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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:02:25 JST kaia
   what's the oldest unaltered piece of code in an average Linux or Windows system?
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:04:15 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia probably /bin/cat
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     φ (fiore@brain.worm.pink)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:04:58 JST φ

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     @Moon @kaia mayb cd
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:06:12 JST kaia

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     @Moon not sure
     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=src/cat.c;h=c7bb7e132c36c0fc800973a0eb00ceea12bcb8a6;hb=master
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:07:52 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @kaia /bin/true or /bin/false
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     eal (eal@post.ebin.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:08:21 JST eal

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     @fiore @kaia @Moon cd is not a program, it's a shell builtin
     your bash is probably newer than some old piece of coreutils
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     PrivateGER :blobcoffee: (privateger@plasmatrap.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:08:30 JST PrivateGER :blobcoffee:

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     @kaia@brotka.st Probably some GNU utility or something VERY early in the boot chain, like switching to real mode. :neocat_think:
     
     Or maybe filesystems? ext2 is probably untouched for a while now.

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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:10:41 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @waifu @kaia fonts usually receive updates, 'comic sans ms' is no exception
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:10:42 JST waifu

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     @romin@shitposter.club @kaia@brotka.st it's actually comic sans

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:16:37 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia Then there probably is not a command untouched for a long time because cat is the probably simplest command.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:54:05 JST 翠星石

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     @kaia Probably a certain unchanged file in GNU software.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:07:34 JST kaia

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     the loicense? please?
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     prozacchiwawa (prozacchiwawa@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 01:58:37 JST prozacchiwawa

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     @kaia if you accept things with earlier origins in linux, the comment at the top of the kernel's malloc might be it (many bothans working for sco were laid off to bring us this information)

     http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html

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     Aaro Koskinen (aakoskin@bitwoods.duckdns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 05:49:11 JST Aaro Koskinen

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     @kaia GNU bc is good candidate, only 6 minor releases since 1994: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/

     I still use it on daily basis.

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     gahlord (gahlord@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 05:58:51 JST gahlord

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     @kaia Speak it's name and an eldritch horror is let loose upon the cyberscape. Fear thee. Fear thee.

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     Sir Matthew, Black Knight (ent@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 06:36:10 JST Sir Matthew, Black Knight

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     @kaia
     In Linux, probably parts of some command line tools that have existed for decades, like ping

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