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Why on earth would you create a directory named "files"?

How utterly stupid of me to think that the debian package containing srm(1) (https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/secure-delete/srm.1.en.html) would be named "srm".

#namingThings

When we say "struct" we generally are referring to C structs. Now that Go, Rust, etc, implement structs that sort of act like classes, should we start explicitly calling them C structs to differentiate from Go/Rust structs?

#terminology #nomenclature #namingthings #reversing #appsec

Naming things in software is hard (just like cache invalidation).

Renaming things can even be harder.

I wonder what the best strategy is if the entire company/brand is renamed, but the name has inevitably leaked deeply into code. Namespaces, package prefixes, S3 bucket names, you name it.

Keep the old name forever, even for new stuff for consistency?

Rename as much as realistic, leave the rest as "legacy"?

Use the new name for new stuff, keep the old one for existing?

#NamingThings

Speichertest war erfolgreich, #Fedora 43 ist installiert und aktualisiert. Bevor ich jetzt aber weitermache: wie nenne ich ihn bloß?

#NamingThings

What is it with people naming things without thinking?

There is a daycare / early childhood education business in a strip mall in my city, with a big sign out front advertising itself.

The business name on that sign? "ONCE UPON A CHILD".

Scout's honour. Sheesh!

#name #naming #NamingThings #business #inappropriate #WTF #wat #sheesh

Mit einer der jungen Katzen beim #Tierarzt. "Ah, das ist also Flip" "Nein, Braxton" "Aber in der Akte steht Flip!" "Das mag sein, aber K4 ist ausgezogen, jetzt sitzen wir mit dem Biestern da. Und ab jetzt heißt sie Braxton" #NamingThings #AG60plus #gewaltfreieKommunikation

#AutoTune software adjusts the frequency - the pitch - of musical elements like a singer's voice, musical instruments, or what have you, to fix them being off-key or out-of-tune. Whether autotune is an excellent tool for musicians and producers, or a blight on the listener's ear is out of scope for the discussion here 😉 .

The pitch gets adjusted up and down automatically to ensure it stays at the correct note, rather than drifting into the no-man's land between semitones. Up and down to just the right discrete values, like a certain people conveyance device common in tall buildings.

I just wanted to say that if there isn't already autotune software named "Elevator Pitch", there should be.

#idea #name #NamingThings #ElevatorPitch #pitch #software #elevator #music #producer #production #audio

In a stunning display of product management, Microsoft Power Automate has launched two entirely different features called "process map".

2023 feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-automate/microsoft-power-automate-process-mining-is-generally-available/

2025 feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-automate/announcing-the-process-map-public-preview-in-power-automate/

#PowerAutomate #PowerPlatform #namingthings

Power Automate documentation: process map vs. process map. Including the Spiderman meme.

How would you prefer to name macros that generate syscalls in assembly?

#namingthings #syscalls #assembly #asm #shellcode

Is there a canonical Assembly term for instructions or operands that are dependent on the byte offset of the instruction within the assembled/encoded output (ex: jmps to labels or RIP-relative operands)? Is Position-Dependent-Instruction a thing?

#asm #assembly #namingthings

What is the opposite of a rule-based scanner (i.e. takes an input value and returns discovered output values)? What do you call that? A value-based scanner? Is there a Wikipedia page listing the various categories/classifications of security scanners?

#infosec #namingthings

@wyatt I read your post and began to fear that I had misnamed my Game Boy and Game Boy Advance ports of 240p Test Suite. https://github.com/pinobatch/240p-test-mini

"#240p" means 256x240 on an #NES, 320x240 on a bunch of devices, or 400x240 on a #Nintendo3DS Top Screen. And in analog video, it even ends up including devices like #MSX and #NintendoDS that generate roughly System M timings (15.7 kHz by 60 Hz), even if the top and bottom borders are so thick that only 192 lines actually have picture. (#GameBoy and #GBA don't count as "240p" because their horizontal frequency is lower.)

#240pTestSuite #NamingThings

Thanks for the help ref https://fediscience.org/@sbrl/113726310893898548, Fediverse :fediverse:! 💕 I thought I'd do a poll of some of the suggestions.

Vote will decide the name, tho I will have the final say o/ 📊

#AI #SelfHosting #OpenSource #SearchEngines #WellOneImBuilding #NamingThings #IsHard #NamingThingsIsHard #TheHigherCharacterLimitIsAwesome

HELP ME Fediverse :fediverse: ! 🥺 I need a name for an open source :opensource: project I'm working on. Please suggest anything in comments! I'm kinda stumped.

It's a self-hosted AI-enhanced image search engine - see rough design sketches attached.

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The Plan™:

Basically it'll index all images in a given directory with 2 mechanisms:

1. Exif / meta data + filepaths
2. AI (currently CLIP) embeddings → vector DB

....then there'll be a web interface that lets you enter search terms & filter by various things like filename, exif fields, etc

Quite early in development, but got the embedding worker done today!

Aim is for it to run comfortably on a Raspberry Pi 4 that also has other things running on it.

Still to do:

- 🌐 Web interface
- 🌄 Exif indexer
- 🥔 Quantise CLIP etc for lower resource usage, go looking for better models
- :opensource: Open source the code, but need a name for the project first!
- 💭 Lotsa stuff I forget

Tech:
- 🟢 Node.js (pure JS libraries where possible)
- 🍇 VectorDB: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hnsw (potential issue: this is in-memory or IndexedDB)
- 🌄 Exif DB: https://www.npmjs.com/package/njodb ('cause I hate working with databases 'cause they're boring - sql ESP)
- :python: Python worker 4 embedding/AI stuff: PyTorch, CLIP

#AI #SelfHosting #OpenSource #NamingThings #IsHard #NamingThingsIsHard