fibboleth

A shibboleth which no one actually believes, but lots of people cite as if others believed it.

"Everything on the Internet is true" -- what a fibboleth! I've never met anyone who believed that. Have you?

by Syntactical Disruptorize September 06, 2010

deturder

Any process which removes unsightly or stupid elements from a data stream.

I ran their stupid log output through the deturder, and now it's readable by some humans.

by Syntactical Disruptorize September 16, 2020