A retro meme that fondly satirises absurd technical language is still bringing engineers joy, finds Annalee Newitz, who is ready for the crypto version
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A COUPLE of weeks ago, I stumbled across a strange video on YouTube called “SANS ICS HyperEncabulator”. In it, a suave man in a suit explained this new “cybersecurity” machine, gesturing at an impressive refrigerator-sized device, hailing its ability to be “sinosinclastic without sacrificing both normative reality and AI-informed modalities”. He then explained that a previous generation of this device, the retro-encabulator, was made with “prefabulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing”. Not so with the HyperEncabulator! Unlike its predecessors, he said, the HyperEncabulator “operates totally under the principle of colonic effluvium expulsion”.
I had to know more. After …