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This title is interesting, because "Auth" (Authoritarian) and "Lib" (Liberal/Libertarian) are both used to denote opposite ends of the vertical axis of the "pol

This title is interesting, because "Auth" (Authoritarian) and "Lib" (Liberal/Libertarian) are both used to denote opposite ends of the vertical axis of the "political compass."

debdut 4y ago
ok no politics
kyrra 4y ago
We actually stopped using "auth" on my team and adjacent teams because it is such an overloaded term. The main things we have to deal with are authentication versus authorization, and people use auth regularly for both. So we try to stop people from using it.
- teddyh 4y ago
  a12n vs. a11n?
  - duskwuff 4y ago
    authn vs. authz, actually.
    - jerf 4y ago
      I still don't love those. In my crazy personal web framework I went with "enticate" and "orize", just hacking the "auth" off the front. Unambiguous, and easy to keep straight, but probably not euphonious enough to ever catch on.
ss108 4y ago
I don't know anyone who uses "Auth" to refer to the right-wing of the political spectrum--where are you located?
- piperswe 4y ago
  They aren't referring to the left-right axis, but the up-down axis of the traditional two-axis political compass