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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by hendi_ on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:08AM (#21123110)
Thank you for the EXPLAN~1!
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Re:Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicate... by XJ6 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:42AM (#21123296)
If anyone's curious this references the 8.3 filename shortening that windows was even still doing recently.

Amusingly, that tiny bit of backward compatibility can lead to vulnerabilities as outlined here: https://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/windows-short-8-3-fil...

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