#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

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

What's a more understandable name for a regular expression that matches floating point numbers in text?

#namingthings

What do you call the individual numbers or parts of a version number (ex: 1.2.3.beta3)?

#namingthings #versionnumbers

Utopia is a documentary, exhibit 622

https://www.ato.gov.au/media-centre/mygovid-being-renamed-myid

"In mid-November 2024, the Australian Government’s Digital ID app, myGovID, will be renamed to myID."

(cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgV4a3BaiyA)

#auspol #namingthings

When you refer to a UNIX/Linux/macOS/BSD or sh/bash/zsh command payload, what do you common refer to them as?

#namingthings #payloads

and how would you group Windows PowerShell command payloads in a directory structure of other payloads?
#namingthings #payloads

How would you group Windows cmd.exe command payloads in a directory structure of other payloads?
#namingthings #payloads

When you see $'\x68\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f' what do you think of?
#namingthings

When you see 6c73202d6c61 what do you think of?
#namingthings

#ProgressiveWebApps (#PWAs) can act as a #shareTarget for other #apps on #Android.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/share_target

So when I added this feature to my app, it seemed fine to call the url `/share`.

And when I saved them to the #database I just went with it and named the table `shares`.

But here's the thing; I have my app installed on my phone too. I use the `share` feature to "post" to my website.

So, now my posts go in the `shares` table.

#webDev #programming #namingThings

What is the canonical attribute name that you'd recognize for the remote IP and port that sent an HTTP request to a server. Rack and async-http have different naming conventions, and I'd like to pick the most recognizable naming convention for my Value object which represents an HTTP request.
#ruby #namingthings #http

@OBDsity

I'm pretty sure this one needs a heroic name.

Cookie the Destroyer, that sort of thing. Ideas?

#hero #epic #RabbitsOfMastodon #NamingThings

Naming things is hard. #namingThings