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by hamburglar 332 days ago
This is some old school style bare bones C. popen with a big old pipe chain is pretty quick n dirty. I’d have gone digging around in proc for the active connections. Cool stuff though. I like that it’s so straightforward to read.
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> This is some old school style bare bones C.

Which has now become some kind of meta-ironic fashion statement. It's 2025's going to the coffee shop with a typewriter.

it's more like taking notes with pen and pencil, while other patrons of the coffee shop use an electron-based note-taking "app" on their macbooks that uploads each keypress to the cloud, helpfully adding a half-second lag