• tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    “Daemon”, for a process that is detached from your terminal

    That’s factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from “early” processes whose ancestors are not TTYs.

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      10 months ago

      No, seriously. Article probably means background processes. Maybe aplies to session-daemons or user-daemons. Other daemons (udev, logrotate) were started long before there was any shell.

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      10 months ago

      “Cascading Style Sheets”, just to mean that properties can be overridden

      This one is really wrong too. But I think his overall point is made clear by other examples. Nomenclature tends toward jargon in software culture.

      But that’s true in any field.