• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    What I meant was I know daemon as a computer term, so it tends to get used in cyberpunk. It’s an old term for, without looking it up (so I’m not sure if it’s 100% accurate but it’s my understanding), a program that runs in the background, like a service rather than a user-facing application.

    Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if the English word “demon” comes from the Old English “daemon” in much the same way that today’s English (British) people say “encyclopaedia” or “paediatrician”; American English drops one of the two vowels and English keeps them, whereas once the letters were fused (I’m not sure what the term is).

    Anyway, thanks for the recommendation.

    • Maldaya@sh.itjust.works
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      33 minutes ago

      Thanks for the background! I didn’t know all the cyberpunk/computer context of the word. I was just using daemons as shorthand for the anime. The His Dark Materials series also has Daemons, but those are essentially animal representations of a piece of your soul.