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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by codezero on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#24190351)
There's a whole paper about crabs, it's surfaced up here on HN before and it's fantastic.

Let me know if this is the same thing you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383205

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Re:A 35-year-old bug in Patch found in efforts to restore 29... by mncharity on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:45PM (#24191118)
My fuzzy memory is of a solitary bug. But my memory hook is "bug in amber", which could have pulled askew cardinality and subphylum.

A program like crabs could be seriously disturbing in VR and AR. A transparently declarative framework like A-Frame might permit 3rd-party object eating. Or more difficult, there's various "visible body" code... imagine watching your arms eaten down to muscle and bone. Or to gears, depending on avatar. Or the people you're chatting with. Eeep.

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