Streisand effect

Streisand effect (plural Streisand effects)

Coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.

No matter how effective your rebuttal may seem to be to you, a response will "bump" the problem into greater prominence and relevance in the search engine results, which then turns your headache into a migraine. This is doubly dangerous since "bumping" the negative information potentially introduces the "Streisand Effect" into the equation, which is something to avoid if at all possible. It is commonly defined as a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information on the web backfires, causing greater publicity.

2009, John W. Dozier, Sue Scheff, Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet, HCI, page 40

Say you discover that people aren't just talking about you, they're bashing you. Should you step in and try to stop them? Again, the answer is absolutely no! Leave them alone – you'll only make the problems worse and create a Streisand Effect if you try to hush them up.

2009, Kyle Lacy, Twitter Marketing For Dummies, For Dummies, page 215

But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!

2009 September 11, Jim Emerson, “Teaching the controversy”, Scanners, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 2009-09-15

Though, the action of the US government was intended to suppress the leaks, the ‘Streisand effect’ made sure that the outcome was exactly the opposite. People all over the world, who hadn’t even heard of the Website, were typing WikiLeaks.org on their keyboards only to find a site-unavailable message, which increased their curiosity. People sympathetic to WikiLeaks, in the meantime, had voluntarily mirrored the website in order to keep it online.

2010 December 17, K Vaidya Nathan, “Beware the Streisand effect”, in The Indian Express, The Indian Express Limited, retrieved 2012-10-29

A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.

Barbra Streisand
California Coastal Records Project


knowledge base

knowledge management
knowledge management

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

A database designed to meet the complex storage and retrieval requirements of computerized knowledge management, especially in support of artificial intelligence or expert systems.


(computing) An early form of Ethernet cable


(computing) An early thin form of Ethernet cable


fall over

en-verb

fall over (third-person singular simple present falls over, present participle falling over, simple past fell over, past participle fallen over)

falls over (present singular third-person)
falling over (participle present)
fell over (past)
fallen over (participle past)

(intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.


MediaWiki

CamelCase compound of media + wiki, based on Wikimedia.

MediaWiki is the most well-known wiki software because it is what runs WikiPedia. MediaWiki is simple to use and an excellent way to start collaborating on documentation or articles.

2006, Tim Jowers, The Business Guide to Free Information Technology, LuLu Press, page 59

The architecture of MediaWiki is driven in large part by the idiosyncrasies of PHP. When MediaWiki was first developed, it used PHP 4.x, which lacked much in the way of object-oriented programming features.

2007, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, Wiley Publishing, page 41

MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's "amazed and fascinated" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.

2008 April 26, Mitch Wagner, “Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life”, in InformationWeek, archived from the original on 2012-10-22

A notable irony of Wikipedia's popularity is that the editing process of its supporting technology, MediaWiki, is complex to learn. Editing Wikipedia pages requires significant investment to learn MediaWiki's unique and powerful code structure.

2009, Terry T. Kidd, Irene Chen, Wired for Learning: An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0, Information Age Publishing, Inc., page 187

First released in 2002, MediaWiki is one of the top wiki engines and runs most of the wiki hosting sites. The name was a play on “Wikimedia,” and many people find it to be annoyingly confusing.

2010, John K. Waters, John Lester, The Everything Guide to Social Media, F+W Media Inc., page 166

The main downside of publishing a site using MediaWiki is that it won't give you a great opportunity to use or improve your HTML skills.

2011, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sams Publishing

The site is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki platform, which allows anyone to add or edit the available content, provided they register for an account using a verifiable email address.

2012 October 8, Neil McAllister, “Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs”, in The Register, www.theregister.co.uk, retrieved 2012-10-28

The wiki software used by many websites, including the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.


positioning time

(computer science) Random-access time: the time required to move the hard disk arm to the desired cylinder (seek time) and for the desired sector to rotate under the disk head (rotational latency).


stemmer

(computing, linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.


bunny hop

bunny hop (third-person singular simple present bunny hops, present participle bunny hopping, simple past and past participle bunny hopped)

bunny hops (present singular third-person)
bunny hopping (participle present)
bunny hopped (participle past)
bunny hopped (past)

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) to jump repeatedly while making contact with ground for as little time as possible, often combined with air strafing, especially in first-person shooters.


-mancer

I’ve always thought it was a shame us Cullenmancers missed out on a romance tarot with how beautiful all their designs are.

As a Solasmancer I don't expect more, but I'd hope somehow Solas' experience with the Inquisition has an impact on him going forward.

I agreed with some and disagreed with others, so I'm putting it out there for my fellow Galemancers: what's Gale's [zodiac] sign?

2023 December 22, Theia-Euryphaessa, Reddit

(fandom slang) A suffix attached to a video game character's name to create a word for a player who romances that character in the game.


privacy seal

(Internet) An online branded trust mark or logo used by third-party site verification entities to protect online consumers by identifying trustworthy web sites.


quasilinear

en-adj

quasilinear (comparative more quasilinear, superlative most quasilinear)

more quasilinear (comparative)
most quasilinear (superlative)


parameterization

en-noun

parameterization (countable and uncountable, plural parameterizations)

(design, engineering) The representation of physical characteristics or properties by parameters rather than as sui generis instances; usually and especially:

(computing) Such parameterized representation in a computer model.


screen name

(Internet) a pseudonym used for online communication

käyttäjänimi

a pseudonym used for internet communications


webroot

(Internet) The topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server.


ambient findability

I mean to assert, rather, that everyware, the regime of ambient informatics it gives rise to, and the condition of ambient findability they together entrain, will have significant and meaningful impact on the way you live your life [...]

2006, Adam Greenfield, Everyware: the dawning age of ubiquitous computing, page 92

This influence is exerted from conscious, proactive effort. Companies must aggressively pursue ambient findability, the art and science of promoting their domain through organic means.

2007, Kevin Potts, Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites, Apress, page 286

These are just a few of the signposts along the road to ambient findability, [...]

2007, Diane Kresh, The whole digital library handbook, page 258

(information science, Internet) The property of being findable at all times.


white hat

(computing, computer security, slang) A well-meaning hacker who hacks for a good cause or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws).


OG

en-adj

OG (comparative more OG, superlative most OG)

more OG (comparative)
most OG (superlative)

Accounts with OG names like "Daniel" or "summer" can often fetch a high price.

I joined Twitter pretty early and managed to snag a semi-OG handle.

I'm sure in lots of cases people get paid. In fact there is a black market for OG handles that can reach prices of up to 5k.

2020 May 24, u/jbutens, “How are celebrities able to get social media handles that are exactly their name? Do they buy it from people etc. if it's already taken?”, in Reddit, r/NoStupidQuestions, archived from the original on 2024-02-26

Tryna fill my friends list with og/semi og names.

2021 May 16, @Horroraholic_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-26

Just wait untill the doxing / social engineering comes for og accounts

2023 May 11, u/Esco1980, “Why is this change being pushed despite overwhelmingly negative feedback?”, in Reddit, r/discordapp, archived from the original on 2024-02-26

Shut down http://kyo.rip, haven't touched siege in ages, lots of people using the site to try to brute force accounts, check for og names and just being weirdos and I cba to update or maintain the site anymore. Goodbye

2023 June 6, @KyoDaHotdog, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-26

It's a semi OG name, CocoChopper isn't og in any way

2023 June 11, u/HypeTheMoneyMaker, “Stepping down from CocoChopper for a semi-OG ign 🫡”, in Reddit, r/HypixelSkyblock, archived from the original on 2024-02-26

(social media, video games, slang) Relating to a username which is a common word, phrase, or name.


respider

en-verb

respider (third-person singular simple present respiders, present participle respidering, simple past and past participle respidered)

respiders (present singular third-person)
respidering (participle present)
respidered (participle past)
respidered (past)


JFGI

(Internet slang) Initialism of just fucking google it.


spamvertizement

Blend of spam + advertisement (with the intentional misspelling of advertisement)

qual

(Internet) A type of unsolicited e-mail (spam) that specifically advertises a product.


kill file

(Internet slang) A user's file listing the users of a newsgroup whose postings are to be ignored, or other criteria for ignoring posts.


internaut

Internauts are the travelers of the Internet. An Internaut explores and navigates the far corners of the Internet to bring back discoveries to be used for his / her benefit and for the benefit of others.

2002, Shelly M. Houser, Navigate the Net, Pearson College Division, page xiii

(dated) A designer, operator, or technically capable professional user of the Internet.


allocator

(computing) A utility that allocates and deallocates a dynamic resource (usually memory).


adorner

Click one of the margin adorners. The shape of the margin adorner changes […]

2010, Phillip Beadle, Mahesh Krishnan, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.


general availability

(software) A release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company, to the general public.


STML

(computing) Initialism of Synchronous Telop Mark-up Language: a telop adding language for mobile-device content, developed in Japan.


filegroup

(databases) A collection of files that, in some database systems, are managed together as a group.


GPL

General Public License
w:GNU General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of General Public License.


GPL

en-verb

GPL (third-person singular simple present GPLs, present participle GPLing, simple past and past participle GPLed)

GPLs (present singular third-person)
GPLing (participle present)
GPLed (participle past)
GPLed (past)

(computing, copyright law, transitive, colloquial) To release under the GPL.


uptime

en-noun

uptime (countable and uncountable, plural uptimes)

up (“(computing) functional, working”, adjective) + time

(computing) The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot.


mischan

(Internet, nonstandard) A message accidentally posted to the wrong IRC channel.


taskbar

You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179

(graphical user interface) A bar on a computer desktop used to launch and monitor applications.


getter

A proper getter must return the type of its attribute.

2002, James Steven Perry, chapter 2, in Java Management Extensions, page 47

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.


tramp data

Functions should use matching variable names for tramp data to improve readability.

(programming) Data which is passed via one function to another, and not otherwise used by the first.


autosuggestion

autosuggestion (countable and uncountable, plural autosuggestions)

(computing, uncountable) An autosuggest feature.


brancher

None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.

1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69

This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher.

1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37

(programming) That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.


DIF

(computing) Initialism of Data Interchange Format.


BG

Along the way, a host of NPCs will join your party—and, as proven in the BG games, no one does NPCs better than BioWare.

2004 February, Jeff Green, “[Reviews] Knights of the Old Republic: BioWare and LucasArts deliver a brilliant Star Wars RPG”, in Jeff Green, editor, Computer Gaming World, number 235, New York, N.Y.: Ziff Davis Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 61, column 1

All BG fans have a soft spot for Minsc, the ranger with one too many conks on the noggin and his famous Space Hamster, Boo. […] There’s a lot of great user-made content out there for the BG series.

2005 December, William Abner, “Baldur’s Gate: Closet Classic (1998)”, in The 2006 Gamer’s Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publishing, page 19, columns 1–2

Interestingly, there’s no alignment system in Dragon Age, unlike previous BG games.

2008 August, “First Shots: Dragon Age: Origins”, in PCGZine, number 21

When David [Gaider] was hired, BioWare was still at the Whyte Avenue site, ramping up work on Baldur’s Gate II. “I didn’t know anything about BioWare, but had heard of BG I,” David says.

2020 November, Ben Gelinas, “BioWare Labs”, in BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development, Milwaukie, Ore.: Dark Horse Books, part 3 (From Ambition to Reality), page 175, column 1

(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(video games) Initialism of Baldur’s Gate (series).

Starting off as a half-elf ranger with a stick, Scooteris was kind of cool by the end of BG and its expansion, with +2 armor and a longbow. But it’s not until TOB [Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal] that he gets equipment that can kill with one blow.

2001 October, Thierry Nguyen, “BioWare gives gamers a fitting send-off to its epic role-playing game: This Is the End, My Only Friend”, in Jeff Green, editor, Computer Gaming World, number 207, New York, N.Y.: Ziff Davis Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 86

The Baldur’s Gate series (BG with its expansion pack and sequel/expansion pack) has sold nearly 4 million units worldwide. […] Role-playing games like BG also more complicated and required additional QA [quality assurance] time and completely different QA processes.

2003, Erik Bethke, “What Makes Game Development Hard?”, in Game Development and Production (Wordware Game Developer’s Library), Plano, Tex.: Wordware Publishing, Inc., pages 22, column 1, and 24, column 2

BG’s pausable combat system was a landmark for tactical RPGs, and Dragon Age wants to recreate that same sense of combat orchestration. […] Talky party members with big personalities were a staple of BG, but having thousands of pixels instead of a few dozen to render your allies’ personas means BioWare is eager to develop new favorites for its fans. We’re not sure they’ll be as off-the-wall as Minsc from BG2 […]

2009 March, “Dragon Age: Origins”, in Gary Steinman, editor, PC Gamer, number 185 / volume 16, number 03, South San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, Inc., →ISSN, pages 32–33

BG maps (75 in total) represent mostly indoor environments while WIII [Warcraft III] maps (36 in total) – imaginary outdoor environments.

2018, Anton Andreychuk, Natalia Soboleva, Konstantin Yakovlev, “eLIAN: Enhanced Algorithm for Angle-Constrained Path Finding”, in Sergei O. Kuznetsov, Gennady S[imeonovich] Osipov, Vadim L. Stefanuk, editors, Artificial Intelligence: 16th Russian Conference, RCAI 2018, Moscow, Russia, September 24–27, 2018, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science; 934), Cham, Zug: Springer, →ISSN, page 213

Baldur’s Gate
w:Baldur's Gate (video game)

Initialism of Baldur’s Gate (the first game).


CF

CF (countable and uncountable, plural CFs)

Collaborative filtering
w:Collaborative filtering

(computing) Abbreviation of Collaborative filtering.


CF

.NET Compact Framework
w:.NET Compact Framework

(computing) Abbreviation of .NET Compact Framework.


UA

UA (countable and uncountable, plural UAs)

A “mail user agent” (MUA or UA) that lets users read and compose mail[.]

2011, Evi Nemeth et al., UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Pearson Education, page 744

(countable, computing) Initialism of user agent.


LR

LR parsing

In Standard LR parsing, the next parser action (shift, reduce, accept or error) is determined using the current parser state and next input symbol to check the LR parsing table.

1991, Masaru Tomita, editor, Generalized LR Parsing, Springer, page 157

(software compilation, of a parser) Initialism of left to right, rightmost derivation in reverse.


HID

human interface device
human interface device#English

(computing) Initialism of human interface device.


VN

(online gaming) Initialism of very nice (complimenting a play).


hole punch

en-verb

hole punch (third-person singular simple present hole punches, present participle hole punching, simple past and past participle hole punched)

hole punches (present singular third-person)
hole punching (participle present)
hole punched (participle past)
hole punched (past)

(computing, networking) To create a NAT, WAN-to-LAN port forwarding on the router.


NG

en-noun

NG (countable and uncountable, plural NGs)

no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).

Could someone please re-post the FAQ to the NG?


DSMLT

Distributed Split Multi-Link Trunking
w:Distributed Split Multi-Link Trunking

(computing) Initialism of Distributed Split Multi-Link Trunking: a distributed link aggregation protocol.


SLPP

w:Nortel Simple Loop Prevention Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Simple Loop Prevention Protocol. a loop prevention protocol designed by Nortel (now Avaya)


sublevel

(video games) A level making up part of a larger level.


curly bracket

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Either { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.

kllapa gjarpërore

either of the two characters: “{” and “}”


menu bar

(graphical user interface) A rectangular region of a graphical user interface where computer menus are housed.


COM

Component Object Model
w:Component Object Model

(computing) Initialism of Component Object Model.


googlewhacker

The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

2002 January 30, Lisa M. Bowman, “Are you a secret Googlewhacker?”, in zdnet.com, retrieved 2008-01-21


resizable

en-adj

resizable (comparative more resizable, superlative most resizable)

more resizable (comparative)
most resizable (superlative)


resizable

(graphical user interface) An item that can be resized by the user.


tate

This is a monitor, not a TV - but I LOVE it for gaming purposes as I can easily rotate the screen. I had to unscrew the rotation mechanism and flip it around so that Tate mode games play the right way up.

2002 September 20, JigsawMan, “What television are you using with your console?”, in uk.games.video.dreamcast (Usenet)

Shiki is good, haven;t played that in tate mode yet. I though Psyvariar was boring to begin with - but that was because I just didn;t 'get' the game. Now I love it. Haven;t played that in Tate yet either. Hence the need for a whizz bang TV!

2003 August 4, Dan, “Good 4:3 TV for Gaming?”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)

Perhaps the next generation of consoles, with more RAM, will finally give us some worthy collections. All vertical games should have 'tate' capability, Menus should be slick, with full-screen detailed adverts, commercials, interviews w/developer, etc.

2003 December 4, EssenceK, “Midway arcade classics”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet)

I think the small size of the screen allows the eye to take in the entire playfield, lessening the chances of dying from some unseen projectile catching your vision off guard. Plus, it's a snap to flip the monitor vertically to play in "tate" mode.

2005 September 21, crymad, “What size TV do you use to play classic games?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet)

Many would likely not orient their screen in a vertical or tate orientation (i.e, turned sideways as a vertical monitor) and many of these games do not have a rotation feature to support vertical/tate monitor orientation (although some do support it but then it means rotating the monitor to play and then rotating back afterward).

2009 October 17, Daniel W. Rouse Jr., “Aspect ratio 16:9”, in alt.tv.tech.hdtv (Usenet)

(video games, attributive) Of video games, a vertical mode.


movlog

(Internet) A moblog containing video images.


moblog

A weblog posted from a mobile device, such as a cell phone or PDA.


hold hostage

en-verb

hold hostage (third-person singular simple present holds hostage, present participle holding hostage, simple past and past participle held hostage)

holds hostage (present singular third-person)
holding hostage (participle present)
held hostage (participle past)
held hostage (past)

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

Before Frank could turn in his final exam, Jigsaw held his computer hostage.

(computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.


biocomputer

These prototype biocomputers use slime moulds to solve a range of geometrical problems.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 71

(biology, computing) Any of several proposed systems using DNA, proteins, or other biological materials to perform data processing (in synthetic biology)


telework

telework (third-person singular simple present teleworks, present participle teleworking, simple past and past participle teleworked)

teleworks (present singular third-person)
teleworking (participle present)
teleworked (participle past)
teleworked (past)


slurpy

en-adj

slurpy (comparative slurpier, superlative slurpiest)

slurpier (comparative)
slurpiest (superlative)

(programming) In the Raku programming language: being a form of variadic parameter list that can capture additional parameters.


gibs

At the perfect moment, Romero fired into the barrel, leaving the monster in a bloody pile of gibs.

2004, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, page 148

(video games) The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death.


meat shield

(video games) A so-called "tank" whose main purpose is to hold aggro from mobs and absorb damage.

(video games) A stunned or dead enemy character used as a shield against attacks.


PWP

en-noun

PWP (countable and uncountable, plural PWPs)

(computing, uncountable) Abbreviation of password protection.


PWP

(computing) Abbreviation of password-protected.


ICA

Innovative Communications Alliance
w:Innovative Communications Alliance

(computing, business) Initialism of Innovative Communications Alliance, an alliance formed by Microsoft and Nortel to develop unified communications products.

Innovative Communications Alliance

International Contract Agency
w:International Contract Agency

(video games) Initialism of International Contract Agency.


ICA

image compression artifact
w:image compression artifact

(computer graphics) Initialism of image compression artifact.


hoster

Make sure your hoster provides fast FTP access to your files.

Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

2004, Reuters news item at CNet News, 25 September 2004

(computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.


web developer

(computing, Internet) A person who develops applications designed to be used via the World Wide Web.


web designer

(computing) A person who designs (and sometimes creates) web sites

verkkosivujen suunnittelija

person who designs and creates web sites


system software

(computing) The software associated with an operating system and supporting utilities, database systems etc.


panic button

To enable the panic button you’ll need to toggle the “early bird” option in the settings of the Opera GX browser.

2023 December 14, Tom Warren, “Opera’s gamer browser now has a “panic button” for when you’re caught in the act”, in The Verge, retrieved 2023-12-16


DEM

DEM (countable and uncountable, plural DEMs)

(computing) Initialism of digital experience monitoring.


synchronization domain

synchronization domain (plural synchronization domains)

(computer science) In the context of thread synchronization, a collection of contexts and objects that share a single lock.


parallelize

en-verb

parallelize (third-person singular simple present parallelizes, present participle parallelizing, simple past and past participle parallelized)

parallelizes (present singular third-person)
parallelizing (participle present)
parallelized (participle past)
parallelized (past)

The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.

We present a general method to parallelize branch & bound algorithms on transputer networks and an application of this method to solve symmetric traveling salesman problems by a best first branch & bound strategy.

1992, Wouter Joosen, Elie Milgrom, Parallel Computing: From Theory to Sound Practice, Barcelona, Spain, page 598

(programming) To make to execute in parallel.


golfed

One of the best optimizations of Perl programs is trimming the number of operations it has to perform. The less work it has to do, the better. This isn't an argument for obfuscated or golfed code—just good profiling […]

2006, Chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis Poe, Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving

(programming) Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf.


below the fold

(by extension, web design, graphical user interface) Far enough down that it is not likely to be visible in the initial display of a window or screen, such that the end user will probably have to scroll down before seeing it.


digital computer

en-noun

digital computer (plural digital computers)

(computing) A computing device that processes signals that change in discrete, quantized, steps; as opposed to an analog computer.


analog computer

analog computer (plural analog computers)

(computing) A computer (mechanical, electrical or other) that processes using continuously varying signals rather than digital, quantized, values.

analoga komputilo

computer that processes using continuously varying signals


defragmentation

defragmentation (countable and uncountable, plural defragmentations)

/diːˌfɹæɡmənˈteɪʃən/

From defragment + -ation or de- + fragmentation.

(computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.


red link

In most wikis, a link to a nonexistent page appears in red text.

(Internet, wiki jargon) A red hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent page of a wiki.


PTB

The developer clarified that players will be able to enjoy all of these changes and new Stranger Things content until the end of the PTB[.]

2019 August 30, Glenn Carreau, “Dead by Daylight Finally Getting Dedicated Servers”, in GameRant, archived from the original on 2020-11-08

The clients targeted for this injection are Discord, Discord Development, Discord Canary, and Discord PTB (Public Test Build).

2022 August 17, Bill Toulas, “Malicious PyPi packages turn Discord into password-stealing malware”, in Bleeping Computer, archived from the original on 2023-12-16

Those who wish to participate need good internet as these PTBs require them to practically reinstall the whole game.

2023 August 8, Lukus Herblet, “How to play Dead By Daylight's Alien Chapter PTB”, in SportSkeeda, archived from the original on 2023-08-08

A new PTB update has arrived for Dead by Daylight, and it offers a whole bunch of new things for players to check out.

2024 April 4, Marc Deschamps, “Dead by Daylight Update Lets Players Test New Features and Updated Killers”, in Comicbook, archived from the original on 2024-07-16

It is worth keeping in mind, while you can test the Ashlands biome on the PTB, it’s still in development meaning you may experience more glitches and bugs while playing on the PTB.

2024 April 24, Hayley Andrews, “Valheim Ashlands release date: When is Valheim’s next biome update?”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2024-05-23

(software) Initialism of public test build, public test branch


pebibyte

(computing) Strictly, 2⁵⁰ (1024⁵, 1,125,899,906,842,624) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) tebibytes, as opposed to a petabyte.


PND

personal navigation device
personal navigation device

(computing) personal navigation device; a portable electrical product to navigate the user


zettabyte

Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station

Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.

2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News

For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.

2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, page 5


sping

(Internet) The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.


link spam

link spam (usually uncountable, plural link spams)

(SEO) Links added to a web page for the purpose of spamdexing.


trackback

trackback (countable and uncountable, plural trackbacks)

(uncountable, computing) A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.

(countable, Internet) A snippet of text joined to an entry from another website linking to it.


^W

From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the "delete back to whitespace" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.

Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.

Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.

(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last word.


compiland

(computing) A file or other single unit of program source code that can be compiled.


^H

A representation of ASCII character 0x08, which is backspace.

Read the fuc^H^Hine manual. ― Read the fucine manual.

(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last character.


adventure game

Phipps have put together a well planned and sometimes amusing adventure game here, with text and location graphics, which are simple but attractive.

1984 May, “Living Guide to Spectrum Software: Adventure Games”, in Crash, number 4

The critics of adventure games are quick to point out that, really, adventure games are not games at all, but merely a series of puzzles strung together with bits of story between them. The puzzles, regardless of their form, serve as locked doors […]

2010, Richard Rouse III, Game Design: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

Undoubtedly a force in the early days of the graphical adventure game genre was LucasArts. With an army of professional film personnel from which to draw, LucasArts titles gained a huge reputation for outstanding storytelling[…]

2011, Sue Blackman, Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity, page 6

(video games) A computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges.


splog

The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).]

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine

(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.


platter

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

(computing) One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.


video chat

video chat (countable and uncountable, plural video chats)

(Internet) An audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology.


video chat

en-verb

video chat (third-person singular simple present video chats, present participle video chatting, simple past and past participle video chatted)

video chats (present singular third-person)
video chatting (participle present)
video chatted (participle past)
video chatted (past)

(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a video chat.

With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian

(transitive, Internet) To communicate with (someone) via video chat.


computer security

A branch of computer science that addresses enforcement of 'secure' behavior on the operation of computers.


UTFSE

(Internet, imperative, transitive) Initialism of use the fucking search engine.


deletionism

(Wikimedia jargon) The condition of being deletionist.


inclusionism

Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, page 121

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which advocates allowing a broader range of information to be included on Wikipedia (or a similar wiki), even if it is of marginal importance.


lolcat

(Internet, neologism) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption

(uncountable, Internet, neologism) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.


frecency

en-noun

frecency (countable and uncountable, plural frecencies)

Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.

For example, a feature called "frecency" compiles the user's browing history to suggest similar websites and searches.

2008 February 13, Mark Raby, “Firefox 3 Beta 3 goes live”, in TG Daily

[…] the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by “frecency” (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).

2008 April 17, Deb Richardson, quoted in Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces, O’Reilly Media (2009), page 264

So the more often and the more recently you’ve been there, the higher “frecency” it has and the higher it’s rated.

2008 August, unknown author, “Firefox 3: A Browser Odyssey”, Maximum PC, Future US, ISSN 1522-4279, page 52

[…] or improve our cache performance so that we're keeping cached items that are related to sites with high frecency -- […]

2009 March 23, Mike Beltzner, “Re: Firefox privacy prefpane UI refresh”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet)

No, Tb [Thunderbird] has yet to develope the Fx [Firefox] frecency thing. It's just simple pattern matching, IIUC.

2009 May 20, Ron K., “Re: Address selection preference”, in mozilla.support.thunderbird (Usenet)

Regarding collection usage, frecency metrics are employed, combining frequency and recency, to effectively capture concept drift and temporal trends.

2010, Mounia Lalmas et al., editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries […], Springer, page 544

(computing, rare) Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.


BFF

software engineering
software engineering

backend for frontend
backend for frontend#English

(software engineering) Initialism of backend for frontend.


genetic algorithm

genetic algorithm (plural genetic algorithms)

(computing) A search heuristic that is based on biological evolution.


z-order

When you click on a window it is brought to the top of the z-order so that you can see it.

(computer graphics) The order in which objects should be drawn in order to display correctly.

To get the rectangle to hide some of the text, make its z-order higher.

(computer graphics) A property of a graphical object that indicates its position in the z-order.


live blog

They were covering the press conference on a live blog.

(Internet, neologism) A blog that gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event.

лайвбло́г

a blog which gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event


live blog

en-verb

live blog (third-person singular simple present live blogs, present participle live blogging, simple past and past participle live blogged)

live blogs (present singular third-person)
live blogging (participle present)
live blogged (participle past)
live blogged (past)

I am going to be live blogging the press conference and I will keep you updated on any big news.

(Internet, neologism) To keep track of a current event in real-time online using a blog or other website.


font name

(computing, typography) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the name of a font (typeface).


IIS

Internet Information Services
w:Internet Information Services

(computing) Initialism of Internet Information Services


tag soup

(computing, Internet, informal) Poorly structured code in a markup language that uses tags (such as HTML), especially when it violates specifications.


subnet

(networking) A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number.

subxarxa

portion of a network which shares a network address in which each component is identified by a subnet number


subnet

subnet (third-person singular simple present subnets, present participle subnetting, simple past and past participle subnetted)

subnets (present singular third-person)
subnetting (participle present)
subnetted (participle past)
subnetted (past)

(transitive, networking) To break (a network) into subnets.


SSH

(networking) Initialism of Secure Shell (a networking protocol by which two computers are connected via a secure channel.)


TFTP

(networking) Initialism of trivial file transfer protocol: a simple file transfer protocol, like FTP.


MIME

(networking) Acronym of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, (an Internet standard that extends the formatting and content capabilities of email)


DICT

(computing) A dictionary network protocol.


capslock

en-noun

capslock (countable and uncountable, plural capslocks)

(computing) A mode in which the capitalization of typed letters is reversed.

caps lock

a mode in which capitalization of typed letter is reversed

(computing, countable) A key on the keyboard that activates capslock.

大寫鎖定

a key on the keyboard that activates capslock


tethering

tethering (countable and uncountable, plural tetherings)

(Internet) The connection of a personal computer to a mobile phone so as to obtain wireless Internet access from the computer.

共享网络

connection of a computer to a mobile phone to obtain internet access


(telecommunications, computing) Recommended Standard 232; the standard for serial binary signals between a DTE and a DCE.


CRP

composite reuse principle
composite reuse principle#English

(software) Initialism of composite reuse principle.

(Internet) Initialism of critical rendering path.


dialer

He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.

A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.


time-slicing

time-slicing (usually uncountable, plural time-slicings)

(computing) A technique used to share a processor in a round robin manner with all of the tasks of the same priority, allowing lower priority tasks when idle.


halant

Borrowed from Hindi हलंत (halant). The computing sense arises from the diacritic sense through the use in ISCII of the same computer character to act, depending on context and font capabilities, as either a visual diacritic or as a control character modifying a pair of consonants.

(computing) A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication that the first consonant does not have an implicit vowel


class diagram

static structure diagram
static structure diagram

(software engineering) A type of static structure diagram that describes the structure of a system by showing the system's classes, their attributes, and the relationships between the classes.


use case

(software engineering) A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.

So Amazon unveiled more software services to make A.W.S. indispensable. In a speech at the event, Andy Jassy, the head of A.W.S., said it wanted to “enable every imaginable use case.”

2019 December 15, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Shopify fulfills what’s known in the software development community as the “80 percent use case,” which means it provides 80 percent of the features that merchants need and third-party developers supply the rest[…]

2020 November 24, Yiren Lu, “Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(software engineering) A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.


chatspeak

Given that people are trying to speak by writing in real time, chatspeak is infused with extensive abbreviations and there is little punctuation.

2001, Edward Castronova, “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier”, in CESifo Working Papers, 618, p. 13

Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.

2002, Ronald A. Berk, Humor as an instructional defibrillator: evidence-based techniques in teaching and assessment, Stylus, page 140

I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak.

2004, “Hello, All (who ever that is)”, in Smite the illiterate

Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?

2008, Tom Breen, The Messiah formerly known as Jesus : dispatches from the intersection of Christianity and pop culture, Baylor University Press, page 69

(Internet, informal) The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.


broken source

(software, slang, derogatory) open source computer software that is buggy, unstable, or lacking features.


clip art

(computing) A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.


corelet

(computing) Any of various applications resident in the memory of a mobile phone or similar device.


penetration test

penetration test (plural penetration tests)

(computing) A test of a computer system's access control, in which a user attempts to gain access to the system without the prescribed credentials.


mockable

en-adj

mockable (comparative more mockable, superlative most mockable)

more mockable (comparative)
most mockable (superlative)

To run tests on a mockable version of android.jar, you would need to introduce product flavors, which we covered in Chapter 4.

2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233

(software engineering) Of which a mockup or prototype may be made.


subprogram

(computing) A program contained within a larger program

aliohjelma

a program contained within a larger program


EF

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Entity Framework, an open-source ORM framework.


TPC

Transmit Power Control
w:Transmit Power Control

(networking) Initialism of Transmit Power Control.


strongly connected component

en-noun

strongly connected component (plural strongly connected components)

(graph theory) Given a directed graph, a maximal strongly connected subgraph.


strongly connected

(graph theory) Of a directed graph, such that for every pair of vertices u and v there is a path from u to v and a path from v to u.

(graph theory) Of a directed graph, such that for every pair of vertices u and v there is a directed path either from u to v or from v to u.


connected component

connected component (plural connected components)

(topology and graph theory) A connected subset that is, moreover, maximal with respect to being connected.


DRF

Development Request Form
Development Request Form

(computing, initialism) Development Request Form.


difficulty level

difficulty level (plural difficulty levels)

(video games) A variable setting in a video game determining how challenging it is to play.


downloader

The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.

1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35

(computing) A computer program that assists with the downloading of files.


header file

(programming) A file, usually in the form of source code, that is automatically included in another source file by the compiler.

hlavičkový soubor

file that is automatically included in another source file

(programming) A file that contains declarations but no implementations.


current affairs

Recent news, especially in-depth analysis of issues and events.


remote procedure call

remote procedure call (countable and uncountable, plural remote procedure calls)

(computing) A technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space, commonly on another computer on a shared network, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.


remote method invocation

remote method invocation (countable and uncountable, plural remote method invocations)

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

remote procedure call
remote procedure call

(software, object-oriented programming) remote procedure call


anonymous pipe

interprocess communication
interprocess communication

(computing) A simplex FIFO communication channel that may be used for one-way interprocess communication.


named pipe

(computing) An extension to the anonymous pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.


interprocess communication

interprocess communication (usually uncountable, plural interprocess communications)

FreeBSD provides a rich set of interprocess-communication facilities intended to support the construction of distributed programs built on top of communications primitives.

2014, Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N.M. Watson, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 593

(computing) A set of techniques for the exchange of data among two or more threads in one or more processes.


trie

(computer science) An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.


KVM

(computer hardware) Initialism of keyboard-video-mouse: a device allowing these input and output devices to be swapped between a series of server consoles, especially in a rack configuration.

keyboard-video-mouse

(computing) Initialism of kilobyte virtual machine: a virtual machine derived from the Java virtual machine specification, written for small devices with limited memory.

kilobyte virtual machine

(computing) Initialism of kernel-based virtual machine: a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.


tweeting

(Internet) The posting of tweets (microblogging messages)


ELF

In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]

2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis, page 97

(file format) Acronym of Executable and Linking Format (a common object file format for Unix)


preseeding

2004, Joey Hess, "d-i preseed file version 0.1", reprinted in Frank Ronneburg, 2005, Debian GNU/ Linux Anwenderhandbuch,
Some parts of the installation process cannot be automated using some forms of preseeding, because the questions are asked before the preseed file is loaded.

In addition to the preseed option, the boot command will then be longer than 100 characters, which defeats the purpose of preseeding -- a manual installation of Debian requires only twelve keystrokes before you are prompted for the root password.

2005, Martin F. Krafft, The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques, page 426

This first command is run as early as possible, just after preseeding is read.

2005: Frank Ronneburg, Debian GNU/Linux Anwenderhandbuch für Einsteiger, Umsteiger und Fortgeschrittene, page 124 (Pearson Education; ISBN 978‒3‒8273‒2303‒3)

I'm using preseeding over network(PXE).

2008, "etch-n-half netboot problems", Unix Linux Forum, Aug 18

(computing) a way to set answers to questions asked during the installation process, without having to manually enter the answers while the installation is running.


FSF

Free Software Foundation
w:Free Software Foundation

(software, organisation) Initialism of Free Software Foundation.


YHJBT

(Internet) Synonym of YHBT: you have just been trolled.


delimiter

(computing) A unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set.

oddělovač

(Computer) A unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set.


UPI

UPI (countable and uncountable, plural UPIs)

Their new methods and computational tools could create UPI from integrating and analyzing a user's search patterns, document inquiries, and myriad other signals of online behaviors, even when users do not directly provide that personal information: […]

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 3, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

(Internet) Initialism of user profile information.


Atari

Company name, founded in California in 1972, from Japanese 当たり (atari), with reference to the game of Go.

Asked what they liked best about visiting their father, both named playing his Atari game. "What if he didn't have an Atari, would you still go visit him?" Dr. Davis asked.

1988, Jerry Bledsoe, Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder, Dutton, page 204

Even my husband, when he takes a break from playin' his Atari on the TV, makes comments about how weird the livin' room looks without the rain lamp.

2003, Ruby Ann Boxcar, Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Guide to Livin' Real Good, Citadel Press, page 76

Whatever the reason, you've found yourself wanting an Atari once again. Yes, the very first video game company did produce many different consoles, but when I say "an Atari" you know what I'm talking about: the Video Computer System, a.k.a. the VCS, a.k.a. the 2600, a.k.a. the Atari.

2005, Chris Kohler, Retro Gaming Hacks, O'Reilly, page 8

(video games) An Atari video game system or computer, such as the Atari 2600 or Atari ST.


link editor

(computing) A program that links modules together, by resolving calls or references to external names, to form a single executable program


virtualist

(art, computing) An artist who specializes in art on the Internet or in virtual reality.


data model

(databases) A result of applying a data modeling to some particular application, using a database model such as relational.

datový model

(databases) A database model, such as relational or hierarchical.


unerase

en-verb

unerase (third-person singular simple present unerases, present participle unerasing, simple past and past participle unerased)

unerases (present singular third-person)
unerasing (participle present)
unerased (participle past)
unerased (past)

(transitive, computing) To restore something that has been erased.


distributable

Go to […] to obtain the latest .NET Framework 2.0 version, language packs, and related distributables.

2008, John Paul Mueller, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies, page 36

(computing) A software component that can be distributed.


BLOB

Formed as a backronym. See Object storage#Origins.

I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures.

binary large object
binary large object#English

(databases) Acronym of binary large object.


handshaking

I waited for the modems to finish their handshaking so I could start transferring the file.

(computing) A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for communications.


populatable

In particular, it is checked whether all parts of the conceptual scheme are populatable at all, whether any information is lost…

1994, Ramez Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim, Entity-relationship Approach, ER '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach, page 239

Since Man and Woman are exclusive, and an object type must be populatable, no object type can be a subtype of both…

2001, Terry Halpin, Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Local Design, page 255

These schemata are the best populatable schemata among schemata with the same number of predicators.

2005, R. Meersman, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops, page 736


AMR

Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec
w:Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec

(computing) Initialism of Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec.


digon

From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).

confix

monogon · digon · trigon · tetragon · pentagon · hexagon · heptagon · octagon · nonagon · decagon · undecagon · dodecagon · see also Category:English terms suffixed with -gon

A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.

A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.


replayability

This new game is reported to have excellent replayability, with many features that draw players into the game's engaging world.

The language should be designed to achieve replayability and a high-level of scriptability.

(computing) Capability of being played back as from a recording (replayable).


replay value

(video games) The entertainment value obtained by playing a computer game more than once; replayability.


PUF

... the PUF, as shown in Figure 7.12. In this case X is the hardware device that processes the signals between the PUF and the circuit for authentication. Various attributes of the MRAM cells based on random geometric variations are used as[…]

2018 June 11, Betty Prince, David Prince, Memories for the Intelligent Internet of Things, John Wiley & Sons, page 313

... the PUF is changed with a high probability [74]. In other words, the challenge-response behavior of the PUF is altered, and therefore, the PUF will be destroyed. However, it is known that side-channel analysis of the Arbiter PUF can[…]

2018 March 27, Shahin Tajik, On the Physical Security of Physically Unclonable Functions, Springer, page 31

physical unclonable function
physical unclonable function#English

physically unclonable function
physically unclonable function#English

Initialism of physical unclonable function or physically unclonable function.


XPS

(computing) Initialism of Dell XPS (a line of gaming and performance computers manufactured by Dell)

Dell XPS

XML Paper Specification
w:XML Paper Specification

(computing) Initialism of XML Paper Specification.


XPS

en-noun

XPS (countable and uncountable, plural XPSs)

(X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy): French: XPS

(X-ray photoelectron spectroscope): French: XPS

(communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering (a scaling technique for network traffic processing)


gigabit

/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbɪt/

(computing) One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 megabits.


CAN

Controller Area Network
w:en:Controller Area Network

(computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network., ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.


CAN

CAN (countable and uncountable, plural CANs)

(computing, manufacturing, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of controller area network.

(computing, countable) Initialism of campus area network.


initiable

en-adj

initiable (comparative more initiable, superlative most initiable)

more initiable (comparative)
most initiable (superlative)

(computing) Able to be set to an initial value or state; initializable


feed the troll

en-verb

feed the troll (third-person singular simple present feeds the troll, present participle feeding the troll, simple past and past participle fed the troll)

feeds the troll (present singular third-person)
feeding the troll (participle present)
fed the troll (participle past)
fed the troll (past)

The man rejected the business forum moderator's advice and decided to feed the troll by answering his irrelevant question whether he could host a game show.

(Internet) To respond to someone who posts deliberately inflammatory or disruptive statements, such as to a newsgroup or other online forum.


RTT

en-noun

RTT (countable and uncountable, plural RTTs)

(computer graphics) Initialism of render-to-texture.


demilitarized zone

demilitarized zone (plural demilitarized zones)

(computing) A subnetwork of a LAN, exposed to the internet or another untrusted network but firewalled off from the rest of the LAN.


cyberscholarship

(computing) academic research using high-performance computing coupled with digital libraries


loose coupling

(computer science) A low-level interdependent coupling between program modules.

couplage

computer science: low-level interdependent coupling between modules


computer vision

The single most popular AI technology identified in the report was computer vision.
Audio (US): (file)

2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) The science and technology of machines that see, concerned with the theory for building artificial systems that obtain information from images, such as a video sequence, views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner.


In typical Intel chips L2 bandwidth is half of L1 bandwidth.

(computing) Short for second level in various contexts

(computing) The second-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the first level cache.

an L2 switch

(networking) The data link layer in the seven layer OSI network model.


entitize

en-verb

entitize (third-person singular simple present entitizes, present participle entitizing, simple past and past participle entitized)

entitizes (present singular third-person)
entitizing (participle present)
entitized (participle past)
entitized (past)

The program entitizes certain XML characters.

(computing, transitive) To convert a character into a character entity reference.


toast rack

(UK, computing, slang) The ZX Spectrum 128k+ home computer, having a large heat sink built into the keyboard, shaped like a toast rack.


Writing of the L1 is performed one cache line at a time and can be 64 bytes or 32 bytes.

2009, Sandeep Koranne, Practical Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine, page 22

(computing) Short for first level in various contexts.

(computing) The first-level cache of a processor, closer to the processor than the second-level cache.

(networking) The physical layer in the seven-layer OSI network model.


myspace

From the social networking site MySpace.

Why did you delete your myspace?

(Internet slang) One's profile on the MySpace website.


myspace

myspace (third-person singular simple present myspaces, present participle myspacing, simple past and past participle myspaced)

myspaces (present singular third-person)
myspacing (participle present)
myspaced (participle past)
myspaced (past)

(Internet slang, transitive) To contact someone using the social networking site MySpace.


PSU

(electronics, computer hardware) Initialism of power supply unit.


machine learning

(artificial intelligence) The ability of computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

Much of today’s AI-related technologies are powered by machine learning.
Audio (US): (file)

(artificial intelligence) A field of study concerned with the design and development of algorithms and techniques that allow computers to learn.


fanin

en-noun

fanin (countable and uncountable, plural fanins)

(computing, electronics) The degree to which a component has separate inputs entering it.


title case

From title + case, because it is the casing (letter case pattern) traditionally often used for document titles (as well as headings and other display type) in English orthography.

(publishing, computing) The capitalization of text in which the first letter of each major (important) word is set as a capital.

English orthography
display typeface
microcomputer revolution
style guide


whois

whois (usually uncountable, plural whoises)

(Internet) The WHOIS protocol or service.


whois

en-verb

whois (third-person singular simple present whoises, present participle whoising, simple past and past participle whoised)

whoises (present singular third-person)
whoising (participle present)
whoised (participle past)
whoised (past)

We whoised the domain to find out who was sending the spam.

That seems to be an undocumented feature, but makes perfect sense. Of course, that wouldn't prevent you from whoising 20 people at once, which could be a problem.

2003, Joel, “Re: A whois addon”, in alt.irc.dalnet (Usenet)

(Internet, transitive) To look up using a whois protocol.


Godwin's law

Named after American attorney and author Mike Godwin (1956–).

named-after

The power to be a being of pure thought, the unlimited, unconstrained world of imagination, and we build a world of animated gifs, stupid sight gags, lame van-art avatars, stupid “playful” environments, and brain-dead flame wars augmented by animated emoticons that allowed participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems, concern-trollery, and Godwin's law violations through the media of cartoon animals and oversized genitals.

2012, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, page 296

His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law. But who would be afraid of that charge when you believe that the Nazi analogy is apt?

2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge

(Internet, usually humorous) The adage that any Usenet discussion will eventually mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler.


egocaster

(Internet) A person who shares a personality or ego through a network, such as in a weblog or a podcast; someone who egocasts.


AIO

(computing) Initialism of asynchronous I/O.


XD

(computing, programming) Initialism of experience design.


sock puppeteer

From sock puppet + -eer, after the model of puppeteer.

It is intent to deceive or to dabble in malicious mischief that sets a sock puppeteer apart from a legitimate user with multiple accounts.

2005 December 21, Shelley Powers, "Yo! Sock Puppets!" on Burningbird.net

The idea of a sock puppeteer as a minion was an extension of the term that was published in 2000 by U.S. News and World Report.

2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, Vol. II, s.v. Sockpuppetry

A person who controls a sock puppet (any sense).


egocast

en-verb

egocast (third-person singular simple present egocasts, present participle egocasting, simple past and past participle egocasted or egocast)

egocasts (present singular third-person)
egocasting (participle present)
egocasted (participle past)
egocasted (past)
egocast (participle past)
egocast (past)

She egocasts further at http […]

2007. Diane Mapes. Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Page 267

(Internet) To create and broadcast an individual personality or ego through a network, such as via a weblog or a podcast.


egocast

[…] 6 efficient trees, defined, 232 egocasts, 221 elementary streams […]

2004, Damien Stolarz., Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to Streaming and On-Demand Video, page 458

(Internet) The broadcast of an individual personality or ego through a network, such as a weblog or a podcast.


SEU

en-noun

SEU (countable and uncountable, plural SEUs)

ionizing radiation
ionizing radiation#English

(computing) Initialism of single-event upset (a transient soft error/glitch caused by ionizing radiation impacting a chip).


EQ

(video games) Initialism of EverQuest, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.


SSG

SSGs would see a boost in 2008 with the creation of Jekyll, a Ruby-based SSG created by Tom Preston-Werner.

2023, Bryan Robinson, Eleventy by Example: Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy, Packt, page 2

static site generator
w:static site generator

(web development) Initialism of static site generator.


ph

(jargon, social media) Initialism of physical health.


release notes

(computing) Documents distributed with a release of a software product, indicating changes, workarounds, etc.


ad hocery

ad hocery (countable and uncountable, plural ad hoceries)

artificially intelligent
artificial intelligence

(computing) Arbitrary decision rules sometimes included in artificially intelligent software to simulate the unexpectedness in human reasoning.


expander

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A control that expands to show more options or commands, keeping them hidden until needed.

(graph theory) A kind of sparse graph with strong connectivity properties.


blind carbon copy

blind carbon copy (plural blind carbon copies)

(Internet) A copy of an email message that is sent to a person (often one of many) other than the primary recipient without the express knowledge of the other recipients.


blind carbon copy

en-verb

blind carbon copy (third-person singular simple present blind carbon copies, present participle blind carbon copying, simple past and past participle blind carbon copied)

blind carbon copies (present singular third-person)
blind carbon copying (participle present)
blind carbon copied (participle past)
blind carbon copied (past)

(transitive, Internet) To send a blind carbon copy.


banner ad

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement which extends horizontally across a web-page.


ring out

Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)

Even when Heihachi doesn't score a ring out with these combos, almost half of an enemy's health disappears […]

2003, Michael Lummis, Soul Calibur II Official Fighter's Guide Limited Edition, page 105

(video games) A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the arena.


ring out

ring out (third-person singular simple present rings out, present participle ringing out, simple past and past participle ringed out)

rings out (present singular third-person)
ringing out (participle present)
ringed out (participle past)
ringed out (past)

(video games, transitive, intransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.


geno

(video games, roguelikes, informal) Genocide.


geno

geno (third-person singular simple present genos, present participle genoing, simple past and past participle genoed)

genos (present singular third-person)
genoing (participle present)
genoed (participle past)
genoed (past)

I decided to geno insects because of the risk of swarms in the early game.

(video games, roguelikes, transitive, informal) To (commit) genocide.


comp sci

computer science
computer science#English

(university slang) Clipping of computer science.


uninstallation

(software) The process of removing a program from a computer.


CTFO

Personally, I don't much give a shit how much some of you may dislike some others, but sweet baby jesus, Chill The Fuck Out, would ya? ... If ya gotta do it, do it; but CTFO a little, eh?

2006, Joe F. "rb608", “OT: CTFO Rant”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet)

(Internet) Initialism of chill the fuck out.


binary distribution

en-noun

binary distribution (plural binary distributions)

(computing) A distribution of software containing executable binaries, without source code.

paquet binaire

a distribution of software containing executable binaries, without source code


haxor

Leet spelling of hacker. It became such a common example of leetspeak that haxor became synonymous with leet in this context. The verb sense derived from the noun sense.

My friend Mark, he's an uber haxor – amazing gamer too!


unformatted

en-adj

unformatted (comparative more unformatted, superlative most unformatted)

more unformatted (comparative)
most unformatted (superlative)

(computing) That has not yet been formatted for use; uninitialized


data management

All the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource, such as data modeling or metadata management.

Datenmanagement

all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource, such as data modeling or metadata management


built-in type

programming language
programming language

first class function
first class function

(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean, but in some languages also list, hash table or first class function.


primitive type

(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.


orthogonality

In this chapter we develop one of the key concepts in the geometry of the vector space Rⁿ, namely, the concept of orthogonality of vectors.

1984, John Wesley Brown, Donald R. Sherbert, Introductory Linear Algebra with Applications, Prindle Weber & Schmidt

Suppose we have an imaginary pair of axes with a set of comparable language entities on one and a set of attributes or capabilities on the other. When we talk of “orthogonality”, we usually mean that the space defined by these axes is as “full” as we can logically make it. Part of the Ruby way is to strive for this orthogonality.

2015, Hal Fulton, André Arko, The Ruby Way […], Addison-Wesley Professional, page xl

software engineering
software engineering

(mathematics, statistics, software engineering) The property of being orthogonal.


composite type

(computer science) A data type that can be constructed in a programming language out of that language's primitive types and other composite types; exemplified by array, structure, and class.


value domain

(metadata) The set of allowed values for a data element.


entity relationship diagram

en-noun

entity relationship diagram (plural entity relationship diagrams)

entity-relationship diagram
entity-relationship diagram#English

Alternative spelling of entity-relationship diagram


conceptual schema

conceptual schema (plural conceptual schemas or conceptual schemata)

conceptual schemas (plural)
conceptual schemata (plural)

(data modeling) A map of concepts, their properties, the relationships between the concepts and the properties of the relationships.


representation term

representation term (plural representation terms)

(metadata) A word or a combination of words that semantically represent the data type (value domain) of a data element, such as the suffix "ID" for the data element "PersonID", the suffix "Name" for "PersonGivenName" and "PersonFamilyName" and "Date" for "PersonBirthDate".


metadata registry

metadata registry (plural metadata registries)

(metadata) A central location in an organization where metadata definitions are stored and maintained in a controlled method.


data element

(metadata) An atomic unit of data that has:

An identification such as a data element name.

An atomic unit of data that has:
A clear data element definition.

An atomic unit of data that has:
One or more representation terms.

An atomic unit of data that has:
Optional enumerated values.

A list of synonyms to data elements in other metadata registries.


synonym ring

A synonym ring is a set of words or phrases (which are regarded as synonymous). A thesaurus is a set of trees whose nodes are synonym rings.

1982, F. N. Teskey, Principles of Text Processing

Each term in a synonym ring is equally likely to occur in any relevant article and so it is necessary to search for them all rather than one preferred term.

1985, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation

A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms.

2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly Media, page 178

(information science, metadata) Synonym of synset


SIGINT

SIGINT (countable and uncountable, plural SIGINTs)

(countable, uncountable, computing) A signal sent to a process by its controlling terminal when a user wishes to interrupt the process.


EOT

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of end of transmission.

(Internet) Initialism of end of topic/thread.


MTP

(Internet, historical) Initialism of Mail Transfer Protocol, superseded by SMTP.

Media Transfer Protocol
w:Media Transfer Protocol

(computing) Initialism of Media Transfer Protocol, a generalization of PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol).

Media Transfer Protocol

Multipurpose Transaction Protocol
w:Multipurpose Transaction Protocol

(networking) Initialism of Multipurpose Transaction Protocol, a proprietary transport protocol.


selectable

(graphical user interface) An item that can be selected by the user.


fat

en-adj

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

fatter (comparative)
fattest (superlative)

Of sense: lean

carrying a larger than normal amount of fat; antonym(s) of

Sranan Tongo: fatu

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

fat client

a fat pointer

(computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.


exit program

(computing, programming) A computer program which exits cleanly from an application, or on computer shutdown


CX

en-noun

CX (countable and uncountable, plural CXes)

(networking, Ethernet) Abbreviation of (short haul) copper.

(cryptocurrencies) Abbreviation of cryptocurrency.


classification scheme

classification scheme (plural classification schemes)

(metadata) The descriptive information for an arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.


denotational semantics

(computer science) An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the meanings of expressions from the languages.

stærðfræðileg merkingarfræði

an approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages


trigraph

(computing) A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.


computational linguistics

Coined by American linguist and computer scientist David Hays in the 1960s.

coinage

Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.

2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §7.1

(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.


XMA

(computing, historical) Initialism of extended memory area.


XMA

Expanded Memory Adapter
w:Expanded Memory Adapter

(computing, historical) Initialism of Expanded Memory Adapter.


breakpoint

(programming) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.

斷點

(computing) point in a program where operation may be interrupted

If a device's screen width is equal to, or less than, the screen width defined at the breakpoint, it will have the related CSS applied to it. You sometimes want to set breakpoints to match particular device screen widths, but I have found that what is most important is simply that the layout remains usable as it gets smaller.

2012, Charles Wyke-Smith, Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide

(web development) A particular size at which a web page is designed to switch to a different layout.


breakpoint

en-verb

breakpoint (third-person singular simple present breakpoints, present participle breakpointing, simple past and past participle breakpointed)

breakpoints (present singular third-person)
breakpointing (participle present)
breakpointed (participle past)
breakpointed (past)

If the microprogrammer wishes to continue execution at a breakpointed location, it is desirable to execute the breakpointed microinstruction, replace the microinstruction with a branch microinstruction to restore the breakpoint, and continue microinstruction execution.

1981, Ben E. Cline, Microprogramming Concepts and Techniques, page 134

(programming, transitive) To flag with a breakpoint.


genetic programming

en-noun

genetic programming (usually uncountable, plural genetic programmings)

(computing) A search heuristic that explores the space of computer programs and is based on biological evolution.


journaling

journaling (countable and uncountable, plural journalings)

(computing, by extension) The change log of the file system or database.


MBT

MBT (countable and uncountable, plural MBTs)

model-based testing
model-based testing#English

(software, testing) Initialism of model-based testing.


transaction data

(data management) Data describing an event (the change as a result of a transaction) and usually described with verbs; it always has a time dimension, a numerical value and refers to one or more objects, on which reference data is kept.


graphics card

Sitting down in front of her desktop, Veneza starts working, even though she hasn’t had a chance to install the new graphics card yet.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 175

(computing) A circuit board that generates and controls the visual display on a computer screen.


reference data

(data management) Data describing a physical or virtual object and its properties, used as a reference or lookup.


master data management

(data management) A set of processes and tools which centrally and persistently define the non-transactional entities of an organization, with the objective to collect from, and supply to various processes, unique instances of each entity.


RFI

RFI (countable and uncountable, plural RFIs)

(uncountable, computer science) Initialism of remote file inclusion.


GPF

general protection fault
general protection fault#English

(computing) Initialism of general protection fault, a type of interrupt produced by IA32 CPUs.


UUCP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally for Usenet and e-mail transfers.


FLOSS

FLOSS has proven to be an extremely valuable tool for accelerating research in various fields of IT and engineering in order to address the needs of society in the future.

2019, Brian Fitzgerald, Audris Mockus, Minghui Zhou, Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and Sustainability, Springer, page 121

(computing) Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.


PLA

Pokémon Legends: Arceus
w:Pokémon Legends: Arceus

(fandom slang, video games) Initialism of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.


PLA

principle of least astonishment
principle of least astonishment#English

(software engineering) Initialism of principle of least astonishment.


NDR

NDR (countable and uncountable, plural NDRs)

(Internet) Initialism of nondelivery report. (indicating inability to deliver email)


galge

Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.

(video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.


mind map

A diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea.


concept map

A diagram showing the relationships among concepts, with the concepts drawn in boxes that are connected with labelled arrows denoting the relationships between concepts, such as "is a", "gives rise to", "results in", "is required by," or "contributes to".


strategy game

A game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome, such as chess, checkers or go.

joc d'estratègia

game in which players' decision-making skills have a high significance


exabyte

Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4

North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]

2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge

In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation.

2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, pages 4–5

(computing) One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.


computer chess

(computer games, chess) The game of chess involving a computer able to play autonomously, i.e. without human guidance.


pebibit

(computing) Strictly, 2⁵⁰ (1024⁵, 1,125,899,906,842,624) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) tebibits, as opposed to a petabit.


recompile

Last-minute changes to source files necessitated several recompiles.


petabit

(computing) One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 terabits.


FCB

(computing) Initialism of file control block.


spammy

en-adj

spammy (comparative spammier, superlative spammiest)

spammier (comparative)
spammiest (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling spam (junk e-mail).


halfwidth

This would convert any half-width katakana characters to full-width katakana.

1993, GO Corporation, Penpoint Application Writing Guide

...and half-width (zenkaku, hankaku) alphabets are regarded as separate...

1998, Rick Jelliffe, The XML & SGML Cookbook

The half-width characters have normal character spacing...

2002, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2

(computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.

半角

occupying half the width of a fullwidth character


EOL

en-noun

EOL (countable and uncountable, plural EOLs)

(computing) Initialism of end-of-life: the point where hardware or software becomes obsolete or obsolescent and ceases to be supported by the maker.


ISA

ISA (countable and uncountable, plural ISAs)

instruction set architecture
w:instruction set architecture

(computing) Initialism of instruction set architecture.


ISA

Industry Standard Architecture
w:Industry Standard Architecture

(computing) Initialism of Industry Standard Architecture, an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.


unbuffered

(computing) That operates without a hardware or software buffer.


booru

Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard software product.

If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.

2021 February 28, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021

We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.

2019 February 28, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter

I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).

2018 December 30, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser

(Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.


vectorize

en-verb

vectorize (third-person singular simple present vectorizes, present participle vectorizing, simple past and past participle vectorized)

vectorizes (present singular third-person)
vectorizing (participle present)
vectorized (participle past)
vectorized (past)

Coordinate term: rasterize

The raster and vectorized images are displayed on a graphic monitor where the vector data is an active layer and the raster image is a background layer.

1997, Sergey Ablameyko, An Introduction to Interpretation of Graphic Images, SPIE Press, page 147

(computer graphics, transitive) To convert an image into a vector graphics format.

vektoroida

to convert an image into a vector graphics format

The principles on which the Cyber 200 FORTRAN compiler tries to detect which parts of a program can be vectorized are similar to those used in the Cray CFT compiler.

1987, Ronald H. Perrott, Parallel Programming, Addison Wesley, page 157

(computing, transitive) To convert a program that operates on scalar values into the equivalent program operating on vectors, usually as an optimization step inside the compiler (automatic vectorization).

vektoroida

to convert a program to operate on vectors


ASCIIbetical

(computing, informal, of a sorting) According to the order of the ASCII table, with uppercase and lowercase letters grouped separately.


digitalize

digitalize (third-person singular simple present digitalizes, present participle digitalizing, simple past and past participle digitalized)

digitalizes (present singular third-person)
digitalizing (participle present)
digitalized (participle past)
digitalized (past)

From digital + -ize (“to make”) or digitalis + -ize.

How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.

2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age […], McFarland, page 89

(computing, transitive) Synonym of digitize


memory stick

(computing) One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.

The first step to increasing your drive space is to add a new storage device. It can be a hard drive (IDE or SCSI), but also a USB or FireWire memory stick.

2003, Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery, Red Hat Linux Fedora For Dummies, page 343

You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.

2008, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, page 56

To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.

2009, Steve Seguis, Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies, unnumbered page

(computing) A portable solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device equipped with a USB (or similarly specified) plug for direct connection to a corresponding port; a USB drive, thumb drive or pen drive.

data stick

generic portable solid-state data storage device


ASMX

Active Server Method File, A file type used by Microsoft Windows servers.


infomediary

Blend of information + intermediary. Coined in 1997 by John Hagel in a Harvard Business Review article, "The Coming Battle for Customer Information".

(Internet) An Internet site that deals in information pertaining both to businesses offering goods and services and to potential customers.


Intertubes

Blend of Internet + tubes. Inspired by the famous "series of tubes" analogy used on June 28, 2006 by then United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet.

Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes.

2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95

(If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])

2008 January, Rik Myslewski, “Deep Tech - Multicore Management”, in Mac Life, volume 2, number 1, page 17

Go on out to the wilds of the Intertubes and have a look: there are approximately 8,234,58721 vegan food blogs […]

2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, PM Press, page 52

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


indef

While there's nothing wrong with imposing a topic ban on an indef editor who may one day be allowed back, it is a little unusual.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) Of a user, account, or IP address: blocked or banned from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


indef

An indef seems the only way to stem the flow of disruption from this user.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) The action of blocking or banning a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


indef

indef (third-person singular simple present indefs, present participle indeffing, simple past and past participle indeffed)

indefs (present singular third-person)
indeffing (participle present)
indeffed (participle past)
indeffed (past)

I indeffed the editor based on the legal threat.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) To block or ban a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


antipattern

From anti- + pattern, coined by Andrew Koenig in 1995.

If a Design Pattern gives you a general solution to a recurring problem in a particular context, then what does an anti-pattern give you? An Anti-Pattern tells you how to go from a problem to a BAD solution.

2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly, page 612

(software engineering) A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.

antisuunnittelumalli

a design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice


prog

en-noun

prog (countable and uncountable, plural progs)

[…] is there some way to connect to my new comp so I can transfer some of the software progs […]

2001, n.one, “transfer progs from comp to comp”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet)

"Yoda", How do I get progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?

I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.

2003, Leo Edwards, “Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups?”, in microsoft.public.win98.apps (Usenet)


tag cloud

(Internet) A visual depiction of a set of tags, typically used to describe the content of web sites and having the more significant tags shown in correspondingly larger text or a bolder font.


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:

(chiefly Internet, slang) Oh my goodness.

Alternative form of OMG:
Oh my goodness.


FAI

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

friendly artificial intelligence
w:friendly artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) Abbreviation of friendly artificial intelligence.


underclock

en-verb

underclock (third-person singular simple present underclocks, present participle underclocking, simple past and past participle underclocked)

underclocks (present singular third-person)
underclocking (participle present)
underclocked (participle past)
underclocked (past)

(computing, transitive) To modify (a CPU) by the use of underclocking.


underclocking

(computing) The deliberate reduction of the speed of a CPU, often to reduce power consumption.


unblind

unblind (third-person singular simple present unblinds, present participle unblinding, simple past and past participle unblinded)

unblinds (present singular third-person)
unblinding (participle present)
unblinded (participle past)
unblinded (past)

(cryptography, transitive) To convert (a blind signature) back to the unblinded state (as opposed to the blinded state).


viewable

en-adj

viewable (comparative more viewable, superlative most viewable)

more viewable (comparative)
most viewable (superlative)

(Internet, of a webpage or component) Able to be rendered correctly by a particular browser.


subchannel

(computing) A distinct part of an I/O channel associated with a specific device.


remaster

en-verb

remaster (third-person singular simple present remasters, present participle remastering, simple past and past participle remastered)

remasters (present singular third-person)
remastering (participle present)
remastered (participle past)
remastered (past)

(video games) To produce a new version of a video game with updated graphics, often re-recorded music, and added features and content.


Sherlock

Supposedly from an Old English scir-lock (“bright-lock”).
One of a group of surnames originally denoting hair colour, parallel to Blacklock, Harlock (Old English har (“grey”)), Silverlock.
In the computing verb sense, refers to the software Sherlock, which in 2002 came to replicate some of the features of an earlier complementary program called Watson.

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.


Sherlock

Sherlock (third-person singular simple present Sherlocks, present participle Sherlocking, simple past and past participle Sherlocked)

Sherlocks (present singular third-person)
Sherlocking (participle present)
Sherlocked (participle past)
Sherlocked (past)

The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked".

2012 July 13, “You've been sherlocked”, in The Economist

All three developers are in a position common enough that it even has a name in the community. They have been "sherlocked".

2013 October 28, Alex Hern, “Sherlocked: how Mavericks is making some apps obsolete”, in The Guardian

Last year, when Apple released iOS 7 it added a feature to the Photo app, allowing users to sort photos on the basis of location and date. Photoworks, a third-party app, too offered same functionality. In response, app developer Stephen Orth tweeted, "I guess my new app just got sherlocked."

2014 June 3, Javed Anwer, “WhatsApp CEO mocks Apple for copying features”, in The Times of India

(computing slang) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.


vector graphics

(computing) Geometrical primitives based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics, contrasted with raster graphics.

ве́ктарная гра́фіка

geometrical primitives based upon mathematical equations to represent images


disk image

(computing) A copy of all or part of a disk drive retained for backup or replication purposes.


image copy

(databases, IBM) A backup copy of a database in a format that may be used, along with incremental logs, to recreate the database after a hardware failure