-point number
floating-point number#Noun

(computing) A floating-point number represented with very few bits (such as 8 or 16, when a more common size would be 32 or 64 bits).


objectful

en-adj

objectful (comparative more objectful, superlative most objectful)

more objectful (comparative)
most objectful (superlative)

(computing) Of or relating to the presence and employment of object in a programming language.


dockling

(computing) An obsolete GUI element similar to taskbars


millicpu

millicpus (plural)
milliCPU (alternative)

An application with 500 millicpu will have reserved half of a CPU core's time.

(computing) A unit of CPU time equivalent to a thousandth of the work that can be done by one CPU core.


RaaS

ransomware as a service
w:ransomware as a service

(computing) Initialism of ransomware as a service.


Esc key

en-noun

Esc key (countable and uncountable, plural Esc keys)

(computing) A key used to ɡenerate the escape character.


block-oriented terminal

block-oriented terminal (plural block-oriented terminals)

block-oriented terminals (plural)
block mode terminal (alternative)

(computing) A type of computer terminal that communicates with its network host in blocks of data.


MVI

(computing, programming) Initialism of Model–View–Intent.


Frankenswitch

(computing, slang) A switch for a mechanical keyboard made by combining components from different standard switches.


computer illiterate

en-adj

computer illiterate (comparative more computer illiterate, superlative most computer illiterate)

more computer illiterate (comparative)
most computer illiterate (superlative)

(computing) Unable to operate a personal computer.


optimistic concurrency

en-noun

optimistic concurrency (countable and uncountable, plural optimistic concurrencies)

(computing, databases) A database model that allows multiple users to update data simultaneously without locking rows.


pessimistic concurrency

pessimistic concurrency (countable and uncountable, plural pessimistic concurrencies)

database management system
database management system

(computing, databases) A database management system strategy that locks data in order to prevent conflicts between transactions.


hugepage

MongoDB needs to page in lots of tiny pieces of memory, so using hugepages can result in more disk IO.

2013, Kristina Chodorow, MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 378:

(computing, Linux) A memory page (a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory) that is significantly larger than a standard page.


DePIN

decentralized physical infrastructure network#English

(Internet, computing) Acronym of decentralized physical infrastructure network.

en:Decentralized physical infrastructure network


midstring

(computing) Within a string of text characters.


livecam

(computing) A webcam used for livestreaming.


here-script

here-script (countable and uncountable, plural here-scripts)


SoM

system on a module
system on a module#English

(computing, acronym, initialism) Abbreviation of system on a module (“system-on-module”).


screen memory

screen memory (countable and uncountable, plural screen memories)

(computing) A portion of computer memory storing the graphics currently displayed on the screen.


mirror server journal

mirror server journal (plural not attested)

(computing, databases, rare) A mechanism used to maintain data consistency and support recovery by recording any changes that are made in data.


packet tracer

(computing, networking) A tool used to monitor, analyze and simulate network traffic by capturing data packets over a network.


success message

success message (plural success messages)

(computing, Internet) A notification displayed to a user after a task or action is completed.


framey

en-adj

framey (comparative more framey, superlative most framey)

more framey (comparative)
most framey (superlative)

From frame (“image shown for a division of a second”) + -y, from the visibility of individual frames.

suffix

frame<id:time><t:image shown for a division of a second>

(computing, video games, colloquial) Low in frame rate; choppy.


soft reset

(computing) A process of restarting an electronic device without diminishing its power, typically by using the device's built-in restart function.


soft reset

en-verb

soft reset (third-person singular simple present soft resets, present participle soft resetting, simple past and past participle soft reset)

soft resets (present singular third-person)
soft resetting (participle present)
soft reset (participle past)
soft reset (past)

(computing, transitive) To perform a soft reset.


factory setting

en-noun

factory setting (plural factory settings)

(computing, computer hardware, technology, also engineering) The default configuration of a device when it is first manufactured and sold.


3-2-1 backup

(relational, computing) Following the mnemonic "3-2-1 rule" for data archiving and protection: three copies of a piece of data are created, using two different types of media, and one is stored offsite.


TOAD attack

Abbreviation from telephone-oriented attack delivery attack.

TOAD attacks often involve callback phishing, where victims are tricked into calling fake call centers. Before they strike, scammers will gather a victim’s credentials from various sources, such as past data breaches, social media profiles, and information bought on the dark web.

2024 June 6, Alex Lvoff, “How TOAD Scams Manipulate and Cheat Customers”, in Experian:

(cybersecurity, technology, computing, neologism) Abbreviation for “telephone-oriented attack delivery attack”: a type of fraud where a criminal contacts someone by phone, text or email and tricks them into giving information such as passwords, bank account details etc.


out of process

(computing, programming) Of a component or a server, operating in a separate process space from the calling application.


tetrasexagesimal

(computing, rare) The Base64 text encoding scheme.


SDV

software-defined vehicle
software-defined vehicle#English

software-driven vehicle
software-driven vehicle#English

(automotive, computing) Initialism of software-defined vehicle / software-driven vehicle.


fully qualified domain name

fully qualified domain name (plural fully qualified domain names)

(computing, Internet) A domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System.


dycore

Based on the results of Fox-Rabinovitz (2000) and Fox-Rabinovitz et al. (1997, 2000, 2001), whose stretched-grid GCM has successfully produced variable-resolution global predictions, we have made predictions with the SEAM dycore and simple HS physics applying global and regional scaling concurrently, to check SEAM's skill using LMR under conditions similar to Fox-Rabinovitz et al. (2001, hereafter F-R).

2006 November, Ferdinand Baer, Houjun Wang, Joseph J. Tribbia, Aimè Fournier, “Climate Modeling with Spectral Elements”, in Monthly Weather Review, volume 134, number 11, page 3515:

The notion of multi-scale applies to dycore computations both spatially and temporally.

2013 January 9, David A. Yuen, Long Wang, Xuebin Chi, Lennart Johnsson, Wei Ge, Yaolin Shi, GPU Solutions to Multi-scale Problems in Science and Engineering, Springer Science & Business Media, page 272:

So, it is important to be aware that the dynamical core (dycore, for short) is not the only piece of a GCM responsible for the challenging numerical task of advecting fluid.

2020, Freddy Bouchet, Antoine Venaille, Tapio Schneider, Christophe Salomon, editors, Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate Dynamics: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 109, August 2017, illustrated edition, Oxford University Press, page 18:

(meteorology, climatology, computing) A computational module within a numerical weather prediction or climate model that solves the fundamental equations governing atmospheric or oceanic dynamics, such as the Navier–Stokes equations, to simulate fluid motion on Earth.


service as a software substitute

(computing, derogatory) A computing model wherein a user performs personal computing tasks by relying on a remotely operated service, instead of executing software locally on their own device.


New World ROM

(computing, computer hardware) The firmware, specifically the bootROM, that was introduced on Macintosh computers in 1998 with the first iMac.


undoably

en-adv

undoably (comparative more undoably, superlative most undoably)

more undoably (comparative)
most undoably (superlative)

(computing) Such that it can be undone; reversibly.


session-replicated

Session Replicated Objects

2007, Till Schümmer, Stephan Lukosch, Patterns for Computer-Mediated Interaction (Wiley Software Patterns Series; 10), Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:

Alternatively, if you were to nest the element under the element, all deployed applications in all hosts are session replicated.

2011, Vivek Chopra, Sing Li, Jeff Genender, Professional Apache Tomcat 6, New York City, NY: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 506:

Configuring the distributable tag in web XML enables an application to support session replication but it may not guarantee it will work fine in a session replicated environment.

2016, Sameer Paradkar, “Solution Architecture and Design”, in Cracking the IT Architect Interview, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:

(computing) Of something replicated in a session.


WWDC

Worldwide Developers Conference
w:Worldwide Developers Conference

(computing) Initialism of Worldwide Developers Conference, held annually by Apple Inc.


newsbar

There are differences, of course, but they can be very, very subtle. The graphics at the top of the screen, the newsbar running across the bottom.

2007, Jennifer Oko, Gloss, MIRA, page 164:

I put the television on and I saw his name on the breaking news, on the newsbar.

2012 November 1, Hilda Reilly, Prickly Pears of Palestine: The People Behind the Politics, Eye Books (US&CA), page 102:

But as the hours passed and we entered different national airspaces, the newsbar flashed in the side panel with various regional propaganda.

2023, Joseph Zigmond, Constance, Black Spot Books, page 134:

(broadcasting, computing) A horizontal or vertical strip on a screen that displays scrolling or static text, typically used to present news headlines, alerts, or other real-time information.


bit-paired

(computing) Of a keyboard: having the layout of shifted keys corresponding to columns in the ASCII table.


typewriter-paired

(computing) Of a keyboard: having the layout of shifted keys corresponding to those of electric typewriters.


point-and-drool

(computing, informal, derogatory) Synonym of point-and-click (implying that such a user interface is preferred by stupid, technically incompetent people)


predecoding

It owes its simplicity to the predecoding of the I/O (input/output) slot address already provided on the Apple's main circuit board.

1985, Steve Ciarcia, Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, revised edition, volume 5, Circuit Cellar, page 32:

Predecoding shifts a part of the decoding task up into the loading phase of the on-chip instruction cache (I-cache)... A dedicated unit called the predecoded unit executes partial decoding and joins several decode bits to each instruction.

2021 July 20, TutorialsPoint, “Parallel Decoding in Computer Architecture”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Predecoding enables reduction of decoding latency and an area-efficient layout.

2024, John Reuben, Resistive RAM and Peripheral Circuitry: An Integrated Circuit Perspective, John Reuben, page 103:

(computing) The process of partially decoding machine instructions prior to their storage in the instruction cache, typically to identify instruction boundaries, classify instruction types, and facilitate faster or parallel decoding during execution.


empty-element tag

en-noun

empty-element tag (plural empty-element tags)

/ˈɛmp.ʈiː ˈɛl.ɛ.mɛnʈ ˌʈaɡ/

(computing) An empty HTML/XML/SGML element, one with tag(s) but no content.


it's not a bug, it's a feature

Coined by American computer programmer Sandra Lee Harris in 1971 at Digital Equipment Corporation.

coinage

INABIAF (alternative)
it's a feature, not a bug (alternative)

(computing) What one user may consider a software bug, other users may consider to be a useful feature or an intentional consequence of the system's design.


unjailbreak

en-verb

unjailbreak (third-person singular simple present unjailbreaks, present participle unjailbreaking, simple past unjailbroke, past participle unjailbroken)

unjailbreaks (present singular third-person)
unjailbreaking (participle present)
unjailbroke (past)
unjailbroken (participle past)

(computing, transitive) To reverse the jailbreaking modification of (an electronic device).


wrong-endian

(computing) Stored in big-endian format on a little-endian machine, or vice versa.


wrap around

wrap around (third-person singular simple present wraps around, present participle wrapping around, simple past and past participle wrapped around)

wraps around (present singular third-person)
wrapping around (participle present)
wrapped around (participle past)
wrapped around (past)

(ergative, computing, word processing) To move (text or other content) to the beginning of the next line when unable to fit it at the end of the current line.


retroware

en-noun

retroware (usually uncountable, plural (nonstandard) retrowares)

/ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊˌwɛə/

/ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊˌwɛɹ/

/ˈɹet.ɹəʉˌweː/

/ˈɹet.ɹəʉˌweə̯/

/ˈɾɛʈ.ɾoːˌwɛːʳ/

Blend of retro + software /hardware, or from retro- (“old-fashioned or old-school”) + -ware (“software”). First attested in 1995, but in common usage only as of the 21st century.

etydate

Microsoft itself has shown only two games for Win 95: Fury3, a Descent-like flight sim, and Return of Arcade, another retroware disk.

1995 June 28, Rob Pegoraro, “Behind the Screens”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2025-05-22:

The March issue of Wired looks at retroware, the growing use of older computers, in an article by Mark Frauenfelder titled “Never Say Die”.

2000 March 10, “Other voices”, in The Houston Chronicle:

p.s. My source for the ESC/P2 are old retroware/retro-computing software and the data will be coming out of 8-bit system emulators.

2005 February 27, David, “Input=ESC/P2; Output=tiff... Any drivers/software?”, in comp.periphs.printers (Usenet), retrieved 2025-05-22:

(computing, informal, programming, software) Old software/hardware.


priority queue

(computing, computer science) An abstract data type similar to a regular queue or stack abstract data type.


40% keyboard

Such keyboards have around 40% of the number of keys of a standard keyboard.

(computing) A compact computer keyboard that improves ergonomics by omitting the numeric keypad, function keys, etc. and relying on additional modifier keys to access certain functions.


abliterate

en-verb

abliterate (third-person singular simple present abliterates, present participle abliterating, simple past and past participle abliterated)

abliterates (present singular third-person)
abliterating (participle present)
abliterated (participle past)
abliterated (past)

Blend of ablate + obliterate. Coined by Redditor /u/FailSpai in early 2024, as the idea is to ablate refusal features to the point of obliteration.

Now that we have our datasets, we can load the model we want to abliterate. […] I evaluated the abliterated and source models from the previous section on the Open LLM Leaderboard and on Nous' benchmark suite.

2024 June 13, Maxime Labonne, “Uncensor any LLM with abliteration”, in Hugging Face Blog, retrieved 2025-05-29:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

large language model
large language model

(neologism, artificial intelligence, computing) To uncensor a large language model by modifying specific model internals to remove refusal behaviours or unwanted traits, while aiming to preserve the model's other capabilities.


abliteration

en-noun

abliteration (countable and uncountable, plural abliterations)

Blend of ablate + obliteration, see abliterate.

We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance.

(neologism, artificial intelligence, computing) The process of uncensoring a large language model by modifying internal functions to eliminate refusal behaviors while preserving the remaining functions of the model.


ECR

ECR (countable and uncountable, plural ECRs)

(cloud computing) Initialism of elastic container registry.


intent filter

An intent filter declares that this application component is capable of handling or processing a specific type of intent when it matches the filter's criteria.

2012, Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder, Android Wireless Application Development, Volume I, page 132:

(computing, programming) A declaration within an application's manifest file that specifies the types of intents (messages) that a component is capable of handling.


manifest file

(computing, programming) A file containing metadata for a group of accompanying files that are part of a set or coherent unit.


RTLO

(computing, typography) Initialism of right-to-left override.


storage unit

(computing) A device or medium that stores data and information for long-term or permanent use.


BYOL

(computing) Initialism of bring your own license (“a system by which software licenses can be used either on premises or in the cloud”).


DCIM

DCIM (countable and uncountable, plural DCIMs)

(electronics, computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of digital camera image(s).


application bundle

application bundle (plural application bundles)

(computing, software) A package format, often a directory with a specific structure, containing all the files and resources necessary for a program to run.


package format

(computing, software) A type of archive containing computer programs and additional metadata required by a package manager.


native bundle

(computing, software) A self-contained package that includes all the necessary components required to build a native executable or shared library.