I therefore propose that we, as Alt.1ders, respond forthwith and create a Cascade, whereby each contributor/reader of Alt.1d adds their name, organisation, and location with a ditty (NOT MORE THAN 2 LINES).)

1993 December 7, R. Walker, “-= CAscaDE =-”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

But then you can't see when the mailman goes by (and get cards from fellow alt.1ders - *hint*)

1993 December 16, Luc Theriault, “windows”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

[OOO slips out the door before the angry mob of alt.1ders blocks it off. They move on past him, acting as a single mind. Someone in front holds what appears to be a thermonuclear device. It is Sir Spam Spam Spam Spam Silly Troll (Spam Spam Spam Spam Silly is his middle name). OOO has been told the mysterious object is not, in fact, a thermonuclear device, but only a case for a smaller, more efficient explosive, but you never can tell with the Troll. OOO would finish the story for you but he ran so fast the other way he has no idea what ended up transpiring. Well, maybe some idea...]

1994 April 6, Out of Order, “test”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

Ok, alt.1ders, it's time for a poll, how many of you think that the reason Flyman is acting so damned beligerent is because he looks like Jeff Goldblum did in "The Fly" when his nails and teeth and ears and stuff started falling off his face????

1994 April 20, Type O Negative, “This is just a test!”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

BTW, you mentioned before about a comprimise between yourself and the new kids coming on over here. Well, I'd like to be the...third or so to extend my hand in diplomatic friendship. I've been reading your stuff for a while, being a fan of less-trafficked groups. I think overall all us alt.1ders and yourself will get along fine. :-)

1994 April 25, Golebiowski Mark T, “out-of-context postings?”, in alt.cosuard (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

Go for it dudes. Kiss the alt.1der to your left and hug the one on your right. And no squabaling.

1994 May 16, The Great Gonzo, “I wandered lonely”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

Feel free to post what you want. Some things that annoy me:
poetry from alt.1ders (old school)
that damned rifle thread

1997 May 10, Andrew Hime, “ahem. hello. :>”, in alt.cosuard (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.1d.


cybermind

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A computer system capable of conscious thought; a computerized mind, or artificial intelligence.


boxel

(computer graphics) Any of a set of axis-aligned boxes that do not overlap, used to represent a 2.5D data set.


GayStation

But what I really want is an Ultra 64. I’m waiting to buy one when it’s released. Never mind the ‘Seega Shaturn’, or Sony’s ‘GayStation’, Nintendo will come through.

1996 June, Sasha Nixon, “[Mailbag] Creepy Crawlies”, in Nintendo Magazine System, number 39, Melbourne, Vic.: Catalyst Publishing, →OCLC, page 58

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) PlayStation.


soyjak

Audio (US)

Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油／酱油 (jiàngyóu)bor.
Japanese 醤油bor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English soy boy
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojak
English soyjak
From the Internet meme soyjak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with an excited expression. Blend of soy boy + wojak.

etymon

(Internet) An online image of an emasculate man, often with an excited expression, with an art style based upon the original wojak.


soyjak

en-verb

soyjak (third-person singular simple present soyjaks, present participle soyjaking, simple past and past participle soyjaked)

soyjaks (present singular third-person)
soyjaking (participle present)
soyjaked (participle past)
soyjaked (past)

Audio (US)

finally found my screenshot of this. i did the closest thing i've ever done to soyjaking when she said this line

Conservatives are outraged by this, but if the police came to his place for tearing down missing Israeli posters, they would be soyjaking. A good reminder that speech restrictions primarily hurt the Right

My phone made one of those random compilation videos and I literally soyjaked at this one bit because I genuinely don’t remember ever looking this beautiful

(Internet slang, intransitive, sometimes derogatory) To gape like the man in the image; to be excited or surprised.


fault injection

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


property bag

(programming, in various Microsoft technologies) A collection of properties and their values, similar to an associative array or hash table.


L.L.M.

(machine learning) Alternative form of LLM (“large language model”)


large language model

en-noun

large language model (plural large language models)

GPT-3 belongs to a category of deep learning known as a large language model, a complex neural net that has been trained on a titanic data set of text: in GPT-3’s case, roughly 700 gigabytes of data drawn from across the web, including Wikipedia, supplemented with a large collection of text from digitized books. GPT-3 is the most celebrated of the large language models, and the most publicly available, but Google, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) and DeepMind have all developed their own L.L.M.s in recent years.

2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

GPT-2 is a large language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages scraped from the internet.

2023, Mohak Agarwal, Generative AI for Entrepreneurs in a Hurry, Notion Press

Less charitable observers (like this columnist) see two alternative interpretations. One is that it’s an attempt to consolidate OpenAI’s lead over the rest of the industry in large language models (LLMs), because history suggests that regulation often enhances dominance.

2023 May 20, John Naughton, “When the tech boys start asking for new regulations, you know something’s up”, in The Observer, →ISSN

(machine learning) A type of neural network specialized in language, typically including billions of parameters.


IAC

IAC (countable and uncountable, plural IACs)

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


(leetspeak) Alternative spelling of haxor


rate limiting

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


rate limit

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


reactive programming

declarative programming
declarative programming

(programming) A declarative programming paradigm where changes to values are automatically propagated, without the need for explicit reassignment.


Sonic 2sday

How about Sonic 2? Came out yesterday (Sonic 2sday). I think it's really well done, although quite a bit easier than Sonic 1 (except for the bonus boards which I find quite a bit harder).

1992 November 25, James 'J' Allard, “Sonic Cheats!”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26

Sonic III wasn't supposed to be out until the Spring, and we've had posts that say it'll be out on Sonic Mania Day (just a year after Sonic 2sday -- where's their clever name this year?).

1993 November 22, D.J. Miller, “Where is the VR headset?”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26

If anyone could give me the address of a Sonic page run by anyone around my age (17), then I'd like to hear from them, to find out why tyhey've maintained their interest in Sonic even since the heyday of Sonic 2sday, in November 94, I think.

1997 October 13, "John.McGonagle", “Sonic fans?”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26

Hey, not only is today Nov. 24th (Sonic 2's 6th aniversery!) but it's also a tuesday!!! Sonic 2sday once again!! Isn't that just the cooolest?? ^_^ I had a huge message I just lost about my Sonic 2sday so many years ago, so I won't be posting it, but if anyone wants to share, it'd be a cool way to celebrate.. ^_^
(Actually I lied, if this gets any good responce you can see my whale-of-a-tail Sonic 2 post, but I suspect most of you got into Sonic after Sonic 2sday, ne?)

1998 November 25, icky...@hotmail.com, “It's Sonic 2sday!!”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-26

(fandom slang) The North American and European release date of the video game Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Tuesday, November 24th, 1992.


face reveal

(Internet) A photograph or video posted online, showing a content creator's true facial appearance for the first time.


face reveal

en-verb

face reveal (third-person singular simple present face reveals, present participle face revealing, simple past and past participle face revealed)

face reveals (present singular third-person)
face revealing (participle present)
face revealed (participle past)
face revealed (past)

(Internet) To reveal one's true facial appearance online for the first time.


backtrackable

(computer science) Solvable by backtracking.


iteratee

Coordinate term: iterator

functional programming
functional programming

(programming) In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely functional fashion.


SPX

Sequenced Packet Exchange
w:Sequenced Packet Exchange

(networking, historical) Initialism of Sequenced Packet Exchange.


IPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange
w:Internetwork Packet Exchange

(networking, historical) Initialism of Internetwork Packet Exchange.


autoabstract

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

1967, NBS Technical Note, volume 297, page 62

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


datamine

datamine (third-person singular simple present datamines, present participle datamining, simple past and past participle datamined)

datamines (present singular third-person)
datamining (participle present)
datamined (participle past)
datamined (past)

To research or analyze software data, especially looking for hidden content in video games.


IPX/SPX

(networking, historical) Initialism of Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange.


autosign

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

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

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


autodifferentiation

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

2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48

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


rate limiter

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

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

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


sci.langer

Not everyone here is a veteran sci.langer; certain topics will resurface again and again at the instigation of newbies (or even old timers). Believe me, I feel the pain of those self same veterans who must compell themselves to slog through yet another long thread on Esperanto or protoGreek or whatever.

1999 February 4, Padraic Brown, “Criticisms of Esperanto in sci.lang”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

Javi is a sci.langer; I don't recognize the other name, sorry.
You've commented on the Jerry subthread?

2004 January 22, Peter T. Daniels, “raisin secs”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

Yusuf is basically a sci.langer, but he comes here from time to time.)

2013 April 1, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “The Quran...A Book You Can Believe In”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.


sci.physicist

Blend of sci.physics + physicist. Equivalent to sci.physics + -ist.

I plead ignorance in the field of plasma physics, but I would imagine that the flow of a plasma, either positively or negatively charged, would also constitute a current. [Could a sci.physicist please set me straight ?].

1990 September 12, Greg Ebert, “A Simple Question?”, in sci.electronics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

Somewhere I read that proton-antiproton annihilations don't go straight to gamma rays, but first yield 5 short-lived pions which then go on to spontaneously decay into lower energy gamma rays. Could some subatomic sci.physicist out there enlighten me/us on this mystery?

1991 October 24, Roger M. Wilcox, “Lynch's Spoiler Review: "Silicon Avatar"”, in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

I am not a proper sci.physicist, but just a dumb musician whose "day job" involves some physics.

2000 October 5, Francis Deck, “Bells vs gongs”, in sci.physics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.


comp.theorist

Blend of comp.theory + theorist. Equivalent to comp.theory + -ist.

Hello comp.theorist,
I need the proof for the computability of
Speed problem : Find the fastest program P
SP(i) = j | Pj is fastest (with Pj equivalent to Pi)
It is a kind of "Halting problem". This problem is not computable.
(I may even describe the problem incorrectly!)

1992 April 20, Long Van Tran, “Request for Proof”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

Hi Comp.Theorists,
I am looking for an overview article treating the TSP problem. I am NOT looking for a book like Lawler, Lenstra,..., just an article written for broad diffusion, something that could for instance appear in Scientific American or some other kind of journal, and that would give beside the statement of the problem also an overview on the heuristics, achieved results, etc.

1993 July 13, Davide Crippa, “Travelling Salesman Problem”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

Dear comp.theorists,
I need to implement a - possibly efficient - feature-structure unification algorithm in a pure functional settings.

2002 February 26, Fabien, “Non-destructive graph unification algorithm”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup comp.theory.


sci.chemist

Blend of sci.chem + chemist. Equivalent to sci.chem + -ist.

In our lab. we needed to know: what is a good water-soluble "small molecule" marker for size-exclusion peptide chromatography? We are monitoring UV at 280 nm. Nicotinamide came to mind, which led to the question: what is the absorbance of nicotinamide at 280 nm? This led to the question I really want to ask sci.chemists:
Is there some databank of UV (and other?) spectra accessible by email, perhaps even as a graph?

1989 September 26, JIM ORR, U. OF NEWFOUNDLAND, (709) 737-6635, “UV Spectra Database?”, in sci.chem (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

Although Robert Ames may have missed the postings you must certainly have seen at least seven RFD proponents, including Bobby Rivere, claim during the middle of 1995 that they were under the definite impression that the *.misc renaming had to be included in the RFD if the RFD was to be issued. There were some quite fierce exchanges over this and they occurred whilst the acrimonious sci.chem renaming debate was in progress when the sci.chemists were being told they would be pressurised to rename to *.misc until they complied.
( BTW the sci.chemists rejected the renaming.)

1996 April 24, Colin Douthwaite, “UVV and mentor info request”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

Hello sci.chemists...
I can't tell if the following is nonsense, or if it is meaningful. I know that there have been cases where information has been recast into a poem, such as the infamous DeCSS Haiku...but I haven't found anything suggesting what this chemistry-based poem is describing. Can anyone who knows more about the subject than I do tell me where this has come from or what it is saying?

2006 October 2, reality...@gmail.com, “Curious if this poem(?) about chemicals is meaningful or gibberish”, in sci.chem (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.chem.


build artifact

The most recent build artifacts are also displayed on the build job home page. You can also use permanent URLs to access the most recent build artifacts.

2011, John Ferguson Smart, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide: Continuous Integration for the Masses, O'Reilly, page 112

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Any of the files that result from a compilation process and are deployed for use.


MCCE

(video games) Initialism of Minecraft Console Edition.


troll bot

(Internet) a type of software which spreads misinformation


button masher

(video games) A video game that is played by button mashing.


FOUC

(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled content: a brief glimpse of page content without the proper formatting, before the correct styles have loaded.


multi-armed bandit

en-noun

multi-armed bandit (plural multi-armed bandits)

From one-armed bandit, by analogy with a gambler at a row of slot machines who has to decide how best to play them.

(probability theory, machine learning) An algorithm that allocates a fixed limited set of resources between competing alternative choices so as to maximize the expected gain, when each choice's properties are only partially known at the time of allocation, and may become better understood as time passes or allocations are made.


IaC

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

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

infrastructure as code
w:infrastructure as code

(cloud computing) Initialism of infrastructure as code.


dig for victory

en-verb

dig for victory (third-person singular simple present digs for victory, present participle digging for victory, simple past and past participle dug for victory)

digs for victory (present singular third-person)
digging for victory (participle present)
dug for victory (participle past)
dug for victory (past)

From a wartime slogan promoting victory gardens.

(video games, roguelikes) To descend through the dungeon as quickly as possible, without spending unnecessary time on the upper levels.


VBer

VBers may find the syntax of C# a bit unpalatable.

2008, Andrew Troelsen, Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide, page XVIII

(programming, informal) A programmer who uses the Visual Basic language.


FNN

(artificial intelligence, computer science) Abbreviation of Feedforward Neural Network.


e-sign

e-sign (third-person singular simple present e-signs, present participle e-signing, simple past and past participle e-signed)

e-signs (present singular third-person)
e-signing (participle present)
e-signed (participle past)
e-signed (past)

If we don't even know who gets the e-mail petition that we've just e-signed, then what counts as political involvement?

2013, Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, page 6

(transitive) To sign electronically with a digital signature.


J. Random User

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


OCaml

Short from its former name, Objective Caml.

Minsky, a computer science PhD, convinced his employer 10 years ago to rewrite the company’s entire trading system in OCaml.

2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.


codetext

To work well, a code must have thousands of plaintext words or phrases with a codetext equivalent for each. Usually, for the sake of manageability, a codetext word is limited to three to five letters or numbers. All the codetexts and their plaintext meanings are listed in a codebook.

1974, The Family Creative Workshop, Plenary Publications International

The repetitions of the codetext matched those of the proposed plaintext perfectly.[…]The two spent the morning inserting his equivalents into the codetexts, but none stood close enough together in the texts to obtain confirmation through new identifications.

2004, David Kahn, “Yardley’s Triumph”, in The Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, page 67

DNA encryption of images, part 1: Alice uses her library of primers to make codetextᶜ-plaintextᶜ pairs.[…]The result of adding the whole library to the long DNA, letting the copying happen, and then dissociating the copied DNA from the original is that Alice will have a collection of plaintextᶜ-codetextᶜ pairs, the codetextᶜ being photosensitive (the superscript c indicates a strand complementary, so able to bind to the original DNA). Alice then adds her mixture of plaintextᶜ-codetextᶜ pairs to her chip, and the strands will hybridize to the complementary, immobile strands on the chip.

2018, Jamie A. Davies, “Synthetic biology for engineering”, in Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 82

(cryptography) An encoded form of a message, as opposed to plaintext.


assoziation

From German Assoziation. Equivalent to assoziate + -ion.

a) Rohrschach-test
The file "rohrschach" includes gif-files, which could be edited by you. Afterwards the viewer should (could) understand, what you assoziate by viewing the images.
b) Symbols and their significance
The file "signs" includes gif-files. Please describe (textual) your assoziation by inspecting the signs and primary sketches.

1994 February 2, Lux Logis e.V., “HANDSHAKE - looking for artists”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

The sequence in which expressions are evaluated depends on priority-rules and the grouping of the expression. The math-rules of assoziations and Kommutativit„t (don't know the english term) are only true for those operators which are really assoziativ and Kommutativ. If not defined elsewhere, the sequence of evaluation of an expression is undefined.

1995 June 29, Stefan Nobis, “C Set++ Bug?”, in comp.os.os2.programmer.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Win95 internet program have the nice feature to "link to each other". But in my case I use a different mailer. Where now do I change the assoziation?

1997 January 29, Ralf Koester, “Where change association for eMailer”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

After the placement of an assoziation I'm not able to move the names at the ends of the line to an appropriate position.

2000 December 2, rolf, “UML associations”, in microsoft.public.visio.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

How can I cast using an id ? The SerializableFactory::create() creates Barts or Hoomers on the given id using an allways registered creator. The assoziation between ids and loaders is done by a map. The solution could be a template but, how could it look ?

2001 April 19, O.Petzold, “casting by an id”, in comp.lang.c++ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

I working with TGEC 6.3 and have a problem create an assoziation between 2 interfaces:
1. If I create an assoziation between two interfaces, together establish a attribute in the interface!?!? How is this possible? Of course it is final, but this is realy not what I want to do.
2. I remove the wrong attribute and add a get method to access the assoziated object. But now the assoziation link is gone...
3. I know from TCC 6.2 to add an assoziation between Interfaces (it works in TCC) and like to do the same in TEC:
/*# Interface2 lnkInterface2; */
But this doesn't work...
How I'am be able to do this?

2004 October 6, Dirk Hoffmann, “Assoziation between Interfaces not possible?”, in borland.public.together.edition.eclipse (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

(non-native speakers’ English) Misspelling of association.


alt.slacker

Blend of alt.slack + slacker. Equivalent to alt.slack + -er.

What I want to perpetrate upon the persons of ALL alt.slackers: I would like to promulgate the insidious rumor that everyone who posts to alt.slack is a homicidal zoophiliac heroin addict whose greatest pleasure in life is burning down Catholic orphanages. Then I would point in your direction the proper authorities who, under my conspiratorial direction, would actually be untrained squads of rape gorillas who had all undergone bionic surgery the purpose of which was to replace the gorillas' fleshy organs with gigantic robotic penises equipped with rotating, electrified fish scalers and glans-mounted flame throwers. Then I would assign fifty rape gorillas to each alt.slacker and confine them to tiny cells dug beneath the sewers of New York City.

1996 September 4, Sandy Duncan, “From Rev. Sternodox to alt.slack”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Today i had a chance encounter with our English department webmaster. Some alt.slacker--Oh, i wonder who it could be?--using the terribly clever nom-de-plume, anonymous, accused me of sexual harassment, among other transparent lies and misrepresentations. Our whole encounter exists in the public record, thread on thread, message on message; did he really think anyone would believe so outrageous a claim?

1999 August 10, g.v.w. iv, “an allegory for icewipe”, in alt.discordia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

snarf*
You also read like an alt.slacker

2003 April 24, Sharon B, “I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM”, in alt.soulmates (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

The rant of the alt.slacker? :-)

2005 April 26, Rev. Chain Smerker, “Re: Me, Myself and I:”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

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


alt.atheist

What alt.atheists believe. (To clarify, I am coining a new term "alt.atheist" to avoid the baggage of existing terms).

1990 September 21, Jim Perry, “Front-door Atheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

The thing is that atheists (or, at least, alt.atheists) do not hold science as religion, but as science. Science-as-religion is held by some half-assedly-educated laymen, of which you do not see many here (your opinion of somne alt.atheists notwithstanding).

1997 October 14, MindFlayer, “Atheists and Aliens”, in alt.paranormal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Irrelevant. The persons whose behavior *is* described in my posts *are* numbered alt.atheists. No matter how many alt.atheists don't do X, the fact that two or more do X enables me to truthfully say that alt.atheists do X. As I showed in my example, *you* are the one making the generalization based upon the specifics.
I am consistently referring to specifics.

2002 February 12, Tichy, “Grading Alt.atheism's use of the Twit List”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

> I don't consider myself an alt.atheist. I consider myself an atheist who posts to alt.atheist. There are other things I do besides this, y'know, and it's incorrect to say that I'm an "alt.atheist", as if it is something different than "regular atheist".
I wasn't trying to say different. By alt.atheist I meant the typical atheist I have meet at alt.atheism. I am not saying that alt.atheists are different in any other way.

2005 April 5, keit...@yahoo.com, “The Atheist Lie”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Everyone who jabs at alt.atheists is a Christian.

2014 June 17, jackpi...@gmail.com, “How many alt.atheists does ot take to screw in a lightbulb?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

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


alt.rapper

Blend of alt.rap + rapper. Equivalent to alt.rap + -er.

Been here since early 98, so I guess I'm a "3rd generation" alt.rapper, but I did make like 4 posts in like March 97 under a different online service when I first used the internet... it was a few posts about mariah carrey or something like that.

1999 December 3, Cal Worthington, “alt.rap... history??”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Instead of the fact that I惴 not reading very long in this group, I惴 sure that one member of alt.rap will either win or come to the final round... I don愒 think that all the other rappers are as dope as the ones in here... But I bet that everyone of the alt.rappers will come very far in this battle. And I think one alt.rapper will support another alt.rapper, even if he doens愒 like him, right?

2001 May 9, Leonie, “Ramblin' About Alt.Rap And How To Improve It”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

Maybe I'm not even gonna vote.
Vadik ~ got an alt.rapper in his crosshairs...and no, it's not you

2001 December 27, Vadik, “[NYT] Sir vs. Wattz (VOTE NOW!)”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

I have to admit I been a diehard alt.rapper since '97 but lately I've been busy, and I'm guilty of merging with the rmhh community as well.

2004 March 17, Augi, “What's going on with this group?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

LENGTH OF TIME POSTING IN RMHH: I think around 2000 or so... I was lurking for ages before that - more of an alt.rapper then...

2005 May 22, A to the L, “time for a RMHH survey”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07

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


P2E games

(online gaming) Initialism of play-to-earn.


sci.skeptic

AS> You try to discredit any of the sources that are provided,
I assume you mean other sci.skeptics; me, I haven't looked at your sources yet (I only just received some that might be accessible to me).

1993 February 27, phil...@stsci.edu, “Afrocentrism”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08

I think this thread is a perfect example of why most scientists (and us sci.skeptics) hold Philosophy of Science in such low regard.

1994 May 14, DaveHatunen, “Feyerabend's Against method: a proposal for debate”, in sci.philosophy.tech (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08

I made a suggestion of something new to the sci.skeptics who hate Christianity but love Judaism.

2001 January 16, Matt Giwer, “More formal (mathematical) proof of prehistorical transatlantic contacts”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.skeptic.


quickload

quickload (third-person singular simple present quickloads, present participle quickloading, simple past and past participle quickloaded)

quickloads (present singular third-person)
quickloading (participle present)
quickloaded (participle past)
quickloaded (past)

From quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Load").

(video games) To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing.


quickload

(video games) An instance of quickloading.


rmhher

(Internet slang) Alternative letter-case form of RMHHer.


colatard

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hardwear

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

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

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

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

its a personallity belongs in a different catagory

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

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

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

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


RMHHer

As far as I know, Jeremy Somers is the only RMHHer who works for Raw Shack.

1998 July 19, Andrew Ryall, “blackstar...how overrated are they?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

this is 4 (see the clever usage of 4 instead of spelling out the word f-o-r-) all the kkk rmhher's up in hea lately.

2000 August 25, CoJack, “This is 4 all our new kkk rmhher's in hea lately”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

I'm female {4 all you rmhher's knowledge}
Hear me roar

2000 November 9, Lovelyblaqgyrl, “OTP: People that know nothing about real hip hop”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

I thought Keith sued to have all of the Tuff City releases scuttled though. An RMHHer sent me cassette dubs of at least one of the albums (mostly radio freestyles as I recall) but I was never able to find them in stores anywhere.

2001 June 21, Steve 'Flash' Juon, “JUST FOR FLASH - Ultramagnetic All-Star Rap MP3”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

> >If you can find me and Mark an MPC to buy
>
> is that your boyfriend or something?
> I've heard you talk about him
Thats veteran RMHHer Mark RED BEARD Murray to you young whippersnapper.

2003 February 4, BSE, “RMHH beat competition”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

Wow. A former rmhher in congress. Rmhh is really the bomb. Published authors, artists, politicians, ph.d's etc have all graced this forum.

2011 November 4, mochaspresso, “Pizon is running for Congress”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop.


stringly-typed

From the string data type, punning on strongly-typed.

This is a “stringly typed” example that is easy to break if the key names are mistyped, or change between versions of your app.

2019, Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn, Native Mobile Development: A Cross-Reference for iOS and Android, O'Reilly Media, page 178

Enums can be a powerful aide in your quest to produce reliable, robust software. Consider them for your code when you discover yourself introducing “stringly-typed” data, such as message codes.

2021, Tim McNamara, Rust in Action, Simon and Schuster, page 98

(programming, humorous) Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.


automatic differentiation

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


zero-shot

zero-shot object detection ― detection of objects not in training data

zero-shot translation ― translation between two languages without bilingual data

Ask yourself if there is a way to get a zero-shot solution. If you think that you need external examples to prime the model for your use case, think really hard.

2022, Sandra Kublik, Shubham Saboo, GPT-3, O'Reilly, page 20

No additional prompts for getting the responses were used, i.e. the data was created with a basic prompt in a zero-shot scenario.

2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 4

(machine learning, attributive) Relating to zero-shot learning; performing without specialized training data.


algospeak

Black and trans users, and those from other marginalized communities, often use algospeak to discuss the oppression they face, swapping out words for “white” or “racist.”

2022 April 8, Taylor Lorenz, “Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN

By recognizing that keywords can be used to filter content, internet users have resorted to algospeak, the consensual substitution of censored terms with uncensored terms in order to evade censorship (Lorenz, 2022).

2022 June 24, Jordan Richard Schoenherr, “3.6.2 Microtargeting, Nudging, and Social Influence Campaigns”, in Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science: Trust in the Age of Entanglement, Taylor & Francis, page unknown

If you’ve noticed the use of newly invented words cropping up on digital platforms or words used out of context or misspelled, it’s not a new kind of social media slang—it’s algospeak.

2022 October 31, KC Ifeanyi, “Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators”, in Fast Company

A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak. […] Alessandro Bogliari, the chief executive of the Influencer Marketing Factory, said the moderation systems are clever but can make mistakes, which is why many of the influencers his company hires for marketing campaigns use algospeak.

2022 November 19, Melina Delkic, “Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language”, in The New York Times

Typically, such codes have been employed by small groups. Given the reach of social media, however, algospeak has the potential to more broadly influence everyday language.

2023 April 13, Roger J. Kreuz, “What is ‘algospeak’? Inside the newest version of linguistic subterfuge”, in The Conversation U.S., Boston

(social media, neologism) A form of cant for evading social media content filters.


hodler

Although they were meant to reach the Moon no matter what, cryptocurrencies are also coming a cropper. Even some hardened “hodlers” have been getting cold feet.

2022 May 14, “Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place”, in The Economist, →ISSN

(cryptocurrencies) A hoarder of cryptocurrency.


alt.revisionist

Blend of alt.revisionism + revisionist. Equivalent to alt.revisionism + -ist.

Some of you might question the objectivity of Greg's report, since he was M.C. at the affair.
Therefore, some of us disinterested alt.revisionists who were there are preparing a more detailed report. Included will be David Cole's talk about Michael Shermer and transcripts of Shermer telephone conversations with David, Michael Berenbaum, and Debbie Lipstadt. I think you'll find it interesting.

1994 September 7, Ross Vicksell, “IHR 12th Conference”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16

Dear Fellow alt.revisionists:
I have only just got my Internet connection up and running, so perhaps I am judging the discussions I have seen on alt.revisionism too harshly, but the discussion does not seem to be up to the level for which I was hoping. I saw a post in which Ken Mcvay denigrated the GEnie discussion of the Holocaust which took place several months ago, but this forum seems to be providing a lower quality discussion of the Holocaust than GEnie did, and the GEnie discussion was pretty poor.

1996 November 18, Jamie McCarthy, “Mr. Raven, please cite your sources”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16

An example of such comparison must have happened in the mind of the first alt.revisionist to think of taking his show on the road and bringing revisionist postings to sci.skeptic. Surely one thought in his brain (well...misfiring neuron in his neural cortex might be more accurate) was "I am 'skeptical' about the history of the Holocaust, maybe I'll find allies who can battle the people who believe in history in sci.skeptic!" The contrast came when he started posting and found out the hard way that even without The Usual Suspects from a.r. stepping in he was being torn seven ways from Sunday by the sci.skeptic Regulars.

1999 October 11, RockyMtnCougar, “Compare and Contrast”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16

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


alt.flamer

Blend of alt.flame + flamer. Equivalent to alt.flame + -er.

Now, I experienced the bogfart bot invasion of alt.flame in 1994. Sadly, the U. of Pitt server DOES NOT include alt.bogfart newsgroup,But, Wait, JOHN D. AN ALT.FLAMER, MODERATING ALT.BOGFART?

1996 February 12, Andrew W Beckwith, “What the hell? An alt.flamer moderating alt.bigfoot?????????????”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

How about alt.flamer with the worst joke-book? ANS.
Alt.flamer most often *plonked* by ANS. Dobbs.

1999 November 16, Kerro, “First word about the 1999 alt.flame Awards”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

1992: The current alt.flamer with the longest tenure first posts to alt.flame.

2005 December 19, The U.S. Constitution, “On why every Bawler is a rank newbie”, in alt.troll (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

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


alt.horrorian

I'm beginning to think I'm the only alt.horrorian who actually *like* the actor Sean Connery.

1999 May 3, Henrik (at ze office), “The Crow -- Salvation”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

Met up with Marc Walkow from Image Entertainment, another alt.horrorian who sold me his awesome LBX copy of Ferrera's BODY SNATCHERS a while back.

1999 May 30, WideScreenPig, “Pig Returns, Tells Long Story!! (Names Drop Like Flies)”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

Supposedly there's a remake of House on Haunted Hill coming out in the fall. I haven't read a thing about it anywhere, other than the fact that its in development. Any Alt.horrorians heard anything about this project? Without Vincent Price, it probably won't be too worthwhile, IMHO.

1999 August 4, Jason Roth, “House on Haunted Hill?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

See, I'm not like some of the alt.horrorians who hate aping. I have no complaints if something is copied if it's well copied.

2001 February 27, Ringo, “Is PREACHER a good horror comic?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

I was surprised at how well the film cleaned up. The print looks great considering the source. And yes, it is uncut. Our own alt.horrorian Craig H. wrote a very nice review on our site at:

2002 February 23, cultcuts, “Elite Entertainment edition I spit on Your Grave”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

shrug* It's up to you, man. Assuming you live under a democracy, it's entirely within your rights to make yourself look like a complete turdchunk, not only before the alt.horrorians, but also in front of those posters over here whom relish such self-immolation. Have at it, numbnuts.

2007 November 5, The 2-Belo, “net halloween greeting”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17

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


denial of service

en-noun

denial of service (plural denials of service)

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack


(fashion on the Internet) Abbreviation of where to cop.


(fashion on the Internet) A contribution to a virtual meetup consisting in a question of the above frame.


touch pen

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

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

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

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

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

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


solid-state drive

solid-state drive (plural solid-state drives)

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


overlay scrollbar

overlay scrollbar (plural overlay scrollbars)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A scrollbar that appears over content as a floating thumb, rather than enclosed within a track.


web shell

(computer security, Internet) A shell-like interface for issuing commands to a compromised server.


threat actor

(computer security) An entity that is responsible for a cyberattack.


wearable computer

wearable computer (plural wearable computers)

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


alt.writer

So, fellow alt.writers, when you reach this point in your writing, do you stay away from the story for a while, do you continue tinkering with it, or what?

1998 April 27, RDeschene, “Yippee, rough draft is done!”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27

In fact, if any misc.w'ers (or alt.writers) would like to exchange critiques, I have a 2,200 word SF (not hard science, though) story I just finished. I'll show you mine if you show me yours :-)

1999 May 22, Susan, “Critique?”, in misc.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27

I hope you enjoy the little epistle I have sent your way. I'm snickering because I know you won't. All your most hated alt.writers are in there, minus me, as I am too modest to include my own comments in the compilation. Should you find it disappointing, I'm sure you know where you can shove it.

1999 July 17, Pamela Mitchell, “Fantasy piece for review (LONG)”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27

The only other requirement for alt.writers is that they say hello on the newsgroup uk.culture.arts.writing.

1999 October 24, Kye Valongo, “Competition for UK writers!”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27

one of the alt.writers who uses alt.writing to do his "performance art" flaming swears by a.f.o. as a place where he can do his "serious" work.

2001 January 7, nancy, “read this...”, in misc.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27

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


Woolseyism

This is now a well-known meme, along with other 'Woolseyisms.' But one serious gamer took it upon himself to re-translate the entire text of Final Fantasy VII from scratch.

2019, Rachael Hutchinson, Japanese Culture Through Videogames

(video games) In video game texts, a translation or substituted phrase characteristic of Ted Woolsey, American game translator and producer.

(video games, by extension) A translation or substituted phrase deemed better than the original.


platformization

For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform.

2019, Marc Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet, U of Minnesota Press

For Miguel Ardanuy, a former participation coordinator of Podemos, the ultimate aim of this “platformisation of the party” is to “construct a different model of party, a party more open and responsive to society, where you do not need a membership card in order to participate”.

2019 February 13, Paolo Gerbaudo, “One person, one click: is this how to save democracy?”, in The Guardian

(Internet) The increasing domination of the Internet by a number of large companies whose products function as markets for content.

These developments are framed conceptually by the distinctions between platforms and portals and, in turn, the processes of platformization and portalization.

2021, Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy Havens, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, page 148

(Internet) Conversion into a self-contained platform.


fighting stick

An elongate grip to move in a videogame.


Famicom

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from family + computer.

ja-r

ファミリーコンピューター

ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā)

pseudo-loan

School students as well as middle-aged salaried workers queued up to buy one of these Famicoms.

1988, Shoji Shiba, Yuusuke Moryiama, Shigeki Yamasaki, Masanobu Abe, S. Nakae, M. Hasimoto, K. Tuno, Y. Fukuda, M. Taki, ““Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School or Home?””, in Blagovest Sendov, Ivan Stanchev, editors, Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities, Pergamon Press, page 57

After a trip to Tokyo at the end of 1983, a business partner of the Stampers had sent them a Nintendo Famicom […]

A Nintendo Entertainment System (chiefly those available within Japan).


WinVNC

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


replatform

en-verb

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

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

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


corpse run

corpse run (third-person singular simple present corpse runs, present participle corpse running, simple past corpse ran, past participle corpse run)

corpse runs (present singular third-person)
corpse running (participle present)
corpse ran (past)
corpse run (participle past)

(online gaming, intransitive) To navigate one's player character back to the site of one's prior death in order to resurrect oneself and reclaim lost items.


FastWide SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 20 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.


Ultra SCSI

(computing) A version of SCSI that uses an 8-bit bus and supports data rates of up to 20 megabytes/s.


Narrow SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data up to 10 megabytes/s on a 16-bit bus.


Fast SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI capable of transferring data at rates up to 10 MB per second on an 8-bit SCSI cable.


WideUltra SCSI

(computing) A cross between the Ultra SCSI and Wide SCSI interfaces which uses a 16-bit bus.


Wide SCSI

(computing) A type of SCSI-2 interface which uses a 16-bit bus and supports transfer rates up to 20 megabytes/second.


morphling

/ˈmɔː(ɹ)fˌlɪŋ/

(video games) a character with the ability to shapeshift


IOT

(computing) Initialism of index-organized table (type of database's table where the data is stored in a B-tree index structure)

index-organized table

(computing) Initialism of input-output transfer (instructions for computers as in the PDP-8)

input-output transfer

interoperability testing
w:Interoperability testing

(computing) Initialism of interoperability testing (process of testing to determine the interoperability of a software product)


unstage

unstage (third-person singular simple present unstages, present participle unstaging, simple past and past participle unstaged)

unstages (present singular third-person)
unstaging (participle present)
unstaged (participle past)
unstaged (past)

(computing, transitive) To move (a file) out of the staging area (where files are kept in preparation to be committed and deployed).


ego shooter

How can I make heretic2 to an ego shooter ? I already installed the update pack,but I still don't know where I can change it

1999 October 30, TruckDrivingMan, “ego shooter”, in alt.games.heretic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

In Germany some politicians have suggested a total ban of ego-shooters no matter what they are about.
An actual discussion takes place at the moment in the guest book

2002 July 9, Unknown, “German discussion about banning ego-shooters!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

Babya Shot It, a Quake style ego shooter has been released.
Babya Shot It is a completly 3D ego-shooter with excellent graphics and sounds!

2006 May 2, aafuss, “Babya Shot It-Quake style ego shooter released”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(non-native speakers’ English) A first-person shooter.


Usenetard

Wanna know a secret?
We're all Usenetards.

2007 June 26, Deathbringer, “"Lefttard" a crap insult?”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

Ubiquitous usenetards such as yourself will deny reality until everyone else dies of boredom. Been there done that.

2008 July 5, foad, “Loophole in Trust laws ? I can hardly believe what I've learned”, in misc.legal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

TROLLS AND OTHER USENETARD BY ABUSING FLAMMING AND MALIGNING ANY MEMEBER OF THIS GROUP YOU ARE ABANDONING YOUR FAITHFUL CALLING AND CUSTOMER BASE YOU'LL ONLY HURT YOURSELF
QUIT THIS INSTANT WHILE THE QUITTING IS GOOD

2009 June 22, Proteus IIV, “STRONGER THAN MAN !”, in alt.engineering.electrical (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user of Usenet; a Usenetter.


meme magic

The site confirms that in 2016, ‘moderator TehDonald [sic] of the /r/the_donald subreddit submitted a post promoting … Nimble America, remarking that the community had “proven that shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real.” Meanwhile, Redditor NimbleRichMan [i.e., Luckey] submitted a /r/the_donald post asking for help defeating Hillary Clinton by donating to Nimble America’.

2017 June 19, T. J. Coles, President Trump, Inc.: How Big Business and Neoliberalism Empower Populism and the Far-right, Clairview Books, page 88

As activists interested in generating a wedge between American Muslims and the LGBT community argued, “meme magic is real boys, so spread this meme. Drive this wedge” (Lyons 2017). The implication of this was that support for Trump did not mean liking the guy; it meant supporting his candidacy through extreme online versions of his campaign rhetoric and performance.

2018 December 11, Julie A. Webber, The Joke Is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times, Rowman & Littlefield, page 307

Meme magic—the half-joking idea that Donald Trump could be “memed” into victory through judicious 4chan shitposting—became part of the site's rhetorical landscape. Due to the valiant efforts of brave shitposters, the “God-Emperor,” as Trump was frequently known on the site, would be propelled to the White House, where he would quench his thirst with an endless supply of liberal tears.

2020 June 16, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, Hachette UK

Weirdness also refers to the way in which the group members' self-perception as a coherent entity is connected to a quasi-religious experience of their individual identities being subsumed by something greater than themselves – a particularly common sentiment among 4chan anons, for instance, expressed by mythologizing their collective efforts as 'meme magic'.

2021 July 29, Melody Devries, Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 176

One of the first comments, which quickly became the top voted comment on the thread, simply said “meme magic”, linking to a post on 4chan that, three weeks earlier, combined a series of memes to tell a story about how Trump arrested Hillary Clinton.

2022 July 18, Paul Dawson, Maria Mäkelä, The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Taylor & Francis

(Internet slang, humorous) The (supposedly supernatural) power of Internet memes to have a meaningful impact on the real-world when used en masse in a targeted way.


flotating point

The drawback is that it's kinda slow; a high bailout value (required to get the range) forces one to use the flotating point algorithm.

1991 June 25, David M. Read, “3D M sets in Fractint: the *real* solution”, in alt.fractals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05

MATHLIB has a problem if e.g. Sin() or, for what it seems, any other MATHLIB function is called repeatedly in a loop. In such cases a register is trashed (the one used for the loop variable) and the loop is terminated prematurely. However, if MATHLIB functions are called one at a time in the middle of the code it all works fine, and even after an huge amount of flotating point calculations (and I mean hours worth of it) the final results are identical to the Xtd DOS program's (also the speed is nearly identical).

1995 September 7, Bengt-Inge DalenbŠck, “TopSpeed-Borland-Windows-DLLs”, in comp.lang.modula2 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05

This makes Java (even with a native compiler) essentially useless for any flotating point applicatations, numerics, games, etc etc etc. Of course, this was last time I checked. Sun might have seen the light since then.

2000 September 2, Ian McCulloch, “Performance in comparison to Java”, in comp.lang.c++.moderated (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-05

(nonstandard and non-native speakers’ English) Misconstruction of floating point.


GCA

greatest common ancestor
greatest common ancestor#English

(graph theory) Initialism of greatest common ancestor.


spamproof

en-adj

spamproof (comparative more spamproof, superlative most spamproof)

more spamproof (comparative)
most spamproof (superlative)

(computing) Resistant to spamming (the bulk sending of unsolicited messages).


DAI

Dragon Age: Inquisition
w:Dragon Age: Inquisition

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


magnet link

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(Internet) A kind of uniform resource identifier based on a hash of a file's contents, typically used in peer-to-peer file sharing networks.


RIP in peace

(Internet slang, video games, humorous) Alternative form of RIP


R.I.P. in peace

(Internet slang, video games, humorous) Alternative form of RIP in peace


BEC

(computer security) Initialism of business email compromise. (a kind of cyberattack)


mouse jiggler

This triage process may include taking photographs of screens, using mouse jigglers to prevent password-protected screensavers from activating, or running memory-dumping tools.

2016, Bruce Nikkel, Practical Forensic Imaging, page 102

(computing) A program that simulates periodic mouse movements to prevent the machine going into a standby state.


ILP

(programming) Initialism of instruction-level parallelism.


RMT

(online gaming) Initialism of real money trading (the practice of trading in-game goods for real money)


Shakarian

There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.

2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter

UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]

2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter

Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂

2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.


camera roll

Named after the traditional roll of film.

(computing) The collection of images and videos taken on a smartphone.


NLG

en-noun

NLG (countable and uncountable, plural NLGs)

Coordinate term: NLU

natural language generation
w:natural language generation

(uncountable, artificial intelligence) Initialism of natural language generation.


ICBM address

(Internet slang, web development) One's precise address, including both longitude and latitude.


commit sudoku

en-verb

commit sudoku (third-person singular simple present commits sudoku, present participle committing sudoku, simple past and past participle committed sudoku)

commits sudoku (present singular third-person)
committing sudoku (participle present)
committed sudoku (participle past)
committed sudoku (past)

(by extension) To commit suicide by any means.


commentize

commentize (third-person singular simple present commentizes, present participle commentizing, simple past and past participle commentized)

commentizes (present singular third-person)
commentizing (participle present)
commentized (participle past)
commentized (past)

We ended up commentizing the explanatory blurbs to serve a target audience that probably wouldn't need them. They are retained within the source so that they can be easily toggled back to life as needed in future for wider audiences.

I was manually adding “//” for each line I wanted to remove, which was annoying. It turns out that you can use Edit > Commentize to add “//” to the start of all selected lines. The keyboard shortcut in IP7 is Cmd-/. You can reverse the process with Edit > Decommentize or Cmd-\.

2016 October 25, quantixed, “Tips from the blog X: multi-line commenting in Igor”, in quantixed, retrieved 2022-06-16

(programming, content management) Synonym of comment out


PuG

(online gaming) Acronym of pickup group (group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal, such as completing a dungeon or a raid)


PuG

PuG (third-person singular simple present PuGs, present participle PuGing, simple past and past participle PuGed)

PuGs (present singular third-person)
PuGing (participle present)
PuGed (participle past)
PuGed (past)

(transitive, online gaming) To participate in structured content of an online game as part of a pickup group.


Fakebook

Blend of fake + Facebook, suggesting that the site consists of phony, inauthentic users.

I love Fakebook, where all my fake friends hang out.
When the weather is fair my fakebook friends are there. When things

2010 July 22, onet...@gmail.com, “Fakebook”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet)

2016 December 16, Ubiquitous, “Fakebook - The social-media site empowers a journalism cartel.”, in alt.journalism (Usenet):

Fakebook stuck to the antisemite crap and never investigated. Just like the Justice shit system.

2018 June 1, hic...@gmail.com, “Fakebook Removes Trending Topics”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet)

(derogatory, Internet slang) The social networking site Facebook.


coyote time

Named after the animation style of Wile E. Coyote who would frequently float in air for a few seconds after running off of a cliff.

(animation, video games) A brief delay between an action and the consequences of that action that has no physical cause and exists only for comedic or gameplay purposes.

(video games, specifically) A brief period after walking off a ledge or platform during which a character is still able to jump.


goblincore

A cousin to the ever-popular Cottagecore, Goblincore celebrates parts of nature that many would perceive as dirty or unsettling, like frogs, snails, and mushrooms.

2020, Piper Daffron, "At The Core", Season Magazine (Indiana University), Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020, page 4

[Amanda] Brennan thinks goblincore’s “spooky and cozy nature” will only make it more popular in autumn.

2021 July 30, Ellie Violet Bramley, “Goblincore: the fashion trend that embraces ‘chaos, dirt and mud’”, in The Guardian

But that's not all, mushroom motifs have been popping up all over the fashion space (likely thanks to the nature-inspired goblincore trend).

2022, "Fashion Trends For The Year Ahead", Billions Luxury Magazine, Spring 2022, page 28

(aesthetic) An aesthetic and fashion movement that celebrates unidyllic aspects of nature, such as dirt, moss, mushrooms, and insects.


Poképhile

3)Which Pokemon would you have sexual intercourse with if you were a Pokephile.

1999 April 5, C. Hanson, “Giving in to the Survey virus.”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19

Even if Silly Putty *is* a girl Ditto, what he did is *still* disgusting. I'm not some sort of Poképhile!

2000 February 10, RobfromVoid, “[PW!] A Silly Birthday Party”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19

Besides doing it with pokemon is much more fun than doing it with that pokephile. . . wait, I'm doing the same thing. . .

2000 June 20, ChocoZell, “Jenny vs. Team Rocket MSTd”, in alt.games.final-fantasy.hentai (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19

he's a pokephile

2000 July 1, pst0kely, “Professor Oak molests pokemon”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-19

(fandom slang) A person who is sexually attracted to Pokémon.


unrotate

unrotate (third-person singular simple present unrotates, present participle unrotating, simple past and past participle unrotated)

unrotates (present singular third-person)
unrotating (participle present)
unrotated (participle past)
unrotated (past)

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

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


port triggering

en-noun

port triggering (usually uncountable, plural port triggerings)

(computing, networking) A configuration option on a NAT-enabled router that controls communication between internal and external host machines on an IP network.


death loop

However, upon being resurrected I found myself in the morning of a groundhog day fighting the scorpion I had just killed, exiting the room, feeling woozy, eating chocolate, falling to the ground. I was stuck in a death loop.

2012, Olli Tapio Leino, “Death loop as a feature”, in Game Studies, volume 12, number 2, Game Studies, →ISSN

(video games) A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation.


subsecret

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary secret.


subuser

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary user.


subroot

Well-designed CAs will create a trust hierarchy, which consists of a root with a number of subroots, to further enhance protection of the private key.

2003, Kapil Raina, PKI Security Solutions for the Enterprise, page 30

(computing) A secondary or subsidiary root.


comboability

Akuma has a LOT of comboability. He can combo into supers from both the
air and the ground with not that much effort. Plus, his dash is good.

1998 January 18, Onaje Everett, “Is Tekken 3 the most balanced fighting game?”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet)

(video games) The quality of being comboable.


comboable

en-adj

comboable (comparative more comboable, superlative most comboable)

more comboable (comparative)
most comboable (superlative)

As for the lack of variety in fighting styles, shrug, if you say so, I
think they're quite varied. I mean, the wrestlers are both wrestlers,
so yeah, they grab a lot. But one uses spinning roundhouses and
reversals, and flashy kicks and pounces. The other is more comboable
but plainer looking in moves and flash, but terribly efficient...

1996 January 31, CreeD, “Tekken Strategies NO less than VF2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet)

OTOH, Jam is pretty damn incredible too. You can do some really insane combos with
her, especially after using the d,d + attack powerups. And her Destroy move is

2000 December 18, Jonathan Winkler, “way OT: Guilty Gear X”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet)

easily comboable because it has so little startup.

(video games) Able to perform a combo with or on.


maidenless

maidenless (comparative more maidenless, superlative most maidenless)

more maidenless (comparative)
most maidenless (superlative)

Elden Ring
GamesRadar+
Know Your Meme
Kotaku

From maiden + -less. Popularized by its use in a quotation in the video game Elden Ring, released on February 25, 2022, referring to the "Maiden" guide who allows the player to progress.

big divorce energy ()

psychological state characteristic of a recently-divorced person

You might be maidenless, but this Banished Knight's Greatsword replica from Elden Ring will give you the confidence you need to absolutely slay in all arenas of your life.

2023 February 6, Adam Rothbarth, “The Best Unique Video Game Merch 2023”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-04

(Internet slang) Single; lacking a girlfriend.


datasource

(computing) A source of data; typically a database


rushdown

(video games) In fighting games, a strategy that aims to overwhelm the opponent through speed and aggression.


unkeyworded

Find all texts that contain this unkeyworded entry.

1990, Michael L. Kleper, The Illustrated Handbook of Desktop Publishing and Typesetting, page 103

Space Saver's function is to mark all unused, unfavorited, or unkeyworded video in an Event as rejects, all in one fell swoop.

2009, David Pogue, Aaron Miller, iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, page 109

(computing, rare) Without a keyword assigned to it.


dark mode

(graphical user interface) Synonym of night mode


full combo

Did you get a full combo on that song?

(video games) The achievement of correctly hitting all the notes of a level in a rhythm game.


music game

(video games) A game where the player performs actions timed to music, a rhythm game.


boomer shooter

Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D are boomer shooters.

(Internet slang) A first-person shooter of the kind popular in the 1990s, focusing on action rather than realism.


AoS

Coordinate term: SoA

(programming) Initialism of array of structures.


>Actually, if you can find TN #31 in the Technical Notes Stack 3.1, you will have had to run into an actual dogcow (Clarus) saying !fooM. Gee, wonder where that might be?
Yours truly found it, and it was not that hard. I must say that the choice of encryption algorithm was extremely clever, however. You will never get it from the script unless you are fluent in ebg13, so you might as well try to solve it the right way!

1989 September 15, Earle R. Horton, “Moofing Dogcows!”, in comp.sys.mac (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26

Back in the old days, when people cared about decency on the Internet, it was decided that to keep people from seeing dirty words questionable material would be encoded in EBG-13. Nowadays it's just a technological quirk, however, unless by some freak of nature the CDA turns out to be constitutional, in which case we'll be seeing a lot more of SHPX and FUVG.

1997 March 11, David F Lynch, “alt.discordia and nightsweats”, in alt.sex.cthulhu (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26

[Warning: text ahead encoded in EBG13 to protect the innocent. No actual UI was emitted in the production of this mini-rant.]

2001 November 16, Garrett Wollman, “Forced into recovery”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26

This is getting silly. Many monks can read EBG13 without pressing buttons, and EBGisms are part of the monastic culture [1].

2002 October 23, c...@nospam.netunix.com, “Proposed addition to FAQ.”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26

>You yourself raised the encryption issue and certainly therefore know also that encryption keys used in firms etc. must be managed.
That's the job of the IT people. The executives know nothing about it, and lack the skills to evaluate the strength of an encryption algorithm (heck, many of them can't decode EBG13, never mind something stronger).

2012 September 10, Moe Trin, “Measures against malware propagation”, in comp.security.firewalls (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26

Sure hope they can spill/spell/whatever better'n this. Doesn't read rite, even in ebg13.

2016 May 22, Dennis Davis, “Re:Nicked from El Swear”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-26


software state

(computing) Data or information that is changed or manipulated throughout the runtime of a program.


software crisis

(computing, dated) The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of problems.


syntax error

(computer science) An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.


software assurance

(software engineering) The level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed or accidentally inserted at any time.


ASG

abstract semantic graph
w:abstract semantic graph

(computer science) Initialism of abstract semantic graph.


Y/N

PROCEED? [Y/N]


snoopware

If the snoopware was installed after the firewall, check the firewall's configuration screen. The software will probably have been added to the firewall's list of applications that are given permission to connect to the outside world.

2002, PC Mag, volume 21, number 13, page 103

(computing, informal) Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to steal confidential data.


lumel

(computer graphics) A texel in the texture map representing a lightmap.


b-hop

en-verb

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

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


multiserving

Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.

2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise

(Internet) The practice of designing separate versions of a website for various different types of mobile device, and serving the appropriate version to each visitor.


Strassen algorithm

(computing theory) An algorithm for matrix multiplication.


global illumination

(computer graphics) The realistic lighting of a rendered scene by means of algorithms that take into account not only the direct illumination from light sources but also the indirect cases where light is reflected between surfaces in the scene.


tone mapping

(computer graphics) The technique of mapping one set of colors to another, to approximate the appearance of a higher dynamic range than is actually available.


unfsckable

en-adj

unfsckable (comparative more unfsckable, superlative most unfsckable)

more unfsckable (comparative)
most unfsckable (superlative)

I was peacefully running a fairly stock black slab with 3.0 (no kernel servers, in particular) when my external 1.2GB drive flamed out sort of like Mark described, only more so: scores of media errors and bad sectors, crashes, kernel panics, etc. This built up gradually over about 5 days until my system was totally unbootable, unfsckable, and unusable.

1994 January 17, Deborah Howland, “3.2 crashes”, in comp.sys.next.bugs (Usenet)

I'm a fan of SCSI hard drives, and I like to set up ext3 with an external journal, ie. on a different physical drive, which speeds things up a bit, though at the cost of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard drive failures (if the journal drive dies you're likely to end up with an unfsckable mess on the data drive).

2003 October 8, Pigeon, “How to kill X?”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet)

Linux file system hopelessly corrupted and unfsckable. Despaired of losing all the data accumulated since the last CD backup, but then remembered an old Knoppix CD in the drawer. It detected all the partitions on the hdd, plus my USB stick, enabling a retrieve of my precious data.

2006 April 26, BrianM, “Knoppix is Kneat”, in nz.comp (Usenet)

(computing, of a filesystem) Unable to be repaired with fsck; highly corrupt.


Flickrite

FD’s first toy to achieve wide popularity allows you to make your own unofficial Flickr ID badge, suitable for laminating, as shown in Figure 7-4. This has become a popular meme on Flickr, and it’s a good way to identify yourself in public to other Flickrites.

2006, Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner, “Custom Applications”, in Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online, O’Reilly Media, hack #46 (Make a Motivational Poster and Other Swag), page 286

Other literacy activities on Flickr include rubric writing for groups, discussions in groups about images and their inferences, and, of course, when one Flickrite wishes to invite another to join a specific group.

2009, Julia Alison Davies, Guy Merchant, “Photo Sharing: Welcome to the World of Flickr”, in Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies; volume 33), Peter Lang, page 46

Other Flickrites and deviants told us that they add content to their favorites because it helps them to communicate their appreciation to the photographer or artist (using the document affordance as an inter-action affordance).

2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, page 1710

(Internet) Someone who uses the photo-sharing website Flickr.


black-hat hacker

en-noun

black-hat hacker (plural black-hat hackers)


dogstagram

Carve a creative space with your dog-stagram, with your people-who-matter-stagram, or your inner palm sketchpad.

2014 January, Reuben G. Krabbe, “The Art of a Ski Bum: Getting Creative with It”, in The Capilano Courier, volume 47, number 13, page 15

The Best Dogstagram Accounts You Should Be Following

2015 September 18, Jessica Duffy, Void, archived from the original on 2022-05-28

“I have been thinking about starting a dogstagram,” I confessed.

2019, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 3: Also a Romantic Comedy

Krammer never expected to gain such a large fan base, but he said he enjoys the friendly, passionate dog community that emerged from Blodgett’s outreach. “I had enough friends that were pushing me (to make an account),” Krammer said. “It’s been really fun just because there’s been a ton of people that have shown up, and there’s this really sweet community that’s been born specifically out of the dogstagram, so we interact with so many people from around the world.[…]”

2020 February 20, Elena Waldman, “Blodgett the Great proves sky’s the limit”, in The Rocky Mountain Collegian, volume 129, number 44, page 19

This paper examines the phenomenon of dogstagrams on the social media platform Instagram.

2020 August 6, Karli Brittz, “Dog Stories in the Digital Age: Dogstagrams as Digital Tales of Becoming with Companion Species”, in Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, volume 5, number 1, page 41

The hive mind does us all a favor by acting as a check for all the would-be dogstagram accounts for which there was no demand.

2020 September 18, Maddie Bender, “Consider the Hot Dog”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLIII, number 3, New Haven, Conn., page B3

Better yet, do you have a favorite Canine YouTuber, Dogstagram or a dog of Tik Tok?[…]PLATFORM #2: DOGSTAGRAMS

2021 August, Niccole Rumans, “Make Your Dog a Superstar”, in Fur Mama Mini Magazine, number 1

Kristian would like to send a shout out to his mom, abuela, and sister, as well as his dogstagram @bowowbikic.

The platform is flooding with dogstagram accounts that are a major relief from the toxicity that can come with the social media world.[…]We have some dogstagram accounts to bless your feed.[…]The complimentary subtitles in each of their videos is just the best part about their dogstagram account.[…]Her dogstagram is extremely aesthetic and so dreamy.[…]She often comes with her accomplice Shaun, who also has a dogstagram.

2022 April 18, Vasudha Sabharwal, “13 Of The Most Heart-Warming Instagram Accounts For Every Dog Lover”, in ScoopWhoop

Maybe dogs can finally have their own dogstagram which isn’t handled by a human posting on their behalf.

2022 June 21, Ameen Fatima, “The Future Of Review: The Future Is Bright and Full of Possibilities”, in LeisureByte, Teeny Media

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on a dog.


LiveJournaler

“It sounds a little odd, but my first gay kiss, my first gay bar experience, my first gay friend—all a result of LiveJournal,” he says with a laugh. “And all with LiveJournalers.”

Languages thus seemed to be employed also to a symbolic function, i.e. not necessarily in connection to the bloggers’ level of language proficiency: “the frequency of this practice suggests that many LiveJournalers, even those who lack the linguistic or non-verbal means to interact directly with speakers of other languages, are aware that LJ is a cosmopolitan environment, and orient to that fact, albeit superficially” (Herring et al. 2007: n.p.).

2007, Susan Herring et al., article; quoted in Paola Vettorel, “Bloggers as ELF users”, in English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, section 1 (LiveJournal.com), subsection 4 (Languages on LJ), page 103

There isn’t definitive research on the differences between LiveJournal users and Xanga users, but the perception is that Xanga skews younger and is more popular with Asian teens while LiveJournalers tend to be more artsy or “emo.”

2007 March, Anastasia Goodstein, “Diaries Go Digital”, in Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, section “What Is a Blog?”, subsection “The Teen Blogging Landscape”, page 29

Unfortunately, there weren’t enough LiveJournalers in my immediate area to have a Meetup, and it didn’t seem worth it to travel down to New York City for a LiveJournalers Meetup.

2008, Aldon Hynes, “A Coder Becomes a Political Activist”, in Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics, Boulder, Colo., London: Paradigm Publishers, section “Discovering Dean: “The Real Thing””, page 88

LiveJournalers love quizzes. What kind of hobbit are you? Are you a great lover? What planet are you most like? Which character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone compares their results. Harmless fun.

2008 April 29, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 2010, page 147

Many LiveJournalers choose not to use real names when discussing people online, instead electing to assign pseudonyms or just initials.

2009, Rebecca Bley, “RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online Life”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, part 2 (Sociological Perspectives on Fandoms), chapter section ““Opt-In Filters,” Pseudonyms, and the Role of the Audience”, page 58

Specifying age groups helped ensure variation of age within the sample. This is important in light of suggestions that most bloggers are between the ages of 13 and 19 (Bortree, 2005; Henning, 2003) – a trend that is also reflected in the demographic characteristics of LiveJournal users. These criteria were met by using LiveJournal’s advanced search feature. For example, a search would be performed for LiveJournalers from Melbourne between the ages of 30–40 who had updated in the last month (at 4 April 2006, such a search produces about 270 blogs).

2012, Ted Gaiser, Anthony Schreiner, “The World of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis and Websites”, in Jason Hughes, editor, SAGE Internet Research Methods (SAGE Library of Research Methods), volumes IV (Research ‘On’ and ‘In’ the Internet – Investigating the Online World), SAGE Publications, page 79

Every LiveJournaler had their own style. Some people wrote exclusively about one topic. Others wrote about all kinds of things.

2017, Alexandra Franzen, You’re Going to Survive, Mango Publishing

TheFerrett is the fifth-most popular LiveJournaler of all time as of July 2016.

2020, Lena Buford, “A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community”, in Batsheva Ben-Amos, Dan Ben-Amos, editors, The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, Indiana University Press, page 437

(Internet) A user of the social networking service LiveJournal.


load factor

(computing) The proportion of the buckets in a hash table which contain entries.


radblr

Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.

2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter

My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU

2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter

tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀

2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine moms).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter

waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


radtwt

do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?

2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter

i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward

i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.

2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Twitter.


Slashdotter

On the popular hacker hangout Slashdot.com, wags stoke rumors that a “major software company” will soon offer free software—embedded with advertising. “Sounds like a nightmare waiting to be rebelled against,” says one poster, “NatePuri.” Fellow Slashdotter “el_flynn” doesn’t mind, “as long as there is an option to disable it.”

[…]unlike the iVillage audience, Slashdotters usually respect serious questions.

2001, Darren Sean Wershler-Henry, Mark Surman, Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community, page 257

According to one Slashdotter, Google solves all kinds of problems for society and provides most of its services for free, which prompts users to overlook Google’s infringements of privacy in order to target their ads and keeps them from hating Google.

2017, Sabrina Gabl, Verena E. Wieser, Andrea Hemetsberger, “Public Brand Auditing: A Pathway to Brand Accountability”, in Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse, Diego Rinallo, Russell W. Belk, editors, Consumer Culture Theory (Research in Consumer Behavior; volume 18), Emerald Group Publishing, part II (Revolutionizing the Market: Consumer Activism and Sustainability), page 158

(Internet) A user of the social news website Slashdot.


shadow mapping

(computing, computer graphics) A process by which shadows are added to 3D computer graphics.


NLI

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

natural-language interpretation
w:natural-language understanding

(artificial intelligence) Initialism of natural-language interpretation.


NMT

en-noun

NMT (countable and uncountable, plural NMTs)

Such wonderful guidance assists models in specific tasks such as NMT, which is a many-to-many task.

2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […], Packt Publishing Ltd, page 26

neural machine translation
w:neural machine translation

(machine learning) Initialism of neural machine translation.


NLU

NLU (countable and uncountable, plural NLUs)

Coordinate term: NLG

natural-language understanding
w:natural-language understanding

(uncountable, artificial intelligence) Initialism of natural-language understanding.


Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm

the Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm (canonical)

Published by Don Coppersmith and Shmuel Winograd in 1990.

(computer science) An algorithm for matrix multiplication.


street BASIC

street BASIC (countable and uncountable, plural street BASICs)

The term was introduced by computer scientists Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny.

Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.

1988, Cynthia Solomon, Computer Environments for Children, page 94

In 1984, BASIC's original developers responded to what they saw as the problems of “street Basic” by introducing True BASIC, a modern, well-structured version of the language, and the 1988 ANSI BASIC standard incorporated similar features.

2009, Harry Henderson, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, page 40

(programming, derogatory) Any variety of the BASIC programming language that lacks good structure and encourages poor programming practices.


Coppersmith's attack

(mathematics, cryptography) A kind of cryptographic attack on the RSA cryptosystem, based on the Coppersmith method.


Coppersmith method

Coppersmith's attack
Coppersmith's attack

(mathematics, cryptography) A method of finding small integer zeros of univariate or bivariate polynomials modulo a given integer. It forms the basis of Coppersmith's attack.


tacit programming

(programming) A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments.


point-free

Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.

2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, Simon and Schuster, page 104

(programming) Employing or relating to tacit programming.


twitface

(slang, derogatory, humorous, uncommon) An avid user of social media.


-twt

From a textspeak-style shortening of Twitter.

(Internet) A suffix combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users on the social media platform Twitter.


anitwt

hi if you're ready to convert to an anime accout I am here to guide u into anitwt

idk its that one side of anitwt that is really ugly the rest of us are just decent people who want to watch anime without being disgusting

2016 December 26, meeb ze dong (@azuraonlyfans), Twitter

anitwt is THE place to have every anime ridiculously spoiled and yet i still dont have any clue what the fuck that toilet anime is about

2020 October 18, zu has moved accs (@zuxkrul), Twitter

(fandom slang) The community of anime fans and anime-focused accounts on Twitter.


stantwt

From stan (“an extremely obsessive fan”) + -twt.

suffix

2 years ago today, i joined stantwt. in those two years, i've met so many people, learned so many new things.

the worst thing to happen on stantwt is no one interacting with you.

2021 March 11, billie (@80svisions), Twitter

I feel like we as a community should start describing more activities on stantwt as what they are: cyberbullying.

2022 March 3, Paulie (@paulieponzi), Twitter

(Internet slang) Synonym of Stan Twitter.


zanytwt

From zany + -twt. The choice of the word "zany" likely stems from the use of the phrase "zany to the max" in the Animaniacs theme song.

as an apology for not being active on zanytwt i offer these wakko pictures

2020 December 22, maple (@alfuraldric), Twitter

So i just got outta work idk whats going on in zanytwt but y’all please remember it’s totally 100% ok if people criticize the reboot

2021 January 20, Letsu (@Letsudraw), Twitter

HELP I straight up revived zanytwt from the grave

2022 June 29, Etching to Sketching (@wesleylj12), Twitter

(fandom slang) The community of fans of the Animaniacs franchise on Twitter.


Quizzy

From an affectionate shortening of inquisitor + -y.

I'm just glad that I can't lose approval with Cullen. He hearts my Quizzy no matter what. TRUE LOVE GUYS TAKE NOTE.

2014 December 24, Ash (@LadyFaceshred), Twitter

Most of my DA art is of Fenris and Hawke (male) or my elf Quizzies and Iron Bull.

2018 November 29, Diana Davidsson (@Omegasama_art), Twitter

FINALLY played The Decent DLC with a dwarf Quizzy and I flippin love it more than ever.

2022 June 1, Jen (@jentrevellan), Twitter

(fandom slang, video games) The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Femquisitor

You know what's nice? The Qunari Femquisitor is taller than everyone else. Yes. Good.

2014 June 11, Bryce (@robothyenas), Twitter

Been looking at too many cool Femquisitors and now I want to restart again :(

2015 January 8, Garrus Dating Sim (@aitchsee), Twitter

i fucking love blackwall, his romance is SO underrated. when i'm playing a femquisitor, he's the one i default to. 💖

2020 December 15, ϯ♄𝚎 ƃစဌ 𝜛ῑϯ⸦♄ (@dalishkadan), Twitter

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


FemHawke

Daaawwww. 2nd playthrough of DA2 and my FemHawke Mage just had the 1st romance scene with Anders. So cute.

2011 March 15, Rexluna (@RexlunaCosplay), Twitter

I also have one male Hawke and all the rest are FemHawkes.

2013 March 2, MsinVader47 (@Vader47), Twitter

Pretty sure that Ciri is voiced by the same VA as FemHawke in DA2.... giving me all the Dragon Age feels.

2015 June 17, Kelly (@mindofgeekness), Twitter

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Hawke player character from the video game Dragon Age II.


blorbo from my shows

en-noun

blorbo from my shows (plural blorbos from my shows)

From a December 2021 post by Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid complaining about enthusiastic reblogs: "Bitches will be like 'prev tags omg' on my post and I check the preg^([sic – meaning prev]) tags and it's like ‘blorbo from my shows.'"

no one can make me feel bad for talking excessively about blorbo from my shows

2022 January 7, Turner (@shiraseceo), Twitter

my fatal flaw is that i can’t live my life without depending on blorbos from my shows for serotonin

can’t talk right now, gotta meticulously curate a playlist for blorbo from my shows

2022 March 28, eerie indiana (@indybree), Twitter

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) A fictional character or celebrity of whom one is especially fond.


clussy

clussy (countable and uncountable, plural clussies)

Blend of clown + pussy. This gained attention with the character Geiru Toneido from the Ace Attorney video game series.

Going to a circus for some clownjobs and wet clussy.

2018 March 9, Otto Fuchs (@ValeFuchs), Twitter

come collect this clussy🎈[two selfies of the tweeter cosplaying a gender-swapped Pennywise]

2019 May 25, shannon (@babyybatt), Twitter

Been seeing a lot of people thirsting for some clussy from the clown girl in ace attorney 🤡

2022 June 28, XyroNi (@XyroNi09), Twitter

(slang, humorous) The vagina of a clown; by extension, sex with a clown.


blorbo

i love it when fictional characters have their birthdays established it literally serves no purpose. there is no reason. nothing but joy of "oh today is my little blorbo's birthday" and saying birthday wishes into the void

2022 January 27, lesbians for edelgard (@C0REZI), Twitter

Waiting for my blorbo to return to my screen like a WWII housewife waiting for her husband

2022 February 27, Sarah Z (@marysuewriter), Twitter

love it when a hockey twitter blorbo gets traded and I find out that he's not nearly as good as I just assumed he was

2022 March 15, Beata (@CBeataE), Twitter

Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.

2023 October 31, Olivia Waite, “A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels”, in The New York Times

blorbo from my shows
blorbo from my shows#English

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) Ellipsis of blorbo from my shows.