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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)

Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Lots of people still split latex documents into one section per file, because subversion used file locks and we only knew how one person could edit a file at a time.

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