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LPE is a very well-known acronym within the security community, it's not purely academic or obscure or anything. I agree that it would be a good idea to define
by arcfour 5mo ago
LPE is a very well-known acronym within the security community, it's not purely academic or obscure or anything.
I agree that it would be a good idea to define it explicitly when writing for a broader audience, but I don't think it's particularly egregious that they didn't. It's certainly something I could see myself forgetting.
Then again, the whole writeup appears to be AI-generated, so...
- globular-toast 5mo agoSure, but the target audience of copy.fail is surely not the security community but regular sysadmins who probably don't otherwise follow as closely.
- a96 5mo agoI would absolutely expect a sysadmin in particular to know and understand the term and acronym.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoIt's still just courteous to define acronyms on first use, it doesn't take any real effort to do that.
- a96 5mo agoVery much true, and I would never criticize that. Just that this term would be particularly obscure to a sysadmin which seems completely backwards.
- plg94 5mo agoUnderstanding a term with the help of context is very different from guessing what the letters of an acronym might mean. The latter is more like a crosswords puzzle, and a totally unneccessary task for the reader.
- globular-toast 5mo agoWell I would expect a sysadmin to have already been following the kernel mailing lists and not even need to look at copy.fail. In fact, why do people even write stuff down? Everyone should just know everything.
- 1970-01-01 5mo agoIt is nowhere near this. There are very few acronyms in the IT world that are actually well-known outside of it. LPE is less well-known than LVAD or MCU. https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/MCU.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/MCU.htm... https://www.acronymfinder.com/LVAD.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/LVAD.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/LPE.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/LPE.htm...
- dataflow 5mo ago> LPE is less well-known than LVAD or MCU. I knew what LPE stands for but not the others. (I've seen MCU mentioned and kinda had a vague feeling for what it is. Never even seen LVAD.)