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📖 Glossary

  • SSO — single sign-on for all of NoCloud (Authelia).
  • PWA — the installable web app, with offline caching.
  • Snapshot — a full copy of the database taken before a write; lets you roll back.
  • dbsafe — the layer every database write passes through: a prior snapshot + change ledger.
  • Journal — the single append-only log of every archive operation: what changed, from what to what, and why. See Curating your archive.
  • Run / op_run — one batch of journaled operations (an import, a bulk date fix). The unit you revert: one command walks the whole batch backwards.
  • Sidecar (XMP) — a small metadata file written next to a photo (dates, tags, GPS) so the original bytes are never edited.
  • Quarantine — where a deduplicated loser or an uninstalled app's tables go: renamed and set aside, recoverable — not erased.
  • Review queue — where uncertain proposals wait for you to accept, override or reject them; nothing is applied until you resolve it. See Curating your archive.
  • Doctor — nocloud doctor, the 16-check diagnosis of an installation. See Platform.
  • Daemon — the small runtime API on the workstation that serves platform state and runs jobs on demand. See Platform.
  • Job registry — the single versioned list (config/jobs.yaml) of everything that runs on a schedule, with host, timeout and output.
  • Module / App Store — a section installed or removed from the App Store, with its own permission manifest.
  • Connector — a module with disclosed, boxed-in database-write access: it parses a file you drop and hands the rows to a shared ingest engine, never writing SQL itself. See The Store.
  • Ingest engine — the core's single, generic write boundary connectors use: validates every table and column name, binds every value as a parameter, and only allows a connector to write the tables its own manifest names.
  • Matrix — the open messaging standard; its event model is what the message archive uses.
  • ISO 20022 — a banking standard; its purpose codes (SALA, GDDS…) categorize movements.
  • MCC (ISO 18245) — a card merchant category code.
  • XDG Base Directory — a convention for where a tool's config, data and state live.
  • Point-and-count rule — building the infrastructure and counting, without the AI ever reading sensitive content.
  • Wright's coefficient — the fraction of shared blood between two people in the family tree.
  • Override — a manual rule that takes priority over automatic classification.
  • calc_ — the prefix for derived/precomputed fields.
  • Danger zone — the credential inventory in Settings → Account & security.