culture: add glossary

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+title = "culture"
+description = "the culture of murderu.us"
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+
+# the game
+
+"""
+A game, The sole object of which is to not remember that you are playing it. As
+soon as you remember that it exists, you have lost and must start again.
+"""
+- [James Dunckley](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game)
+
+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)
+
+"""
+This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being
+published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after
+the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and
+republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process,
+he essentially destroyed what held it together...
+"""
+- jpd (The Original Hacker's Dictionary)
+
+The Hacker's Dictionary, also known as JARGON.TXT or the "jargon file", was a
+glossary of informal terms used by Lisp hackers at the Massachusetts Institute
+of Technology. Then it was commandeered by Eric Raymond and turned into a
+glossary of informal or formal terms used by Lisp or Unix hackers or suits
+wherever an Internet connection or a bookstore with a computing section can be
+found.

be/game/index.m4

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-define(`_DESCRIPTION', `a loss cause')dnl
-define(`_PAGE', `game')dnl
-include(`../wiki.m4')dnl
-
-_header(`Game')
-
-_passage(`_link(`James Dunckley', `https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game')', `
-<P>
-A game, The sole object of which is to not remember that you are playing it. As soon as you remember that it exists, you have lost and must start again.
-</P>')
-
-<P>
-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.
-</P>
-
-include(`../tail.m4')dnl