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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities

I'll start:

  • Firewall
  • Virtual Memory
  • Single source of truth
  • Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)

Your turn

Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names

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[–] dragonshouter@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago

Shielded Twisted Wire rootkit worm recursive loop MAC address( kinda like a true name i guess) Administrator control

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago
  • Ring zero
  • Bootkit/Rootkit
  • Attacker in the middle
  • Intercepting proxy
  • Daemon
[–] outstanding_bond@mander.xyz 15 points 10 hours ago
  • rowhammer
  • rainbow table
  • global interpreter lock
  • race condition (atrocity?)
  • core dump
[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 hours ago

Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn

B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally

Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.

Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Bounds execption: Allows larger objects to fit in smaller containers, ritual spell effective for 1 day, can be upcast to increase amount of "overfill", some check when retrieving the item for a chance of "corruption" (small chance to retrieve a different item, or have the "overfill" become something different like have the outer edge of a bar of gold be meat)

Paralellization: High level time magic, Allows the target multiple turns to be taken simultaneously, but an equivalent cooldown afterwards (waiting for all threads or jobs to return before being able to continue), so 3 turns at once means 2 turns the target can't do anything after.

Split brain configuration: Allows focusing on multiple concentration checks/spells at once. This could also be called paralellization, or multithreaded.

Pass By Reference enchantment: requires two identical items. Once enchanted, changes to one happen to both. Room for all sorts of shenanigans.

Private field: cast on an area to prevent entry/visibility into it by unauthorized entities. Sounds inside are not audible to unauthorized entities outside of it.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
  • Hypervisor
  • time daemon
  • privilege escalation
[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 4 points 9 hours ago

The Privilege Escalation hits hard

[–] xtrapoletariat 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
  • Brute Force Attack
  • Markov Chain
  • Singular Matrix
  • Pow
  • map
  • bind
  • variable name (thief's favorite)
  • Ballmer Peak
  • Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
  • Gaussian Elimination
  • Double
[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 hours ago

This just reinforces that one short of piratesoftware saying all programmers are wizards.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G7L6mQxlfVU

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 15 hours ago

Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort

Go - Same as "command" spell

Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know

Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host

Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed

Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.

Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts

Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Default Gateway

Split Horizon

Routing Overhead

Broadcast Storm

edit:fkn markdown

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.

1st level wild shape ability byte.
4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
9th level wild shape ability terabyte

Bonus 0th level ability: nibble

[–] psud@aussie.zone 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ping of death

Bash

Vim (clearly a buff)

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 16 hours ago

Vim (clearly a buff)

That's some grand wizard who's made some named spells. Vim's Inescapable Hut being the most known one.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
  • Big endian (a very powerful NPC)
  • Hardware abstraction (a spell that makes all the stuff disappears)
  • Obfuscation (invisibility spell)
  • Multiplexing (ability to cast several spells as one)
  • Dangling reference (when wrong information is given by somebody)
  • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
  • Pure virtual method (anything somebody learned but will never use)
  • Diamond inheritance (when someone in the party dies and all of their money is spread accross the others)

Can you tell what's my job?

[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 2 points 16 hours ago

We have a winner!

[–] cranberryjam@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 20 hours ago
  • Terminal shell
  • Kill daemon
  • Timeshift
  • Cloud hosting
  • Ethernet
  • Overwrite memory
  • Free memory
  • Poison artifical intelligence
[–] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago
[–] Davel23@fedia.io 67 points 23 hours ago

Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.

[–] cowdoy@lemmy.ca 64 points 23 hours ago

World wide web would be an OP spell

[–] apotheotic 7 points 17 hours ago

Volatile Memory

PEBCAK

Secrets

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Flash

Rest endpoint

[–] Thyrian@ttrpg.network 7 points 17 hours ago
  • scroll snapping
  • unit tests
  • vulnerability
  • fastboot
  • root access
  • abstraction level
  • unity framework
[–] Rin@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago
  • Higher order function
  • Rijndael cypher
  • Serpent cypher
[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 7 points 17 hours ago

Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.

[–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WadeTheWizard@fedia.io 18 points 22 hours ago

One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 45 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I am a level 17 Install Wizard.

[–] pyrflie@lemm.ee 8 points 22 hours ago

The Wizard requests permission to edit the Registry.

[–] wilecoyote@programming.dev 24 points 22 hours ago

Dependency injection

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 27 points 23 hours ago

Halt and Catch Fire

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 26 points 23 hours ago

CAT5e sounds like a fifth-edition ruleset

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

Float Double Execute Polymorphism Shell

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 13 points 22 hours ago

Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.

Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.

Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.

Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 11 points 23 hours ago

Spoofing

Cryptojacking

[–] OmegaPillar@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
  • Semaphore
  • Spanning tree
  • Spinlock
  • Recursive function
[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

BSOD - BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD ☠️

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Beat me too it! Blue Screen of Death - a wall that freezes and blinds all players and can only be countered by force-reboot. Found only in the most popular rpg game that's also played by non-rpg-ers and is derised by hardcore rpg-ers!

Additonal power - Also causes infinite ping in mmorpgs

[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 20 hours ago
  • Bootloader
  • Filesystem
  • Reboot
  • Printer (that's the end boss)
  • sudo
  • Container
  • Virtual Machine
  • Fail over
  • Backup
  • Restore
[–] Forester@yiffit.net 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Truncate

Force

Purge

Decimate

Warp transform

Innumerate

Checksum

Out of memory crash

Stuck process

Orphaned process

Killed child process

Force killed child process

Child workers

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Null
Null Modem
Crossover Cable
Null Modem Cable with Handshake
Request to Send

Edit:
Proxy
Reverse Proxy

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
  • TWAIN
  • daemon
  • Gopher
  • Kerberos
  • Oracle
  • Patch
  • ping
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Samba
  • Swing
  • troff
  • Vim
  • zip
  • tar
  • compress
  • deflate
  • Opus
  • Flac
  • Frostwire
  • Prodigy
  • USENET
  • nano
  • pico
  • Ethernet
  • Firewire
  • Wayland