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On Call: a telco programmer swapped 2,650 lines of C for a six-line FTP shell script, and its three-strikes pager alert kept him up

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The ADM-3A terminal's 1979 manual puts cursor movement on Ctrl-H, J, K and L, the same four letters vi uses to move today
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UnrealIRCd UnrealIRCdflaw under attack · added Nov 13, 2026
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