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[–] 104 points 6 months ago (5 children)

If you're talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.

But don't be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn't been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.

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  • [–] 81 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.

    I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Most changes are updating the copyright year.
    After that, it's pretty much (or maybe completely, I haven't checked exhaustively) for the --help and --version flags, not for the core part of exiting with a certain exit code.

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  • [–] 84 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    yeah, I bet there was a bunch of crap written 30y ago too, the difference was no npm or github

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That Roman road is in absolute shit condition. It used to have 2 more layers on top of those rocks, a gravel layer and a stone block finish.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    That Roman road also didn't have thousands of multi-ton vehicles rolling over it every day.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Who spilled the 55 gallon drum of sulfuric acid out front, and "forgot" to clean it up?

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    I watched whole videos about repaving with used bricks and why we don't do that for all low-speed roads globally is just beyond me.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm an old-school JavaScript developer, that's why I use Angular!

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    30 months!??!? Are you trying to get hacked?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    COBOL system written 50 years ago...JS package at release.

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    We should dig up our roads to use as fuel while we're at it

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Yeah accurate. I got a few node projects and more rust projects. The few node projects get more security vulnerability than the rust ones. And most time it's just OpenSSL and rustls, which is kinda expected from such important packages

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Really, that's some well-crafted street.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Software quality apocalypse continues to worse ( the bar was already low )

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    And now they are being released 100x faster by AI

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