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Coordinated cutover for incompatible changes in software or protocols
A flag day (or flag day cutover) in computing and system administration is a planned change that requires many systems to be upgraded or converted in
Flag_day_(computing)
Topics referred to by the same term
Flag Day (United States) Flag day (computing), a large change Flag Day (film), a 2021 film by Sean Penn Flag Day (Hong Kong), a day for charity fundraising
Flag_Day_(disambiguation)
Technological ability to interact with older technologies
mode Computer compatibility Deprecation Downgrade attack Emulator Flag day (computing) Forward compatibility Legacy mode List of backward-compatible games
Backward_compatibility
2013 video game
that of Assassin's Creed III (2012), but its modern-day sequences succeed III's own. Black Flag was originally released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360,
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Assassin's_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag
Graphical representation of a user or a user's alter ego or character
In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona. Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums
Avatar_(computing)
Additional storage that enables faster access to main storage
In computing, a cache (/kæʃ/ KASH) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the
Cache_(computing)
Gender identities outside of the gender binary
people Agender pride flag Bigender pride flag Genderfluid pride flag Genderqueer pride flag Non-binary flag Trigender pride flag Non-binary gender symbol
Non-binary
Private university in Manila, Philippines
National Artist for Visual Arts in the Philippines.[citation needed] This flag design is a horizontal triband (specifically a fess) with a central charge
National University (Philippines)
National_University_(Philippines)
First letter of the Latin alphabet
ninth century, the Caroline script, which was very similar to the present-day form, was the principal form used in book-making, before the advent of the
A
Current calendar year
United States seizes two shadow fleet tankers, including one under a Russian flag, in the United States oil blockade during Operation Southern Spear. January
2026
Video-sharing platform
database. When a video is uploaded, it is checked against the database, and flags the video as a copyright violation if a match is found. When this occurs
YouTube
AI that generates content
Internet. In 2022, the United States New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductors to China imposed restrictions on exports to China of
Generative_AI
Date and time representation system widely used in computing
Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00
Unix_time
Latin letter H with circumflex
Esperanto flag
Ĥ
On-demand cloud computing provider
use more computing in times of high application usage, and then scale down to reduce costs when there is less traffic). These cloud computing web services
Amazon_Web_Services
Defunct computer company
Power Computing Corporation (often referred to as Power Computing) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers
Power_Computing_Corporation
Programming language learning environment
and arrange the blocks into scripts that can be run by pressing the green flag or clicking on the code itself. Users may also create their own code blocks
Scratch (programming language)
Scratch_(programming_language)
Flag at the University of Texas at Austin
The World's Largest Texas Flag is a Texas flag used by the stadium handlers of the Alpha Rho chapter of Alpha Phi Omega (ΑΦΩ or APO), a national co-ed
World's_Largest_Texas_Flag
Cloud storage management software
removed from the remote - more like the behaviour of rsync with a --delete flag:- $ rclone sync xmpl:/remote_stuff ~/stuff And to delete files from the source
Rclone
Attitudes and behaviors towards sex in ancient Rome
connexi), they mutually prostituted themselves in front of him to fire up his flagging desires. Most threesomes depict two men penetrating a woman. A medallion
Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome
Software interface based on commands formatted as lines of text
parameter name with a literal string is not likely. In many areas of computing, but particularly in the command line, the space character can cause problems
Command-line_interface
Women-only mobile phone app
check men for adultery, catfishing, criminal convictions and other "red flag" behaviors. Critics have described the app as a doxing tool and a violation
Tea_(app)
Ongoing armed conflict in West Asia
claims that any missiles were fired at Cyprus. The Palau-flagged Skylight and Marshall Islands-flagged MKD VYOM tankers were targeted off Oman's coast. Shipping
2026_Iran_war
2025 Android mobile operating system
and measuring text vertically. A new flag, VERTICAL_TEXT_FLAG, has been added to the Paint class. When this flag is set, Paint's text measurement APIs
Android_16
Messaging and VoIP service owned by Meta
Becker; Hu, Jiankun; Fan, Chun I.; Mármol, Félix Gómez (eds.). Security in Computing and Communications: 5th International Symposium, SSCC 2017. Springer.
Businessman and public official (born 1971)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. At age ten, he developed an interest in computing and video games, teaching himself how to program from the VIC-20 user
Elon_Musk
American artificial intelligence company
previously invested over $13 billion into OpenAI, and provides Azure cloud computing resources. In October 2025, OpenAI conducted a $6.6 billion share sale
OpenAI
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
Trade Republic, PsiQuantum (photonic quantum computing), and Rigetti Computing (superconducting quantum computing). Thiel also backed DeepMind, a UK start-up
Peter_Thiel
List of software distributions using the Linux kernel
"Kubuntu - Friendly Computing". Archived from the original on 2024-10-08. Retrieved 2018-12-23. Smart, Chris (May 2009). "Another day, another Ubuntu derivative"
List_of_Linux_distributions
Latin letter U with breve
Esperanto flag
Ŭ
Malicious software
of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC '14. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 157–160. doi:10.1145/2554850
Malware
Secure network protocol suite
In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure
IPsec
Country within the United Kingdom
the foundations of computing and pioneered artificial intelligence, while Tommy Flowers built Colossus, proving electronic computing feasible. Sir Frederic
England
Sikh symbol depicting Deg Tegh Fateh doctrine
is the symbol of Sikhi (also known as Sikhism). It can be found on Sikh flags, decorating them in the middle. It attained its current form around the
Khanda_(Sikh_symbol)
Calendar year
neurological disorders. December 16 – Find-a-drug medical distributed computing project is concluded. December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after
2005
Tenth letter of the Latin alphabet
contrast, it has been both devoiced and backed from an earlier /ʝ/ to a present-day /x/ or /h/, with the actual phonetic realization depending on the speaker's
J
Online social experiment on Reddit
Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 401–405, doi:10.1145/3406865.3418311
R/place
College of the University of Cambridge
opened in April 2010 by the Duke of Edinburgh and is fitted with extensive computing facilities. In 2011, alumnus Ken Olisa donated £1.4m to the development
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam_College,_Cambridge
First Epic Movie June 2, 2017 DreamWorks Animation United States Capture the Flag July 25, 2015 Lightbox Entertainment Spain A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure
List of computer-animated films
List_of_computer-animated_films
Deep learning method
Location-Aware Generative Adversarial Networks for Physics Synthesis". Computing and Software for Big Science. 1 (1): 4. arXiv:1701.05927. Bibcode:2017CSBS
Generative adversarial network
Generative_adversarial_network
Continent
Retrieved 18 December 2015. Eglash, Ron (1999). African Fractals Modern Computing and Indigenous Design. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2613-3
Africa
Tool to flag poor computer code
analysis on C language source code. The software gives its name to modern computing tools responsible for checking for coding style or formatting errors,
Lint_(software)
Lack of romantic attraction to others
2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '26. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–20. doi:10.1145/3772318.3791253
Aromanticism
American live-streaming platform
Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '17. University of California, Irvine: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 858–871. doi:10
Twitch_(service)
States Army marries her wife Tracey Hepner. She is the first openly gay U.S. flag officer to come out while serving since the repeal of the Don't ask, don't
Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United States, 2011–present
Timeline_of_women_in_warfare_and_the_military_in_the_United_States,_2011–present
Fictional IPv4 header field indicating malicious intent
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header. Network Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC3514. RFC 3514. Informational. This is an April Fools' Day Request for Comments
Evil_bit
Eighteenth letter of the latin alphabet
Archived from the original on July 15, 2019. Retrieved July 15, 2019. "A Word A Day: Dog's letter". Wordsmith.org. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012
R
orbital theory, i. e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. Dr. Mulliken received the Nobel Prize for
List_of_agnostics
American information technology company (1939–2015)
manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software, and delivering services. Major product lines included personal computing devices
Hewlett-Packard
via "Start /Shared" on the command line or if the CREATE_SEPARATE_WOW_VDM flag is specified with the CreateProcess() API; 16-bit inter-process communication
List of features removed in Windows Vista
List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista
2023 Android mobile operating system
restrictions introduced in newer versions. An Android Debug Bridge (ADB) install flag has been added to bypass the restriction. To improve privacy, the user can
Android_14
Annual hacker gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada
contests, art, slogan, coffee wars, scavenger hunt, and Capture the Flag. Capture the Flag (CTF) is perhaps the best known of these contests and is a hacking
DEF_CON
Argentines of Sub-Saharan African descent
Argentine society. In 1887 the official percentage of the Black population was computed at 1.8% of the total. From that moment on, racial categories were not registered
Afro-Argentines
Event in which groups of software developers work at an accelerated pace
Symposium on Computer Science Education, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 879–885, doi:10.1145/3408877.3432435, ISBN 978-1-4503-8062-1
Hackathon
Battery Park City New York United States marketing director Random Walk Computing Lisa Fenn Gordenstein 41 AA11 Needham Massachusetts United States assistant
List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G)
List_of_victims_of_the_September_11_attacks_(A–G)
Violent tactic resulting in the attacker's intentional death
one anarchist down. Hopefully there is a lot more waking up. One day we'll win – one day". A public toilet nearby had the slogan "We have maintained a silence
Suicide_attack
Google's online store for its Chrome web browser
happens when a Chrome extension with 2m+ users changes hands, raises red flags, doesn't document updates? Let's find out". www.theregister.com. Archived
Chrome_Web_Store
Type of cyber-attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack /dɒs/ doss) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource
Denial-of-service_attack
Type of intentional interference with wireless signals
overlay of the Indian national flag with the message “Happy Independence Day” (referring to 15 August, Independence Day of India). Dawn News issued a statement
Broadcast_signal_intrusion
Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
which ⟨x⟩ has evolved from the initial voiced sibilant /z/ to the present-day voiceless sibilant /s/. In languages which adopted the Latin alphabet later
X
American multinational technology conglomerate
"Hands-on with Meta's Orion AR glasses prototype and the possible future of computing". CNBC. Retrieved September 28, 2024. Heath, Alex (September 25, 2024)
Meta_Platforms
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
challenging for state schools embedding early exposure to subjects such as computing, advanced mathematics, geography and history thinking from age five onwards
David_Cameron
Search engine from Google
and that the company had been reluctant at times to remove them. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the
Google_Search
College in Pakistan
Planning Development Presidential Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Computing By region By province/territory Gilgit-Baltistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Punjab
The Millennium Universal College
The_Millennium_Universal_College
Radiotherapy machine involved in six accidents
The Therac-25". A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology (application/ld+json) (4th ed.). Pearson Prentice Hall. pp
Therac-25
Fictional universe created by Iain M. Banks
degree, they exist partially in hyperspace to get around hindrances to computing power such as the speed of light. Some inhabited planets and all orbitals
The_Culture
New religious movement
dancing or imitating the actions of colonists and military personnel, like flag-raising, marching and drilling. Use of the term has declined in anthropological
Cargo_cult
Commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Nicaea implicitly endorsed it. Canons and sermons condemning the custom of computing Easter's date based on the Jewish calendar indicate that this custom (called
Easter
Worldwide competitive programming contest for university students
Prague, hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery. Canadian universities took top honours". Computing Canada. 2004-04-23. Archived from the original
International Collegiate Programming Contest
International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest
British-American hacking group
Scattered Spider have been connected with the hacks against Qantas, the flag carrier of Australia. A collective of cybercrime groups, including Scattered
Scattered_Spider
Concept in behavioral economics, political theory and behavioral sciences
Privacy". Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1145/3411763.3451805. hdl:20.500
Nudge_theory
American social society at Cornell University
Ryerson—former diplomat Edward Isley Tinkham—first person to carry the American flag overseas during WWI In 2010, Seal & Serpent was featured in the A&E Network
Seal_and_Serpent
Turkish fighter aircraft
central management, flight control, aircraft management, and mission computing. It uses deterministic networking technologies, optical communication
TAI_TF_Kaan
American reality court show (1996–2021)
through 25. The set also featured a New York state flag (positioned across from an American flag) situated behind Judge Judy Sheindlin's chair. Over
Judge_Judy
Calendar year
the Star Wars film Attack of the Clones, the James Bond film Die Another Day, and the Disney film Treasure Planet, as well as the word-of-mouth success
2002
Web browser developed by Google
Chrome's design bridges the gap between desktop and so-called "cloud computing". At the touch of a button, Chrome lets you make a desktop, Start menu
Google_Chrome
Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production
shifted towards new branches of industry, including the electronics, computing, automotive and nuclear power sectors, leaving the traditional heavy industries
Socialism
2016 film by Theodore Melfi
Research Center in 1961, depicts segregated facilities such as the West Area Computing unit, where an all-Black group of female mathematicians were originally
Hidden_Figures
Networking protocol for clock synchronization
use different algorithms. The software has been ported to almost every computing platform, including personal computers. It runs as a daemon called ntpd
Network_Time_Protocol
Victims of terror attacks in the US
water evacuation of lower Manhattan moved about 500,000 during the day. On the day of the attacks, there were a number of disabled individuals in the
Casualties of the September 11 attacks
Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks
Seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet
under X possible fonts. Hughes, Kerrie (September 2, 2014). "Font of the day: Strato". Creative Bloq. Bath, Somerset: Future plc. Retrieved August 25
Q
"Montana Jones II". Spectrum Computing. "Cygnus: Alpha". Spectrum Computing. "No Future". Spectrum Computing. Spectrum Computing, an up-to-date database of
List_of_ZX_Spectrum_games
Presidential library and museum in Austin, Texas
the year. The Library is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Among the artworks on display at the library and museum is a photoengraved
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum
Instructions for the x86 microprocessors
supports AVX with -mavx flag. PathScale supports via the -mavx flag. The Vector Pascal compiler supports AVX via the -cpuAVX32 flag. The Visual Studio 2010/2012
Advanced_Vector_Extensions
Iowa-class battleship of the U.S. Navy
afternoon of 5 September, Halsey transferred his flag to the battleship South Dakota, and early the next day Missouri departed Tokyo Bay. As part of the ongoing
USS_Missouri_(BB-63)
Calendar year
during the September 11 attacks, including The Falling Man and Raising the Flag at Ground Zero. Fritz Koenig's Sphere was the only artwork to be recovered
2001
Achievements, cultural change, and "breaking the color barrier"
First African American to be elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Clarence Ellis First African American to serve as the
Timeline of African-American firsts
Timeline_of_African-American_firsts
Hybrid video game console
2022, the Switch was generally considered to have reversed the trend of flagging third party support for Nintendo consoles and game platforms, something
Nintendo_Switch
Proposal to carry IP traffic by birds
données ont été envoyés. "Virus Risks of RFC1149 and RFC2549". Yui Kee Computing Articles. Archived from the original on 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2013-01-08
IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Country in Southern Africa
and Zimbabwe) by the 4th or 5th century. The earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal are believed to date from around 1050. The southernmost group
South_Africa
American computer scientist (born 1942)
Association for Computing Machinery Power to the People: Why is John Gage, a bearded old Berkeley troublemaker, carrying the corporate flag for the Pentagon's
John_Gage
2023 aviation accident in Nepal
national day of mourning, and the flag of Nepal was flown at half-staff. Yeti Airlines cancelled all regular flights scheduled for the day. Experts noted
Yeti_Airlines_Flight_691
Archipelagic country in Southeast Asia
Literature Review" (PDF). International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing. 10 (12): 27497–27498. ISSN 2321-3361. Archived from the original (PDF)
Philippines
Calendar year
aphantasia aquafaba cloud kitchen extreme risk protection order ghost kitchen red flag law 2010s in political history List of international years 2010s portal "United
2015
8-bit microprocessor
1976; it played an important role in the evolution of early personal computing. It was designed to be software-compatible with the Intel 8080, offering
Zilog_Z80
Process of preparing and equipping a network
appears in the context of virtualization, orchestration, utility computing, cloud computing, and open-configuration concepts and projects. For instance, the
Provisioning_(technology)
American electrical engineer (1917–2020)
Department". smecc.org. "It's BASIC: Arnold Spielberg and the Birth of Personal Computing". gereports.com. Archived from the original on May 3, 2015. "A close encounter
Arnold_Spielberg
Varied criticism across business areas
January 2017, doormats with the Indian flag were offered on the Amazon Canada website. Use of the Indian flag in this way is considered offensive to the
Criticism_of_Amazon
Reeves tells the BBC that the government will invest £2.5bn in quantum computing and artificial intelligence in a bid to keep the UK technology sector
2026_in_the_United_Kingdom
2011–2013 darknet market
conference on World Wide Web. WWW '13. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 213–224. doi:10.1145/2488388.2488408. ISBN 978-1-4503-2035-1
Silk_Road_(marketplace)
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Day.
Girl/Female
Australian, Hindu, Indian
Flag
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia) and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English (East Anglia) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for someone who grew, sold, or treated flax for weaving into linen cloth, from (respectively) Middle English flax, German Flachs.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a pet form of David.English : from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey(e), Old English Dæi, apparently from Old English dæg ‘day’, perhaps a short form of Old English personal names such as Dægberht and Dægmund. Reaney, however, points to the Middle English word day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, ‘(female) servant’ (from Old English dǣge, cognate with Old Norse deigja ‘female servant’, ultimately from a root meaning ‘to knead’, and related to the word for dough), which he says came to be used for a servant of either sex.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O’Dea).Scottish : from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Daìdh, a colloquial form of David.Welsh : from Dai, a pet form of the personal name Dafydd, Welsh form of David.This name was brought independently from many parts of Britain to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Robert Day was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places such as Flagg in Derbyshire and Flags in Nottinghamshire, named from Old English flage or Old Norse flaga ‘slab’, or from Old Norse flag ‘turf’, ‘sod’.
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit, Traditional
Flag
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Dray.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Flag
Female
English
 English name derived from the vocabulary word, DAY means "day." Feminine form of Middle English Daye, meaning "day."
Female
Thai/Siamese
Thai name DAO means "star."
Male
Vietnamese
 Vietnamese name DAI means "great." Compare with other forms of Dai.
Boy/Male
Indian
Flag
Boy/Male
Danish, French, German, Scandinavian, Swedish
Day
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
Henry VI, Part 2' Lord Say.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, GAY means "happy." Compare with masculine Gay.
Female
Scottish
Feminine form of Scottish Gaelic Teà rlach, TEÀRLAG means "instigator."
Boy/Male
Indian
Flag
Girl/Female
Australian, Christian
Sunshine; Bright; Day
Male
Scandinavian
 Scandinavian form of Old Norse Dagr, DAG means "day." Compare with another form of Dag.
Male
Hebrew
 Hebrew name DAG means "fish." Compare with another form of Dag.
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Defender of Mankind; Feminine Form of Alexander; Man's Defender; Protector of Men
Male
Swiss
, blessed.
Biblical
same as Ram
Girl/Female
Tamil
Suposhini | ஸà¯à®ªà¯‹à®·à¯€à®¨à¯€
Name of a Raga
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lotus
Boy/Male
Muslim
Abdullah ibn-musa
Boy/Male
Indian
Treasure
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently a habitational name from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is now a rare surname in Britain.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Pure
Female
Finnish
Finnish pet form of Latin Johanna, JENNI means "God is gracious." Compare with another form of Jenni.
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
FLAG DAY-COMPUTING
v. t.
To furnish or deck out with flags.
n.
(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
v. t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
n.
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
n.
The present day.
a.
To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
n.
The sun, as the orb of day.
v. t.
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
v. t.
To lay with flags of flat stones.
v. i.
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
n.
Something broad and flat in form
prep.
On this day; on the present day.
n.
The merrymaking of May Day.
n.
A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
n.
The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
v. t.
To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
n.
Labor hired or performed by the day.
v. t.
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
n.
A flat stone used for paving.
adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.