data scraping

en-noun

data scraping (countable and uncountable, plural data scrapings)

(computing, uncountable) A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.

OpenCorporates collects corporate data from public open data sources, official APIs, and data scrapings, and transforms it all into a standard form.

2019, Jack Lord, “Corporate Ownership”, in Tim Davies et al., editors, The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, →ISBN, page 57:

(computing, countable) An application of this technique.


screen scraping

(computing) A form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.


midamble

Modelled on preamble, with mid- replacing pre-.

(computing) A portion of data located in the middle of a file or stream.


SLERP

This filter is very straightforward to implement using the technique of spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [8].

2001, Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, page 79:

We have already mentioned that quaternions give very good visual results when interpolated using spherical linear interpolation, commonly known as SLERP.

2008, Mario Gutierrez, F. Vexo, Daniel Thalmann, Stepping into Virtual Reality, page 24:

Third, in key frame animation, we can readily interpolate smoothly between two rotations represented by unit quaternions by using spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [Shoemake, 1985] (see also Section 9.3).

2010, Ron Goldman, Rethinking Quaternions, page xiii:

spherical linear interpolation
spherical linear interpolation#English

(mathematics, computing) Acronym of spherical linear interpolation.


SLERP

en-verb

SLERP (third-person singular simple present SLERPs, present participle SLERPing, simple past and past participle SLERPed)

SLERPs (present singular third-person)
SLERPing (participle present)
SLERPed (participle past)
SLERPed (past)

The rotation quaternion should be SLERPed in order to give the rotation interpolation a smooth curve.

2003, Evan Pipho, Focus on 3D Models - Volume 1, page 150:

Inside this handler, we perform the actual transformation update of our _tracker calculating the current SLERPed Quaternion, and then converting it to the Matrix3D and finally to transform property of the object: private :Jnction

2011, Michael Ivanov, Away3D 3.6 Cookbook:

Using continuously varying time, τ, the quaternionized limb is “SLERPed” towards the target until the target body pose is reached.

2018 October, CT Richards, LB Porro, “A novel kinematics analysis method using quaternion interpolation–a case study in frog jumping”, in Journal of theoretical biology, volume 454:

(mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.


nonbrowser

(computing) In Microsoft Windows, a computer that is not capable of maintaining and distributing a browse list.


browserish

en-adj

browserish (comparative more browserish, superlative most browserish)

more browserish (comparative)
most browserish (superlative)

✦ BrowseDisplayMode: This is the mode for interacting with the page in a normal browserish way. When you clicked a date in the previous example, the Web parts interacted in Browse mode.

2006, Doug Lowe, Jeff Cogswell, Ken Cox, “Advanced ASP.NET Programming: Building Portals with Web Parts”, in ASP.NET 2.0 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 821:

(informal, computing) Resembling or characteristic of a web browser.


webification

(computing) The process or result of webifying; conversion to a World Wide Web format.


seqlock

(computing) A locking mechanism for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines, incrementing a counter at each stage to verify consistency.


deformatter

(computing) Something that deformats; a remover of formatting.


attack vector

(computing) A path or method used by a hacker to gain access to a target system, such as a computer or network server.


linkage editor

(computing) A utility program that combines load modules (typically of subroutines) etc. to produce an executable program


μP

When you think of current microprocessors (μPs), the Intel Itanium processor with 592 million transistors may come to mind. […] Clearly today's FPGAs will not be able to implement such a top-of-the-range μP with a single FPGA.

2007, Uwe Meyer-Baese, “Microprocessor Design”, in Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 3rd edition, Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 537:

(computing) Abbreviation of microprocessor.


APIC

When dealing with interrupt problems, try disabling APIC support.

2020, chapter 11, in The FreeBSD Handbook:

(computing) Initialism of Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.


kettle lead

(computing, loosely) The similar-looking C13/C14 coupler lead, commonly used to power computer equipment.


unnuke

en-verb

unnuke (third-person singular simple present unnukes, present participle unnuking, simple past and past participle unnuked)

unnukes (present singular third-person)
unnuking (participle present)
unnuked (participle past)
unnuked (past)
un-nuke (alternative)

(computing, warez, transitive) To reverse an act of nuking; to unerase, to undelete.


vaultable

en-adj

vaultable (comparative more vaultable, superlative most vaultable)

more vaultable (comparative)
most vaultable (superlative)

(computing) Able to be stored in a vault.


autoclicker

From auto- + clicker or autoclick + -er.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing) A program that simulates the click of a mouse, typically used to automate commands in a graphical user interface.


superinformation

(computing, physics) Medium capable of containing information that specifies particular physical states in which copying is impossible, usually in the realm of quantum computing.

superinformation highway
superinformation highway

(dated, computing) A computer network capable of high throughput, as in superinformation highway.


Wingding

(computing, trademark) A glyph from a Wingdings font.


Webdings

Blend of web + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

(computing) An internet-oriented dingbat font based on Wingdings.


garbageware

(computing, slang, derogatory) Extremely poor software.


interleaver

(computing) A program or algorithm that interleaves.


deinterleaver

(computing) A program or algorithm that deinterleaves.


usermode

(computing, often attributive) A level of privilege on a system allowing users to run programs etc. safely without full access to the operating system.


Pent

I have encountered this problem on several computers from 486's to Pents. The only thing I have found to fix it is make sure the CD-Rom cache is set fairly high in the cdrom setup of win 95, and make sure to eliminate ALL unnecessary 16-bit drivers in your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

1996 February 19, Jeremy Kott, “Re: strange pauses....”, in alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (Usenet):

(computing) A Pentium microprocessor or computer.


BCI

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) aren’t a new idea. Various forms of BCI are already available, from ones that sit on top of your head and measure brain signals to devices that are implanted into your brain tissue. […] But Musk’s plans go beyond this: he wants to use BCIs in a bi-directional capacity, so that plugging in could make us smarter, improve our memory, help with decision-making and eventually provide an extension of the human mind.

2018 January 1, Sarah Marsh, “Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the goal of human enhancement”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A BCI is a device that allows for direct communication between the brain and a machine. Foundational to this technology is the ability to decode neural signals that arise in the brain into commands that can be recognized by the machine.

2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

brain–computer interface
w:brain–computer interface

(computing) Initialism of brain–computer interface.


allocation unit

en-noun

allocation unit (plural allocation units)

(computing) Synonym of cluster (“data storage unit”).


detokenizer

(computing) A program or algorithm that detokenizes.


tech bro

tech bros (plural)
tech-bro (alternative)

Compound of tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from 2010s (see quotations below).

com+

Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.

2013 November 24, Erica Goode, Claire Cain Miller, “Backlash by the Bay”, in New York Times:

“U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.

2017 December 30, James Poniewozik, “Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?

2019 October, James Ross Gardner, “Who will mourn the tech bro?”, in Seattle Met:

A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.

2021 January 27, Gilad Edelman, “Stop calling everyone a tech bro”, in Wired:

(informal, neologism, sometimes derogatory) A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.


LFF

(computing) Initialism of large form factor, referring to 3.5 inch hard drives contrasted with 2.5 inch drives


.txt

(computing) An extension for a text file.


.dat

From the first three letters of "data" (data).

(computing) An extension for a data file.


web installer

(computing) A single-executable stub installer for a program that downloads the full installer from the Internet on runtime. It may use heuristics to choose the more appropriate installer to download.


offline installer

en-noun

offline installer (plural offline installers)

(computing) A single-executable installer for a program that already contains the full program. It does not need to connect to the Internet.


federator

Our extended standard GIS web Service components are integrated into the system through a federator, which is actually a WMS that is extended with capability-aggregating and stateful service capabilities to enable high performance support for responsive GIS applications.

2009, Nik Bessis, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support, page 281:

The results of the crawler, the administrative components, and the federator are stored in a database.

2012, Paul Baan, Enterprise Information Management, page 183:

The federator now can implement logic that determines where the data is placed.

2013, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, page 68:

(computing) A component that integrates access to various services.


PTP

Precision Time Protocol
w:Precision Time Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Precision Time Protocol.

Picture Transfer Protocol
w:Picture Transfer Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Picture Transfer Protocol, used to transfer images from digital cameras to computers.


hiptop

Blend of hip + laptop. Perhaps introduced as a brand name; see Danger Hiptop.

Newer browsers will ignore them; mobile phones, palmtops, and hiptops often have very basic browsers that understand only the basic tags.

2006, Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, Andrew Grumet, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, page 346:

But the Web comes in two flavors on mobile devices. On newer “smart” phones, PDAs, and hiptops, you can get the regular, glorious Web—the one you're used to seeing on your desktop or laptop computer—via a small Web browser.

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual:

(computing) A small portable personal computer somewhat like a smartphone.


autoscaler

(computing) A system that automatically increases or decreases the resources available to a process depending on need and availability.


georestriction

georestriction (countable and uncountable, plural georestrictions)

(computing) The deliberate limitation of a (digital) product or service so that it is only available to users in certain geographic regions.


TPF

Transaction Processing Facility
w:Transaction Processing Facility

Initialism of Transaction Processing Facility.


Sawzall

Marketing coinage for the tool; from saw; evoking the collocation saws all ("saws everything"); coined by Milkwaukee Tool for its Sawzall brand of reciprocating saw.

programming language
programming language

(computing) A domain-specific programming language.


D$

From D (“data”) + translingual $ (“cache”).


I$

From I (“instruction”) + translingual $ (“cache”).

compound

(computing) Abbreviation of instruction cache.


Harvard architecture

en-noun

Harvard architecture (countable and uncountable, plural Harvard architectures)

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture in which program instructions and data are stored on separate memories and accessed via separate buses.


ghost character

ghost character (plural ghost characters)

(computing) Kanji included in JIS X 0208 of unknown origin.


Moravec's paradox

Articulated in the 1980s by Hans Moravec, among others.

Dr. Herculano-Houzel's research on the human brain reveals an unexpected insight that sheds light on Moravec's paradox: our ability to perceive and respond to our immediate environment actually demands a lot of brainpower.

2016, Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman, Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(computing, robotics) The observation that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high-level in humans) requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills (comparatively low-level in humans) require enormous computational resources.


iPadOS

Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.

2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. used for its tablets.


chunkwise

(computing) In terms of chunks; one chunk of data at a time.


spinning rust

In reference to the mechanical motion and the use of metal oxides.

(computing, informal, humorous) hard disks


SLED

(computing) Acronym of Single Large Expensive Disk.


LZO

(computing) Initialism of Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer, a lossless data compression algorithm.


location-agnostic

(computing) Not constrained to a particular location.


full stack

(computing) Alternative form of full-stack.


microarchitect

Back-formation from microarchitecture. Equivalent to micro- + architect.

(computing) A person who designs a microarchitecture.


resource pig

Office97 is a whorendous resource pig. It contains many useless features that seem to be designed for no other purpose than to induce you to buy a high end machine.

1998 March 22, Byron Bodo, “Re: How to boost speed of the computer”, in microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion (Usenet):

(computing, slang, rare) A resource hog.


resource hog

(computing, slang) A process which consumes a large amount of system resources compared to its importance or function.


nonzeroary

(computing, mathematics, rare, nonstandard) Not zeroary.


nullish

(computing, JavaScript) Either being undefined or having a null value.


dehost

en-verb

dehost (third-person singular simple present dehosts, present participle dehosting, simple past and past participle dehosted)

dehosts (present singular third-person)
dehosting (participle present)
dehosted (participle past)
dehosted (past)
de-host (alternative)

Traceroute for the domain returns a "DNS Authoritative: Host not found". […] Might this be compatible with the owner having 'dehosted' the domain?

2012 May 12, Iain Archer, “Re: Police pursuits”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet):

(transitive, computing, Internet) To cause (a website etc.) to lose connection with its host.


uncrop

uncrop (third-person singular simple present uncrops, present participle uncropping, simple past and past participle uncropped)

uncrops (present singular third-person)
uncropping (participle present)
uncropped (participle past)
uncropped (past)

You can crop any part of a pdf. When you crop it, Preview actually keeps track of the part of the document you deleted and hangs on to it in case you want to uncrop the file, even after you've saved it.

2010, Robin Williams, John Tollett, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: A Quick Reference Guide to Mastering Snow Leopard! (Peachpit Learning Series), Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 202:

In other words, if you rotate a photo, crop it, and then change its contrast, you have to use the Undo command three times—first to undo the contrast change, then to uncrop, and finally to unrotate.

2014, David Pogue, Lesa Snider, iPhoto: The Missing Manual, page 123:

(transitive, chiefly computing) To undo the cropping of (an image).


WSL

Windows Subsystem for Linux
w:Windows Subsystem for Linux

(computing) Initialism of Windows Subsystem for Linux.


floppyful

The manual reveals that the video commands of DOS's MODE are useless; in their stead the manufacturer has supplied a floppyful of software.

1986 February 25, Stephen Manes, “Fritter: The Ever-present Enemy”, in PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, →ISSN, page 93:

(computing, rare) The amount (of data) that a floppy disk can hold.


bufferize

bufferize (third-person singular simple present bufferizes, present participle bufferizing, simple past and past participle bufferized)

bufferizes (present singular third-person)
bufferizing (participle present)
bufferized (participle past)
bufferized (past)

(transitive, computing, nonstandard) To buffer; to store in a buffer.


studly caps

upper camel case
upper camel case#English

(computing, informal) Synonym of upper camel case.

alternating case
alternating case#English

(computing, informal) Synonym of alternating case.


tickless

a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler

(computing) Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.


runahead

(computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.


astonisher

1874, The American Observer, New Series, Volume 1, “Rejoinder,” p. 525,
“ […] Nothing whatever” ! (the italics are “S. S. C.’s,” the “astonisher” is mine.)

1947, Stewart Holbrook, The Story of American Railroads, American Legacy Press, 1981, Chapter 39, p. 443,
More often than not these prophets […] belong to the oh-the-wonder-of-it-all school, who point to the sky as the new and sole artery of travel and transportation and marvel, in complete awe—which they indicate by running over with astonishers!—at the thought of monstrous planes hauling the freight and passengers of the nation, even of the world.

1984, Richard Hauer Costa, “The Grisly Graphics of Malcolm Lowry” in Gordon Bowker and Paul Tiessen (eds.), Proceedings of the London Conference on Malcolm Lowry, Goldsmith’s College, University of London and The Malcolm Lowry Review, Wilfrid Laurier University, p. 100,
An ad for a boxing match can symbolize the uncommunicable, with its curious shape-of-the-type configurations—¡BOX!, with the ‘astonisher’ written upside down before the word and right side up after.

(typography, printing, computing, chiefly US) An exclamation mark, the punctuation mark “!”.


Sattolo's algorithm

Fisher-Yates shuffle
Fisher-Yates shuffle

(computing) A variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle that generates uniformly distributed cycles of some maximal length n, rather than permutations of the entire sequence.


autoassociation

(computing) The condition of being autoassociative


glycoinformatic

(biochemistry, computing) Relating to glycoinformatics


glycoinformatics

(biochemistry, computing) The bioinformatics of sugars


theozyme

(computing, biochemistry) A theoretical enzyme constructed mathematically


router on a stick

en-noun

router on a stick (plural routers on sticks)

So called because it uses the same physical link to send and receive traffic to and from different VLANs.

one-armed router
one-armed router#English

(computing) Synonym of one-armed router.


numerical integration

numerical integration (countable and uncountable, plural numerical integrations)

(mathematics, computing) The study of numerical analysis algorithms to obtain approximate values of definite integrals.

numerical integration
simple:numerical integration


numerical linear algebra

(computing) The study of numerical analysis algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of linear algebra.

numerical linear algebra
simple:numerical linear algebra


screen tearing

(computing) A phenomenon where the image on a screen appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.


computational fluid dynamics

computational fluid dynamics (uncountable)

(computing, mechanics) The study of computational algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of fluid dynamics.


tupelize

en-verb

tupelize (third-person singular simple present tupelizes, present participle tupelizing, simple past and past participle tupelized)

tupelizes (present singular third-person)
tupelizing (participle present)
tupelized (participle past)
tupelized (past)


carry-in

A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design:

(computing) A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.


hardware acceleration

(computing) Usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.

аппара́тное ускоре́ние

usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software


hardware-accelerated

hardware-accelerated video decoding

hardware acceleration
hardware acceleration

(computing) Done using hardware acceleration.


YB

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of yottabyte.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of yobibyte.


Gbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibit.


Tbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of terabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of tebibit.


Pbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of petabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of pebibit.


Ebit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of exabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of exbibit.


Zbit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of zettabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of zebibit.


Ybit

(computing, formal) Abbreviation of yottabit.

(computing, informal) Abbreviation of yobibit.


kibps

However, due to the technological constraints, data rates in today's ubiquitous wireless networks range from few kibps in outdoor environments to few Mbps in indoor environments.

2000, Moncef Elaoud, Adaptive Resource Allocation to Enhance the Quality of Service in Wireless Networks, page 65:

... including required communication quality ranging from BER = 10⁻⁶ and transmission rate ranging from several kibps to 10 Mbps, must be taken into consideration.

1996, International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, page 229:


Kibps

Ub 1996, an average capacity of 62 kibibits per second (Kibps) per inhabitant was available in the OECD countries, compared to the 13 Kibps available to LAC inhabitants (a difference of 49 Kibps), but by 2006 this difference had grown to 577 Kibps (756 versus 179).

2010, United Nations, Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, →ISBN, page 50:


MiBps

You can add 100 MiBps increments of peak data throughput up to your system's hardware capacity by using FC 5268. [...] Host throughput on TS7700 clusters with 25 increments installed are not constrained at 2500 MiBps.

2017 April 11, IBM TS7700 Release 3.3, IBM Redbooks, →ISBN, pages 219–220:

The gp2 volumes have a throughput limit of 128 MiBps - 250 MiBps, depending on volume size.

2020 July 8, Implementing IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud on AWS Version 8.3.1, IBM Redbooks, →ISBN:


Mibps

The recent installation of satellite networks and high-capacity cable in the region has helped slow the widening of the relative gap (figure II.4), but the absolute gap nonetheless increased from 8.5 Mibps in 1996 to 10.7 Mibps in 2005 (17.4 Mibps versus 6.7 Mibps).

2010, Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations, →ISBN, page 53:


GiBps

For the 416-million-element case of PHASTA on 32 Intrepid racks consisting of about 20 GiB, GLEAN was able to transfer this data in about 0.6s, achieving around 34 GiBps.

2014 October 23, High Performance Parallel I/O, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 222:

Even the 6-round variant of OPP is able to maintain high speeds at 0.75 cpb (4.67 GiBps) reducing the distance to the above competitors to factors of 1.37, 0.92, 2.78, and 1.28. [...] On Haswell MRS achieves 2.40 cpb (l = 4) and 3.58 cpb (l = 6) which translate to throughputs of 1.45 GiBps and 0.97 GiBps, respectively.

2016 April 27, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 288:


MiB/s

The CPUs can calculate 1 000 000 IPS and have an internal data transfer speed of 1000 MiB/s. The NICs can transfer up to 100 MiB/s and have a latency of 0.2 ms.

2012, Koen de Bosschere, Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale Computing, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 459:


LPE

en-noun

LPE (countable and uncountable, plural LPEs)

(computing) Initialism of local privilege escalation.


chunklength

(computing) The length of a chunk of data.


outprint

[…] it seems at least dubious whether the fact that the information was released by means of an outprint from a computer rather than some other means should affect the liability.

1990, Peter Seipel, From Data Protection to Knowledge Machines:


sysprog

The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.

2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19:

(computing, colloquial, dated) A systems programmer.


systems programmer

systems programmer (plural systems programmers)

(computing) A programmer responsible for systems programming.


systems programming

(computing) The activity of programming system software (e.g. operating systems, as opposed to applications).


special character

special character (plural special characters)

(computing) A symbol that is not an alphanumeric character; a nonalphanumeric character.


computer network

computer network (plural computer networks)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-computer network.wav

(computing, networking) A group of computers that use a set of common communication protocols over digital interconnections for the purpose of sharing resources located on or provided by the network nodes.


trojanize

en-verb

trojanize (third-person singular simple present trojanizes, present participle trojanizing, simple past and past participle trojanized)

trojanizes (present singular third-person)
trojanizing (participle present)
trojanized (participle past)
trojanized (past)
trojanise (alternative)
Trojanize (alternative)
Trojanise (alternative)

trojanized binary

(computing, transitive) To transform (something) into a trojan.


redebug

redebug (third-person singular simple present redebugs, present participle redebugging, simple past and past participle redebugged)

redebugs (present singular third-person)
redebugging (participle present)
redebugged (participle past)
redebugged (past)

/ˌɹiːdiːˈbʌɡ/


redebug

/ˌɹiːdiːˈbʌɡ/

(computing) An instance of debugging again.


chaincode

(computing) Alternative form of chain code.

(computing) A form of blockchain program used with a hyperledger


chain code

(computing) A program that compresses a monochrome image


haplotyper

(biology, computing) A piece of software that characterises haplotypes.


CISA

w:Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

(US, government, computing, security) Acronym of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.


crimping tool

(electricity) A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.


PMMU

(computing) Initialism of paged memory management unit.


marked-up

In order to overcome inconsistencies in the data structure an iterative system of checking output and refining programs in response was instituted and the entire marked-up text was read closely in order to remove any remaining irregularities.

2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489:

(computing) Having had markup coding added.


RFB

en-noun

RFB (countable and uncountable, plural RFBs)

(countable, computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of remote frame buffer (protocol).


megahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) A million hashes.


hashrate

Specialized hardware like a GPU is designed to do large numbers of small tasks very quickly, and so excel at hashing: typically a single GPU can produce a hashrate at least ten times faster than that of a single CPU.

2017, Adam Rothstein, The End of Money, John Murray Press, →ISBN:

(computing, cryptocurrencies) The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.


terahash

(computing, cryptocurrencies) A trillion (10¹²) hashes.


NPU

neural processing unit
neural processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of neural processing unit.

network processing unit
network processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of network processing unit.

numeric processing unit
numeric processing unit#English

numerical processing unit
numerical processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of numeric processing unit/numerical processing unit.


VUI

CUI

command user interface, character-based user interface

TUI

touch user interface, textual user interface/text-based user interface, terminal user interface, tangible user interface

voice user interface
voice user interface#English

(computing) Abbreviation of voice user interface.


CUI

command user interface
command user interface#English

(computing, acronym and initialism) Abbreviation of command user interface.

character-based user interface
character-based user interface#English

(computing, acronym and initialism) Abbreviation of character-based user interface.


IDOR

insecure direct object reference
w:insecure direct object reference

(computing) Abbreviation of insecure direct object reference.


/me

From IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and related systems, in which this command generates a text-based action performed by a user: for example, /me dances around might produce the message John dances around.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) I (the person writing)


user-defined

(computing) Created or defined by the user of a system, rather than being included in the original package.


lyricon

/ˈlɪɹ.ɪˌkɑn/

(computing) A form of earcon or musicon that incorporates musically intoned speech.


wake-on-LAN

(computing) A networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or awakened by a network message.


paging file

paging files (plural)
page file (alternative)
pagefile (alternative)

(computing) An area of storage on disk that the operating system uses as if it were RAM.

αρχείο σελιδοποίησης

area of storage on disk used as if it were RAM


merge-purge

en-verb

merge-purge (third-person singular simple present merge-purges, present participle merge-purging, simple past and past participle merge-purged)

merge-purges (present singular third-person)
merge-purging (participle present)
merge-purged (participle past)
merge-purged (past)

(computing, dated) To combine two lists of data, removing any duplicate entries.


software archaeology

(computing) The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems.


systems language

en-noun

systems language (plural systems languages)

programming language
programming language

(computing) A programming language used for systems programming.


F Lock

(computing) A lock key that toggles the behaviour of the function keys between their traditional (application-defined) behaviours and a set of new commands.


FEP

FEP (countable and uncountable, plural FEPs)

front-end processor
front-end processor#English

(computing) Abbreviation of front-end processor.


hyperconverged

(computing) Implemented within a hypervisor


diceware

(computing) A method for creating passwords and similar cryptographic variables using ordinary dice to generate random numbers which are then mapped to words in a list.


destructive read

destructive read (plural destructive reads)

Although ferroelectric RAM has many advantages over conventional DRAM, it does share one of DRAM's disadvantages: as with DRAM, reading a FeRAM cell is a destructive read process which erases any data in the cell. When using FeRAM for persistent nonvolatile storage, this destructive-read nature can potentially result in data loss or corruption if power to the device is suddenly lost during a read operation.

(computing, often attributive) A read operation that inherently erases the data that was read, requiring it to be immediately written back to the storage medium to prevent loss of data.


non-destructive read

non-destructive read (plural non-destructive reads)

Although non-destructive reads are theoretically possible with FeRAM, the process - requiring illumination of the memory cells with UV light - is completely impractical for most purposes, favoring the more-practical (but destructive) method of forcing every cell to 0, seeing which cells produced a tiny current pulse, and writing back 1s to those cells.

(computing, often attributive) A read operation that does not erase the data being read in the process of reading it.


captive portal

(computing) A web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.


hyperautomation

(rare, computing) Extreme automation; the automating of as many processes as possible.


misfetch

It also shows the conditional branch misprediction rate ( due to both misprediction and target address misfetch), the return misprediction rate, and the BTB miss rate .

1996, Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, page 63:

All branches and calls cause a misfetch when the branch is not present in the BTB.

1998, International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Conference Proceedings: June 27 - July 1, 1998, Barcelona, Spain, page 36:

Unfortunately, the typical optimizations for cachelike structures, such as larger capacity or associativity, will not help in decreasing misfetches.

2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 148:

(computing) An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.


misfetch

en-verb

misfetch (third-person singular simple present misfetches, present participle misfetching, simple past and past participle misfetched)

misfetches (present singular third-person)
misfetching (participle present)
misfetched (participle past)
misfetched (past)

However, a single misfetched instruction can cause the system to begin executing code from nonexistent or improper memory locations, and it is unlikely to recover on its own.

1989, Michael Slater, Microprocessor-based Design, page 268:

With Missf and Missp the percentages of branches that are misfetched and mispredicted, respectively (some branches can be both, as shown in two rows of Table 4.2), the contribution of the CPI due to branch execution, or the branch execution penalty bep expressed as a number of cycles, can be written in a first approximation (see the exercises) as […]

2010, Jean-Loup Baer, Microprocessor Architecture, page 149:

The number of cycles wasted on each mispredicted or misfetched branch is larger than in a RISC processor.

2012, Michel Dubois, Murali Annavaram, Per Stenstrom, Parallel Computer Organization and Design, page 139:

(computing) To fetch the wrong block of code or instruction.


hot patch

hot patches (plural)
hot-patch (alternative)
hotpatch (alternative)

The use of hot patches allows the server to be kept fully up-to-date without any reboot-induced downtime.

(computing) A patch (software fix) which is applied to a system while it is running, without the need to reboot the system to complete the patching process.


microoperative

(computing) Relating to, or implemented by means of microoperations


microprogrammable

(computing) Capable of being microprogrammed


soft-dotted

(computing, typography) Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.


HPFS

(computing) Initialism of High Performance File System, a file system used by the OS/2 operating system and early versions of Windows NT.


crash to desktop

en-noun

crash to desktop (plural crashes to desktop)

crashes to desktop (plural)
crash-to-desktop (alternative)

Five months in the making, this latest effort goes a long way in fixing various avionics, campaign, AI, multiplayer and crash-to-desktop issues (see the patch on this month's demo disk).

c. 1999, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 181-185, Golden Empire Publications:

The only force more powerful than the nuclear bunker-buster is the crash to desktop.

2008, PC Gamer, volume 15, GP Publications, page 6:

You're right in the middle of a thrilling fight with the bad guy and then what happens? A crash to desktop (CTD).

2012, Michael Meyers, Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+ Guide to 802 Managing and ..., McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN:

(computing, software) An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.


crash to desktop

en-verb

crash to desktop (third-person singular simple present crashes to desktop, present participle crashing to desktop, simple past and past participle crashed to desktop)

crashes to desktop (present singular third-person)
crashing to desktop (participle present)
crashed to desktop (participle past)
crashed to desktop (past)
crash-to-desktop (alternative)

Finally, as if that wasn't punishment enough, the game crashed to desktop several times during my tests.

2007, PC Gamer, volume 14, numbers 4-6, GP Publications, page 69:

Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

2008, Adam Oxford, Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US, →ISSN, page 67:

Despite extensive planning and countless rounds of testing, we found out (much too late) to our chagrin that the game would “crash to desktop” on certain computers.

2009, Gibson, David, Baek, Young Kyun, Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 418:

(computing, software) To experience such an error.


relinker

(computing) A process that relinks something.


microassembler

(computing) An assembler that operates on microcode.


From being a 64-bit architecture developed by AMD.

The AMD64 version of this Linux distro has higher performance than the i386 version, and doesn't suffer from the severe RAM limits imposed by 32-to-36-bit addressing.

(computing, usually attributive) The 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture (as opposed to the original 16-bit x86 architecture, or to the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture, also known as IA-32, i386, or x86-32).


Initialism of Intel Architecture, 32-bit.

initialism

(computing, usually attributive) The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture (as opposed to the original 16-bit x86 architecture or its later 64-bit extension).

(metonymic) All versions of the x86 architecture that support 32-bit computing (including those also capable of 64-bit operation).


(computing) The Intel 80386 (i386) processor.

Some Linux distros have stopped releasing i386 versions of their releases, given that practically everybody now uses devices with 64-bit-capable processors.

The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, first used on this model of processor (earlier x86 processors used the 16-bit version of the x86 architecture).


(computing) The 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


(computing) The original 16-bit-only version of the x86 instruction set architecture.


Martian packet

From being a packet with a source or destination address that is "not of this Earth".

(computing, networking) A network packet whose declared source or destination IP address lies within a reserved address range unavailable for use on the public Internet.


geocomputational

(geography, computing) Relating to geocomputation


MVS

(computing) Abbreviation of Multiple Virtual Storage - an IBM mainframe operating system.


SIP

w:Plane (Unicode)#Supplementary Ideographic Plane

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Ideographic Plane, the third plane (Plane 2) in Unicode, with 65,536 codepoints (from U+20000 through U+2FFFF), mainly used for less-common CJK characters.

Supplementary Ideographic Plane

System Integrity Protection
w:System Integrity Protection

(computing, macOS) Initialism of System Integrity Protection.


dockerize

en-verb

dockerize (third-person singular simple present dockerizes, present participle dockerizing, simple past and past participle dockerized)

dockerizes (present singular third-person)
dockerizing (participle present)
dockerized (participle past)
dockerized (past)

(computing) To package software by means of the Docker platform.


dockerized

(computing) packaged by means of the Docker platform


antidebugger

To understand how, and why, such antidebugger techniques work, it is necessary to have a closer look at how debuggers function.

1996, Rune Skardhamar, Virus: Detection and Elimination, page 178:

Antidebugger techniques are particularly effective when combined with code encryption because encrypting the program forces reversers to run it inside a debugger in order to allow the program to decrypt itself.

2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering:

(computing) Preventing or inhibiting the use of a debugger.


SPUA

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area (either of the two Unicode planes (15 and 16) reserved for private use).


SPUA-A

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-A (plane 15 of Unicode, containing the 65,536 code points from U+F0000 through U+FFFFF).

Supplementary Private Use Area-A

(computing, by extension) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-A (the sole block in Unicode plane 15, covering the entirety of the plane).


SPUA-B

(computing) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-B (plane 16 of Unicode, containing the 65,536 code points from U+100000 through U+10FFFF).

Supplementary Private Use Area-B

(computing, by extension) Initialism of Supplementary Private Use Area-B (the sole block in Unicode plane 16, covering the entirety of the plane).


supplementary plane

en-noun

supplementary plane (plural supplementary planes)

(computing) Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).


SEE

ionizing radiation
ionizing radiation#English

(computing) Initialism of single-event effect (a temporary or permanent fault caused by an ionizing radiation particle or ray striking a computer chip).


SEL

SEL (countable and uncountable, plural SELs)

(computing) Initialism of single-event latchup (a destructive internal short circuit produced by a particle of ionizing radiation striking a CMOS computer chip).


firm error

(electronics, computing) A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and stays wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage the equipment's hardware.


power-cycle

en-verb

power-cycle (third-person singular simple present power-cycles, present participle power-cycling, simple past and past participle power-cycled)

power-cycles (present singular third-person)
power-cycling (participle present)
power-cycled (participle past)
power-cycled (past)
power cycle (alternative)

If the computer's frozen, try power-cycling it.

(electronics, computing) To turn a device off and then back on again, usually to restore proper function by forcing a malfunctioning or unresponsive device to reset or reinitialize, or as a step in troubleshooting the device.


hard error

(electronics, computing) A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's hardware (for instance, from a latch-up).


shotgun surgery

(slang, computing) The antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a software project, rather than implementing the desired functionality in a single place to make it reusable.


MMX

(computing) Initialism of Matrix Math eXtensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.


trinarization

en-noun

trinarization (usually uncountable, plural trinarizations)

(computing) Conversion of a tree to one with at most three children per node


SSRF

(computing, networking) Initialism of server-side request forgery.


USB Type A

(computing) A type of USB connection that has a rectangular plug and socket.


USB Type B

(computing) A type of USB connection with a squarish plug and socket, typically used to connect a printer or scanner to a computer.


HKU

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Abbreviation of HKEY_USERS, part of the registry containing settings for each user profile loaded on the machine.


distributed ledger

distributed ledger (plural distributed ledgers)

Another distributed ledger platform, called Ethereum, works off the same technology that Bitcoin does, but it is run as an open-source software project, meaning the software code is freely available for anyone to work on.

2016 April 6, Quentin Hardy, “Ripple Aims to Put Every Transaction on One Ledger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

As mentioned, a blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions implemented as data batched into blocks that use cryptographic validation to link the blocks together.

2018, Joseph J. Bambara et al., Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 6:

A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.


CGJ

combining grapheme joiner
w:combining grapheme joiner

(computing, typography) Initialism of combining grapheme joiner.


front-end processor

front-end processor (plural front-end processors)

(computing) A small computer that interfaces with the host computer and handles operations such as network access or peripheral control.


counting sort

(computing) A sorting algorithm that counts how many times each integer key appears in an array and then reorders the array based on those counts.


Trademark of AMD, from 3D + now, reflecting its potential for performance improvements in 3D graphics.

(computing) An enhancement of the MMX extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, allowing for enhanced performance with 3D-graphics-heavy applications; rendered obsolescent by later versions of the SSE instruction-set extensions.


(computing) Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture building off the earlier SSE and intended to completely replace the older MMX and 3DNow! extensions.


Named after the product designations of the coprocessors used to provide floating-point support on early x86 systems lacking hardware support for these instructions in the main processor: the 8087 (for the 8086/8088 CPU), 80287 (for the 80286 CPU), 80387 (for the 80386 CPU), and 80487SX (for the 80486SX CPU). The 80486DX CPU and later integrated the floating-point hardware into the main processor, but the name continued in use for this set of instructions. The x serves as a wildcard.

(computing) An extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture, providing direct hardware support for advanced floating-point arithmetic operations (rather than requiring them to be emulated in software).


ctrl-c

en-verb

ctrl-c (third-person singular simple present ctrl-c's, present participle ctrl-c'ing, simple past and past participle ctrl-c'ed)

ctrl-c's (present singular third-person)
ctrl-c'ing (participle present)
ctrl-c'ed (participle past)
ctrl-c'ed (past)

Derived from a common keyboard shortcut involving pressing the two keys together.

(computing) To copy, to store on the computer clipboard.


ctrl-v

ctrl-v (third-person singular simple present ctrl-v's, present participle ctrl-v'ing, simple past and past participle ctrl-v'ed)

ctrl-v's (present singular third-person)
ctrl-v'ing (participle present)
ctrl-v'ed (participle past)
ctrl-v'ed (past)
CTRL+V (alternative)
Ctrl+V (alternative)
CTRL-V (alternative)
Ctrl-V (alternative)

(computing) To paste from the computer's clipboard.


Xlet

From X + -let, modelled on applet, with X representing an unknown (since it was intended to support further platforms beyond digital television).

(computing) A kind of Java applet used for digital television features.


Symbian

(computing, mobile telephony) A discontinued mobile operating system originally developed by the Symbian Ltd. consortium and later by Symbian Foundation, Nokia and Accenture.


stringifier

(computing) A process or algorithm that stringifies.


flippy-floppy

Double density and “flippy-floppies” are also on the horizon. A flippy-floppy allows data recording on both sides; regular floppies can use only one.

1975, Computer Decisions, volume 7, page 30:

(computing, dated) A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.


Initialism of Intel Architecture, 64-bit.

initialism

(computing) An EPIC 64-bit instruction set architecture designed to allow relatively simple, cheap CPUs to execute many 64-bit instructions simultaneously and with potentially very high performance; developed by Intel in the late 1990s with the intent of replacing the older x86 architecture, but was delayed and proved uncompetitive with x86 (especially x86-64), seeing use only in Intel's own Itanium line of high-end CPUs.


SaaSS

(computing, sales management) Acronym of software as a self-service.

service as a software substitute#English

(computing, derogatory, free software jargon) Acronym of service as a software substitute.


RAIM

en-noun

RAIM (countable and uncountable, plural RAIMs)

redundant array of independent memory
w:redundant array of independent memory

(computing) Initialism of redundant array of independent memory.


WOM

write-only memory
write-only memory#English

(computing) Initialism of write-only memory.


write-only memory

write-only memory (usually uncountable, plural write-only memories)

write-only memory (engineering)
write-only memory (joke)

(computing) A type of computer memory to which data can be written, but from which it cannot be read.

(informal) A failed or otherwise inoperative memory device.


PPU

parallel processing unit
parallel processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of parallel processing unit.


cutter and paster

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

Zack is a keen cutter and paster; he likes grabbing headlines from political and entertainment sites and posting them on his page.

(informal, computing) Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.


triclustering

(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of three independent rows or columns of a three-dimensional matrix


Zatocoding

Brand name of the Zator Company (founded in 1947).

(computing, historical) A hash code technique used in some punch card systems.


peekaboo card

(computing, historical) A kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards.


caselessly

[…] even though the original capturing subpattern is matched caselessly.

2001, Philip Hazel, Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent, page 562:

(computing) In a case-insensitive manner.


dew computing

(computing) Cloud computing by means of a personal computer, mobile phone, etc.


pseudocell

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudocell.wav

(biology, computing) A pseudospatial cell


optical trackpad

optical trackpad (plural optical trackpads)

An input device consisting of a small surface with an optical sensor, integrated for some smartphones and subnotebooks.


TRBL

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets, mnemonic) Acronym of top, right, bottom, left, the order in which the sides of elements are defined.


timestomp

en-verb

timestomp (third-person singular simple present timestomps, present participle timestomping, simple past and past participle timestomped)

timestomps (present singular third-person)
timestomping (participle present)
timestomped (participle past)
timestomped (past)

(slang, computing) To modify a timestamp (for example, the time when a file was accessed) so as to obfuscate the details of one's activity on a system.


jump server

(computing) A hardened device on a network that spans two dissimilar security zones and provides a controlled means of access between them.


jump box

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-jump box.wav


cyberflashing

For many people of a certain age, particularly women, cyberflashing has become yet another cost of existing on the internet.

2022 June 13, Valeriya Safronova, “The Fight to End ‘Cyberflashing’”, in The New York Times:

For years, the Law Commission has been advising the government to plug this gap in legislation – a chasm between how we punish real-world behaviours and the same behaviour online – by introducing a specific cyber-flashing offence.

2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian:

It covers Davies’s experiences in the digital world – that includes cyberflashing such as all those unsolicited dick pics – as well as the widespread use of her images on pornography sites, escort services, dating apps, sex chats (“Ready for Rape? Role play now!” with her picture alongside it).

2025 April 30, Anna Moore, “‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(computing, crime) The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.


poison message

When there is only a single consumer, a poison message can completely block processing of the queue.

2011, Neil Mackenzie, Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook:

(computing) A message that causes processing to fail, and thus remains in the message queue and prevents processing of further messages.


poison queue

(computing) A special message queue into which poison messages are diverted, to prevent them from blocking the system.


degrade gracefully

degrade gracefully (third-person singular simple present degrades gracefully, present participle degrading gracefully, simple past and past participle degraded gracefully)

degrades gracefully (present singular third-person)
degrading gracefully (participle present)
degraded gracefully (participle past)
degraded gracefully (past)

(chiefly computing, idiomatic) Of a system: to maintain at least some of its functionality when portions are not working, or when certain features are not available.


hackbot

(computing) A bot (automated user) designed to hack into a system.


supplementary character

en-noun

supplementary character (plural supplementary characters)

(computing, Unicode) Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).


high surrogate

supplementary character
supplementary character

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.


low surrogate

(computing, Unicode) A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.


surrogate pair

(computing, Unicode) The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the supplementary character's code point.


(computing, Unicode) Unicode Transformation Format-32, a fixed-width encoding for Unicode characters which uses 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode each character.


symbolicate

en-verb

symbolicate (third-person singular simple present symbolicates, present participle symbolicating, simple past and past participle symbolicated)

symbolicates (present singular third-person)
symbolicating (participle present)
symbolicated (participle past)
symbolicated (past)

From symbolic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Xcode generally does a good job of automatically symbolicating the reports (replacing addresses with method names) in Organizer as long as you keep the .dSYM for every binary you ship.

2011, Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar, iOS 5 Programming Pushing the Limits, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:

(computing) To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.


bell character

bell characters (plural)
BEL (alternative)

(computing) A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly.


Matrioshka brain

en-noun

Matrioshka brain (plural Matrioshka brains)

A hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere.


CRDT

These eventually consistent data types are called Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, or CRDTs. CRDTs are an emerging concept. The idea first appeared in a paper in 2011 by Marc Shapiro et al. At this point, CRDTs are not widely used, but interest in them is growing,[…]

2016, Michael Nash, Wade Waldron, Applied Akka Patterns […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN:

conflict-free replicated data type
w:conflict-free replicated data type

(distributed computing) Initialism of conflict-free replicated data type.


filepath

Holonyms: filespec, pathname

(computing) The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.


modmin

Instead of alerting the officials, users are told to tag a modmin, who will quickly review the situation and do what needs to be done so that the group can continue to function.

2019, Jessica Reyman, Erika M. Sparby, Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression:

As soon as I set up a course page with my CRs as my fellow modmins, my course students immediately joined the page and within a week I started lectures.

2020 June 7, Naira Khan, “OP-ED: The online pivot in Bangladesh”, in Dhaka Tribune:

As those needs come, Williams and her team of modmins remain more dedicated than ever to keeping their Buy Nothing Group as welcoming and safe a space as possible in order to both provide – and create – community.

2021 June 1, Olivia Monahan, “How a Sacramento ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook group helped a community thrive in 2020”, in The Sacramento Bee:

Having moderators and administrators (modmins) who are very active can go a long way to knowing who is in your community, what’s happening in your community, and ensuring everyone feels comfortable in the space you’ve created.

2021 July 3, Kiesha Richardson, “How to Create Safe Communities in the Gaming Industry”, in GNL Magazine:

A user on social media who is either a moderator or an administrator.


IRG

Ideographic Research Group
w:Ideographic Research Group

(international standards, computing) Initialism of Ideographic Research Group.


subdir

(computing) Abbreviation of subdirectory.


bilerp

Columns of TABLE 1 include an LOD level, number of bilinear interpolations (bilerps) per pixel, and number of pixels per packet for 32 bit texels.

2007, Paul S. Heckbert, Texture map component optimization, US Patent 9007389 (PDF version):

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of bilinear interpolation.


bilerp

en-verb

bilerp (third-person singular simple present bilerps, present participle bilerping, simple past and past participle bilerped)

bilerps (present singular third-person)
bilerping (participle present)
bilerped (participle past)
bilerped (past)

In mipmapping operations, the set of addresses fetches a four texel neighborhood from each of the two maps that bound the calculated size of the bilerped (bilinearly interpolate) quad.

1998, Carroll Philip Gossett, Mark Goudy, Ole Bentz, Method for efficient handling of texture cache misses by recirculation, US Patent 6259460 (PDF version):

(mathematics, computing) to interpolate bilinearly


mobileness

These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.

2011, James Pearce, Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, page 466:

(computing) Suitability for mobile devices.


LKM

loadable kernel module
w:loadable kernel module

(computing) Initialism of loadable kernel module.


kext

Starting with macOS High Sierra, Apple introduced a new security feature that requires users to approve kexts the first time they need to load.

2020, Drew Smith, Apple macOS and iOS System Administration, page 76:

(computing) A loadable extension to the kernel of the macOS operating system.


hard link

(computing) A directory entry that associates a name with a file in a file system.


firm link

(computing) A kind of link within a file system having aspects of both hard links and soft links.


trilerp

(mathematics, computing) Abbreviation of trilinear interpolation.


trilerp

trilerp (third-person singular simple present trilerps, present participle trilerping, simple past and past participle trilerped)

trilerps (present singular third-person)
trilerping (participle present)
trilerped (participle past)
trilerped (past)

(mathematics, computing) to interpolate trilinearly


Tbps

(computing) terabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 gigabits per second.


Pbps

(computing) petabits per second, a measure of data transfer rate equal to 1000 terabits or 10¹⁵ bits per second.


DGML

(computing) Initialism of Directed Graph Markup Language.


GEDCOM

(computing, genealogy) Acronym of genealogical data communication, an open specification for exchanging genealogical data between different software packages.


screen share

screen share (third-person singular simple present screen shares, present participle screen sharing, simple past and past participle screen shared)

screen shares (present singular third-person)
screen sharing (participle present)
screen shared (participle past)
screen shared (past)
screenshare (alternative)

to screen share movies

(computing, transitive) To transmit the content of one's computer screen (or a portion of it) to another device.


undeploy

undeploy (third-person singular simple present undeploys, present participle undeploying, simple past and past participle undeployed)

undeploys (present singular third-person)
undeploying (participle present)
undeployed (participle past)
undeployed (past)

If you really need to undeploy the application, use the -undeploy option. This stops the application and removes the staged files. If you want to redeploy the application, you must distribute and prepare the application again.

2004, Jon Mountjoy, Avinash Chugh, WebLogic: The Definitive Guide:

This Manager application enables you to deploy, start, stop, or undeploy server-side Web applications.

2005, Vivek Chopra, Jon Eaves, Rupert Jones, Beginning JavaServer Pages, page 26:

(transitive, computing) To undo the deployment of; to revert to a state prior to deployment of.


tool-friendly

en-adj

tool-friendly (comparative more tool-friendly, superlative most tool-friendly)

more tool-friendly (comparative)
most tool-friendly (superlative)

Kotlin is a programming language for the JVM that has concise syntax, is interoperable, safe, and tool friendly.

2018, Mohamed Shazin Sadakath, Spring Boot 2.0 Projects, page 301:

(computing) Designed for easy interoperation with software tools.


MFCC

en-noun

MFCC (countable and uncountable, plural MFCCs)

(computing) Initialism of Mel-scale Frequency Cepstral Coefficient.


connection string

connection string (plural connection strings)

(computing) A text string that specifies information about a database or other data source and the means of connecting to it.


error out

en-verb

error out (third-person singular simple present errors out, present participle erroring out, simple past and past participle errored out)

errors out (present singular third-person)
erroring out (participle present)
errored out (participle past)
errored out (past)

(intransitive, computing) To fail with an error.


copy-pasteable

copy-pastable (alternative)
copy/pasteable (alternative)
copy/pastable (alternative)
copypasteable (alternative)
copypastable (alternative)
copy and pasteable (alternative)
copy and pastable (alternative)

If you’re ready to go from match to first date (...and maybe even a second?), keep scrolling for expert-approved advice on how to kickstart those convos (+ copy-and-paste-able answers to 24 of our fave Hinge Prompts).

2024 April 8, Lydia Wang, Morgan Sullivan, Rachel Varina, “24 Best Hinge Prompts to Actually Help Your Matches Get to Know You”, in Cosmopolitan:


octal data rate

(computing, electronics) A memory interface which performs eight bits per clock cycle per lane


single pane of glass

en-noun

single pane of glass (plural single panes of glass)

(computing) A management dashboard that brings together information and metrics from various different sources, giving a unified view.


SPOG

single pane of glass
single pane of glass#English

(computing) Acronym of single pane of glass.


macrovariable

(computing) A variable that may be modified by or within a macro


overalign

en-verb

overalign (third-person singular simple present overaligns, present participle overaligning, simple past and past participle overaligned)

overaligns (present singular third-person)
overaligning (participle present)
overaligned (participle past)
overaligned (past)

(computing) To organise data with alignment greater that a compiler can handle


overalignment

en-noun

overalignment (usually uncountable, plural overalignments)

(computing) The result of overaligning data


delete character

delete character (plural delete characters)

(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape


BaaS

(computing) Acronym of backup as a service.

backend as a service
w:backend as a service

(computing) Acronym of backend as a service.


DRaaS

disaster recovery as a service
w:disaster recovery as a service

(computing) Acronym of disaster recovery as a service.


FaaS

function as a service
w:function as a service

(computing) Acronym of function as a service.


MBaaS

mobile backend as a service
w:mobile backend as a service

(computing) Acronym of mobile backend as a service.


StaaS

storage as a service
w:storage as a service

(computing) Acronym of storage as a service.


WaaS

(computing) Acronym of workplace as a service.


CPaaS

(computing) Acronym of communications platform as a service.


brute-forcer

brute-forcers (plural)
bruteforcer (alternative)

(computing) A program that performs a brute force computation.


CRIMM

(computing) Initialism of continuity Rambus in-line memory module.


keyscan

There are two indirect RAM jumps encountered during a keyscan: […]

1986, Commodore 128: Programmer's Reference Guide, page 421:

So, a keyscan routine that repeated every 100mSec would probably meet the requirement of fast enough.

1993, Thomas W. Schultz, C and the 8051: Programming for Multitasking, page 182:

The keyboard of the PC generates a keyscan code whenever one of its keys is depressed

2000, Walter A. Triebel, Avtar Singh, The 8088 and 8086 Microprocessors: Programming, Interfacing, Software, Hardware, and Applications, page 639:

(computing) The process of scanning the state of a keyboard to determine which keys are being pressed.


magnetic core memory

magnetic core memory (plural magnetic core memories)

(computing, historical) Synonym of core memory.


ferrite core memory

ferrite core memory (plural ferrite core memories)


Colemak

Blend of Coleman + Dvorak, from the name of its inventor, Shai Coleman, and in reference to the earlier Dvorak keyboard layout.

(computing) A keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, somewhat similar to the QWERTY layout, but placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row.


screenshotter

(computing) A computer program that takes screenshots.


onion service

(computing) A server configured to receive inbound connections only through the anonymity network Tor.


futex

Contraction of fast userspace mutex; see mutex.

(computing) A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.


tab leader

(computing) In word processing, a series of repeated text characters filling the area of a tab stop, such as the row of periods/dots leading to the name of a chapter in a table of contents.


control unit

central processing unit
central processing unit

(computing) The part of a central processing unit that directs its operation, converting instructions stored in memory into signals that determine the operation of the data path and other components.


von Neumann architecture

von Neumann architecture (countable and uncountable, plural von Neumann architectures)

Named after John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician.

computer architecture
computer architecture

(computing) A computer architecture that uses the same buses to access both program instructions and data on which to be operated.


Harvard machine

Harvard machine (plural Harvard machines)

Harvard architecture
Harvard architecture

(computing) A computer that implements the Harvard architecture.


load-store architecture

load-store architecture (plural load-store architectures)

load-store architectures (plural)
load/store architecture (alternative)

(computing) A type of computer architecture in which instructions either load/store values between memory and CPU registers, or perform calculations on values in CPU registers, but cannot directly perform calculations on values in memory.


secondary storage

(computing) The nonvolatile memory of a computer, not directly accessible by the central processing unit.


secondary memory

secondary storage
secondary storage#English

(computing) Synonym of secondary storage.


primary storage

(computing) The volatile memory of a computer directly accessible by the central processing unit; the main memory together with cache memory (and processor registers).


instruction cycle

instruction cycle (plural instruction cycles)

(computing) The steps that a central processing unit undertakes in order to process a single instruction, consisting of fetching, decoding, and executing the instruction in question and updating the program counter.


machine cycle

instruction cycle
instruction cycle#English

(computing) Synonym of instruction cycle.


execution cycle

execution cycle (plural execution cycles)


bootROM

(computing) A read-only memory used for the initial boot process of a computer or device.


Unixoid

en-adj

Unixoid (comparative more Unixoid, superlative most Unixoid)

more Unixoid (comparative)
most Unixoid (superlative)

Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems.

1996, Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, third edition, page 459:

While this question is perfectly reasonable if the environment consists of large numbers of Microsoft Windows desktop machines and a few servers, in a Unixoid data center with lots of servers, or a Unix environment with a large number of workstations that are remotely operated using SSH, the answer to this question is obvious.

2006, Benedikt Stockebrand, IPv6 in Practice: A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet, page 300:

(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.


Unixoid

From the perspective of erstwhile Unixoids, those are all toy operating systems, while Unix is what you use when you have real work to do […]

1995, G. Burgess Allison, The Lawyer's Guide to the Internet, page 339:


SPN

service principal name
service principal name#English

(computing, cryptography) Abbreviation of service principal name.


swappiness

How frequently a Linux server utilizes swap is referred to as its swappiness. By default, the swappiness value on a Linux server is typically set to 60.

2016, Jay LaCroix, Mastering Ubuntu Server, page 187:

(computing) A setting in the Linux kernel determining the balance between swapping out runtime memory and dropping pages from the system page cache.


QRNG

quantum random number generator
quantum random number generator#English

(quantum mechanics, computing) Abbreviation of quantum random number generator.

(computing) Abbreviation of quasi-random number generator.


ODG

OpenDocument Graphics
w:OpenDocument Graphics

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Graphics.


ODB

OpenDocument Database
w:OpenDocument Database

(computing) Initialism of OpenDocument Database.


prototype extension

en-noun

prototype extension (plural prototype extensions)

(computing, rare) An extension, enrichment or continuation of a declaration of a function.


keystrip

A keystrip, summarising the uses of the red keys, completes the package.

1990, Computer Education, numbers 64-72, page 26:

(computing) A physical overlay for a computer keyboard, indicating the functions of certain keys within a particular software package.


geofacet

(computing, geography) A technique for visualising data for a range of geographic regions, in which a series of identically-sized plots (for instance, bar charts) are arranged in a way that mimics the real-world geographical configuration of the regions.


data processing machine

data processing machine (plural data processing machines)

(computing, accounting, dated) An accounting machine or tabulating machine.


tabulating machine

tabulating machine (plural tabulating machines)

(accounting, computing, statistics, historical) An electromechanical machine used to summarise information and perform accounting calculations.


buttery smooth

en-adj

buttery smooth (comparative more buttery smooth, superlative most buttery smooth)

more buttery smooth (comparative)
most buttery smooth (superlative)

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Today I hear gamers using the words “buttery smooth” to describe the effect of high refresh rates.

2008, Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, page xii:

In today's parlance, Rosenthal's Space Wars was “buttery smooth” full frames presented at 30 frames a second, full frames containing glowing sticks of light that you felt you could touch.

2012, Mark J. P. Wolf, Before the Crash: Early Video Game History, page 141:

One technique for buttery smooth footage is to edit high frame rate (60 or 120 frames per second) footage to play back in slow motion by changing the frame rate to 24 or 30 frames per second.

2017, Jordan Hetrick, GoPro KARMA: How To Use The GoPro Karma Drone:

In addition, thanks to its highly-optimized game engine Doom ran buttery smooth even on the primitive PCs of the era.

2017, David Snyder, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers:

Every game has a target frame rate to hit so that the gaming experience is buttery smooth.

2021, Paul Jones, Game Artist: The Ultimate Career Guide:

(computing, video games) Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or pauses as the video changes frames.


Zawinski's law

Attributed to American computer programmer Jamie Zawinski.

(computing) The wry observation that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."


(computing) Ellipsis of PowerPC G4, the PowerPC G4 microprocessors produced by Apple.


Yasha

(computing, Internet) nickname for Yandex (calque, Russian slang)


costware

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There are two paths to travel in Eudora-land. The 1.* versions are freeware, the 2.* versions are costware. The big difference between the two is filtering, a darn useful feature. 2.1 is the latest and greatest costware version.

1994 September 27, Michael Sattler, San Francisco, “Why All The Different Eudora Versions?”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Anybody know of any shareware (or costware) that will create 3D fonts for Autocad?????

1997 February 10, Vinal Applebee, “3D Fonts”, in comp.cad.autocad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

The plugin has (AFAIK) always been costware for commercial use.

1997 July 6, Chris Cox, “plugin is costware now?”, in comp.lang.tcl (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Now my questions:
1) wich components should I install on the publishing server?
2) where do I get it?
3) do I need to restart the server after setup?
4) is the software I install costware?

1999 March 23, Andrea Gasperi, “Please Help (Tomorrow on pubblishing)”, in microsoft.public.vinterdev (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

I recently bought T+, went for the costware version, without trying it out.

2000 May 2, pegleg, “CompuPic Pro vs ThumbsPlus”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

(computing, slang, rare) Commercial software.


RHEL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
w:Red Hat Enterprise Linux

(computing) Initialism of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.


CUDA

Compute Unified Device Architecture
w:Compute Unified Device Architecture

(computing) Acronym of Compute Unified Device Architecture.


GPGPU

graphics processing unit
graphics processing unit#English

(computing) Initialism of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units.


buyware

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There is Business Basic (BBX). But it's buyware. If you find GNU licence Basic - let me know.

1999 November 10, Chris Notz, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Don't forget Thoroughbred (www.tbred.com) which is also buyware.
Otherwise, look on the bonus pack CD that comes w/ AIX 4.3+...
...There's a copy of Visual Age Java (not the enterprise edition, which is buyware). Not having played with it, I can't vouch for it.

1999 November 10, John R. Campbell, “Is there a "BASIC programming language" compiler available for AIX?”, in comp.unix.aix (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

ANY OS - buyware or freeware - has a learning curve.

2001 May 15, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards, “any free OS for embedded system?”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Not everything on this site is freeware. Some trailware and shareware, and buyware.

2003 March 5, Andrew C. Cooper, “New Freeware Site”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Is buyware evil ? Absolutely not. People put money, skills and effort in developing software. They have the right to get compensation for that. That's how the world works. The hippie-era is behind us.
And buyware also puts the freeware in a different perspective, if there was no buyware, freeware programmers would probably be slaughtered together with Bill G. for mistakes we call minor annoying bugs now.

2004 December 28, Rod, “Freeware and only freeware?”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:


ortholinear

(computing, of a keyboard) Having keys that are aligned in a perfect grid.


code up

en-verb

code up (third-person singular simple present codes up, present participle coding up, simple past and past participle coded up)

codes up (present singular third-person)
coding up (participle present)
coded up (participle past)
coded up (past)

Have a look at this cool website I coded up last night!

(computing, transitive) To create by coding or programming.


self-delete

self-delete (third-person singular simple present self-deletes, present participle self-deleting, simple past and past participle self-deleted)

self-deletes (present singular third-person)
self-deleting (participle present)
self-deleted (participle past)
self-deleted (past)

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(computing, programming, intransitive) Of code, to overwrite itself upon completion, usually with 0x00 or 0xFF bytes that represent an unwritten region.


self-deletion

en-noun

self-deletion (countable and uncountable, plural self-deletions)

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(computing, programming) The act of self-deleting.


black MIDI

So called because of the black (note-heavy) appearance of such compositions when displayed in staff notation.

A style of music composition involving the creation of MIDI files where extreme numbers of musical notes are played simultaneously.


app store

(computing) A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.


datastack

(computing) A stack (LIFO data structure) of data items


clusterhead

(computing) The head (principal node) of a cluster.


hypernavigation

(computing) Navigation by means of hyperlinks.


(computing, networking) an obsolete EUI used to address hardware interfaces within existing IEEE 802-based networking applications


(computing, networking) an EUI currently used for IEEE 802-based networking and is also used to identify other devices and software


EUI

(computing, networking) Initialism of extended unique identifier.


(computing, networking) an obsolete EUI which originally encompassed both MAC-48 and EUI-48 identifiers by a simple translation mechanism


working directory

working directory (plural working directories)

(computing) The current directory (container for files etc.), on which commands will operate unless otherwise specified.


unexport

en-verb

unexport (third-person singular simple present unexports, present participle unexporting, simple past and past participle unexported)

unexports (present singular third-person)
unexporting (participle present)
unexported (participle past)
unexported (past)

Stopping the Web server and unexporting the remote object are tasks you are already familiar with.

2001, Rickard Öberg, Mastering RMI, page 252:

(computing, transitive) To cease to export; to remove from a list of things to be exported.


UCaaS

unified communications
w:unified communications

(computing) Acronym of unified communications as a service.


no free lunch theorem

Derives from the phrase there's no such thing as a free lunch.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, computing) A theorem that implies that no single machine learning algorithm is universally the best-performing algorithm for all problems.


OUI

(computing) Initialism of organizationally unique identifier.


unpartition

unpartition (third-person singular simple present unpartitions, present participle unpartitioning, simple past and past participle unpartitioned)

unpartitions (present singular third-person)
unpartitioning (participle present)
unpartitioned (participle past)
unpartitioned (past)

(computing, transitive) To remove the partitions from (a disk drive, a database, etc.).


(computing) Initialism of mouse button 1, left mouse button.


magnetic strip

(electronics, computing) A strip of magnetic material on which data is stored for later retrieval and reading by an electronic device.


ROILA

Robot Interaction Language
w:Robot Interaction Language

Abbreviation of Robot Interaction Language (“a spoken artificial language designed to allow talking to robots efficiently”).


protestware

Commenting on the malicious code added to the “Vue-cli” application, GitHub user “nm17” said a continued expansion of protestware would erode public trust in open-source software.

2022 March 17, Brian Krebs, “Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware”, in Krebs on Security:

In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer. Is protestware going to become a common problem?

2022 March 19, Lucian Constantin, “Developer sabotages own npm module prompting open-source supply chain security questions”, in CSO Magazine:

In fact, what we've seen over the last week is something called “protestware”, and that is some damaging and non-damaging code put into open source projects, specifically focused on organizations in Russia and Belarus. Now, they are making a statement, and that falls under what we call “hacktivism”.

2022 March 21, “CNN Follows Marines Fighting to Take Back Kherson from Russia”, in CNN International First Move with Julia Chatterley, spoken by George Kurtz:

developers and project maintainers themselves sometimes engage in this activity as a form of protest or advocacy for their beliefs. This form of hijacking, often referred to as protestware is a concerning trend because it can be difficult for an organisation to recognise it before it’s too late.

2024 January 22, “DevSecOps risks: How can Indian tech mitigate software hijacking”, in Express Computer, Mumbai:

The roots of protestware date back to the early days of computing. However, recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian war has^([sic]) sparked a new wave of protestware.

2024 September 30, Tanner Finken, Jesse Chen, Sazzadur Rahaman, “An Investigation into Protestware”, in ArXiv:

(computing, neologism) Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.


health informatics

information technology
information technology

(medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to health and health care: the application of information science and information technology to health (that is, to its maintenance or improvement).

medical informatics

usually synonymous in practice, despite the plesionymic potential, except when differentiated from nursing informatics as a coordinate term


medical informatics

(medicine, computing) Informatics as applied to medicine: the application of information science and information technology to medical care and any other health care.

health informatics

usually synonymous in practice, despite the plesionymic potential, except when medical informatics is differentiated from nursing informatics as a coordinate term


nursing informatics

(nursing, computing) Informatics as applied to nursing: the application of information science and information technology to nursing science and practice.


multiapp

Some people can find the multiapp approach in Windows 8.1 confusing at first, but I will explain in this section how easy it is to use.

2013, Mike Halsey, Beginning Windows 8.1, page 241:

(computing) Involving or relating to several software applications.


undispatch

undispatch (third-person singular simple present undispatches, present participle undispatching, simple past and past participle undispatched)

undispatches (present singular third-person)
undispatching (participle present)
undispatched (participle past)
undispatched (past)

It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring, page 22:

(computing, transitive) To cancel a process of dispatching.


credential stuffing

(computing) A kind of cyberattack in which a large batch of account credentials stolen from one service are tried against another service in an attempt to log in.


bucky bit

The term was invented at Stanford and is based on Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth's nickname of Bucky. Wirth suggested this keyboard feature in the mid-1960s.

(computing) A bit (binary digit) in the binary representation of a text character that is set by means of a modifier key on the keyboard, allowing numerous characters to be produced by different combinations of keypresses.


IFNA

(computing, historical) Acronym of International FidoNet Association.


subservice

Each service includes several subservices which can either be a request to a service provider, i.e. an on-board application process, or a report from the provider.

2015, Jens Eickhoff, The FLP Microsatellite Platform: Flight Operations Manual, page 56:

(chiefly computing) A service that forms part of a larger service.


versionless

(chiefly computing) Without a version or versions; not associated with a specific version of something.


Commodorian

He ended up, in only four years, a member of the executive bonus plan, a plan that made millionaires of more than a few "Commodorians".

1985, High-tech Marketing, volume 2, page 78:

It is extremely gratifying to see that the Commodore spirit is alive and well, and new “Commodorians” are continuing the tradition of innovation that we began, so many years ago.

2014, Roberto Dillon, Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective:

(informal, computing) An employee of the computer company Commodore International, or a fan of its products.


tech-bro

(informal, neologism) Alternative form of tech bro.


EXE

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of exe.


unencapsulate

unencapsulate (third-person singular simple present unencapsulates, present participle unencapsulating, simple past and past participle unencapsulated)

unencapsulates (present singular third-person)
unencapsulating (participle present)
unencapsulated (participle past)
unencapsulated (past)

This subtle change would, in effect, unencapsulate the data structure, since Line 15 would then perform a shallow copy.

2009, William McAllister, Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java, page 93:

(transitive, computing) To remove from encapsulation.


fault injection

(computing) A technique for testing a computer system by subjecting it to unusual stresses, such as high voltage or temperature, or the deliberate mutation of software code.


IAC

en-noun

IAC (countable and uncountable, plural IACs)

(cloud computing) Alternative letter-case form of IaC (“infrastructure as code”).


(leetspeak) Alternative spelling of haxor.


rate limiting

(computing) The process of limiting the number of requests made to a server so as to avoid overloading it.


rate limit

(computing) The maximum number of requests in a given timeframe that are able to be made to a server that uses rate limiting.


autoabstract

If the introduction, method, results and conclusion sections are well written and concise then it may be expected that such sentences would be selected for the autoabstract.

1967, NBS Technical Note, volume 297, page 62:

(computing) An abstract (abridgement or summary of a publication) generated automatically by a computer.


autodifferentiation

The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule. Here's a simple example of autodifferentiation.

2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48:

(mathematics, computing) The automatic differentiation of a function by a computer.


autosign

en-verb

autosign (third-person singular simple present autosigns, present participle autosigning, simple past and past participle autosigned)

autosigns (present singular third-person)
autosigning (participle present)
autosigned (participle past)
autosigned (past)

(computing, transitive) To sign (a cryptographic certificate) automatically.


rate limiter

These scammers are creating multiple accounts with our name and image. They are free to comment on as many videos as they physically can simply because YouTube’s system has no comment rate limiter.

2022 April 24, “YouTube comments have a big spam problem”, in GSMArena:

(computing) A piece of software that performs rate limiting.


IaC

IaC is commonly used to launch infrastructure across various cloud providers, as well as for provisioning machines upon launch.

2023, Erol Kavas, Architecting AWS with Terraform […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 11:

infrastructure as code
w:infrastructure as code

(cloud computing) Initialism of infrastructure as code.


J. Random User

(slang, computing) An unspecified person or user on a computer network.


colatard

(Internet slang, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of COLAtard.


> I could not stop laughing after I read this......The only question is....did this guy beg and get the password?
No, he sent the "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKERS YOU'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD" message which has amused many generations of alt.2600ers since. Arch replied, "You'll have to ask more nicely than that."

1997 December 10, the.jackal, “YOURE ALL FUCKIN DEAD!!!!!”, in alt.2600.phreakz (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Ok, subject is CLOSED, how about we alt.2600ers talk about real hacking for a change, shall we? And alt.folklore.urban can get back to talking about urban folklore. Thanks.

1998 February 10, Xaos, “How do I get electricity without paying???”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Sorry once again, alt.2600er's, but ren, the one who brought a few of us alt.religion.wickers (hehehe) into your group is apologizing to us, but needs to let you all see it too.

1999 July 8, muphasa, “SheWolf == ShieldWolf”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

no, ash. you can't blame poor horatio for this one. you, my dear little alt.2600er {snigger} are just going to have to live with what you've done....

1999 December 3, The New Scum, “That's the way to do it.”, in alt.teens.intelligent-insanity (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.2600.


hardwear

Please can someone point me in the right direction for advice on Hardwear & softwear.

1995 August 1, ha...@eastcoast.co.za, “FAX ON DEMAND SOFTWEAR & HARDWEAR - Please help”, in comp.dcom.fax (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

and why is it in alt.2600.et al
its not hardwear
its not softwear
its not cracks hacks or codes
its not cards phreaks wearz or hz
its a personallity belongs in a different catagory

1998 February 14, nyarl-tep, “YOURE ALL FUCKIN DEAD!!!!!”, in alt.2600.phreakz (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

POSITION TITLE : PCI Bus Engineer
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS: PCI Bus, Hardwear Bkgd,C,C++
LOCATION : CA 408 Los Gatos
START DATE : ASAP
PAY RATE : Contract Independent OK Depending on experience
LENGTH : 3 months +
POSITION ID: hallkin1.742
COMMENTS: Duties: Take existing DOS program, rewrite it so it can use the driver to communicate to the hardwear.
Skills: PCI bus, Hardwear Bkgd, C, C++.

1998 March 24, Hall Kinion, “US-CA-Los Gatos-ENG-PCI Bus, Hardwear Bkgd,C,C++-Recruiter [hallkin1.742]”, in ca.jobs (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Any good sites out there that review old and new MD hardwear? With detailed des. of each. Thank's!

2000 August 14, azel, “MD hardwear review sites?”, in alt.audio.minidisc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:


automatic differentiation

(mathematics, computing) Exact differentiation of functions represented in program code by inspecting the code (as opposed to mere evaluation) and repeated application of the chain rule.


touch pen

If possible, a touch pen on the HP48sx screen is better than a 'MoUsE' ball under the HP48sx.

1992 April 14, $li...@brandonu.ca, “Wish list, touch screen and pen based HP48sx!!!!!”, in comp.sys.hp48 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

Where is the touchpen? Does the lack of a touchpen indicate the gcpp doesn't have touchscreen capabilities? How does this affect ClassiCom game compatability?

1998 May 19, Steven L Cox, “Hello...”, in alt.games.video.tiger.game-com (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

As much as I love the game, I feel that the DS' touch pen is kinda big for that game. Any good suggestions to better touch pens?

2005 August 16, Amund Trovåg, “Better touch pen for Meteos?”, in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:


solid-state drive

en-noun

solid-state drive (plural solid-state drives)

(computing, technology) A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage.


wearable computer

wearable computer (plural wearable computers)

a computing device worn on the body, such as a smart watch


WinVNC

(computing) A VNC server that allows the user to view the Windows desktop from any VNC viewer.


replatform

en-verb

replatform (third-person singular simple present replatforms, present participle replatforming, simple past and past participle replatformed)

replatforms (present singular third-person)
replatforming (participle present)
replatformed (participle past)
replatformed (past)

(computing, transitive) To migrate to a different platform.