From 41e830afd617d48e5cd7d84955737222381041c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DTB Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 22:44:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] culture: add glossary --- be/culture.md | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) diff --git a/be/culture.md b/be/culture.md index bde2fab..a8c6ea1 100644 --- a/be/culture.md +++ b/be/culture.md @@ -15,6 +15,105 @@ Played in the halls of schools and on the walls of BBSes, the Game is an early cognitovirus that has drawn ire for its unwinnable nature; nobody who knows of the Game has won, yet nobody who's won has ever known of the Game. + +# glossary + +Terms come from murderu.us chat participants, usually originating in popular or +hacker culture. Any word can be used as any part of speech. Spelling is not a +priority on murderu.us; terms may not be presented in their canonical form or +used in chat in the form in which they are present here. + +If a word isn't here it may be in the jargon file, on WikiWikiWeb (the C2 +wiki), or from another language. + +- *2hu* - Touhou. +- *9* - Plan 9 from Outer Space, or related. +- *aaron* - Aaron Swartz, prolific late hacktivist. +- *ackshually* - an overenunciation of "actually", used when the user knows + they're being pedantic but still wishes to correct someone else. +- *bang* - ASCII 0x21. Used in place of a full stop when the user is excited. +- *bashism* - a feature exclusive to the GNU utility bash(1), which someone + probably tried or will try to use in a shell that doesn't support it. +- *bit* - the atomic unit of data, or 12.5 cents. +- *blackhat* - cybersecurity dabbler operating outside of the law. +- *bwk* - Brian W. Kernighan, best known for his work on UNIX and for + co-writing K&R. +- *catb* - The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the title of esr's influential 1997 + essay. Taken from esr's domain name [catb.org]. +- *catv* - either the "random internet contrarian organization" [cat-v.org], + the presentation [UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful + ](http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/) after which [catv.org] was named, or the + option to the UNIX cat(1) utility that the presentation complains about. +- *client* - the program being used to access a networked application, + typically hosted by a server. +- *coc* - Code of Conduct. Most unpopular with the type of person that warrants + the creation of one. +- *cw* - short for "content warning" and usually followed by a brief + explanation for the warning. +- */cyb/* - short for cyberpunk or cybernetics, or an occasional cyberpunk + thread on /g/. +- *drew* - Drew DeVault, best known for writing SourceHut. +- *daraps* - Dylan Araps, best known for writing the shell script neofetch(1). + Now a farmer. +- *dmr* - Dennis M. Ritchie, best known for his work with UNIX and C. +- *dox* - expose personally identifiable information, typically location. +- *eep* - sleep. +- *esr* - Eric Scott Raymond, best known for writing catb. +- *fuaark* - "fuck", but /cyb/. +- */g/* - 4chan's technology board. +- *gayming* - pejorative spelling of "gaming". +- *good morning* - a greeting used regardless of local time. +- *good night* - a parting used regardless of local time. +- *grayhat* - person whose day job is being a whitehat but who also acts as a + blackhat. +- *grok* - see the jargon file. Understand in a comprehensive way. +- *impl* - implementation. +- *interrobang* - Unicode U+203D; visually, a bang on top of a question mark. + Used in place of a full stop when the user is excitedly confused, or + flabbergasted. +- *jwz* - Jamie Werner Zawinsky, best known for his work on Netscape Navigator. +- *ken* - Ken Thompson, best known for his work on UNIX. +- *larp* - live action role play; pose as a more grandiose figure. +- *lions* - either John Lions, the professor at the University of New South + Wales, or the commentary on the UNIX source code for which he's known. +- *metaspinoza* - former Instagram microcelebrity known for posting image + macros relating to philosophy. Now a farmer. +- *nebraska guy complex* - the belief that one is simultaneously unknown and an + individually crucial figure for the continued working of the world's + computers; a reference to xkcd #2347. +- *neet* - not employed, in education, or in training. +- *netshy* - afraid of conversing in an on-line space. +- *rabbit rabbit* - said upon waking up at the start of a month for good luck. +- *rekt* - killed brutally. +- *rms* - Richard M. Stallman, best known for founding GNU. +- *rtfm* - read the fucking manual. +- *sepples* - the C++ programming language. +- *shiggydiggy* - like, but in a groovy manner. +- *shill* - to advertise obnoxiously, possibly in exchange for payment. +- *snarf* - snarf. +- *subgeneral* - from trinity in murderu.us#subgeneral (2024-05-10T1942MST): + "way way way back when this xmpp server was a discord for myself and the + people in my high school, this guy i knew got shitfaced and started hitting + on everyone. i made a new channel named drunk tank where i put him to cordon + him off from the rest of people without being mean to him because i didnt + wanna huwt his feewings. drunk tank became subgeneral after i fell down the + discordianism rabbit hole, general was kinda meaningless so i deleted it, + channels collapsed, and now years later it is subgeneral and media on + murderu.us" +- *terry* - Terry A. Davis, best known for writing TempleOS. +- *torvalds* - Linus Torvalds, best known for creating Linux. +- *uriel* - late founder of catv. +- *vaxry* - pseudonymous developer best known for writing Hyprland. +- *vore* - swallow whole. Usually used to refer to the fetish. +- *vuln* - vulnerability. +- *wagie* - pejorative term for someone working hourly for minimum wage or + close to it. +- *whitehat* - cybersecurity professional who operates within the law, serving + Capital. +- *wm4* - pseudonymous creator of mpv. +- *wpd* - watchpeopledie. + + # the hacker's dictionary - [The Original Hacker's Dictionary](https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html)