(slang) Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which…
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(computing, slang) Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.
The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire lita…
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(film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has…
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