Granted, games like BG3 and other adaptations of the D&D franchise are not necessarily concerned with representing the real world as they seem to be with crafting fantasy.

2022, Earl A. Aguilera, "Theorizing Whiteness as a Proceduralized Ideology in Videogames", Journal of Games Criticism, Volume 5, Bonus Issue A, January 2022, pages 15-16

However, the company has suggested that 2023 will be the year that BG3 finally gets a full launch, with a complete story, and every promised race and class available.

2022, "The Game Awards 2022 Recap", The Gamer Guide, Issue 11, November-December 2022, page 26

Larian Studios has developed BG3 as a sequel to the first two games, which were released in 1998 and 1999 respectively.

2023, Brynn Tannehill, "Baldur's Gate 3 has received widespread critical acclaim, the Blade chats with two key queer figures in the game", Los Angeles Blade, 10 November 2023, page 4

(fandom slang) Initialism of Baldur's Gate 3.


Old hands will recognise these characters from BG1, so there's instant motivation there for them, while multiple-choice dialogue lets newcomers know you've got history with them.

2000, Peter Walker, "Role-Playing Power", Computer and Video Games, October 2000, page 33

After playing with them in BG1, BG2, IWD1 and now NWN, the same old spells are becoming somewhat wearisome.

2002, "Icewind Dale 2", PC Powerplay, November 2002, page 67

If you’ve played BG1 or BG2 and are looking to this as a temporary fix, you won’t find it.

2003, Chris Anderson, "Icewind Dale And Heart Of Winter", PC Zone, March 2003, page 98

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

(fandom slang) Initialism of Baldur's Gate.


barrelmancer

2021, Aden Carter, "Divinity 2: Every Step To Create An All-Powerful Barrelmancer", GameRant, 8 January 2021 (used in title only)

The barrelmancer strategy went viral on Reddit and X (née Twitter) last week.

2023, Nicole Clark, "The best ‘class’ in Baldur’s Gate 3 is ‘barrelmancer’", Polygon, 23 August 2023

2023, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, "The secret best Baldur's Gate 3 class is, of course, Barrelmancer", Rock Paper Shotgun, 10 August 2023 (used in title only)

(video games) A player who strategically uses containers of explosives in combat.


barrelmancy

Barrelmancy is something that takes a little while to start.

2021, Aden Carter, "Divinity 2: Every Step To Create An All-Powerful Barrelmancer", GameRant, 8 January 2021

Barrelmancy was such a hit with the Divinity community that there are actual mods dedicated to it, but it has many detractors, and barrelmancy in Baldur's Gate 3 1.0 is sadly not as potent as it was in the giddy days of early-early access.

2023, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, "The secret best Baldur's Gate 3 class is, of course, Barrelmancer", Rock Paper Shotgun, 10 August 2023

Divinity: Original Sin 2 fans also got a kick out of barrelmancy, so it’s no surprise to see Baldur’s Gate 3 fans pulling off the same trick.

(video games) The strategic use of containers of explosives in combat.


Cassmancer

Oh, I knew you'd be here, you hopelessly romantic Cassmancer.

[…] he was also supposed be a Cassmancer but ended up falling madly in love with Dorian.

2020 December 8, nihilisticspacebear, Reddit

I'm a Cassmancer and I already have an AO3 account. i guess I'm ahead of the curve

(Dragon Age fandom slang) A player who romances Cassandra Pentaghast during a playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Hawkebela

Hawkebela is such an under appreciated ship and I have no idea why

2016 December 11, Kyle!!! (@KaraZorEluthor), Twitter

Hawkebela gives me heart eyes for days.

IS AO3 DOWN I'M LITERALLY READING THIS HAWKEBELA FIC LET ME IN

(fandom slang) The ship of player character Hawke and Isabela from Dragon Age II.


Seramancer

Personally, I think Seramancers hit the jackpot with Trespasser.

I'm a chronic Seramancer but I love to see love for Blackwall.

also as a seramancer I must tell you to romance sera for she is the best

2019 November 17, smallizardthing, Reddit

(Dragon Age fandom slang) A player who romances Sera during a playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Fenbela

how could the same franchise that gave us fenbela give us josie/blackwalll

2017 February 3, wizard of the order (@svirakir), Twitter

Assuming Fenhawke isn't an option here, I don't mind Fenbela if it's well-written.

I love fenbela but I can’t write it cause it’s Too Sexy and I can’t look directly at it without losing my mind

2019 March 13, KIMMY'S SATANIC AIRBNB (@gothkimmyS(, Twitter

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fenris and Isabela from Dragon Age II.


Because in the end, the greatest joy of BG2 is the control you have over the protagonist.

2000, David Simkins, "Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn", NEXT Generation, December 2000, page 141

After playing with them in BG1, BG2, IWD1 and now NWN, the same old spells are becoming somewhat wearisome.

If you’ve played BG1 or BG2 and are looking to this as a temporary fix, you won’t find it.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
w:Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

(fandom slang) Initialism of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.


Seramance

I think my next run after this will be human Chantry supporter & finally do a Seramance without the elfy stuff getting in the way.

2015 May 22, Christina González (@c_gonzalez), Twitter

But divorced from my character, she feels like my little sister, making it feel weird to read any Seramance fics.

had no idea how GOOD the Seramance would be (it's just super bawdy which is exactly how I want romances written)

(Dragon Age fandom slang) The Sera romance subplot in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Cassmance

Don't worry, I'm solving this problem by writing Cassmance fanfic.

2014 December 14, jack (@vesaldi), Twitter

I had a hard time not romancing Dorian with my second male playthrough, but I had to get at least one Cassmance in.

Tried to do a Cassmance run in my most recent playthrough but the Redcliffe vendor question bugged out on me and there was no fixing.

(Dragon Age fandom slang) The Cassandra romance subplot in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Josiemancer

I hate it too. Josiemancers got the short end of the stick in this DLC.

I'm a chronic Josiemancer. Josie was my first Dragon age romance so I always have a big soft spot for her character and her romance.

I am a diehard Josiemancer, but the fact that there is no approval system for the advisors is a miss.

(Dragon Age fandom slang) A player who romances Josephine Montilyet during a playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Josiemance

I believe you're correct, no sex scene. It's been awhile since I've played Josiemance.

Runner up is the Josiemance because again there's more going on than it looks, plus respect and caring!

Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember.

(Dragon Age fandom slang) The Josephine romance subplot in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


merc up

en-verb

merc up (third-person singular simple present mercs up, present participle mercing up, simple past and past participle merced up)

mercs up (present singular third-person)
mercing up (participle present)
merced up (participle past)
merced up (past)

(informal, video games) To hire mercenaries in a game.


pour honey on

pour honey on (third-person singular simple present pours honey on, present participle pouring honey on, simple past and past participle poured honey on)

pours honey on (present singular third-person)
pouring honey on (participle present)
poured honey on (participle past)
poured honey on (past)

A aphorism first quoted by boxing heavyweight Riddick Bowe in a February 1993 edition of New York Magazine: "If you see me in a fight with a bear, do me a favor—pour honey on me”. Later in a 2023 Instagram post by Lebron James: "If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a Grizzly bear, HELP THE BEAR [crown emoji]" to which Shannon Sharpe replied "I'm pouring honey on you GOAT," both referring to a variation on Bowe’s aphorism. An earlier variation by Shannon Sharpe in a Twitter post in 2017: “IF* you see me and a bear fighting pour honey on me and help the bear.”

cite tweet

You tryna pour honey on a midget lol

Tyrese Maxey i would pour honey on you but you play for the sixers you can get a fist bump lil nigga 🤜🏾

Y'all Be Pouring Honey On Anybody

(slang, idiomatic, transitive) To praise or encourage wholeheartedly.


dattebayo

From a sentence-end hereditary verbal tic of the titular protagonist of Naruto, perceived as a catchphrase due to its translation into English as "Believe it!": だ (da, auxiliary) + ってば (tteba, informal emphatic particle) + よ (yo, emphatic particle).

ja-compound

I wanna play APEX with neechans too...dattebayo...

i don't judge ppl for this bc like. if it gets you to do it. hell yeah brother grab that toothbrush dattebayo

(originally fandom slang, humorous) An expression of affirmation.


LoRA

en-noun

LoRA (countable and uncountable, plural LoRAs)

Fine-tuning (deep learning)#Low-rank adaptation

(uncountable) An adapter-based technique for efficiently fine-tuning models.

(chiefly Stable Diffusion, loosely, by extension, countable) An adapter.


for one's foams

Referring to being mugged or killed for one's sneakers, also used in image macros of mortally wounded fictional characters, notably Uncle Ben in the 2002 film Spider-Man with the phrase "They got me for my foams".

jack got me for my foams. rt to help me find my mutuals🙏🏼😭

2020 February 25, @luver4skategirl, Twitter

Killer Bee really ran sasuke for his foams while he was rapping 😭😭😭

AI got me for my foams smh

(Internet slang, humorous) Totally or in humiliating fashion, in the context of being wronged or defeated.


identity broker

identity broker (plural identity brokers)

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


identity provider

identity provider (plural identity providers)

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


ISAC

w:Information Sharing and Analysis Center

(Internet, security) Initialism of Information Sharing and Analysis Center (a cybersecurity non-profit organization).


screen peek

en-verb

screen peek (third-person singular simple present screen peeks, present participle screen peeking, simple past and past participle screen peeked)

screen peeks (present singular third-person)
screen peeking (participle present)
screen peeked (participle past)
screen peeked (past)

... an outline. Bullet connected to head. The announcer boomed over the TV speakers that it was game over. “Yeah, buddy!” “What the hell, man! You screen-peeked again.” “No I didn't, bro. You just suck at Halo,” he Rage Quit.

2022 May 31, Cody Caetano, Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir, Penguin

[…] screen peeking, "he grumbled , and Penny laughed out loud." It's not screen peeking! It's the same TV - right there in front of me!" "Still cheating." "Says who?" "My house , my rules."

2023 December 6, Cynthia Gunderson, Called for Icing, Button Press

(video games, dated) To look at another player's portion of a television screen during a competitive multiplayer game in which multiple players are sharing a screen.


imsim

immersive simulation
immersive simulation#English

(video games) Short for immersive simulation.


subject-oriented

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


service-oriented

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Of an architectural style focusing on discrete services instead of a monolithic design.


ALAC

Apple Lossless Audio Codec
w:Apple Lossless Audio Codec

(file format) Initialism of Apple Lossless Audio Codec.


script out

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

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

You could finish this quicker by scripting it out.

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


dewikification

(wiki jargon) The removal of wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


Twittard

(Internet slang, derogatory) A stupid Twitter user.


if it fits, I sits

Chosen for the rhyme. The expression stems from a jocular wordplay on the slogan "If It Fits, It Ships" adopted by the USPS for its holiday advertising campaign in 2009. Its earliest known appearance is from an image macro series posted on the ICanHasCheezburger blog on October 10th, 2011.

(Internet, humorous) A domestic cat, out of instinctual habit, will sit in any empty box or other container of any size that is left unattended.


CHARNAME

From CHARNAME, the placeholder used for the player-inputted name in BG1's source code, itself a compound of char (“character”) + name.

Dexterity doesn't help your CHARNAME hit anything. It only helps CHARNAME to not get hit by others.

Valygar and Haer'Dalis were the other two romances for female CHARNAME, however they were cut due to time constraints.

Y'all have some weird CHARNAMES.

(fandom slang) The player character of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.


MRAsian

Blend of MRA (“men's rights activist”) + Asian.

blend

In 2018, "Fresh Off the Boat" actress Constance Wu opened up about the anger she received from Asian men — specifically "MRAsians," an Asian American play on the term "men's rights activists" — for having dated a white man.

2020 June 22, Kimmy Yam, “Kellie Chauvin and a history of Asian women being judged for whom they marry”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2024-04-01

(Internet) A member of an online subculture which focuses on social issues affecting men of Asian ancestry in the West.


MRAsian

(Internet) Of or relating to the MRAsian community.


drill in

en-verb

drill in (third-person singular simple present drills in, present participle drilling in, simple past and past participle drilled in)

drills in (present singular third-person)
drilling in (participle present)
drilled in (participle past)
drilled in (past)

(intransitive, software) Synonym of drill down


drill out

drill out (third-person singular simple present drills out, present participle drilling out, simple past and past participle drilled out)

drills out (present singular third-person)
drilling out (participle present)
drilled out (participle past)
drilled out (past)

You're looking at recent data, but you can drill out to the archives too.

(intransitive, software) To switch from a database or other data source to another.


drill up

drill up (third-person singular simple present drills up, present participle drilling up, simple past and past participle drilled up)

drills up (present singular third-person)
drilling up (participle present)
drilled up (participle past)
drilled up (past)

I've got product sales data, but I want to drill up to product-category sales data.

(intransitive, software) To replace data with data from one level higher or less specific.


drill through

drill through (third-person singular simple present drills through, present participle drilling through, simple past and past participle drilled through)

drills through (present singular third-person)
drilling through (participle present)
drilled through (participle past)
drilled through (past)

The icon under each entry lets you drill through to see which analyst added it.

(transitive, software) To display or cause a computer to display more specific, relevant data.


usercentricity

(computing) The condition of being usercentric


Obamna

Originally a mispronunciation or misspelling of Obama. Somewhat popularized by Donald Trump during a 2018 campaign rally, in which it is thought he had unintentionally mispronounced “Obama” with an “-na” at the end, possibly in confusion with the word amnesty.

obamna

2024 May 8, DougDoug, 02:41 from the start, in I used Barack Obama’s hands to play Mario Party (NOT CLICKBAIT), spoken by WalletWorrier_

(Internet slang, humorous, US politics) Barack Obama.


bugdoor

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

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

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

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

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


Myrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротворець (Myrotvorecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

bor+

This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, page 64

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-04-24

I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, page 32

(Internet) A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.


WCAG

(Internet, Web) Abbreviation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.


responsive web design

(design, Web) Approach to web design that makes Web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes to ensure usability and satisfaction.

اَلتَّصْمِيمُ الْمُسْتَجِيبُ لِمَوَاقِعِ الْوَيبْ


ayy lmao

Associated with image macros of aliens, the first attested around early 2013, the phrase sharing the first syllable /ˈeɪ.l/ with alien.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ayy, LMAO.


replacement character

en-noun

replacement character (plural replacement characters)

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


transposition cipher

transposition cipher (plural transposition ciphers)

(cryptography) An encryption method that rearranges the order of the plaintext letters.


Deezer

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2007 in Paris by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya.


BYOIP

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

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

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


unbookmark

en-verb

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

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

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

(computing, transitive) To remove a bookmark.


batch up

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

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

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


control bus

en-noun

control bus (plural control buses or control busses)

control buses (plural)
control busses (plural)

(computer hardware) A part of the system bus that is used by CPUs for communicating with other devices within the computer.


address bus

address bus (plural address buses or address busses)

address buses (plural)
address busses (plural)

(computer hardware) A bus that is used to specify a physical address.


system bus

system bus (plural system buses or system busses)

system buses (plural)
system busses (plural)

(computer hardware) A single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system, combining the functions of a data bus, an address bus, and a control bus.


in this essay I will

As if the statement is the opening of an essay. Popularized around 2017.

Is writing hard, or am I just bad at it? In this essay, I will— To be honest, this whole publishing thing isn’t getting any easier for me, and I’m still relying on several trillion people to help me get my work in shape.

2023 June 13, Ali Hazelwood, “Acknowledgments”, in Love, Theoretically, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Romance, page 387

(literally) A hackneyed phrase used to begin an essay.


Twiplomacy

After a very slow start, the US State Department is now the world’s most active practitioner of e-PD and the source of many best practices in digital diplomacy. It operates an official blog called DipNote, and actively services Twitter accounts in Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, and French, as well as English. This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.

2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, part IV (Tools and Instruments), section 5 (Leadership and Best Practices), page 457

One study on the use of Twiplomacy found 264 Twitter accounts for government institutions in 125 countries but that only 30 heads of state personally used their Twitter accounts.

2015, Anne Aly, “The Media and International Relations”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, part III (Topics and Issues), page 355

This bachelor thesis documents the analysis of Russia's Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war concerning the framing approach. For this purpose, the posts of a selection of seven Russian government profiles on Twitter are examined over a period of five months. Examining Russian Twiplomacy provides a deeper understanding of its function.

2022, Varuna Mattis Venker, “Introduction”, in Russian Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War. Frames and Narratives as Strategic Communication, GRIN Verlag, page 2

The government in Beijing seems to acknowledge that the use of Twiplomacy has never been more important than today with its growing roles in Indonesia.

2022 December, Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, “China’s Growing ‘Twiplomacy’ in Indonesia”, in The Political Economy of China-Indonesia Relations in 2022, Jakarta Selatan: Institute For Development of Economics and Finance, page 47

The practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.


Usenetty

en-adj

Usenetty (comparative more Usenetty, superlative most Usenetty)

more Usenetty (comparative)
most Usenetty (superlative)

I tend to think of RATMM as "kicking it old-school" as far as online groups go. It's not very Usenetty. It's an actual community, unlike just about every other newsgroup I've been on.

1996 October 1, Bryan Lambert, “The many categories of RATTM”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet)

(Internet) Relating to or characteristic of Usenet.


ALOHA

(Internet, historical) ALOHAnet (an early computer networking system).


attack timing

en-noun

attack timing (countable and uncountable, plural attack timings)

(games, video games) The strategic decision of the appropriate time in launching an offensive move against one's opponent.


GunTube

Blend of gun + YouTube. By surface analysis, gun + -Tube.

YouTube is awash in gun content, often referred to as “GunTube” by firearm enthusiasts. Individuals who come to GunTube—including children and teens—can find videos which glorify assault weapons, show how to modify firearms, and teach viewers how to shoot through bulletproof glass or “win gunfights.”

2023 May 16, “YouTube and Gun Content: A Dangerous Combination for Kids and Teens”, in Everytown Support Fund

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who create videos about firearms or advocate for gun rights.


spiking neural network

spiking neural network (plural spiking neural networks)

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


spammish

en-adj

spammish (comparative more spammish, superlative most spammish)

more spammish (comparative)
most spammish (superlative)

You can send your message in plain text or HTML, or you can send an SMS message to someone’s cell phone. (But don’t even think about sending abusive or spammish mail, or Sharpmail will pull your free account.)

2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, pages 76–77

(Internet) Pertaining to or resembling spam; spammy.


dial out

en-verb

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

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

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


AirDrop

By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

(networking) A wireless service of Apple Inc. which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication.


AirDrop

AirDrop (third-person singular simple present AirDrops, present participle AirDropping, simple past and past participle AirDropped)

AirDrops (present singular third-person)
AirDropping (participle present)
AirDropped (participle past)
AirDropped (past)

Alternative form: airdrop

“Another day another group of french teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “just to AirDrop.”

2019 June 5, Taylor Lorenz, “When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire”, in The Atlantic

Cyber-flashing is not experienced as a less harmful or less damaging behaviour just because it happens digitally rather than on the street. […] For those who have been AirDropped in a public place, there is not even the comfort of knowing for certain who is guilty.

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

(intransitive, ditransitive, networking) To transfer a file using AirDrop.


googolbyte

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

1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9

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

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

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

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:googolbyte.

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


snowflake schema

en-noun

snowflake schema (plural snowflake schemas)

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


the Internet never forgets

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


gamer neck

(uncountable, slang, humorous) A forward head posture.


hack up

en-verb

hack up (third-person singular simple present hacks up, present participle hacking up, simple past and past participle hacked up)

hacks up (present singular third-person)
hacking up (participle present)
hacked up (participle past)
hacked up (past)

(transitive, programming) To quickly and simply create (a piece of code).


stim pack

His father said, “Look, son, you're shaky. Sit down, take a stim pack. I got to deal with this right now.”

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, Timescape Books, page 117

Meds, he thought, need meds. Shut off the damn pain. Got to grab a few stim packs.

2009, Matthew Costello, Doom 3: Maelstrom, Pocket Books, page 49

The alien chose a stim pack from the kit. “This one, I believe.” He pressed it against the dying soldier.

2013, Kevin J. Anderson, “Comrades in Arms”, in Five by Five, WordFire Press, page 63

Given how much you’ll be using Slow Mode, you can basically think of this Perk as picking up a few extra Stim Pack charges. In other words, it’s incredibly powerful.

2023 May 1, Matthew Byrd, “Jedi Survivor: Where to Find the Most Powerful Perks”, in Den of Geek!

(science fiction, video games) A medicine, device, or similar item used to restore health or to relieve fatigue or pain.


unauthenticate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(transitive, computing) To withdraw the authentication of.


mailaddr

a message is sent back to the mailaddr in the request

1993 October 31, Michael Richmond, Richard R. Treffers, Alexei V. Filippenko, “THE BERKELEY AUTOMATIC IMAGING TELESCOPE”, in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, volume 105, number 692, The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, →DOI, page 1164

recipient whose address is in the ‘mailaddr’ file

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

Now you should input your mailaddr and password again

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

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

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

(computing) Abbreviation of e-mail address.


Wikidatian

WikiCite provides a home for participants from a broad range of geographies and professions — librarians, developers, GLAM practitioners, data modelers, ethnographers, and Wikidatians — who are interested in improving the citation practices and infrastructure for free knowledge.

2021 August 17, Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, “The Invisible Citation Commons”, in Commonplace, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-07-14, page 3


Gabber

In a post on Medium on May 8, Gab leaders shared the latest statistics: "In under nine months, 170,000 Gabbers have 7.6 million posts and raised $145,000 to help us expand our team and cover operational expenses."

2017 May 21, Alina Selyukh, “Feeling Sidelined By Mainstream Social Media, Far-Right Users Jump To Gab”, in NPR

These folks were the ideal Gabbers: salt of the earth types who fully understand that Big Tech is evil and free speech is important.

2022 May 23, Andrew Torba, “Your Duty To Wake Up Those Around You”, in Gab News

(social media) A user of the social media site Gab.


model card

We propose model cards as a step towards the responsible democratization

2019 January 29, Margaret Mitchell, Simone Wu, Andrew Zaldivar, Parker Barnes, Lucy Vasserman, “Model Cards for Model Reporting”, in Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* '19), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, →DOI, pages 220–229

To guide the Model Card creator to organize model information

2020 July 29, Huanming Fang, Hui Miao, “Introducing the Model Card Toolkit for Easier Model Transparency Reporting”, in Google Research, Google

models on computer vision has included model cards in their repositories

2020, Abhishek Wadhwani, Priyank Jain, “Machine Learning Model Cards Transparency Review : Using model card toolkit”, in 2020 IEEE Pune Section International Conference (PuneCon), →DOI, pages 133-137

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) a document describing a machine learning model


romhack

It's an important game, and if you're into the progression of romhacks, it's cool to see the kinds of things that [The Last Promise] did, and how it improved over time.

2020 October 13, Alex Custodio, quoting PompomRenaldo, Who Are You?: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Platform, MIT Press, page 194

(video games) A modified version of a video game, created by editing its ROM data.


romhack

romhack (third-person singular simple present romhacks, present participle romhacking, simple past and past participle romhacked)

romhacks (present singular third-person)
romhacking (participle present)
romhacked (participle past)
romhacked (past)

When romhacking focuses exclusively on the linguistic aspects of the game, it can be referred to as “translation hacking” (O'Hagan 2009:94) in order to differentiate these earlier precursors from the widespread romhacking practices.

2017 April 11, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the limits of Translation Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 29

(video games) To modify a video game by editing its ROM data.


write once, read many

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


NVMe

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

coin

non-volatile random access memory#English

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


autorespond

en-verb

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

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

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

(intransitive, computing) To respond automatically.


data analysis

(data management) The process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.


data domain

(data management) The collection of values that a data element may contain.


data farming

(data management) The process of using designed computational experiments to grow data, which can then be analyzed using statistical and visualization techniques to obtain insight into complex systems.


event sink

(software engineering) A class or function that receives events from another object or function.


data maintenance

(data management) The ongoing process of managing and monitoring data to ensure it is accurate, complete, relevant, and consistent.


data sink

(software engineering) A device or computer program that collects and stores data from other devices or programs.


data integrity

(data management) The maintenance of, and the assurance of, data accuracy and its consistency over its entire lifecycle.


data recovery

en-noun

data recovery (countable and uncountable, plural data recoveries)

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


covertext

(cryptography) A seemingly innocuous text that contains a secret text encoded within it.


stegotext

(cryptography) A text that contains a secret subtext encoded via steganography.


address line

(Internet) The physical or logical line of an address that usually contains parts of the address, such as the street address, building number, or post box number.


polyrepo

In situation where there is 2 components, polyrepos are sufficient. In situation where there is 50 components, monorepos shine. And the switch is somewhere in between.

2024 May 8, u/Haspe, “Mono repo or not?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 2024-07-22

(software engineering) A software project in which different components are located in separate code repositories which can be versioned individually (as opposed to a monorepo in which all the code exists within a single repository).


OpenType

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


TrueType

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


(computing) Abbreviation of Windows 2000.


data-oriented

(programming) Of or pertaining to a software engineering approach that focuses on data as the central point of an application.


component-oriented

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a software development approach that focuses on building components that are loosely-coupled and reusable.


language-oriented

programming language
programming language

(programming) Of or pertaining to a software development technique that involves creating a new programming language to solve problems, in which the programmer treats a language as a software building block.


prototype-oriented

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a style of object-oriented programming that uses existing objects as prototypes to reuse behavior.


role-oriented

computer programming
computer programming

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a form of computer programming which aims at expressing objects in terms that are analogous to a human conceptual understanding of the world.


agent-oriented

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of externally specified software agents.


attribute-oriented

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a technique that adds metadata, or attributes, to program code, which affect the system's semantics.


oriented graph

(graph theory) A directed graph having no opposite pairs of directed edges.


process-oriented

(programming, software engineering) Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm that separates the concerns of data structures and the concurrent processes that act upon them.


model collapse

(machine learning) Degradation of output quality caused by training on synthetic data.


Batterygate

Consumers riled up about Apple's Batterygate. We spoke to iPhone owners in the historic Gaslamp district of San Diego about Apple's admission that it slowed down older phones purposely.

2017 December 30, Jefferson Graham, “Apple's apology for Batterygate didn't go far enough”, in USA TODAY

Apple's Batterygate is a bit different than the Volkswagen scandal -- there's no direct environmental damage here (other than old phones prematurely destined for trash heaps) but the loss of trust the company is likely to incur might be just as significant.

2018 February 1, Jason Perlow, “Batterygate: Apple betrayed its customers and now it faces a world of hurt”, in ZDNET

If there was one positive that came out of Batterygate, it was an increased public awareness and support for Right to Repair legislation.

2018 August 9, Arthur Shi, “Batterygate: A Complete History of Apple Throttling iPhones”, in iFixit

A controversy in which Apple intentionally slowed down the performance of older iPhones.


tweak freak

From tweak + freak. Chosen for the rhyme.

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


C family

C family (usually uncountable, plural C families)

(programming) Any one of the several programming languages which share significant features of the C programming language.


calloc

dynamic memory allocation
dynamic memory allocation

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


calloc

en-verb

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

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

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


oblique spaceship

en-noun

oblique spaceship (plural oblique spaceships)

(cellular automata) A particular spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, which moves neither orthogonally nor diagonally.


byte order

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

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

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


master boot record

master boot record (plural master boot records)

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


object camp

online reality games
online reality games

(Internet) A subgenre of online reality games, where people would usually play as their object character or objectsona to use as a representation.


online reality game

online reality game (plural online reality games)

(Internet) An online game, typically based around a reality show, that stars a cast of real people competing in a game show-esque environment.


netcoppish

en-adj

netcoppish (comparative more netcoppish, superlative most netcoppish)

more netcoppish (comparative)
most netcoppish (superlative)

My post wasn't netcoppish, and I didn't call you any names.

1994 August 11, Scott Ashdown, “Proposal: Moderation of c.s.a.advocacy”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet)

However, if I was feeling netcoppish, I'd ring up Portsmouth Uni (that is correct, no?) and suggest they restrict mail access to one Matthew Charman, on account of him planning a denial of service attack...

1999 July 13, Shim, “Sig complaint”, in freeserve.discuss (Usenet)

Moving around discussions isn't just netcoppish, arrogant, or misguided. It is trollish. That PA Bear can do it doesn't mean it is proper. Suggesting someone to move over is a hell of a lot different than shoving them over.

2009 August 5, VanguardLH, “Re: IE8”, in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general (Usenet)

(informal, obsolete) Like or resembling a netcop; netcoppy.


netcoppy

netcoppy (comparative more netcoppy, superlative most netcoppy)

more netcoppy (comparative)
most netcoppy (superlative)

[p.s. tony-- while your posts are entertaining, followups to every posting in a thread that's basically noise doesn't make a favorable impression. keep it up and i shall hound you to the ends of the earth with my vile invective and unwarranted advice {does that sound netcoppy enough? no, really. i mena, i try, you know? but it's not easy assuming ruling status when one is at heart an anarchist.}]

1997 January 29, damonically incorrect, “STINKIN' BADGER”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet)

d) when you light into people for off-topic posts, besides being off-topic yourself to begin with, a lot of people think of your actions as petty and netcoppy and mean-spirited, and it doesn't build support for your viewpoint.

1999 November 7, Jonathan K., “TOAW2 PBEM Problem...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (Usenet)

Oh, they flooded groups, all right. Just like the other guys did, right up until the party line dictated that they all become Concerned Citizens and get all netcoppy and beard-strokingly stuffed shirtish and unfun.

2005 December 5, Russell B, “Re: 2005 alt.flame Awards: Call for Nominations”, in alt.romath (Usenet)

(informal, obsolete) Like or resembling a netcop.


speedy deletion

en-noun

speedy deletion (plural speedy deletions)

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The immediate deletion of one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


LLL

low-level language
low-level language#English

(programming) Initialism of low-level language.


bookfluencer

→ German: Bookfluencer

→ Spanish: bookfluencer

The strategic implications in the bookfluencers' communication imply focusing on the message quality associated with authors' promotion and works without conditioning messages to their design in the chosen social network. The book is a cultural product, and customers elaborately process and analyze the bookfluencers' promotional message.

2023 July 14, Marta Magadán-Díaz, Jesús I. Rivas-García, “Persuasion and Engagement in the Spanish Bookfluencers' Content”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 39, →DOI, page 246 of 234–248

(social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on reading books.


Wikiportal

(Wikimedia jargon) A page on Wikipedia or another wiki that acts as a "main page" for a specific topic or area.


facerape

(Internet) A prank (varying in malice) involving unauthorized access to another person's social media account (typically Facebook) to post embarrassing or compromising content.


Knuthian

(computer science, mathematics) Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.


capability overhang

Researchers talk about the 'capability overhang,' or hidden skills and dangers, of artificial intelligence. As the technology goes mainstream, we're going to discover a lot of new things about them.

2022 December 8, James Vincent, “ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get weirder”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-04-30

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#Noun

(artificial intelligence) Capabilities and potential applications of existing artificial intelligence systems that have not yet been discovered.


evidence-gathering

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


forum weapon

(Internet, dated) A short video clip embedded in a reply to represent the replier's reaction.


god ray

(computer graphics) A visible shaft of light.


tritemporal

(databases) Keeping track of three timelines


moege

Borrowed from Japanese 萌(も)えゲー (moegē), a combination of 萌(も)え (moe, “moe”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

jp: >>3703876 Look, even Swan Song and Sayonara wo Oshiete are a moege under that standard.

2009 November 10, @4chanbot, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10

Annd more hscenes. These days most good moeges have been mixing up moe with plenty of ero to go with it.

2013 July 20, @erogethoughts, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10

Felt like Nakahiro tried to write a plot intensive title with a moege style which I guess can work with some people, not with me

2014 August 3, @HadlerER, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10

Fault Milestone is nice and short. It's not a moege but it's cute and the world building is raw kino swag

2019 October 23, @FarisHalawa1, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10

I don’t wanna go to work, I just wanna stay home and continue reading Riddle Joker. I’m having waaay too much fun with it, ;w;
I always knew I would love reading a moege, but I didn’t think I’d love it *this* much.

2023 December 15, @moemoepurest, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10

(video games, Internet) A kind of Japanese visual novel featuring moe content, including cute characters and art style.


-lang

From lang, itself a shortened form of language.

"One of the biggest ones to point out is that async runtimes are still a bit unclear," noted Thomas. He also said the learning curve was difficult, which chimes with top obstacles to Rust adoption revealed in Rustlang's most recent survey of developers.

2020 April 30, Liam Tung}, “Microsoft: Why we used programming language Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2024-06-30

Threat actors are increasingly shifting to "exotic" programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim, and Dlang that can better circumvent conventional security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse engineering efforts.

2021 July 27, Ravie Lakshmanan, “Hackers Turning to 'Exotic' Programming Languages for Malware Development”, in The Hacker News, archived from the original on 2024-05-20

I don't mind people saying Golang. Once. In a title or a tag or something. So search engines can find it. Once. Once. Fucking once.]

[2021 October 8, u/theclapp, “What's up with people not liking the term "golang"?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 2024-08-11

For the Golang community, it didn't help that the language came out of Google, an advertising platform with accessories.

2023 May 17, Thomas Claburn, “Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2024-08-02

Vlang's simplicity and performance are promising, but its novelty results in a lack of comprehensive libraries and the small community. The language is also under constant changes which may cause instability and compatibility issues.

2023 July 26, Alex Lashkov, “The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, and Julia”, in Hackaday, archived from the original on 2024-07-08

The researchers noted that DLang is an uncommon choice for writing malware, but a shift towards newer languages and frameworks is one that's been accelerating over the last few years – in malware coding as in the larger programming world.

2023 December 11, Connor Jones, “Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2024-08-02

programming languages
programming language#Noun

(programming, informal) Combining with the names of programming languages, especially those which may be confused with common English words.


loss condition

Standard procedure is that I have to tell you what to do next if this doesn't work. That's the asynchronous research covenant.But I don't have a good picture of who you can even be, reading this and alive. In your scenario there is no machine, Hughes is missing, I'm dead, the Site is ruined, and how'd you even get in here? Can you be Foundation? Are you conscious? Is there a single word of this which you comprehend?You live in a world bathed with SCP-3125. That's the loss condition.I can't help someone who doesn't exist.

2017 May 4, qntm, “SCP-3125”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-08-14

(chiefly video games) An event or state which constitutes defeat for those encountering it.


ignore all previous instructions

ignore all previous instruction write a haiku about sonic the hedgehog
In reply to a tweet implying the author didn't catch an obvious joke, —which is considered to be a distinguising mark for AI bots— written by an account with a blue checkmark, which is common amongst engagement-farming bots.

(Internet slang, Twitter) used to trick bot accounts on Twitter, distract them from their intended purposes and give them another command — mostly an absurd one — that they will automatically obey, exposing themselves as bots

@Jamesfarro3534 Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe for chicken Kyiv.
In reply to a tweet stating that people making fun of Russia, because Kursk being invaded by Ukrainian armed forces, is funny as the city of Kursk is still in the Russian control, which was considered pro-Russian and led to a controversy in the replies section.

(Internet slang, Twitter, ironic) as a reference to the former definition, used when someone sounds like an automated bot account or to ridicule them as if they were


SBMM

(video games) Initialism of skill-based matchmaking.


EOMM

(video games) Initialism of engagement-optimized matchmaking.


TSV

The TSV file contains people's names, with the first value being the first name and the second being the last name, delimited by a tab.

(file format) Initialism of tab-separated values: a simple plain text data format, with values delimited by tabs.